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WHAT DOES IT mean to be Irish? It’s a thorny question – and not one with an easy answer.
Hibernia College in Dublin has launched an online course which allows students to explore the factors in the creation of Irish identity – from historical, geographical and cultural perspectives.
Appropriately enough, the course is in association with The Gathering. Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, said that the course would be a good preparation for those planning to visit Ireland this year, especially when the tourism industry is “reaching out and inviting it to come here”.
The ‘Exploring Irish Identity‘ course is free but requires registration at mooc.hiberniacollege.com and begins on 27 May this year. It is the first MOOC (massive open online course) on the subject of Irish identity and Hibernia is Ireland’s only dedicated online third-level institution. The plan is to offer students a series of eight two-hour presentations exploring Irish history, literature and poetry, theatre and film, language, art, sport and landscape and how these elements have interacted to create a cultural identity.
There are contributions from prominent academics and figures in Irish life including National Gallery of Ireland director, Dr Olive Braiden, film-maker Alan Gilsenan, musician Charlie Lennon, author Marian Keyes, poet Theo Dorgan, BEC consultants Dr Fionnuala O’Neill, Dr Rory Hodd and Dr R Nash, NUI Maynooth’s Dr Moynagh Sullivan, Hibernia College’s Dr Teresa Whitaker and Dr Pat Callan and others.
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10:00am ‘Da recession, we dun nuttin, y we paying’
11:00am A concise History of Tayto
12:00pm Pratical, Acessorising up your PJs for all occasions
1:00pm BREAK
2:00pm Why Religon still matters in 2013, presented by guest lecturer Father Dougal Maguire
3:00pm Political parties, terrorists, fibbers and easily bought idiots….
4:00pm Geographic stereotypes, from fitting in shades tangerine and UGGs in D4, to treating your own knife wounds in Limerick.
5:00pm – 3am Wind down session in the local followed by an anthropogy fiield study to Coppers (report due 11am tommorow)
Ahhh man lighten up… thanks for noticing the muscles though :0)
What it means to be irish = Having a few screws loose in your head, always getting rained on, begrudging anything possible and being docile in the face of the biggest theft of this country to ever happen..
Oh and maybe throw in some mild alcoholism into the mix and away you go..
You got it in one jonny, self loathing is another one you forgot…no wait..
Rigley isnt an Irish name is it?
C isn’t an irish name is it? Also rigley is an irish protestant name (not that i’m either protestant or catholic or any other mind controlling religion)
“Faith and Begorrah,Top O the morning to ya.”
what it means to be irish now – one of the main things is we are being robbed to pay others debts .
The generational cycle of emigration
Hibernia College – there’s just three things!
1. Drink
2. Feck
3. Girls
I’m not sure about “Arse”. You can work on that, being a college and all of that!
Could’ve used this last night when I did a 3000 word essay on feckin Irish identity! Oh well, it’ll be useful to someone doing the same again.. :)
The Irish have forgotten what is like to be Irish.They have sold their country to the EEC as well.
Fantastic idea!
Beir bua!
Excellent idea! looking forward to it.
Ahhh the old sterotypes
Did you hit the big delete comment button there susan?
Yes – but yours was only deleted because it was in reply to a commenter who has had so many comments deleted that he’s now been blocked. Thanks Isaac – sorry your comment got caught in the crossfire!
No problems, he was a bit strange, go have yourself a nice Green Tea, I hear it’s very relaxing
I found out recently that green tea has a RAKE of caffeine in it. Oh. http://www.medicinalfoodnews.com/vol10/2006/green_tea.htm
Don’t tell Aoife she’s addicted to the stuff.
Susan,
sorry to interrupt the love show here, what are you going to do about the prejudiced comment from andrew telford…………….
censorship,
unemployment, indebtedness, emigration,
these are the symbols of ireland
Who did you block Susan? The Irish love a bit of gossip.
Ah thanks Limk boy for bringing me such joy on a grey, wet Thursday noon. I was losing the run of myself, leaning on the shovel for a chat, eh?
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Hold on, was Limk Boy born in 1691?
Dude
Pot… Kettle… Black
That’s just great. We are indeed a unique and complex people (aren’t all peoples though?), and its great to see an Irish higher education institute (albeit a small player) elaborate on that, tart it up, and sell it to the Americans, fulfilling the University’s new social role as a place for inculcating lowly greed, sorry, I mean Innovation.
Anyway, just how complex Irishness is is well captured by this rather deranged piece I found:
http://screedsofscorn.blogspot.ie/2013/03/j1-some-irishmen-come-of-age-in-america.html
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