Best Hiking Spots Around Dublin
September is a lovely month to explore the outdoors in Ireland. The weather is often mild, the summer crowds have gone, and the autumn colours are starting to appear. If ...
ISI and James Joyce: Influences III — Relationships
Fig. 1. above L-R (photographers unknown): Lucia Joyce, Ostend, 1924; Lucia Joyce, Paris, 1925. Here at ISI Dublin, we pride ourselves on having — over and above all of the ...
Ireland’s Top 5 Christmas Traditions
Apart from Christmas dinner, Carolling (singing hymns or popular festive folk songs), and hanging Holly Wreaths, here are just a few of Irish people’s favourite things to do at Christmas: ...
Christmas Spectacular
“Christmas Spectacular” image courtesy of The Irish Road Trip Christmas Spectacular is a seasonal market located in Smithfield Square, Dublin, just 10 minutes (walking) from our ISI MHL campus (alternatively, ...
Imbolc—Celtic “fire” festival—explained!
The Marsden Imbolc Fire Festival in Yorkshire, England, 2020. During the festival, Jack Frost, symbolising winter, and the Green Man (featured on the right), symbolising spring, battle for supremacy in ...
Halloween—Celtic Festival of Samhain—explained! (B2-C2)
I bet you’ve probably seen pumpkins like these making their way into shop window-displays over the past few weeks, and you’re likely to see an awful lot more of them ...
ISI and James Joyce: Influences II — Astraphophobia
The earliest known photograph of lightning by William N. Jennings (1882). Here at ISI Dublin, we pride ourselves on having — over and above all of the English Language Schools ...
ISI and James Joyce’s Dublin III
ISI students reading a story from James Joyce's Dubliners in situ at the House of the Dead, Usher's Island, Dublin, with their teacher, Edia. So far in this series of ...
The “Passive Voice” made Easy by Rosie!
Did you know that in the English language we have 12 tenses? Did you know that, in addition, all of these can be made “passive”? In knowing this, you (now) ...
ISI and James Joyce’s Dublin II
Our teacher Edia (left) with her students, walking in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom. In our last post in this series, we suggested that if you’re a James Joyce fan ...
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