Arcadia Ireland

I recently wrote a Facebook post that outlined a few tips I had when looking for a hostel and it made me realise that I’ve learnt a thing or two from being away for so long. I lived in Vietnam for 2 years and have travelled most of South East Asia. I…

Happy New Year and a very warm welcome to our Spring 2018 students. I say warm, but realistically it’s a pretty cold and rainy welcome. Ireland in January has its challenges- it’s pretty cold, but the real dampener is the wind and rain. We are actually…

It's that time again and the Dublin staff were tasked with the difficult job of picking the photo competition winner for this semester. As always, we received hundreds of entries and we would encourage you to check out #ArcadiaIreland on both Facebook…

The countdown is most certainly on and with 10 days to go until Christmas Day the island of Ireland is BUZZING with excitement. There are lights strewn over buildings and between streets, Christmas music is blaring from every corner and the restaurants…

‘Tis the season for traditions, and there is one happening this Friday that is very Irish indeed. People all around the world have different markers for the ‘real’ start of the festive season, but it’s pretty fair to say that in Ireland there is a certain…

Although Irish people don’t traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving, you would be hard stretched to find someone who doesn’t know how important it is to our American friends and family. Here in Ireland we like to think of it as similar to our Christmas celebrations…

With spring 2018 fast approaching it’s finally time to announce Ireland’s excursion line up. This semester we are taking you outdoors. Ireland’s beauty rests in the history steeped hills and breath-taking arrays of green so be prepared for seeing a new…

There are a lot of things that we pride ourselves on here at Arcadia and togetherness is certainly one of them. We promote this in many ways, but one of the main things we love are shared experiences. We are lucky in Ireland as we are a small island.…

Did you know that Halloween sprouted from an Irish Celtic tradition known as Samhain? Nope, didn't think so! Well about 2,000 years ago, Samhain was the name given to the mid-point of the calendar where the ‘light’ of summer and the ‘dark’ of winter met…