Walk This Way

So then there was Thursday (the day of our much awaited Yeats trip.)... Needless to say this week was gonna be a busy one! After registration in the 2nd Year Mall we hopped onto our bus and headed into town (which lead to me mostly being lead around and following others due to a complete lack of spacial awareness). For our group the National Gallery of Ireland was the first stop. Naturally we began at the exhibition of Jack B. Yeats who was a fantastic artist (making the Yeats family one of the most talented families of the 20th Century in my opinion.) This was by far my favorite piece on display:

Grief- Jack B. Yeats. Source: artlisdoon.blogspot.com

We then had time to take a quick look at a Picasso painting (Still Life with a Mandolin, 1924) 

I really liked something about the impressionism of Picasso's piece. It was so stylistically innovative in comparison to any other art I'm aware of that dates from the 1920's. 

After our artistic beginning to the morning we headed to the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street to visit (in particular) the Bog Bodies exhibition which had inspired the poetry of the late Seamus Heaney. The exhibition was very interesting and the helpful curators talked us through the process involved in preserving the bodies and gave us information that they had discovered during their research. 

Source:irisharchaeology.ie 

We then moved onto the National Library of Ireland, to see the Yeats exhibit that they had there. There was an interesting area where you could listen to poems being dictated by famous or significant people affiliated with Yeats. Here we were able to have a nice conversation with the very friendly guide and find out more about the Yeats family, including the fact that Yeats received average grades in English in secondary school.

We had the chance then to have lunch on Grafton Street and we headed around the bookshops for what was pretty much the remainder of our lunchtime.