On the hike from Bray to Greystones, south of Dublin

Six promising scholars from several majors at the College of Charleston are studying Irish mythology and the Celtic Revival right now in Ireland.  We arrived last Sunday, in the last three days we’ve gotten what seems like a week’s worth of activities under our belts.  As we read The Tain, Ireland’s epic, and the myths of the Fenian Cycle, we’ve visited the mythology display in the famous “Long Room” old library at Trinity College, where we also viewed the celebrated illuminated, Medieval Book of Kells.  Yesterday, we spent the afternoon in the National Museum of Archeology viewing paleolithic and iron

The Long Room at Trinity College, Dublin

age artifacts, including the gruesome “bog people,” the mummified bodies of ancient Celts. Tomorrow it’s Kilmainham Gaol and Sean O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman at the Abbey Theatre.