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FIFTY YEARS AGO this week, an international exchange programme brought its first students to Ireland, so they could learn about the culture and way of life on the European island.
The small group taking part in the first EIL (Experiment in International Living) trip in 1964 used Ireland as their study subject and destination.
According to EIL, the emphasis was not on tourism – but on education and culture. However, they did manage to visit some of the country’s main attractions.
The students’ time was part of their studies in their respective colleges back in the US and their learnings from the trip here formed part of their studies.
They chose Ireland from a longer list of possible destinations, each ranging in cost from $450 to €1,150.
EIL Intercultural Learning is still running through its headquarters in Cork, the Irish branch of the 1932 organisation The Experiment in International Living.
It is the oldest educational exchange organisation in the world involving over 30,000 people each year on a variety of educational and cultural travel programmes. It is a not for profit, non religious and non political association.
Jo-Anne Higgins, current coordinator of the EIL Travel Awards and 50th Anniversary Events dug out these images from the trip, noting the “retro fashion, long forgotten about cars and glimpses of life in Ireland in the 1960s”.
First Look, arriving at Shannon Airport
Packing Up, Shannon Airport
Pitstop between Shannon and Dublin
Merchant’s Quay, Cork
O’Connell Street, Dublin
Dublin Horse Show
Trinity College Track Meet
Dáil Eireann
Blarney Castle
Kissing the Blarney Stone
Witches Kitchen
Boat to Aran
On the Island
House on Aran Island
Daily Stroll
Leaving for England
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No state or semi state body should be selling land or any asset which is owned by the people of Ireland to foreign investment funds. We have vulture funds and cukoo funds that were given the red carpet when they arrived and the poorer people in society suffer while at the same time loop holes being left in place where they pay zero tax on profits. The land coillte is selling dosen’t belong to them it belongs to the people of Ireland. Can you imagine what the people who fought for Irish Independence would think of all this.
If anyone thinks this is a good idea. Look at it like this. The biggest lake in the UK and Ireland in Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland and its privately owned by one guy, Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury who lives in Dorset. How can one guy own a lake? Lakes and rivers should be the property of the state owned by the people of that country. Coillte are gonna go backwards doing the same with our forestry.
@Diarmuid O’Braonáin: We’ll see how long your comment lasts on here. Let that be an indication of the level of backwardness. The Windsor Family (royals) are in receipt of one of the largest payments for agricultural land under CAP.
Take 200million from the property tax or rainy day fund and buy the land for the Irish people or the Irish state.
Selling our land back to the English government would sell anything for money they have no loyalty
We should be fining the brits for stripping our land of our Native Oak not so long ago. Not selling off to them. Coillte is state owned. Let that sink in.
@cathalsurfs: One of the finest Oak forests in Europe was in the blackwater valley. The land was given to him by king or royal in charge. It was cut down and sold. The guy then built himself a big castle…. Lismore Castle…
Happy for any investment profit to go to the UK but the people who live here can’t buy a car in the UK without giving them 10k. Have to wonder who they’re working for.
This is not okay on any way.
Why are these guys always screwing us?
Pulp for election posters. We the people, have no say.
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