“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while, the muse shows up, too.” – Isabel Allende.
Born and raised in New York City, Jeffrey Shiau has been living in Dublin, Ireland since September 2013. When he’s not working hard to help Stint Ireland be the best it can be, he’s also a budding writer, photographer, avid traveler, and baseball player among other things. In our latest blog post, we decided to sit down with him to discuss his latest project, 100 Days of Irish Words.
I had a crisis midway through college, one I’m sure many of you have had. I realized my college education would mean nothing once I’m in the “real world.”
Now, hold on. College wasn’t a complete waste of time – it was a load of fun, first of all. I’m just saying a college education is useless by itself. In the end, it’s just a piece of paper saying I received a degree in history. And all that meant was that I took about 10 classes in the subject – hardly making me a “historian.”
The hard truth is no one is going to hire you as an events manager just because you received a 4.0 GPA and “planned events” for the culture club. An education has to be complemented with practical experience.
Made in Ireland is a series by Stint Ireland highlighting the best Ireland has to offer, whether it’s an exciting new Irish business you should know about, an individual with ambitions of changing the world, or an organization that hopes to transform the way people interact by running socially-responsible cultural events in public spaces at a low cost to the event-goers and the environment. In this episode, we interview Peter O’Brien, founder of an organization called Happenings that does just that.
This episode of Made in Ireland was released in conjunction with week two of our “I Dream of Ireland” campaign, celebrating the amazing country of Ireland!
“I wanna plan big-scale events, market big-scale events, all across the world. I would love to live in one country for a couple years and then travel to another one and live there for a couple years. I think there’s so much of the world to see. The world is such a beautiful place and you meet so many great people along the way. I know that my dreams are ridiculously big, scattered all over the world. But I just know that I have to go after them and find them.” – Hanna Sise
Hanna Sise is an event planning and event marketing student at Stephen F Austin State University. She hopes to plan and market big-scale events while travelling the world.
To an American, Ireland might not seem as foreign as, say, Italy or France, but if you find yourself in the Emerald Isle, I guarantee you’ll find yourself in some funny situations where things get lost in translation during your time abroad.
As a recent graduate, I came to Ireland on a Working Holiday visa (which let’s US students/recent graduates live and work in Ireland for up to 12 months). After a few months, I’d accumulated more than a handful of facepalm moments. Here are a few stories from my time in Ireland before joining the Stint team…
I’ve been living in Dublin for a little over a year, and there’s one question that I get asked every time I introduce myself to an Irish person.
Why? Why are you here in Dublin? In Ireland?
Note: Your ears do not deceive you. It’s just not the word you think it is…
It’s “craic!” It’s an Irish term for having a good time. Good banter, good music, good drinking, etc.
This summer, Erin McDermott, a delightful member of the Stint crew, arrived just before the weekend of one of our weekend excursions, a surfing trip to Co. Sligo, where she tore up the waves. From pints at the Bernard Shaw to dinners at Bewley’s, we enjoyed every moment we had with her.
Avenley Horner is a storyteller, photographer, illustrator, and graphic designer. She’s also awesome.
Currently a rising senior at Auburn University, Avenley spent a summer with us here in Dublin, interning at Fudge Creative, a boutique creative agency.
During her time in Dublin, she has captured our imaginations with her vibrant nature and artistic talents.
Here is her story.
This is Hanna. It is her last week in Ireland as an intern for Project 51. She has truly illuminated our summer with her vibrant personality. We’ll miss her dearly!
To reminisce about her time in Ireland, we asked her about her favorite places to eat in Dublin.
Foodie superlatives, here they come…