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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.

University of West Alabama March 2022

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

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Photography Trip 2021

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

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Spring 2021 Landscapes, Folklore & Magic

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.

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FAB FEBRUARY 2021

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

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NORTHWEST WINTER

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

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AUTUMN ALMANAC DONEGAL IN THE FALL

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

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BEST OF IRISH TUNES

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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