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Amelia Bamsey (Class of 2026) is pursing a major in International Economics and Finance and a minor in English. She attended Catholic University's Irish Summer Institute in Summer 2024.
Visited the cliffs of Moher with my classmates (all 10 of them!) on a weekend trip to the West Coast, including Galway.
Irish pop culture is rich in all the arts — music included. At this pub, the Cobblestone in north Dublin, local musicians gather weekly and cycle through this booth with their instruments, playing Irish folk songs. Listeners tip the musicians by buying them rounds of pints. When they sing, the whole pub — even those on the opposite side not watching the musicians—go quiet out of respect.
Phoenix Park, a huge park (2x the size of Central Park in NYC!) in Dublin suburbs, where deer are famed to be seen. We heard they were scarce this summer, but lucked out finding this huge group of them only about a mile in.
Bust of Jonathan Swift, famous satiric essayist, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I read and presented on his “Tale of a Tub” and “A Modest Proposal” for our English class.
A beautiful cliff hike in Howth, a small coastal town just north of Dublin. We did this hike once formally as a class, but I went two other times because I loved it so much.
Taken on the walk over the Liffey back to our bus stop after a show at the National Theatre of Dublin. Pictured among my classmates is Katelyn, a fellow Cornerstone scholar.
Hike through Glendalough, home of the real patron saint of Ireland, St. Kevin, a monk and mystic who allegedly lived in a cave on a side of a cliff in this valley.
A beautiful home in Drogheda that English royalty built and used to live in; descendants of the family still live there but were gracious enough to give us a tour.
Photo taken on the top of the tower from the first chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Irish, especially Dubliners, take great pride in this book; each year, they have a huge celebration of the day the story was set, June 16th aka “Bloomsday” (after the main character, Leopold Bloom).
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