The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ireland - travel tips, links

Cross-posted to both my blogs in advance of the Benedictine University-Springfield Ireland tour in May.

Plenty of information available at the "Ireland Expert" website. They do package tours, and they're selling a book, have some very good basic information on the website as a sample of their product (which looks pretty good). For their FAQs, link to


Also an excellent primer on The ABC's of ATM's Abroad at the Magellan's website. Plenty of other stuff. They sell travel supplies and have lots of tipsheets.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.