Arcadia Ireland

Arcadia students from across Ireland recently joined together for the Belfast and Antrim Coast weekend. It’s great fun to get the Arcadia community back together, to reconnect with friends made during orientation. The Journey On the Friday morning,…

After much deliberation we have finally agreed on the winner of this years’ All Hallows Pumpkin Carving Contest! All the entries were absolutely incredible and we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who took the time to carve their pumpkins and…

This week was very exciting for the Arcadia Dublin staff, as the programme for the Abbey Theatre 1916 centenary commemorative productions was finally announced! Next year is the 100 anniversary of the 1916 Rising – the beginning of the end of British…

Last weekend was very busy for Arcadia Ireland with two co-curricular trips on one day. While Dr. Tom Kelley accompanied our Dublin students on a Game of Thrones filming locations trek (keep an eye out for Tom’s blog!) I got to travel around the wild…

Halloween in Ireland is certainly a different holiday than it is in the US. Why you ask? Well... It’s spookier! Modern Halloween has its roots in Celtic feast Samhain, or the Feast of the Dead; when the divide between this world and the next is at…

Students studying with Arcadia in Ireland had the great excitement of visiting the real Game of Thrones film locations in Northern Ireland last weekend along with me, Resident Director for Arcadia in Ireland. The activity weekend included visits to Inch…

We have finally acquired our new paintings for the Munster Room at the Dublin Center. When walking through our neighbouring area of Cows Lane recently we discovered the work of Dublin born artist Eimear Brennan. Immediately her work spoke something to…

For the fourth time running University College Cork (UCC) has been voted University of the Year by the prestigious U.K. Sunday Times Newspaper.  Arcadia University has a long standing relationship and a fond love for both the University and our partners…

The Arcadia Dublin Center is delighted to host the first of this semesters Tin whistle workshops! A tin whistle is a small, simple six-holed instrument made of…..you guessed it! Tin! Most primitive cultures have some form of flute instrument and the…