September 25, 2009

BCU Plans Guided Tour to England and Ireland

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University Department of English will host a 10-day tour to England and Ireland, May 17- 27, 2010. 

BCU English professors Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Ph.D.; Jeanne Emmons, Ph.D.; and Adam Frisch, Ph.D., will accompany travelers on the excursion, which includes five nights in London, three nights in Dublin and one night in North Wales.

“Our travels will include sites where some of the great writers of English literature lived,” said Dr. Frisch. “We will visit Charles Dickens’ London, Shakespeare’s Stratford-Upon-Avon and James Joyce’s Dublin.”

The tour also includes stops at medieval castles in England and Wales, the Irish gardens of Glendalough, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and Anne Hathaway’s cottage. Also on the tour is Trinity College, which was established by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 and boasts alumni playwright Samuel Beckett and satirist Jonathan Swift.

For more information, please call Dr. Frisch at 712-279-5516, or email Adam.Frisch@Briarcliff.edu.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 28 states. Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visitspan> briarcliff.edu.

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