The English Department’s study abroad trip to Harlaxton Manner in England is available for students again this summer with a new Irish twist.

An informational meeting about the trip, which lasts from June 10 to July 12, will be held at 7 p.m. today in Coleman Hall Room 3160.

English Department Chair Dana Ringuette, who is going on the trip, said the trip is an opportunity for students of all majors to study some of the great English and Irish writers in the the area in which they wrote or the setting in which the literature takes place.

Ringuette went on the five-week trip last year and said nothing really compares to reading the literature on-site. “It really brings something to it that you can’t get any other way.”

The class will make overnight visits to Dublin, associated with author James Joyce; Sligo, home to W. B. Yeats; and the Aran Islands in Ireland, said Suzanne Bazargan, an English professor who also is going on the trip.

Bazargan, who specializes in Irish literature, said the Aran Islands are one of the most interesting parts of Ireland because Gaelic, or Irish, is still spoken there.

The class also will stay overnight in the Lake District in England, where William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge wrote and drew a lot of their inspiration, Ringuette said.

He said the class also will go on day trips to Jane Austen sites and to Emily Bronte country in Yorkshire.

“We’ll go to the Bronte parsonage and see some of the settings that Bronte used for ‘Wuthering Heights,'” he said.

The group also will see a Shakespeare play at the new Globe Theatre in London, Ringuette said.

The class will stay at Harlaxton Manner, which is a mansion built in the 19th century that has been refashioned as a college. The manner is located about one hour north of London by train, Ringuette said.

“It’s really quite beautiful,” he said. “It faces west, so when the sun shines on it, it takes on this gold hue that’s really quite stunning.”

The trip is worth six semester hours.

Ringuette said the cost hasn’t been set yet, but he estimated that it would be comparable to last year’s cost, which was $2,700, plus tuition and fees.

Anyone can attend tonight’s informational meeting, which will serve as an overview for the trip.