See below pictures of Santa Claus visiting the students at International House Dublin and also the winner of our student footballer of the year 2007 (Quentin Sovet from Belgium wins himself an Irish jersey with his name printed on it). Also, we brought the High School students Christmas ice skating.
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O’Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students.....
Tuesday January 20....
St Patricks Cathedral ....
Reception 2.15....
One of Dublin's three cathedrals, St. Patrick's is actually the "National Cathedral", lacking the main ingredient that makes a cathedral out of a church - a bishop! Here St. Patrick supposedly baptized the first local converts besides a "Holy Well". Being the largest church in Ireland, St. Patrick's is well worth a visit, though a bit of a walk from Dublin's city center. But for friends of world literature this is a pilgrimage and a must, Jonathan Swift of "Gulliver" fame was dean of and is buried in the cathedral.....
Wednesday January 21....
Pub Night ....
Meet @ Trinity College @ 8.30 ....
Wednesday night is our social night out. We usually go to one of the traditional pubs in the city centre to listen to some local music and indulge in the finest of beverages. Sometimes we sing our hearts out at Karaoke , sometimes we dance, sometimes we get a little tipsy but we always have lots of fun. This is the best way to meet new friends, speak English in a relaxed atmosphere and get a taste of Irish culture. Come along, everybody is welcome! ................
My Left Foot ....
In This true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life. Later, through the help of h
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O’Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students
Tuesday November 18t
Dun Laoghaire Reception 2.15
Boasting one of the worlds finest harbours, Dún Laoghaire takes it's name form the great King Laoire who in 480A.D. maintained a great "Dún" or stone fort in the centre of the town. The ancient fort was demolished in 1803 to make way for the building of a Martello tower which in turn was replaced in 1834 by the first suburban railway in the world. King Laoire's large garrison ensured that the Romans would think twice about invading Ireland from British shores. Some say that Patrick the boy shepherd arrived at Dún Laoghaire as a slave, it was the same Patrick who returned in 432A.D. to face King Laoghaire and who subsequently destroyed his ancient Druid order. Traces of this order can still be found in Dún Laoghaire and the neighbouring village of Dalkey. Both towns are closely linked for it was the granite from Dalkey Hill that built Dún Laoghaire harbour in 1817.....
Wednesday November 19th....
Movie Club: In The Name of The Father....
Students Room @ 4.00....
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorn.
SOCIAL PROGRAMME Monday, October 13, 2008 Orientation Day 3.45 Reception....
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O’Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students.....
Tuesday October 14....
National Museum of History & Archaeology Reception 2.15....
Main collection of Irish archaeological finds up to and including the middle ages. Exhibitions of note focus on gold hoards, medieval treasures and the archaeology of Viking Dublin. Exhibition "Kingship & Sacrifice" showcases four Irish bog bodies and their origins.
Wednesday October 15.... Pub Night Meet @ Trinity College @ 8.30 ....
Wednesday night is our social night out. We usually go to one of the traditional pubs in the city centre to listen to some local music and indulge in the finest of beverages. Sometimes we sing our hearts out at Karaoke , sometimes we dance, sometimes we get a little tipsy but we always have lots of fun. This is the best way to meet new friends, speak English in a relaxed atmosphere and get a taste of Irish culture. Come along, everybody is welcome! Thursday October 16
Movie Club: One flew Over the Cuckoos’ Next Students Room 4.00 McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O'Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students.
Tuesday August 18
The Botanic Gardens Reception 2.15/3.45 {Bus 19a}
Although the principal object of botanic gardens is to maintain collections of plant species for the purpose of study, many can be pleasant and instructive places to visit. The National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin Ireland's premier botanical and horticultural establishment, is a rewarding and attractive garden for gar deners and non-gardeners alike.
Occupying a beautiful forty-eight acre site on the banks of the Tolka River it contains over 20,000 different plant species and cultivars including many exceptional specimens. There are some lovely trees, many outstanding displays of shrubs and perennials and, of course, the famous glasshouses, including Turner's magnificent curvilinear range.
Wednesday August 19
Pub Night
Meet @ Trinity College @ 8.30
Wednesday night is our social night out. We usually go to one of the traditional pubs in the city centre to listen to some local music and indulge in the finest of beverages. Sometimes we sing our hearts out at Karaoke , sometimes we dance, sometimes we get a little tipsy but we always have lots of fun. This is the best way to meet new friends, speak English in a relaxed atmosphere and get a taste of Irish culture. Come along, everybody is welcome!
Thursday August 21
Movie Club: Something about Mary. Students Room 4.00
Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened,
SOCIAL PROGRAMME Orientation Day Monday 25 February
3.45
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O'Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students.
Tuesday 26 February
The National History Museum
3.00 Reception
The National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology and History is the national repository for all archaeological objects found in Ireland. This museum houses over 2,000,000 artefacts which range in date between 7000BC and the late medieval period. Exhibitions include the finest collection of prehistoric gold artefacts in western Europe, outstanding examples of metalwork from the Celtic Iron Age, as well as the Museum's world-renowned collection of medieval ecclesiastical objects and jewellery. The Broighter Hoard, the Ardagh Chalice, the Tara Brooch and Derrynaflan Hoard are among the masterpieces on display.
Wednesday 27 February Pub Night
Meet @ Trinity College 8.30
Wednesday night is our social night out. We usually go to one of the traditional pubs in the city centre to listen to some local music and indulge in the finest of beverages. Sometimes we sing our hearts out at Karaoke , sometimes we dance, sometimes we get a little tipsy but we always have lots of fun. This is the best way to meet new friends, speak English in a relaxed atmosphere and get a taste of Irish culture. Come along, everybody is welcome!
Thursday 28 February
FILM CLUB: Gangs of New York Students Room @4.00
Having seen his father killed in a major gang fight in New York, young Amsterdam Vallon is spirited away for his own safety. Some years later, he returns to the scene of his father's death, the notorious Five Points district in New York. It's 1863 and lower Manhattan is run b
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O'Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students.
Tuesday 12 February Temple Bar Photo Archive
Reception 3.00
The 50 images featured in the exhibition In search of Ireland, 1913 have been loaned to the National Photographic Archive by the Musée Albert Kahn in Paris. The images, which represent the first ever colour photographs taken in Ireland, were taken in 1913 by two French women, Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba, who used newly available autochrome colour plates. The novice photographers recorded life and historic sites on their two month journey through Ireland from Connemara to the Boyne Valley.
Wednesday 13 February Pub Night
Meet @ Trinity College 8.30
Wednesday night is our social night out. We usually go to one of the traditional pubs in the city centre to listen to some local music and indulge in the finest of beverages. Sometimes we sing our hearts out at Karaoke , sometimes we dance, sometimes we get a little tipsy but we always have lots of fun. This is the best way to meet new friends, speak English in a relaxed atmosphere and get a taste of Irish culture. Come along, everybody is welcome!
Thursday Film Club: Into the West Students Room @ 4.00
A gigantic white stallion appears mysteriously to a Traveller grandfather and his two grandsons in an Irish slum. Since, puzzlingly, the younger of the two boys is the only individual who can control the horse, ownership falls to him and his older brother by default. There being no place for the animal, they move him into the apartment of their alcoholic Traveller father. Police remove him and, in
SOCIAL PROGRAMME Orientation Day Monday 4th February
3.45 Reception
A walking tour of the city, through St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College, O'Connell St, Henry St, the Market and Dublin Bus. This is a very good introduction to the city and a comfortable way to introduce yourself to the other students.
Tuesday 5th February Chester Beatty Library
3.00 Reception
Situated in the heart of the city centre, the Chester Beatty Library is an art museum and library which houses the great collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). The Library's exhibitions open a window on the artistic treasures of the great cultures and religions of the world. Its rich collection from countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe offers visitors a visual feast. Chester Beatty Library was named Irish Museum of the year in 2000 and was awarded the title European Museum of the Year in 2002.
Wednesday 6 February Pub Night
Meet Trinity College 8.30
Wednesday night is our social night out. We usually go to one of the traditional pubs in the city centre to listen to some local music and indulge in the finest of beverages. Sometimes we sing our hearts out at Karaoke , sometimes we dance, sometimes we get a little tipsy but we always have lots of fun. This is the best way to meet new friends, speak English in a relaxed atmosphere and get a taste of Irish culture. Come along, everybody is welcome!
THURSDAY 7th February Chineese + Korean
New Year Party 1.30 Students Room
Celebrate the new year with all our Chineese and Korean students in the Students Room at lunchtime. Lots of delicious food. Yum! Yum!
Friday 8th February
GUINNESS BREWERY 2.15 Ad. 9.00
Guinness is a dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness's St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin,
MONDAY Jan 7: Orientation Day. This is a walking tour of Dublin city center. St Stephens Green, Grafton St, Trinity College. O Connel St, the old market on Moore St and finally Dublin Bus. This is a great way to introduce yourself to the other students and get to know the city.
Meet at reception at 3.45
TUESDAY Jan 8: Viking Warship. Located in The National Museum, the ship is an exact replica of the war vessal used by the Vikings when they came to Ireland in the 13thC. Handmade and sailed all the way from Denmark this Summer. The Museum is free and the ship is only part of a much larger collection of costumes, artefacts, antiques, jewellary, armour, musical instruments dating from approx 15thC onwards.
Meet at reception @ 3.30
WEDNESDAY Jan 9: Pub Night. Each Wednesday night we visit one of Dublin's traditional pubs for live music. Sometimes we go dancing, sometimes we do Karaoke, sometimes we have drinking competitions, but we ALWAYS have fun. So, come along everybody's welcome.
Meet at Trinity College at 8.30
THURSDAY Jan 10: Film Club-FARGO. Jerry hires two men to kidnap his wife so he can get his rich father in law to pay the ransom of $1 million. Once the ransom is paid the kidnappers will get $40,000 and Jerry gets the rest. That's the plan, but what happens is something totally different. Blood is shed when a cop and two innocent people are killed. Marge Gunderson is the Chief who investigates the murders. While Marge investigates, Jerry gets involved in deeper problems, ranging from financial troubles, to threats from the kidnappers. Based on a true story that happened in Minnesota in 1987. Directed by Joel Coen.
Meet in the Students Room at 4.00
FRIDAY Jan 11: The Old Jameson Whiskey Distillery. Jameson is a blended Irish Whiskey, first produced in 1780. Originally one of the main four Dublin Whiskeys, Jameson is now distilled in Cork, although vatting still takes place in Du
SOCIAL PROGRAMME Monday Walking Tour of City Centre Tuesday The National Library Tuesday Dog Racing Wednesday Pub Night Thursday Movie Club: The Nightmare Before Christmas Friday Soccer + Dublin Castle
