Study Abroad Blogs

  • ATU Study Abroad Program

Dublin Day 1 (Part 2)

April 23, 2017 by

In the second half of day 1, we walked over to Trinity College.

*Sidenote: the Irish walk everywhere. And when they say something is a five-minute walk, just be prepared for at least a 20-minute walk. *

I was especially excited to visit Trinity College. In class prior to our trip, we were all assigned a museum in Dublin in which we had to research and present to the class. The Library at Trinity College was my assigned museum, so I couldn’t wait to see it all in person. Trinity College is a beautiful college that also dates back several hundred years. Queen Elizabeth I opened the college in 1592 during a time when many universities were being established across Western Europe. We only toured the library’s Long Room, which houses the Book of Kells. The Book of Kells is a manuscript of the four gospels written around 800 AD. The Long Room has over 200,000 of the library’s oldest books and is lined with marble busts. The busts are of great philosophers, writers, and men who supported the college. Trinity College Dublin was definitely a must-see while in Ireland. It was incredible to view so much history in one place. When we finished up there, we met the other groups for dinner on Temple Bar. Temple Bar is a street lined with restaurants and bars, similar to Beale Street in Memphis or Dickson Street in Fayetteville. Saint Patrick’s Day weekend was still in full swing when we arrived, so the street was full of tourists and locals in celebration. It was really an awesome experience.

The Long Room lined with books and marble busts.

A street decorated for Saint Patrick’s Day

Filed Under: #ATUGLOBAL, Dublin Experience

Study Abroad at Tech

Komazawa University, Tokyo
Nagasaki International University, Sasebo
Nagasaki University, Nagasaki
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies (NUFS), Nisshin
Karl-Franzens-Universitat, Graz
Osaka University of Commerce, Osaka
Universidad de León, León

Archives

  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • March 2025
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • January 2023
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016

The ATU Logo

 

© Copyright 2019 Arkansas Tech University · All Rights Reserved