We were served a full plate of activities on our first full day in Ireland. Our day in Dublin began with a guided Historical Walking Tour. After that, we visited the “Book of Kells” exhibit. Then we were set free to do as we pleased in Dublin. I chose to take the “Hop-on Hop-off” Dublin bus tour. In the evening, we were treated to a “Musical Pub Crawl” featuring traditional Irish music.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
June 8, 2009 HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR OF DUBLIN.
We were led on a walking tour of Dublin by an Irish historian from Dublin’s Trinity College. As we were led on this tour of Dublin historical places, we were given a comprehensive lecture about Irish history from the stone age to the modern period. At each site we learned about historical events related to the places we were seeing. The places we saw included: Trinity College, Old Parliament House, Temple Bar, City Hall, Dublin Castle, Wood Quay & Christ Church Cathedral.
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June 8, 2009 THE BOOK OF KELLS.
Located in the library at Trinity College, we visited the Book of Kells exhibit. Photography is not allowed here, so I only have pictures from the web to share on this blog site. This 8th Century hand scribed & illuminated early Christian manuscript, was brought to Ireland in 806AD from Scotland to protect it from Viking raids from the sea. While but a few pages of this beautifully detailed book are exhibited for viewing the exhibit also presented large displays of various pages from the book & information about how the monks went about creating them.
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Description from the web:
The Book of Kells was written around the year 800 AD and is one of the most beautifully illuminated manuscripts in the world. It contains the four gospels, preceded by prefaces, summaries, and canon tables or concordances of gospel passages. It is written on vellum and contains a Latin text of the Gospels in insular majuscule script accompanied by magnificent and intricate whole pages of decoration with smaller painted decorations appearing throughout the text. The manuscript was given to Trinity College in the 17th century and since 1953 has been bound in four volumes. It has been on display in the Old Library since the 19th century. Two volumes can normally be seen, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script.
The Book of Kells was written around the year 800 AD and is one of the most beautifully illuminated manuscripts in the world. It contains the four gospels, preceded by prefaces, summaries, and canon tables or concordances of gospel passages. It is written on vellum and contains a Latin text of the Gospels in insular majuscule script accompanied by magnificent and intricate whole pages of decoration with smaller painted decorations appearing throughout the text. The manuscript was given to Trinity College in the 17th century and since 1953 has been bound in four volumes. It has been on display in the Old Library since the 19th century. Two volumes can normally be seen, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script.
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