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Current Projects

GAEL SCOIL 91tvӰԺ - Beginning SUMMER 2025

The Irish Studies Initiative will be launching an Irish culture and language program through 91tvӰԺ Office of Youth Experiences starting in Spring 2025!  The first iteration of the program will offer a half-day on campus camp to introduce young people to the fun and excitement of Irish Culture.  Scouting America members are encouraged to participate to to meet a portion of the requirements for the .

Saturday May 17, 2025 - 9:00am - 1:00pm:

• Mythology & Folklore - 30 minute lecture + St. Brigid's cross making
• Irish Immigrants in America - 30 min lecture + short dance step instruction
• GAA demonstration of Irish sports
• Poetry, Irish Language, and Literature - lecture + song
• St. Patrick's Day traditions - lecture + shamrock craft
• Closing céilí where the song and dance are performed

We are currently seeking support so that this programing can be offered to youth participants free of charge.  Support this program by donating to the !

91tvӰԺ Study Abroad - Beginning Summer 2025 

In the Summer term of 2025, the Irish Studies Initiative will be launching a new program through 91tvӰԺ Study Abroad.  Participants will travel to Dublin and Northern Ireland to trace the interplay between Ireland's rich literary tradition and history.  Special focus will be paid to the Irish Literary Revival and the ways in which history and literature combined to drive the Irish independence movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Studying Irish literature, culture, and history in the very location that inspired that literature and its authors will give students a greater sense of understanding of the political, social and cultural life of Ireland, particularly on the development and growth of a revolutionary tradition. 
The trip will start in Dublin, which is the center of some of Ireland’s most influential cultural and historical events, and also home to events and exhibits marking the Decade of Commemorations (1913-1923). The course will provide a narrative framework within which certain key events will be highlighted and examined in detail. Using primary and secondary source analysis including images, literature, songs, poems, newspapers, and plays the course will explore the impact of significant historical events on modern Ireland. For example, the upheaval of the 1916 Easter Rising led to Irish masterworks such as Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and W. B. Yeats’s “Easter 1916.” Students will visit central historical sites of the Rising such as Kilmainham Gaol, St. Stephen’s Green, the Four Courts, and the General Post Office. 

Please contact the Irish Studies Initiative team for more information on the ongoing development of this program and when enrollment for Summer 2025 will be available!