On Monday nights we have our Intro to Ireland class at the O'Connell House. Kevin Whelan teaches it, and he's great. Yesterday's class was especially cool because we learned about Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator. He fought politically against England for Catholic Emancipation. It was amazing because Notre Dame's O'Connell house is the house that he lived in. So when Kevin was telling us about the speeches he made to Merrion Square from the balcony, the balcony was literally 3 feet from me. It was a really interesting class and extra amazing since it was in the O'Connell house.
After class we all went to O'Neills, a pub off Grafton Street. On Monday nights they have live Irish music. We all really loved it, and we want to make it a Monday tradition. In Ireland, they call good times craic (pronounced crack), and ceol is the Irish word for music. So we're all hoping to enjoy craic and ceol every week while we're here.
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