Ireland: The Land of Green
I was recently lucky enough to enjoy my 2nd trip outside of the country and go 4/4 on Spring break trips. This time around I was in Ireland, the land of my far-distance relatives. The course was entitled "The Irish in America" and I was immediately interested. From some research I had done into my own genealogy I knew that I was Irish and I even knew what country my ancestors came from but I didn’t know anything about what my ancestors journey to America was like or their life afterwards was like. I had always been told that I was Irish, in fact growing up people did not ask me my heritage they just assumed with my red hair, fair skin and freckles that I was Irish. Ironically enough my Irish-ness has been disputed by my family. For reasons I don’t particularly understand my dad's family (my Irish side) was trying to argue for the longest time that we are Scottish. After putting some time into mapping my family tree on that side, I can now end that argument as the Dunlevys emigrated from Ireland before the Famine to become farmers in Pennsylvania. By taking this class I wanted to get more into touch with Irish and Irish American culture, as this was not a part of my childhood. I always knew I was Irish but that did not mean anything to me, besides a justification for my physical characteristics. Over the course of this class, I learned so much about what being Irish means to the Irish and what it means to my classmates who are Irish-American and those who are not.
Ireland was in a word: amazing. We flew into Shannon, spent a couple days in Limerick, a couple days in (the people's republic of) Cork, and finally a couple days (including St. Paddy's Day) in Dublin. The entire trip from beginning to end was memorable and amazing. Some classmates of mine from the trip I took to Iceland last Spring were also on this trip, so the Iceland Fam was able to ride again. There are too many moments to talk about but some of my favorites were walking all over Dublin on St. Paddy's day, seeing the parade on St. Paddy's day, visiting Kilmainham Gaol, and the beautiful Cliffs of Mohr.
Links!
http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/exhibits/irish-cincinnati/
This website was made for this class and contains all of our assignments for the class , including a blog post I wrote about how Irish "Irish" foods are.
Below is my final project for the class in which I looked at the number of Cholera deaths within the Cincinnati Irish particularly in the 1866 epidemic.
Ireland was in a word: amazing. We flew into Shannon, spent a couple days in Limerick, a couple days in (the people's republic of) Cork, and finally a couple days (including St. Paddy's Day) in Dublin. The entire trip from beginning to end was memorable and amazing. Some classmates of mine from the trip I took to Iceland last Spring were also on this trip, so the Iceland Fam was able to ride again. There are too many moments to talk about but some of my favorites were walking all over Dublin on St. Paddy's day, seeing the parade on St. Paddy's day, visiting Kilmainham Gaol, and the beautiful Cliffs of Mohr.
Links!
http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/exhibits/irish-cincinnati/
This website was made for this class and contains all of our assignments for the class , including a blog post I wrote about how Irish "Irish" foods are.
Below is my final project for the class in which I looked at the number of Cholera deaths within the Cincinnati Irish particularly in the 1866 epidemic.
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