Hawaii Colleges & Snow College Utah & ECU Pirates! Summer 2022
HAWAII/SNOW/ECU
Off we go again! A big fat Fáilte to our new groups from East Carolina University, Kapi’olani Community College Hawai’i, Hawai’i Community College and Snow College Utah. We started off in Dublin, – the early arrivals got in Trinity College and the Bog Bodies, some went to the Botanic Gardens, then dinner in Monto, comfiest of beds at the Camden Court Hotel, today, Epic Museum, then Hill of Tara, and finally dinner at McGarrigles restaurant and a sunset beach walk, and zzzzz at the Atlantic Apartotel. PHEW!
Our first day in Donegal begins in the classroom, with some work on the O’Donnells and their part in the defence of Gaelic Ireland, their defeat, and the Plantation of Ulster [in the context of how colonisation works] -so the site visit began at Assaroe Abbey (Eas Aodh Rua), St. Patrick’s Well and Catsby Cave. Catsby Cave is one of the most beautiful locations in Donegal, and the site of a Mass Rock back in Penal times. We had fun down here today with @kccbosa Snow College Hawaii Community College East Carolina University (and the doggie came too!) We also checked out the flora and fauna of Ballyshannon with Ecu ScienceEd @ecuglobal ECU Education Abroad
Very grateful to Angela McGonigle for her talk with our Nursing students and faculty from Snow College and Kapiʻolani Community College #nursing #studyabroad #bundoran Snow College Nursing An Gorta Mór, 1845-50, poverty, welfare and emigration- our field trip included a visit to Ballyshannon Workhouse, Sliabh Liag Cliffs, Fish n’ Chips from the Killybegs Fish Shack, a sing-song at the Harbour bar, and lots of posing to get that perfect photo! Fabulous! Surf’s up! And we have Hawai’ian surfers on the beach, that’s some achievement But also some accomplished young paddlers from North Carolina and Utah. Thanks Bundoran Surf Co for a great session. Many thanks too to Tommy Early at Mount Allen Organic Farm, and Dr. Aga for a brilliant visit to the farm with our East Carolina University science students!
We did a class with Kapiʻolani Community College East Carolina University Snow College and Hawaii Community College about Landscape, Identities and Literature- with the Yeats family in focus-William, Jack, Lilly and Lolly! Then we went gallivanting around Yeats Country to check out the man himself (allegedly) in W B Yeats Grave, Drumcliffe Church, Sligo. and at Glencar Waterfall Drumcliffe Sligo
Farm to Fork, fresh as can be! Our students from Kapi’olani Community College, Snow College, Hawai’i Community College and East Carolina University enjoy a visit to the Tattie Hoaker Community Farm to forage & prepare their own lunch. Fab fun, thanks Aga Pi and all at Tattie Hoaker Community Farm for a great day. ‘We Shall Overcome’ is the soundwave on the front of the Museum of Free Derry – thanks once again for a great tour. Thanks so much to the brilliant Edel McBride Knitfield Ireland for bringing her yarn, designs and talent to our students yesterday #edelmcbrideknitwear #wool #yarn #donegal #knitwear #studyabroadireland
What a place to finish our Ireland program with Kapiʻolani Community College Hawaii Community College Snow College and East Carolina University – Oileán Arran Mhóir – Arranmore Island, a gorgeous Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Donegal, where we are made so welcome – from the amazing women at the Harbour Front Cafe Burtonport to the people at Arranmore Ferry, to Kevin the busdriver, the great staff at Early’s Bar and to Jerry Early and musicians who gave us a great trad music performance during our lunch. Go raibh míle maith agaibh go leir, bhí lá iontach againn.
