This morning, while walking Inishbofin’s westquarter loop, I overheard the following exchange (paraphrased below): Ashlee: I’m so tired. All my muscles are aching. Brenna: But are you having the time of your life? Ashlee: I’m so tired, my muscles are aching, and I’m having the…
This evening our final reading will be from 5–7 PM at the Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin. The address is 36, Parnell Square West, Dublin 1. We look forward to seeing you there!
Greetings from the island! It’s been raining off and on since we arrived to Inishbofin on Wednesday evening, but students’ spirits just can’t be dampened. After we cooked up a family-style breakfast together at the hostel’s communal kitchen, our guest writer Jess Richardson conducted an…
It turns out that student Alicia is not only a talented writer, but also a beguiling photographer. Here are a few of her portraits and pictures from the trip.
On our overland journey from Dublin to the West Coast, we made a picturesque and ultra-convenient pit stop at the monastery of Clonmacnoise. This site—founded in 544 by St. Ciarán of Roscommon—was a hub of commercial, scholarly, and religious exploits for centuries. Today, it’s revered…
We’ve just arrived back from Inishbofin and have so many stories and photos to share! Here’s a posting from our last day in Dublin before our departure, but they’ll be much more to come! Some of our students learned the hard truth that there are…
We’ve been pounding the cobblestones for four days straight, negotiating Dublin’s busiest thoroughfares to the point that students have started comparing their iPhone pedometers to see how far our daily travels have taken them. So today we did the natural thing and hightailed it out…
Throughout the trip, we’ve been starting our nightly community meetings with an “AAA” (pronounced “ahhh”): each student and co-leader shares either an Admiration, an Apology, or an A-ha moment from the day. In that spirit, we at the blog would like to apologize, for the…
Cat turned seventeen in Dublin City today and was the epicenter of celebration! We sung to her in the middle of Temple Bar over a piece of cake and bouquet of flowers. We ate cupcakes courtesy of her mom (THANK YOU!) at our group meeting….
Now that students are (mostly) recovered from their jet lag, we have them navigating Dublin like seasoned pros. They really stand apart from the hordes of visitors who crowd the capital city on weekends, and we couldn’t be more proud. Every workshop group has now…