Welcome to our blogs page! There are many blogs here, including a blog on each group trip, blogs on Irish poems, Irish movies, and lots of rambles we made around the Northwest for you to enjoy. You can also check out the daily posts of each college and visiting group on our social media platforms- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. High-res versions of our photographs can be viewed on our Institute of Study Abroad Ireland Flickr page. All photos are copyright of ISAI and permission given to reproduce here- some photographs have been taken by participants of the groups, all are not to be used without permission. You can contact us at info@isaireland.com regarding permission to use images. Thank you.
A huge céad míle fáilte for our new arrivals, from Nebraska Community Colleges -and a special welcome for lead faculty Mary O’Boyle, look how happy she is to be home! #cccneb #neneb #mpneb #nebraskacommunitycolleges We love having groups together, and this week we have even better- several groups from Nebraska,
Day 1 of our USU Ireland program – and just to hydrate our desert-y Utah people, the lovely Atlantic weather sent us sweet soft rain for the day! No enthusiasm dampened – we did a class on Irish Mythology, Fairy Folklore and Origin Stories, and then off we went to
HAPPY DAYS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA John and I were overjoyed to be returning to Dublin Airport, almost 2 years to the day since our last College student group was with us. It was so wonderful to welcome the students from the University of West Alabama – namely
Always great to have our photography faculty, Clint Saunders and Todd Vorenkamp, back to Donegal each year with a wonderful crew of student photographers. We were going to say ‘developing photographers’ but that’s just too predictable 🙂 It’s a wonderful annual adventure here, from iphones to fancy pants cameras and
Hello and welcome to another series of photo-blogs. We still patiently await the return of our beloved school and college groups, our adult groups and events, but in the meantime we have continued our rambles around Donegal and surrounds, this time with a focus on stories, folklore, myth and magic.
Table of Contents #FabFebruary Day 25 Sunrise, Sunset Marge, my friend, I haven’t learned a thing. After tempting fate by talking about the weather improving, only to be deluged, I’m now going to tempt fate again. Something special happened today. I awoke a few minutes before my alarm. There was
Table of Contents Day 1 Murderhole Welcome back everyone! We had a busy few weeks here, we have a lot of online study programs in development, and we are so pleased to be getting lots of emails asking what trips to Ireland we will be doing when travel becomes an
And we are back! Our new Autumn series is called ‘Donegal in the fall’ #donegalinthefall and we will bring you some lovely images each day from somewhere in the county of Donegal, as summer leaves us, the light changes, and new colours and shade takes over the landscapes and seascapes. We
If you’d like some recommendations on poetry, Niamh introduces you to her favourite Irish poems, with context and commentary.
2020 is our summer of NO STUDENTS, so we are taking you on a virtual visit each day around the beautiful North-West of Ireland. Get your sandals on and join us for sixty days of summer!
2020 was not what we were expecting! So we took a walk/hike/visit to somewhere cultural or historic, every day during Covid -19 lockdown. Please enjoy this virtual visit to Ireland.
Greetings, music lovers! In this blog, authored by Collie and Niamh, we are going to chat about Irish songs and artists – not the ones that enjoy global fame, but those with which you may be less familiar. We want to take you down a musical road less traveled, but a very rewarding road nonetheless.
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