Sláinte! Many cheers to everyone joining me on this week’s Trending Thursday. What better way to start the return from break than with a whiskey tour? Earlier this week, I took a tour of the Teeling Whiskey Distillery. Before I go into the history of Teeling Whiskey, some background on whiskey in Ireland is […]
Dia dhuit! This week in Dublin we had the opportunity to learn a little bit of the official Irish language, Gaelic (or as you would say in Gaelic, Gaeilge)! This was something I found really cool to learn about because when my dad was growing up in Ireland, he was […]
Hello everyone! Welcome back to #BrewsdayTuesday! Last week was Fall Break for Mount students, and my parents made the journey over to visit me. The three of us left Dublin and spent two nights in Belfast. From there we spent another two nights in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then took a […]
Toward the end of my first study abroad trip with the Mount in Salzburg, Austria in June of 2018, Dr. Rosenfeld, the director of our trip, warned us about such a feeling of post-study abroad nostalgia. He explained a German term called “fernweh” where the literal translation into English means […]
…that is, Welcome to Kilkenny! If you’re tired of Dublin and the tourist traps, and you’re just looking for a nice day-trip in Ireland, take a look at Kilkenny. It’s a city about an hour’s train ride out of Dublin with Irish Rail through a beautiful countryside. The town itself […]