Our last day in Dublin has creeped up behind our group. Today was full of exciting events and new information. During class, we had the ability to discuss our readings while enjoying coffee at Insomnia. (a coffee shop close to UCD’s campus). We then traveled to the National Gallery of Ireland. It was massive, there was so many different artists on display, and so far (aside from the Vermeer show) my favorite floor was there third floor because it had Spanish artists, and paintings and sculptures, on display. The one thing that I did notice about the art work was how little African, or Black, representation was present. I noticed that if there was a person of color in a work of art, little was said about them, and many times in the information posted on the wall would say something along the lines of “Servants location in painting has little meaning, etc.”

We attended the Vermeer show at 1:20pm, and it was fascinating. We were given these walk-man like devices that allowed us to listen to the facts about the different paintings and artists. I really liked how the artists influenced each other positively. Their work (Vermeer and others) was very similar in style, and in many sections in the showing talked about how artists influenced each other.

Later today, I visited the Book of Kells. It too, was extremely fascinating. Trinity College is beautiful, and the architecture is so old, which already draws me in. The museum is on the first floor of the library on Trinity’s campus. IT was so neat to see a text that is as old as The Book of Kells.

Also learned a fun fact for today- Trinity College sued Star Wars because they (Star Wars producers) had taken pictures of the Library, and used very similar ideas and visuals in a movie when Trinity College didn’t give them permission. Its pretty cool because Trinity won the law suit.