INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL-GROUPS
LEARN THE BODHRAN
HELP THE SHEEPDOGS
This is genuinely a superb way for groups to immerse themselves in Irish culture. Everyone says it is a highlight of their time in Ireland.
The programme includes:
Programme A: Visit Within the School Day
Meet the Farm Animals
Cattle, hens, geese, pigs, Connemara ponies, goats and donkeys.
Bodhrán Session
Each student plays a traditional bodhrán and learns to accompany the different rhythms of traditional Irish music including jigs, polkas and reels.
Make Soda Bread
Everyone makes their own brown bread and we eat it later with butter and jam and drinks.
Bog Jumping
A Causey favourite, everyone just loves the feel of the bog between the toes and creates some of the best memories ever
Full Day Programme (up to 5 hours)
- Make Irish Soda Bread
- Hurling Lesson
- Trip to the Bog on the Tractor and Trailer
- Traditional Turf Cutting
- Bodhrán Workshop (Traditional Drum)
- Céilí Dancing Lesson
- Later in the day – for a snack, visitors eat their own bread with jam and fruit juice.
- Sheepdog Demonstration
Thc cost of the Full Day Program is €22 per student
(Subject to a minimum charge of €300 per group)