Spring Break in Ireland
Spring Break in Ireland, 2001-2004
During Spring Break 2001-2004 I designed and led a one-week mini course on James Joyce's Dubliners, culminating with a week in Ireland. The program quickly became very popular with students and grew into a labor of love for all of us. Herein a few random pics of people who became very special to me.
Kim Davies and Jen Rogalsky of the faculty (2004 group, front far left in Malone pic below) will lead the 2005 program while I take a year off.
Beaumaris Castle, Wales 2004
Group Pic with Molly Malone, Trinity College, Dublin 2003. Avid singers '03 would burst spontaneously into group song, offering stirring renditions of such Irish classics as "Ice Ice Baby" and "Wonderwall."
"The Big Group," 2004 with Molly Malone, Dublin. Each year, the groups became increasingly nocturnal, capping with '04 -- who "suffered" from self-inflicted sleep depravation and made certain half of Dublin did the same.
Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains, south of Dublin, 2003
Molly Malone and 2002 Group...an American passerby graciously agreed to take the pic so I could be in it. The "Dancing Machines," '02 tore apart Club M in Temple Bar.
Members of the 2001 group trespa....make that exploring the highlands of Bray south of Dublin.
"Oh Pioneers!" The First Group, 2001
Hoof and Mouth Disease broke out when we arrived,but everyone smiled through it all. A highly adventurous group, '01 liked to break into exploration parties of 2-4 and go off in all directions.
Famine Memorial, North bank of Liffey, Dublin by the Customs House. The memorial statue stands on the path to the docks taken by exiles fleeing the 19th century potato blight and famine
Recess at Belvedere College, Dublin, Joyce's middle and high school and the setting for most of chapters 2-4 in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The red building and enclosed courtyard stand today with little change since Joyce attended in the 1890s.
The last night...farewell dinner and...well, that is all I care to say about that.
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