Dear List,
with your patience... --Tom
In advance of the International Spenser Society conference in Dublin, Thomas Herron will lead a 3-hour (flexible) walking tour at a moderate pace of downtown Dublin from 11-2pm. Meet at 11AM at TCD (Trinity College Dublin) front gates and join and leave the group anywhere along the route. Tentative highlights include
1) stroll across the grounds of Trinity College Dublin ca. 11:10-11:20am
2) bog bodies, the Tara Brooch and an Irish mantle in the National Museum (Kildare St) ca 11:30-12pm
3) a visit to the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, a Georgian house with garden and building compound intact ([63] Merrion Sq) ca. 12-12:20
4) visit to the National Gallery of Ireland (Nassau St) to see Caravaggio's "Taking of Christ" AND for a private viewing of the portrait of Surrey’s “Faire Geraldine”, with Curator of British Art, Adrian LeHarivel, ca. 12:30-1:30 [pm] [AS TIME AND SPACE ALLOW: only groups of 10 allowed at a time to see the painting]
6) walk past Dublin Castle to conclude at Leo Burdock Fish and Chips, across the street from Christ Church Cathedral (pay on your own lunch), ca. 2pm
All are welcome. No reservations required. Please meet at 11:00 AM just outside the gates of Trinity College Dublin (facing College Green). Tour will leave at 11:10.
Thomas Herron
Department of English
East Carolina University
(252) 328-6413
Editor, Explorations in Renaissance Culture (published with Brill per 2015. More at www.brill.com/erc)
Writer/Director, Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle
http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/
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From: Herron, Thomas
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:57 PM
To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List
Subject: Spenser2015 in Dublin final program and social calendar on-line
Dear List,
We're happy to announce that the revised and presumably final conference program for Spenser2015 in Dublin is on-line: http://www.spenser2015.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Place-of-Spenser-Spensers-Place-Final-Programme-100615.pdf
Thank you to everyone who has made it possible. Many thanks especially to the presiders and to those who volunteered to preside but could not be squeezed into the final version of the program.
Also on-line at the conference website (www.Spenser2015.com) is a map of conference hotels and locations.
Registrants will have received or will soon receive information on travel from Dublin airport to downtown (tip: the #16 city bus is the cheapest ride in and a double-decker to boot).
An exciting social events calendar has been fleshed out as well: http://www.spenser2015.com/social-programme/
It begins Wednesday, June 17 and includes a reception, exhibit, dinner, book launch, concert, cathedral and castle tours, fish-and-chips and more.
[NB: the walking tour on Wed is from 11-2pm, not 11-5pm; also, due to gallery renovation, the "Faire Geraldine" portrait is NOT on regular display in the National Gallery but the breathtaking Caravaggio "Taking of Christ" still is thank goodness].
For those of you arriving early, Bloomsday is on June 16: chances are you'll see a James Joyce impersonator if you hang around Davy Byrne's or Stephen's Green.
We look forward to seeing many of you in Dublin.
Sincerely, Tom, Jane and Andrew (the Organizing Committee)
Thomas Herron
Department of English
East Carolina University
(252) 328-6413
Editor, Explorations in Renaissance Culture (published with Brill per 2015. More at www.brill.com/erc)
Writer/Director, Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle
http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/
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