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Hi Students,
Welcome to the seventh edition of the Work and Travel Ireland e-zine! As the summer draws to a close in this edition we feature some Autumn festivals taking place in Ireland. We also have our snippet from the program itself and the diary of one of our program participants', telling us some of their tales since arriving in Ireland! Enjoy the read! Cheers, |
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| Work In Ireland participants at the Meghen Group Recruitment Summer BBQ | |||
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| Participants Diary..... | |||
Name: Sheila BurtAge: 22 yrs University: NorthWestern University Length of time here: 2 months What job are you doing in Ireland? I just completed eight weeks working as a junior data administrator (scanning documents) for an employee law consulting firm. I got the job through a temp agency (La Crème). I was able to set up one week with the Irish Times (where I am now) and will do another temp assignment after my work experience there. La Crème has been really great with helping me sort things out, and I found out about them through USIT on the Tuesday night sessions. Where & Who are you living with here? I am living in a house in Rathmines with three other people who I did not know before (a Polish guy, a Spanish guy and a Spanish girl). I found it on daft.ie. Whats your social scene like? Where do you go? What do you do etc? I pretty much go out with my flatmates and with the few other people I have met here (either through the USIT Bray trip, or through some people my brother knew). I usually try to do day trips on the weekend to places outside of Dublin (Wicklow, etc.) and during the week I either go for a pint in a pub or go to the cinema. Your most memorable thing to date in Ireland? Hmm…this is a hard question because a lot has been fun and interesting! But I would have to say my weekend in Wexford or Wicklow were the best so far because the scenery changes so much, even if you’re not too far from Dublin. I climbed a mountain (albeit a small one) for the first time and the views were something I had never experienced before. Coming from Illinois, the prairie lands, that was pretty amazing. Advice you would give any students thinking about going on the WII program? If you really want a career-orientate job, do as much planning ahead as you can. Also, ask as many questions as you can when you first get here, especially when it concerns where you want to live. But even if you’re not working the most ideal job at first, you really do get to learn about Ireland. The program allows you to experience true Ireland, even if you’re not working your dream job. I would have never been able to afford staying in Ireland for 4 months if I didn’t have a job and now I can do that, and travel around Europe pretty cheaply! |
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| Music and Entertainment | |||
Bulmer’s International Comedy FestivalNow in its third year the Bulmers International Comedy Festival is firmly established as one of the most successful comedy festivals in the world. It has played host to the cream of International and Irish comedy talent including Ricky Gervais, Denis Leary, Dylan Moran, Jimeoin, Lee Evans and Bill Bailey to name but a few. This year the festival is bigger and better than ever and runs from 4th - 30th September 2006 in over twenty venues across Dublin. One of the main attractions of this year's festival is Little Britain – Live. The world of Little Britain is the twisted brainchild of creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Alternately painfully accurate and whimsically surreal, Little Britain is simply the funniest show of the moment and sure to be an unforgettable live experience. Other excellent acts include Niall Tobin, Denis Leary and friends, Ross Noble, David Strassman, Lee Evans, Jimeoin, Ennio Marchetto, The Umbilical Brothers and Dirty Sanchez. The festival will also include a pub-trail (The Orchard Path) with acts playing in various venues across Dublin. |
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Ireland Ryder Cup 2006, golfing occasion of a lifetime...One of the world’s most prestigious golfing events has at last come to the Emerald Isle. The Venue for The Ryder Cup 2006 is Ireland’s first five red star resort, the luxurious K Club in Co. Kildare. Ireland has a long history of prestigious involvement with the cup with the likes of Fred Daly, Harry Bradshaw, Christy O’Connor Senior and Junior, Eamonn Darcy, Philip Walton and Des Smyth, as well as today’s top players Darren Clarke, Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley. An estimated 40,000 people will attend the each of the matches held over a three day period from the 22nd-24th September. |
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Fringe 06’ presents an innovitave platform for contempory performing artsThe Dublin Fringe Festival has exploded across Dublin City since the 9th and will run until the 24th September with an absolutely humongous wide and varied programme of events with something to please all tastes. Dublin Fringe Festival is Ireland's leading multi-disciplinary festival of contemporary performing arts, providing an annual platform for the most innovative and fresh theatre, visual arts, dance, live art, mixed media and music. The festival kicked off with a free Fire Installation at George's Dock, IFSC which is essentially a large outdoor fire exhibition. Also worth a laugh is Out Of Site, street theatre and guerrilla performances at various locations around the city centre across the festival. There will also be innovative mystery tours from The Pigeon House and other adventures across the city. The much loved Spiegeltent also returns, bringing together artists from 19 countries presenting theatre, burlesque, comedy, cabaret and music. |
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