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Now in our sixth year, our Irish Cultural Workshops, offered each summer take full advantage of Ireland as a unique classroom to explore the best Ireland has to offer in its arts, history, and culture. The workshops combine enrichment with practical skill development, excursions, recreational and social activities to enhance an understanding and enjoyment of a unique place and culture.

In 2010, we have scheduled all the workshops for the same nine-day period (9 - 17 July) as an Irish Cultural Studies Institute with sessions on literature, history, music, dance, creative writing, painting, and photography. Participants will have the opportunity to specialize in a single topic area or ’mix and match’ among several. Based in Sligo, on Ireland’s magnificent northwest coast, in the heart of Yeats Country, the workshops have been organized as an exceptional professional development opportunity for secondary school teachers and for anyone with an interest in all things Irish and a desire for an off-the-beaten-track experience of irish culture, art, writing, history, and performance.

Workshop sessions in such venues as a castle, a thatched cottage, a famine-era workhouse, artist studio, and writer’s studies will be supplemented by an exciting schedule of excursions and social activities. Included will be the opportunity for a visit to Belfast and Derry during the annual Orange Day festivities and an overnight on the Aran Islands.

As in past summers, family members can participate and enjoy the popular week-long recreational programme that operates in parallel to the Irish Cultural Studies Institute.

Please review our past Academic Workshops on our 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 pages.

Please check out our entire 2010 programme.