Report Dublin 2017 (Rein Martens)

Three items in Irelands history I consider being interesting (in the past 50 years) and
why they interest me.
The Vinking: This was the first gay bar in Dublin. The bar became the first exclusively
gay bar in the early 1990s. I think that it is great that we can be open about this
things.
Irish pound to euros: In 1990 the Republic of Ireland changed their currency to
euros. This is really interesting, because it not only meant that they changed
currency, it also meant that they opposed the UK.
Marry Robinson: She becomes the first female president of Ireland. This meant that
from that moment on there was much less difference between man and women, this
is of course a huge change in history for the Irish.
A brief history of Ireland with regards to relation to the EU.
Brexit: Because the UK decided to leave the EU, it will be hard for Ireland with
notifications with the UK. Both are part of Great-britain, which brings a lot of pressure
to Ireland to choose side.
Ireland is not a real EU member because they still have strict controls at the
boundaries. Its also geographically seen separated from Europe . A lot of other
things like healthcare are also different.
Nomination for a judge to the court of justice: When Ireland joined the EU in 1973,
they had to nominate a judge for the court of justice. Over the years that followed, the
court of justice continued to be faced with questions on the correct interpretation of
community law. Source: cc.au.dk
Three persons or things Ireland is famous for.
River dance
Saint Patrick day (17 march 2018)
Irish sports (Hurling, Gaelic football)
Three differences and three similarities between the school system in Ireland and in
The Netherlands.
Differences:
We start at school when we are four years old and Irish people at the age of five.
In Ireland they have to wear uniforms, we dont.
We only have four lessons a day and Irish students nine or ten.
Similarities:
Irish people get English at school as well.
Secondary school in Ireland has 6 years and in The Netherlands VWO also has 6
years.
Food in schools in Ireland and The Netherlands is not for free.
A funny anecdote which you experienced during your trip abroad.
On friday, our last day in Dublin, Mr. Bijlmakers sang a nice song about a girl with brown
eyes, on the Oconnell street near the needle. He did this together with some other street
musicians. We had much fun, because everyone was really excited about it. And most
important, it was a really good song! Everyone enjoyed the song and it was really nice to see
the enthusiasm of the street musicians.
Two examples of how daily life in a family in another country is structured.
Host family parents go out to work and a childminder minds the children at home. In
Holland we have the BSO
The children have to be much more polite to their parents (saying please etc.)
Their lunch is much bigger.
New words I learnt during the trip.
Irish words:
Bruscar
Croic
Slaint
Sln

English words:
Stock
Clove
Daggers
Substitution
Spikey
Chariot
Cockles
Deed
Landlords
Blight
Scarcity
Irish stew

New rules (at school, at our host family) I came across during the trip
Showering before half nine at night and not in the morning because of the children
sleeping.
Dont make noises in the morning when other are sleeping.
Things I found out about working, living and/or studying in Ireland.
There are more employed woman that 50 years ago.
The Irish school system differs a lot from ours.
Things that were the same if I compare my own country and the country I visited .
(for example expressions, rituals)
In the city it takes a very long time before you can cross the road because of the
traffic lights.
The daily life is quite the same. They have breakfast and go to work while the
children go to school.
They drink more Heineken than in Holland
How did I communicate with others in Ireland? Who did I talk to? What about? What
went well and what did not? How come?
The communication went very well. We talked a lot with the host family. The only thing that
was difficult to understand was the Irish accent of the man in our host family. In Dublin the
communication went also very well. With the game were we had to guide ourselves through
the city, we had to talk to lots of people to ask the way. When me and Jan were filming, and
old man spoke to us and he asked us where we are from. When we told him we come from
the Netherlands, he told us a story. He said that most people in Ireland are saying Holland
instead of The Netherlands, because in English, nether means hell, so Netherlands is Hell
land. Thats of course very negative. And he even knew that holland was one of our
provinces, North-Holland or South-Holland!

A brief diary of the trip on a day-to-day basis.

Monday at 10:10 we flew to Dublin. It was very strange but also very nice to be in a plane
with all your classmates, because normally you would only be with your family. We also had
a walk through the city of Dublin.
Another nice thing about today was to meet our host family, who were super friendly. We
had a tasty meal and in the evening we went to the beach and took some nice pictures and
talked with other students.

Tuesday In the morning we went to the National College of Ireland where we got an
English lesson. in first case, I thought it would be really boring, but it was actually much fun
and we learnt so much in just a few hours. Especially with doing presentation in class. After
this we had a nice walk through the city. In the evening we went to learn the Ceili dance this
was very funny, but also a bit awkward. It was very impressive to see the 2 girls dancing!

Wednesday - A great thing of today was to visit the Lusk Community College, an Irish
secondary school. We interacted with some students and had a nice quiz. But the nicest
thing of today was our visit to Howth. Although the weather was quite bad we enjoyed
ourselves by taking some pictures on the pier.

Thursday Today was a very busy day. A thing I liked about it were the sports we played. I
liked Hurling the most (which the most did). The Gaelic Football and squash were also nice,
it were very nice sports, which I never heard of before. In the evening we went to the Odeon
Coolock cinema where we watched Going in style which was a very funny movie. The
popcorn over there was also very tasteful!

Friday Today we said goodbye to our hostfamily who had taken very good care of us.
After this we went to the GPO Witness History Museum where we got an tour which was
very interesting. We also watched a short movie over there. We also got some free time in
which me and Jan did a lot of filming for the Dublin movie. We also went to search for some
souvenirs, I bought a Hurling ball and a Hurling stick!

Thanks to all teachers who went with us, I had a great time!