Stories From 2013

A Giant of a Day

We had an early start this morning-6:00 AM, but the King’s Hospital Kitchen Staff pulled out all the stops with Cheerio’s for breakfast. We all enjoyed the meal in…

Cool, Wow, Awesome!

And yet another day waking up to sunshine and happy smiling faces at breakfast. Today was a class day and the penultimate of our ILE 2013 Program-hard to believe we…

Deadly Days!

Today started with classes bright and early. Angie treated the group to a workshop on WB Yeats and a little bit about James Joyce. Riley was left speechless (For…

The Craic is Mighty

Today the heat wave in Ireland continued and we woke to glorious sunshine once again. It was also the last class day today-there was weeping and wailing until the…

Heat Wave

Back to normal today as all of the students woke for breakfast for 8:30 AM. Class started with Irish literature with Angie. The students took a look at WB Yeats-one…

Hip Hip Hooray for a Great Day!

Top of the morning! Today started out like any other normal class day. Breakfast was served bright and early and classes started at 9 AM. In Scones' Gaelic Class…

Up the Dubs

Sunday morning in Dublin-finally a lie in for everybody. A choice was given to all of the students to sleep in until lunch at 12.30 PM if they wished. The vast…

Voice of an Angel

Here are some tunes from the ILE's favorite new singer-Laura Moynihan!

All Smiles

Green Lightening

Dia Duit! On Friday, we took tours of Cahir Castle and Kilkenny Castle. They were equally impressive in terms of the historical significance, but they couldn’t have…

Happy 4th of July!

Today was a spectacular day and a lesson in Irish history, as we went to Wexford to visit the Irish National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig. It is a place where…

Winning Limericks

The students had to write limericks in their drama groups last week and the ILE Team chose three winners-Caroline, Tiernan, and Chris. Congratulations!They won Cork…