I received a teaching and research Fulbright award in 2008. You can read more about the Fulbright mission by clicking on the web links to the right. The Irish Fulbright Commission held a terrific orientation in January, where I got to meet the other awardees and tour museums, beautiful homes (including Castletown in county Kildare), Rath Cairn (an Irish-speaking area in county Meath), and spend two days at Maynooth University to learn about Irish language and culture. The pictures above are from the National Museum of Natural History, a Victorian-period museum filled with animals of Ireland and the world. The top picture is a skeleton of the extinct Giant Irish Deer (11,000 years old). Other pictures include a Dodo skeleton and of course, an example of an Irish earthworm!
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