Ireland and its beauties
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Ireland offers many places and sights worth vising but today we stay in Dublin. The capital of Ireland is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath. It is a historical as well as contemporary cultural centre and a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, industry and economy. Ireland is world-famous also for its literary history.
Let´s take a walk through Dublin to explore the city´s literally connections. We can´t cover all of it because you literally can´t throw a stone in Dublin withou hitting a building of some significance to its word-ful heritage. The city is very proud of being a home to no less than four Nobel literature winners (poet/playwright W.B. Yeats; playwright George Bernand Shaw; minimalist Samuel Backett and poet Seamus Heaney). Our walk through the literary Dublin won´t be complete without James Joyce and its influence over the city. In fact, the people of Dublin celebrate Bloomsday on June 16 – the day and the book that is Ulysses, Joyce´s masterpiece, that describes the wanderings on Leopold Bloom in Dublin on June 16, 1904.
If you´re lucky enough, you might grab an airfare deal to Dublin in this time period and celebrate Bloomsday with other Dubliners. If so, don´t forget that on Bloomsday, Duke Street is the place to be, especially Davy Byrne´s Pub.
Is Ulysses or other Joyce´s works too difficult for you? Do you prefer witty plays by Oscar Wilde, such as An Ideal Husband or The Importance of Being Earnest? That´s great because Oscar Wilde also lived in Dublin. Head to Merrion Square, several block east of Duke Street, across the square and find Number 1 which was Wilde´s childhood home and now there is a museum and a statue of Wilde.
Not far from Merrion Square is the famous Trinity College which was the alma mater of many great minds such as Wilde, along with Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame), Beckett, Jonathan Swift (of Gulliver´s Travels) and J.M. Synge. Our walk is just a tasting of literary Dublin. If you are eager for something more, join the Literary Pub Crawl. Actors enlive the characters of the writers and the city and explain between the pubs the concept of the „snug".
After such a long day, visit one (or more) of many wood-panelled pubs, take a sip of the rich, dark beer and settle in for a night of literary stories.
Ireland offers many places and sights worth vising but today we stay in Dublin. The capital of Ireland is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath. It is a historical as well as contemporary cultural centre and a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, industry and economy. Ireland is world-famous also for its literary history.
Let´s take a walk through Dublin to explore the city´s literally connections. We can´t cover all of it because you literally can´t throw a stone in Dublin withou hitting a building of some significance to its word-ful heritage. The city is very proud of being a home to no less than four Nobel literature winners (poet/playwright W.B. Yeats; playwright George Bernand Shaw; minimalist Samuel Backett and poet Seamus Heaney). Our walk through the literary Dublin won´t be complete without James Joyce and its influence over the city. In fact, the people of Dublin celebrate Bloomsday on June 16 – the day and the book that is Ulysses, Joyce´s masterpiece, that describes the wanderings on Leopold Bloom in Dublin on June 16, 1904.
If you´re lucky enough, you might grab an airfare deal to Dublin in this time period and celebrate Bloomsday with other Dubliners. If so, don´t forget that on Bloomsday, Duke Street is the place to be, especially Davy Byrne´s Pub.
Is Ulysses or other Joyce´s works too difficult for you? Do you prefer witty plays by Oscar Wilde, such as An Ideal Husband or The Importance of Being Earnest? That´s great because Oscar Wilde also lived in Dublin. Head to Merrion Square, several block east of Duke Street, across the square and find Number 1 which was Wilde´s childhood home and now there is a museum and a statue of Wilde.
Not far from Merrion Square is the famous Trinity College which was the alma mater of many great minds such as Wilde, along with Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame), Beckett, Jonathan Swift (of Gulliver´s Travels) and J.M. Synge. Our walk is just a tasting of literary Dublin. If you are eager for something more, join the Literary Pub Crawl. Actors enlive the characters of the writers and the city and explain between the pubs the concept of the „snug".
After such a long day, visit one (or more) of many wood-panelled pubs, take a sip of the rich, dark beer and settle in for a night of literary stories.
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