Ireland
July 6, 2010 on 1:10 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentIreland was the ninth cricketing nation to feature in the Steelbacks world tour this week. Anna Letts whose mother’s family are from Ireland led the session. She gave the students some background information about the country including the surprise fact that the currency is the Euro and the most popular sport is something our students had never heard of – Gaelic football. She then taught them some Gaelic words of greeting before talking about Celtic art and the meaning of the various symbols associated with it. The students’ task was to choose a name for their own “tribe” and choose appropriate symbols to decorate a shield. The results were very impressive!
This week’s food tasting introduced the group to soda bread, potato bread and dulse – a form of dried seawood popular as a snack in Ireland. (though not so popular with our students)
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I was really pleased that the students were interested in the Celtic knots and artwork, they described their choices for their shields well. I agree that the dulse is not too tasty although my mum loves it!
Comment by Anna Letts — July 6, 2010 #