Last week all TY's spent a day in town completely dedicated to learning about W.B Yeats and his family. We had previously been studying W.B. Yeats in school and thought it would be a great idea if we visited some of the museums that contained facts and info about Yeats and his life.
Our day began with a trip to the National Art Gallery in Dublin. We were given a guided tour of the museum and looked at many of the paintings by W.B. Yeats brother Jack Yeats. My favourite painting of the day was a painting by Jack Yeats called "Grief".
I love the use of colour in the image which really set the mood of the image. I also love the fact that the image is very abstract.
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| Source: http://www.macgreevy.org/bak/xml/text/images/lloyd/grief.jpg
Next up was as trip to the National Museum of Ireland. There were many different exhibits in the main hall but we decided to focus on firstly, the 'Gold Age' and 'Bronze Age' exhibits. We then headed off into the next room to see the bog bodies. William Butler Yeats had a huge interest in Bog Bodies and wrote many poems about them. It was extremely interesting to see how well preserved the bodies actually were. Some of them even still had their fingernails!
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