Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas.
Having earlier stopped in at Áras an Uachtaráin to be greeted by the President of Ireland, and having then laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Queen Elizabeth II went to Trinity College. She had a look at a facsimile of the Book of Kells, and then met with various folks associated with Trinity — including one Professor Doctor Sir Terry Pratchett, his stalwart assistant Rob Wilkins, and the erudite Colin Smythe, writer-publisher extraordinaire.
Flash video is embedded below. For those of you who have trouble accessing it through the embed, use this link to access/download the .mpg file directly. We’ll also have an iPhone friendly .mp4 file up later.
We have a few stills as well, but when installed on this page they broke the page formatting, so we’ve moved them here.
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OMG! Not just was it a wonderful and well-deserved bit about Colin, but I nearly died squeeing over Brian Singleton, who was in his first year as a lecturer when I was a first-year student at the Samuel Beckett Centre.
And I am so pleased that Colin got such a press (although I nearly died laughing over “Robert” Wilkins… “stalwart PA” was bang-on, though).
OMG! Not just was it a wonderful and well-deserved bit about Colin, but I nearly died squeeing over Brian Singleton, who was in his first year as a lecturer when I was a first-year student at the Samuel Beckett Centre.
And I am so pleased that Colin got such a press (although I nearly died laughing over “Robert” Wilkins… “stalwart PA” was bang-on, though).
Just wanted to drop by and wish you a Happy Birthday just after midnight CDT. This is before I go to bed of course 😉
Just wanted to drop by and wish you a Happy Birthday just after midnight CDT. This is before I go to bed of course 😉
…And now I have 2 degrees of separation from Her Majesty 🙂
(Probably did before, too, but now I have documentary evidence…)
…And now I have 2 degrees of separation from Her Majesty 🙂
(Probably did before, too, but now I have documentary evidence…)
Hi Diane, Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve linked to it from my NADWCon programming blog:
http://it-bodes.blogspot.com/2011/05/queen-elizabeth-and-terry-pratchett-at.html
I’m so sorry that you and Peter can’t be with us this year. Thank you again for doing such much to make the last one so special.
Regards,
Denise C.
Oregon, USA
Seamstress Guild
Programming, NADWCon 2011
Hi Diane, Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve linked to it from my NADWCon programming blog:
http://it-bodes.blogspot.com/2011/05/queen-elizabeth-and-terry-pratchett-at.html
I’m so sorry that you and Peter can’t be with us this year. Thank you again for doing such much to make the last one so special.
Regards,
Denise C.
Oregon, USA
Seamstress Guild
Programming, NADWCon 2011