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         The trip to Dun Laoghaire to get to the National Rehabilitation Hospital isn’t exactly that long per se – a little over an hour and twenty give or take, which isn’t awful – it’s more the various methods of … Continue reading →

The past two months I have traveled to 5 countries and most recently uncovered a new continent – Africa. Visiting Morocco and doing a Sahara tour was on my bucket list for awhile, a trip that felt right in my … Continue reading →

Dublin is small. That’s something that’s easy to forget when you are weaving through massive crowds on Grafton Street at 3PM on a Saturday. But its something that I’m reminded of every time I’m given the opportunity to meet with … Continue reading →

At home over the holidays last month, relatives and friends bombarded me with questions about my time so far in Ireland: the standard chorus of “What is it like?” and “Is it as rainy as they say?” (yes) and “So … Continue reading →

On a Tuesday in October last year, I sat with Father Mike Cussen in his Toyota. We were in a parking lot near my school, the University of Limerick. Cussen, a silver-haired man in his 60s, wore a gray quarter-zip … Continue reading →

Five years ago, my colleagues and I stood outside, excitedly holding a handmade banner that read: TO SAFEHOUSE WITH LOVE, BOSTON. What had brought us together was the anticipated opening of America’s first overdose prevention center (OPC). Safehouse was set … Continue reading →

I knew I wanted to study in Ireland when I learned of Frederick Douglass’s visit here in 1845–46. A student of Civil War–era U.S. history, I had read about events like the New York City draft riots of 1863, a … Continue reading →

Currently living in Ulster University student accommodations on the north end of City Centre, I frequently ride the Glider Bus to visit my cousins in Poleglass or eat lunch and study at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich. Along the way, stops … Continue reading →

wince in pain,sit upaccept the fact that I’m not sleepingflick the little light onfind some way to pass the timedog-ear the page of a good book,do some writingsome more readingkiss Joyce upon his eyelidstuck him back in for the nighthe’ll … Continue reading →

Before choosing Queen’s, I was really torn between Belfast or Dublin. I’d been to Dublin before. I knew I liked it. But something in my heart was pulling me in a different direction. I can’t really explain it. I had … Continue reading →

              I’m not sure what it was that originally drew to me to mandolin. I had never even met another mandolin player when I bought my first mandolin. I’ve always enjoyed learning how to play a variety of instruments ranging … Continue reading →