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THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY SUMMER OUTING 2013 Dublin Thursday 20 June to Sunday 23 June I THURSDAY 20 JUNE 11.30 Arrive Dublin, transfer to Trinity College 13.00 Lunch in Trinity PM Private visit to Chester Beatty Library The Library is in the grounds of Dublin Castle and houses Sir Alfred Chester Beatty’s collection. It is organised in two parts: Sacred Traditions and Artistic Traditions. Both include manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts from Islamic, East Asian and Western cultures. The Library includes a volume of the first illustrated Life of the Prophet and The Gospel of Mani, believed to be the last remaining artefact from Manichaeism. Private visit to the National Print Museum The National Print Museum collects, documents, preserves, exhibits, interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of printing craft and fosters associated skills of the craft in Ireland. On display is a 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic and the 1922 Óglaigh na hÉeireann Proclamation. The 1916 Proclamation is regarded as Ireland’s most famous piece of printed ephemera, having been printed secretly on a Wharfedale stop cylinder press, at Liberty Hall, Dublin. Dinner in Trinity FRIDAY 20 JUNE 09.30 Private visit to Trinity College Library Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscripts Part 1 Private view of manuscripts Part 2 Study of the display of The Book of Kells PM Private visit to Archbishop Marsh’s Library Dr Jason McElligott, Keeper Built in 1701 by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), this was the first public library in Ireland. It is one of the few eighteenth century buildings in Dublin that is still being used for its original purpose. Many of the collections are kept on the shelves allocated to them by Marsh and by Elias Bouhéreau, the first librarian. The collection comprises more than 25,000 books from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 300 manuscripts and around 80 incunabula. Subjects include medicine, law, science, travel, navigation, mathematics, music, surveying and classical literature, and especially theology. Evening free SATURDAY 22 JUNE AM Joyce’s Dublin walk Mark Traynor, Manager of the James Joyce Centre PM Visit to the James Joyce Tower Reading by a Dublin writer Supper at Clonskeagh Castle Frank Armstrong, food historian and cook SUNDAY 23 JUNE 11.00 Private visit to the Writers’ Museum Robert Nicholson, Curator The Writers’ Museum includes a book collection that represents Irish literature from Gulliver’s Travels to Dracula, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ulysses and Waiting for Godot. Most are first or early editions, some inscribed: to Oliver Gogarty by W B Yeats and to Brinsley MacNamara by James Joyce, and a first edition of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger includes a stanza which the publisher declined to print, handwritten by the poet. Among the collection of letters are a note from Sheridan to a creditor, a signed refusal from Bernard Shaw to provide an autograph, a typically concise card from Samuel Beckett and Brendan Behan’s postcard from Los Angeles: ‘Great spot for a quiet pissup’. Among the pens, pipes and typewriters there are curious personal possessions – Lady Gregory’s lorgnette, Austin Clarke’s desk, Samuel Beckett’s telephone, Mary Lavin’s teddy bear, Oliver Gogarty’s laurels and Brendan Behan’s union card, complete with fingerprints – and Handel’s chair, used at the opening night of The Messiah. Lunch at the Writers’ Gallery Transfer to Dublin airport for the 16.00 flight Please note that we will make every effort to keep to this itinerary. In the event of changes being necessary for reasons beyond our control, no refunds will be made. ‘Dublin is a city brimming with stories’ Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.