My Summer Vacation

ONE NIGHT our entire class was brought to the historic Abbey Theatre to see a rousing production of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars (Ireland’s bloody revolt against the British). One afternoon we all attended a lunchtime concert of the National Symphony of Ireland. And on two memorable days, we were taken deep into the countryside outside of Dublin to an early monastic site, a twefth-century Cistercian abbey, a fourteenth-century castle, and a pre-historic tomb. It was exactly like a commercial motorcoach to...