Culture Days

Culture Days

On Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 of June, we had our culture days. This means that every student had a presentation on a culture topic we chose some weeks ago. As I am one of Fiona’s students, I had to choose a topic related to Irish culture. I decided to talk about the health problems of the Irish Travellers and while doing some research about them, I got really interested in their culture and problems.

During the culture days, every student had to watch at least 10 presentations, 7 from the home culture and 3 from the other one. On Tuesday I had to study, so I watched all the presentation on Monday. Among the ones I watched: How the plague changed Ireland, Gerry Adams and the IRA, Polar Opposites, Belfast – a city split by the troubles, The Race around Ireland, Irish Influence on C.S. Lewis’ work, Monica Loughman, Same Sex marriage, the KKK and the Boston Tea Party.

For the KGP I chose to be tested on: Monica Loughman, Belfast split by the troubles, Gerry Adams, The Race around Ireland and Irish Influence on C. S. Lewis’s work. Why I chose them? Because I think these are the ones I am most interested in and excited to study about and because they are from a range of fields.

I was really surprised about the presentations. Everybody did a great job and it was a pleasure watching them.