Media and Society research last summer involved visits to England, Wales and Ireland. WSU students have accompanied Professor Weis to the UK twice as part of Mass Comm 356, Media and Society--International. a travel-study program. Addition of Ireland to a future itinerary would be avaluable for the future, if for no other reason than to see the Book at Kells at Trinity College, Dublin. What a masterpiece of pre-Gutenberg "publishing" at the hands of Cataholic monks. At left, a page from the Book of Kells illustrating St. John.  The Book of Kells consists of the four gospels of Sts. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. At right, the "long room" in the library of Trinity College, location of the Book of Kells.

The British Parliament and the clock tower known as Big Ben (left). The name is actually for the huge bell, not the clock tower itself. Professor Weis and a yeoman warder (often referred to as a beefeater, in front of the chapel where St. Sir Thomas More is buried. He was beheaded by King Henry VIII about 10 feet from here. Below, left to right, in front of the museum of the Tower of London, housing, among other things, the crown jewels and kings' armor, including that of Henry VIII; the view of a soldier at attention in front of a kiosk taken from the site of Anne Boleyn's beheading; Professor Weis at Windsor Castle.

Above, in front of the tower at Windsor Castle; Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London; and the medieval architecture of the cathedral in Chester. Below, the famous clock tower at the east gate of Chester, England; a gate at Buckingham Palace, London.

Above, a yeoman warder at the "traitor's gate" through which prisoners were taken by what was then water to the Tower of London (above, left). The sign above him reads "Sir Thomas's Tower, the place where Saint Thomas More was held by Henry VIII prior to his beheading for refusing to recognize the divorce of the king from the queen in order to marry Anne Boleyn in violation of Catholic teachings. Henry formed his own church, the Church of England (Anglican) in order to avoid the official Church rules. At right is part of the Roman baths in Bath, England. 

Left,  the Auld Dubliner, one of dozens of pubs in the Temple District of Dublin, and the shamrock on the light post nearby. Below is an example of the beautiful handiwork of the medieval Catholic monks in the Book of Kells and the entrance to its exhibit at Trinity College in Dublin. Our visit on an on-again, off-again rainy day coincided with Trinity's graduation day.