Dublin, Ireland
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Academic level: Undergraduate & Graduate
Program dates: June 30 – August 11, 2012
Priority application deadline: March 1st
General application deadline: April 2nd
Please note: Applications are accepted after April 2nd on a rolling, space available, first come first served, basis and programs are open until filled.
Total credits: 8 undergraduate points required / 4 – 8 graduate points
Program focus: Modern Irish society & culture
“I loved experiencing the culture of Ireland, while learning from local professors.” – Summer 2011 student
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Program Directors:
Professor John Waters, Irish Studies Program
John Waters has taught Irish literature at NYU since 2000, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies (2000-present) and as inaugural Director of the MA Program in Irish and Irish-American Studies (2007-present). He teaches courses on Irish litlerary and cultural history from the Renaissance to the present. He received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins, his M.Phil. from Trinity Colllege, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Duke.
Conor Creaney, Language Lecturer, Expository Writing
Conor Creaney, a native Dubliner and a full-time member of NYU's Expository Writing faculty, has been working on the NYU in Dublin Program since 2004. He received his B.A. and M.A. (in Anglo-Irish literature) from University College Dublin, and completed his Ph.D (English) at NYU.
Program Summary:
NYU Summer in Dublin offers students the opportunity to live and study in a capital that combines the modernity of a thriving European city with a rich heritage spanning more than a millennium. The program and student housing are centered at Trinity College, Ireland's oldest university, with a distinguished history since 1592 that boasts such graduates as writers Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Beckett, politicians Edmund Burke, Douglas Hyde, and Mary Robinson, mathematician Rowan Hamilton, and atomic scientist Ernest Walton. Its Old Library houses the famous 9th century illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells. Trinity is located on forty beautiful acres complete with cobbled squares and green lawns ringed by ancient trees and elegant buildings –truly a scholarly oasis in the heart of bustling Dublin.
ACADEMICS:
Open to undergraduate and graduate students, this program is an intensive study of modern Irish society and culture with particular emphasis on literature, history, sociology, and the Irish language. Students examine the experiences and problems that have played a pivotal role in the 20th century, including the contemporary cultural renaissance, the Celtic Tiger economy, and the revival of the native language. Faculty are experts in their fields, drawn from NYU as well as Irish universities. Lectures are supplemented by field trips and guest speakers.
Classes are held at Trinity College. Founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592, Trinity College was originally outside Dublin's city walls. It now occupies a central position within the city, with its famous front gate and stone walls enclosing a peaceful campus adjacent to the animated artistic and cultural milieu of Temple Bar and the lively cosmopolitan character of Grafton Street. Adjoining areas include the classical Merrion and Fitzwilliam Squares with their gracious Georgian townhouses, and the serenity of St. Stephen's Green, a public park cherished by Dubliners since the Guinness family made it a gift to the city.
Housing:
Students live in the heart of Trinity’s picturesque campus, in the ivy-covered square known as “Botany Bay” (a former 19th-century garden). Every student has their own room, and shares a kitchen, living room and bathroom with one other person. Students have wireless Internet in most locations on campus, 24-hour access to a designated computer lab, and access to the college library (the largest in the country). Also, the National Library of Ireland is adjacent to the college campus, and students receive a comprehensive introduction to the library and its research facilities. Bed linens and towels are provided, and laundry facilities and a gym are also available.
EXCURSIONS:
Click here for a campus map. House 13 at Botany Bay will be your home this summer.
A diverse array of cultural activities forms an integral part of the program. In addition to experiencing Dublin, students travel together to various parts of Ireland, north and south. Destinations vary from year to year but all excursions are designed to enhance and deepen the understanding of Irish culture that students receive in the classroom. The destinations for Summer 2011 include:
- Two days on the beautiful island of Inishbofin, off the Galway coast, guided by one of Ireland's most eminent archaeologists, Michael Gibbons.
- A night in the picturesque Connemara village of Clifden.
- A visit to the Connemara Pony Show in the picturesque village of Roundstone.
- Immersing ourselves for two days in the Gaelic-speaking culture of Gweedore in Co. Donegal
- Visiting the rugged and remote Tory Island in the company of the island's "King,"Patsy Dan Rogers
- A tour of Northern Ireland's historic walled city of Derry.
- A behind-the-scenes tour of the Dail, Ireland's parliament.
- A visit to the majestic prehistoric monuments of the Boyne Valley.
- A trip to the stadium at Croke Park to see our national sport, Hurling.
- Visits to the National Library (where you will be given an introduction into how to go about doing research work in its vast archives), the National Museum, the wonderful Marsh's Library, the Chester Beatty Museum, the Irish Writers' Centre and more.
- A play at the historic Abbey Theatre.
FACULTY:
John Waters (The Irish Renaissance)
John Waters has written on Irish literary and cultural history from the 18th century Enlightenment to the present. He has a forthcoming book on Irish writers and trans-Atlantic experience, and is currently writing on the contemporary boom in Irish crime fiction. At NYU he regularly teaches courses on James Joyce, the Irish Renaissance, and contemporary Irish poetry.
Colin Creaney (Contemporary Irish Literature)
Conor Creaney completed his PhD on Victorian literature and culture at NYU. While a student at University College, Dublin, he wrote his MA thesis on contemporary Irish literature, and regularly teaches courses on contemporary writing within the Expository Writing Program at NYU, where he is an appointed Lecturer.
Pádraig Ó’Cearúill (Irish Language and Irish Culture: Tradition and Modernity
M.A. (1999) New York University. H. Diploma, Trinity College, Dublin; Language Lecturer and Irish Language Coordinator, Program in Irish Studies, New York University. A beloved and much-awarded teacher of Irish at NYU, Padraig is a native speaker of Irish as well as a singer in the Irish Sean Nos tradition.
Eamonn Slater (Contemporary Irish Politics and Society)
Ph.D., B.A. Trinity College, Dublin; Lecturer in Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth. Eamonn Slater has written widely on transformations in Irish society and geography from the Famine to the post-Tiger economy. Recent publications have explored suburbanization in Ireland, the ecology of 19th century farming practices, and the archaeology of Irish golf courses.
CONTACT INFO
NYU Office of Global Programs
110 East 14th Street, LOWER LEVEL
New York, NY 10003
t: 212-998-4433
f: 212-995-4103
summer.in.dublin@nyu.edu