I took a boat out to see the Lake Isle of Innisfree. Once lonely in London and homesick for Sligo County, Yeats wrote one of his most famous poems and vowed, "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree..." I'll post more about this day trip later.
A letter from Yeats regarding The Abbey Theater. (On display at the Sligo Country Museum)
A view of Sligo town and the Garavogue river.
My bedroom in the hostel Yeats Village. It comes with my own dresser, desk, and bathroom as well. I also have access to a full kitchen with cooking supplies. The only problem is that I'm a horrible cook.. (I'm working on it!)
The view outside my train window on the way from Dublin to Sligo. Ireland is exactly the way I imagined--rolling hills and a lot of horses and sheep!
Sorry they're chronologically placed backwards. I'm still trying to figure out how to blog! My Yeats seminars start on Monday, but I'll try to post as often as possible. So far I've met three women from Japan, one really nice local Sligo pastor, and one student from Poland.
ahhh!! how beautiful :) i wonder if you get to milk the cows yourself. oh wait, you said they're horses and sheep, not cows...
ReplyDeleteand yes, i remember that yeats poem from critical interp.! it must be so surreal to see and experience the place the poet was writing about!
keep blogging, love! i love that i get to see what you are doing and what you're seeing :)
p.s. your hostel does not look nearly as bad as i thought it was going to. haha.
Hi Courtney,
ReplyDeleteNice pictures! Tech tip: Blogger always puts a picture, when you upload it, at the top of the screen. So you need to either load them in reverse order, or load one and then cut and paste the code from the top of the editing window into the spot you want it.
Another option is to compose your whole post as a Google doc, and then use the "Share" feature to pubish it to your blog. That gives you more control over picture size and text formatting as well.
- RBS
Aloha e Courtney,
ReplyDeleteThis morning we talked to your parents at church as we, too, sit in the balcony so Mom told us of your blog. May 2008 my husband Art and I visited the National Lirary of Ireland where a comprehensive exhibit featured the life and works of Wm Butler Yeats. Pubs and literature go hand in hand in Dublin.
Aloha a hui hou,
Rosemary Eberhardt