Ms. Reynolds and Mr. Conaghan brought the TY English students on a 'Dubliners' literary walking tour on Monday, 16th April. The tour is part of this year's One City One Book celebrations. Hugh Cannon writes up a short report on the walking tour.
Joyce's 'Dubliners' is the chosen book for this year's One City One Book celebration. Each year, our Transition Year students read the chosen text and then participate in one of the many activities surrounding this event. This year we chose the walking tour. This was a wonderful tour, it took us around the old heart of Dublin: from Marlborough Street, through Parnell square and around to O'Connell street. Our guide, Pat Hayes, really captured the earthy and colloquial tone of the book through his lively dramatic readings and historical insights.
Ms. Reynolds
A unique, insightful experience, the 'Dubliners' walking tour was an enlightening event allowing us to perceive James Joyce's Dublin within our Dublin today. Our class, having read the book beforehand reminisced over the stories in the Dubliners as if they were spawns of nostalgia, however upsetting the tales of the ordinary human may be.
Although spirits were low due to an ardous period of walking, standing, raining and listening, all whilst we were surrounded by some of the more dreary, depressing, dull, uncharacterised buildings of our capital (not to mention hoards upon hoards of very loud tourists), I feel like I greatly benefitted from such an experience having gained both extreme appreciation and insight in the book, as well as the gratitude for it being written.
Hugh Cannon (TY)
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