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Course Dates: May 21 – July 13, 2024
Travel Dates: May 21 – June 2, 2024
Check out this video of Giant’s Causeway. It is one of the many stops on your program.
Study Abroad with SPC in Ireland!
Experience an exciting program to Ireland, highlighting the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Belfast. Students will visit sites that are centered on literature and mythology of Great Britain, with a focus on Ireland and Northern Ireland.
SPC students will tour the Trinity University for a chance to see the Book of Kells and Titanic’s last port of call at Cobh/Queenstown.
Explore sites in Derry and Belfast to learn more about the conflict in these areas and how it became the setting for works by Yeats, Heaney, and Sally Rooney. Visit Dublin for a literary pub tour, and explore the sites that are the settings in works by James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Brendan Behan
Think you can’t afford to study abroad? Scholarships and other ways to fund your study abroad program are available. Explore scholarship options now.
Available courses – Please talk to an advisor to ensure you have met all college enrollment requirements AND course prerequisites. Students must enroll in one of the options below.
Professor: Shelbey Rosengarten
Lead faculty contacts
After you submit the application online, we will review your application and e-mail you with details of scheduling your interview with the Ireland program lead faculty, Shelbey Rosengarten (727) 398-8496.
Other SPC Study Abroad programs
Learn more about other Study Abroad countries where SPC students have made their mark.
Student Study Abroad Blog – For a taste of what it’s like to study abroad, read posts from other SPC students below.
Ireland is all you may envision from the pictures, tales of travelers, and videos. However, the luscious green landscape, rich history, and folklore tales truly immerse you in Irish culture that words on paper simply cannot describe. While studying abroad, I was in awe of the many historic castles, monuments, and rolling green mountains that … Continue reading While studying abroad, I was in awe…
This trip was truly an amazing trip to take! Ireland is truly a beautiful place to visit and very scenic. It was over the span of two weeks, and we visited the cities of Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Kilkenny, Galloway, and the Wicklow Mountains. We experienced the Cliffs of Moher, Giants causeway, and Blarney Castle. The … Continue reading SPC Ireland: I highly recommend
Hello! I am Larimar Vasquez Rios and I go to the SPC Gibbs campus. This is a picture of me on the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, where I studied abroad for two weeks. We visited some of the most beautiful places, my top three being the Wicklow Mountains, the Cliffs of Moher (A filming site … Continue reading If ever given the chance to study abroad, my advice is to take it!
As part of a Erasmus grant, 10 human services students and 2 faculty are visiting SPC for two weeks from North West Regional College in Northern Ireland. They have already attended multiple classes at the Tarpon Springs, Seminole, SP/Gibbs campuses and the Bay Pines STEM and Downtown Centers. In addition, they participated in cultural exchange … Continue reading Northern Ireland Students visit SPC
An encounter with a survivor of “The Troubles” makes a big impact on students during study abroad in Ireland. – Alex Stewart, SPC Student, Ireland Program, May 2019 I’ve always loved learning about people and observing how a culture can shape someone’s worldview. With the help of a Study Abroad scholarship, I was able to go … Continue reading SPC student explores Irish culture and worldview in Ireland
As we’re making the final leg of our journey from Belfast to Dublin, I look around at all the amazing people I’ve been lucky enough to now call my friends. I don’t know if it is because we’re in a different country and we are so far out of our comfort zones, but I have … Continue reading Ireland: From One Unforgettable Journey to the Next
Tomorrow on top of two psych classes I start composition 2 online at 930 am – it is the last class I need to graduate so wish me luck on that. So today we go into a store to learn about how clothing in Ireland is still hand made and I ended buying my first … Continue reading Ireland: good times, great memories
It’s day four of our Ireland adventure and we’re finally in Derry! The weather has honestly been wonderful; cool, refreshing, and overall nice. Today, after being fully settled, we went and met with some students of the NorthWest Regional College (and they were great to meet with an awesome sense of humor). Shortly after, we … Continue reading When in Ireland…