In March 2023, our second year students donned their walking boots to discover the delights of DUBLIN on foot, the hometown of our beloved Ms Kavanagh.  

DAY 1: We started off with a gentle walk to get our bearings in the city we would call home for the next week. We had a traditional Irish Stew for lunch in the Hairy Lemon and settled in at the Youth Hostel.

DAY 2: A busy first full day in Dublin, to start off with, a visit to the Seamus Heaney exhibition ‘Listen, Now, Again’

The afternoon was devoted to a vist to the National Museum to find out more about Dublin’s history and more specifically to have a taster of Glendalough.

Dinner in a family-run restaurant to revive the troops before an evening performance at the Gate Theatre : The New Electric Ballroom.

DAY 3: We left the city behind and pulled on the wet weather gear ready for a hilly walk in Glendalough : a monastic site dating from the 6^th Century with views that quite literally took our breaths away!! Even the fabulous Irish weather couldn’t dampen our spirits !!

A well earned meal at the Hard Rock Café brought Day 3 to a close.

DAY 4: Back to the city with an excursion to Collins Barracks the decorative arts museum: exhibitions as varied as military weapons to funeral photography, antique ceramics to samurai swords. A visit behind the scenes of the Irish National Theatre rounded off the day with a theatre workshop and an insight into hair, makeup and props in a professional theatre.

Dinner consisted in the best ‘Fish and Chips’ in Dublin before returning to The Abbey for a modern production of Molière’s Tartuffe.

DAY 5: Our final day in the city and a visit to the National Library and an immersive exhibition devoted to William B Yeats before returning to Trinity College for a guided tour by student ambassadors trying to recruit the best among us as future undergrads!

A week full of culture and cuisine, poetry and promenades

« Go raibh maith agat » to Ms Kavanagh for an unforgettable trip !

For a short video of the best bits … try here