On Tuesday our English classes had a day trip into Dublin. We visited the National history museum, the Yeats museum and the national art gallery. For me this was the best trip so far!!
When we reached Dublin our class went into the Natioanl art gallery first. Since we are studying WB Yeats in class at the moment we first decided to look at a picture by his brother Jack. It was called Greif . The painting was an example of expressionalist art. This means that the painter used colours and textures to show the feelings of the picture rather than using them to describe it. At first all I could only see random blobs of paint scattered across the canvas! but when our tour guild explained the painting to us we all understood that the painting was an image of a war.
Afterwards we visited the national history museum. There was real golden jewellery on display that was protected by glass casing, they must of been worth millions of Euro!. Our guide showed us these beautiful golden collars and lunulae that were from the bronze age which I always taught were worn on the necks of men and women but our guide told us that from archaeologists studying them for years they have concluded that its most likely they were worn around the necks of cows.
We also got a glimpse at the museums famous bog bodies. Yeats was fascinated with the bodies and wrote many poems inspired by them. When people said before hand that the bodies were well preserved I was expecting them to look almost lifelike however they did not live up to these expectations!
After our lunch we went to the Yeats museum. Some of the documents in there were really interesting, the thing that struck me the most was Yeat's school report. His teacher only gave him mediocre marks in english and said his spell was atrocious!
Here is a picture of Greive by Jack B Yeats. [source googleimages]
These are the collars, lunulas and bog bodies I was talking about.[sources goolge images]
Afterwards we visited the national history museum. There was real golden jewellery on display that was protected by glass casing, they must of been worth millions of Euro!. Our guide showed us these beautiful golden collars and lunulae that were from the bronze age which I always taught were worn on the necks of men and women but our guide told us that from archaeologists studying them for years they have concluded that its most likely they were worn around the necks of cows.
We also got a glimpse at the museums famous bog bodies. Yeats was fascinated with the bodies and wrote many poems inspired by them. When people said before hand that the bodies were well preserved I was expecting them to look almost lifelike however they did not live up to these expectations!
After our lunch we went to the Yeats museum. Some of the documents in there were really interesting, the thing that struck me the most was Yeat's school report. His teacher only gave him mediocre marks in english and said his spell was atrocious!
Here is a picture of Greive by Jack B Yeats. [source googleimages]
These are the collars, lunulas and bog bodies I was talking about.[sources goolge images]
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