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Dublin file
DANIQUE KLOMP
 Table of contents

Questions

Question 1 page 2

Question 2 page 2

Question 3 page 3

Question 4 page 3

Question 5 page 4

Question 6 page 4

Question 7 page 5

Question 8 page 5

Question 9 page 6

Question 10 page 6

Question 11 page 6

Diary page 7

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 Question 1

The first interesting thing I found were the troubles (August,

1969).

The troubles were periods of violence in Northern Ireland. The

conflict lasted 30 years and it all started when small riot
escalated. The fights now formed were the first one people got
killed and injured. I find this very interesting, because it was an
event that participated in a long chain of events, which
eventually shape the Ireland we now know.

The second event followed the troubles. This is the Belfast agreement (April, 1998).

The Belfast agreement, also called the Good Friday agreement, was signed to mark
the end of the troubles in Ireland. In this agreement people agreed to:

Government of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.

Cooperation between Northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland.
Cooperation between the United Kingdom and the republic of Ireland.

This event interests me because the history around the Troubles in common
interests me, but also because this was a big leap in the cooperation between
England and Ireland. It also played a role in the peace process between Northern
Ireland and the republic of Ireland.

The last event has nothing to do with the first two. This event is the ban of the
death penalty in Ireland (June 7, 2001).

The event itself doesnt really interest me, but I found it really interesting that it
happened so late in comparison to other western countries.

Question 2
The relationship between the EU and Ireland is really important, because Ireland
plays an important role in the world politics and the trade with Europe. The country
can share its thoughts with the EU, but in the past, this was very difficult. The
connection between Ireland and Europe was made by Great Britain. There were a
lot of fights between them because Ireland didnt want to be a part of the United
Kingdom. Luckily those fights ended with the Good Friday agreement.

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 Question 3
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Picture on the right.

An Irish poet and writer. Famous for his novel: Gullivers travels. A
story important during the French enlightenments.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

A poet, playwriter and novelist. Famous for his plays: Salmone

and The Importance of being honest. He only wrote one novel:
the picture of Dorian Gray. He was jailed because of his sexuality
(he was gay).

Charles Thompson (1729-1824).

A patriotic leader during the American revolution. He was born in Londonderry in

Northern Ireland, but moved to the united states.

Question 4
Differences:

They have to wear school uniforms.

The school wants to stop bullying because of clothing style, so they
introduced the school uniform.
The lessons are only 50 min.
The lessons are shorter, but they have 8 blocks of classes. This adds up to
around 6,5 hour of lessons per day. We have 4 blocks of classes and they
are a little bit longer (75 min). this is only 5 hours of lessons per day. So, we
have shorter schooldays.
The Irish schoolchildren cant wear (too much) make-up or jewellery to
school.
To solve the problem of bullying, the school set rules for make-up and
jewellery.

Similarities:

We both get (almost) the same subjects.

We all need to learn one foreign language, follow mathematics and PE.
We dont need to bring our own lunch.
In both school, there is a caf to get sandwiches, soup and candy. Still most
people bring their own lunch.
The same number of year until graduation.
In the school we visited you had 3 years lower class and 3 (or 2) years
upper class.

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 Question 5

During the trip in Dublin happened a lot of funny things, but the most hilarious one
happened during a guided tour. On the first day, we had a guide who walked us
through Dublin and told us about all the interesting people, buildings and places in
Dublin. We went to Grafton street, which I think is the busiest street in Dublin. Here
a lot of people were bumping into each other and pushing each other. Between the
people there was standing a row of poles. Because of someone accidentally
pushing me, I bumped into one of the poles and I almost tripped over. It was a
really stupid thing that happened, but luckily we could all laugh about it.

Grafton street ^

Question 6
The daily life in the host family I was in was very similar to our daily life. There
were almost no differences to spot. They do the cooking, washing and living almost
the same as an average family in the Netherlands. Of course, they have different
habits and different eating preferences. Their humour is a bit different than ours,
for example they like to make a fool out of themselves to make someone else
laugh. Though I couldnt spot any difference in their lifestyle, there was a
difference in the surroundings. First of all, all rooms had their own purpose. Of
course, We had a separate room of sleeping and showering, but they had
separated rooms for watching television, cooking, relaxing and washing. Where we
have may have only a wall with an arch they have door between every room. Last
all the streets in the neighbourhood are really quiet, because the largest amount of
traffic travels via the motorway (you can hear this motorway). The only problem
was that you needed to drive very far by car to get to the nearest school, pub or
supermarket.

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 Question 7

Irish English Dutch

Da dhuit/dhobh hello hallo

Sln goodbye doei

Conas at tu? How are you? Hoe gaat het?

Go maith. Im fine. Met mij gaat het goed.

Oideachais. education educatie

N feider liom gaeilge a
labhuilt. I cant speak Irish/Gaelic. Ik praat geen Iers.

Question 8
The first habit I wasnt used to was eating at a specific time. At home my mum
makes something and then everyone can take whenever they want. We dont have
a certain time we all need to be at the dinner table. In the host family we had to be
downstairs for breakfast at 7:15 am and we had dinner around half an hour later
then we arrived, every day. The second one is the most obvious of the two, namely
at school you cant wear normal clothes. When you are at school you have to wear
a school uniform. At our school y0u dont have to wear a uniform. You can wear
every style of clothing you like.

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 Question 9
The living and working in Ireland is really peaceful. The streets in the
neighbourhood we slept were very quiet. As a child you can easily play on the
street for hours without seeing a car pass by. The only problem in this
neighbourhood was that everything was really far away, like the super market or
the cinema. So if you want those facilities you should go and live in the city centre.
Here the only problem is that it isnt as quiet as in normal part and houses are
normally a little more expensive. Studying in Ireland is no problem, there are a lot
of different universities and colleges to choose from. The compulsory age for going
to school is only 16 years old, but you can also study until you are older.

Question 10
There are a lot of similarities between the Netherlands and the republic of Ireland.
First of all, the villages all look the same and have the same lay-out as in the
Netherlands: a bigger city centre with smaller villages around it, which all shop and
maybe work in the centre. The street all have a row of plants which are kept by the
government. Secondly, we both have the same religion, Christianity. So the older
parts of the city have a great deal of churches. The only difference in religion is
that Ireland was strictly Christian for a longer period of time. They still have a little
bit more religious separation then we do. They still handled the strict rules of the
church till a couple year back. This can be seen in the legalisation of birth control
and gay-marriage in 2015. Last but not least, the people have a lot of things in
common. we both like the same kind of humour, a lot of television programs are
stolen from our programs and the other way around and the food is nearly the
same. Except all the typical food habits and dishes.

Question 11
The communication during the trip was really easy. We talked a lot to our host and
in musea we talked to our guide and asked questions. During the treasure hunt we
asked random people if they knew where we were, if we got lost, and if they knew
something about the history of the monument, bridge or statue. There were almost
no problems with the communication inside or outside the group. If we didnt know
a word or didnt knew what she was talking about, we would ask her. Those small
problems were only us not knowing enough about the neighbourhood to know that
certain streets were called different and the station was called different (out host
called it Howth junction instead of the station).

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 Diary

Monday 17-04

The first day of our trip to Dublin. We got up at 4:30, because we needed to be at
the bus at 5:15. We had to sit in the bus for almost 2 hours. After this ride, we
arrived at the airport. This was going to be the first time I was going to travel by
plane. The flight was amazing. I especially liked the
view I had from the plane. When we arrived in Dublin,
we walked through the city. There we visited very
interesting places like Dublin castle, trinity college and
Grafton street.

Tuesday 18-04

The first thing on the program was an English lesson

we had at the national college of Ireland. During this
class we spoke about the history of Ireland and what
we knew about it. after this lesson we went to the city
centre and there we had a treasure hunt. We had to answer some questions about
monuments we saw and people who lived in Dublin. We also visited Patricks
cathedral. The evening program was a ceili night at one of the pubs in the
surroundings.

Wednesday 19-04

We had our last English lesson at the national college. After this we had a train
journey to Lusk, where we visited the school of the people we already visited our
school. Here we played a quiz and a game. After this we visited Howth, a small
island, where we had a little spare time to drink something to walk around and visit
the small harbour. Today we didnt have an evening program.

Thursday 20-04

The day program started at the train station where we came together and travelled
to Dublin. Here we visited 2 museums. One archology museum with a lot of
interesting thing they found in Dublin, like old boats, jewellery and tools. The
second museum was an exhibition of all sorts of animals. After this we had the
Gaelic sports. This was a variety of different Irish sports. We played hurling, gaelic
football and handball. It was really funny to play those sports, but they were really
hard to understand because you kept making mistakes. In the evening, we went to
a cinema where we watched the movie: going in style.

Friday 21-04

The last day of the Dublin trip. We thanked out host family and went for the last
time with the train to Dublin. Here we paid a visit to the general post office (gpo).
Here we learned about all the things that happened during the Easter Rising and
what people thought about it. when we were done at the gpo, we had free time to

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visit some shops and we had time to lunch. After this we went to the airport and
late at night we arrived back at our school.

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