Get to know your ancestors! In this course you will explore Ireland’s food, music and rich history; learn a little Gaelic; and read many fantastic legends of fairies and sea monsters. Activities will include dinner at an Irish pub and attending an Irish dance.

Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs
The Irish Twins, Lucy Fitch Perkins
Irish Fairy Tales, Philip Smith
Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, W.B. Yeats
Ireland’s Tree: Myths, Legends and Folklore, Niall Mac Coitir
The King of Ireland’s Son, Padraic Colum
Atlas of Irish History, Seán Duffy
Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago, Evaleen Stein
Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction, George Bain
Irish Watercolors and Drawings, Anne Crookshank
Irish Myths and Legends, Eoin Neeson

Black Potatoes, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Gruesome Irish Tales for Children, Eddie Lenihan
St Martin’s Eve, Jeremiah Curtin
What was It?, Fitz-James O’Brien
When You Are Old, W.B. Yeats
One Thousand Year of Irish Poetry, Kathleen Hoagland

Irish tree infographic
original fairy tale
map of Ireland, past or present
your name in Ogham
full-color Celtic knot
illuminated Scripture page
illustrated mythical creature

Celtic knots
Illumination

Ireland’s Wild Coast
Secret of Kells
Ireland’s Lost History
Darby O’Gill and the Little People

Irish Cultural Center
Ceili Dance
Dinner at an Irish pub

How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill
Irish Ghost Stories, David Stuart Davies