AQ Irish LogoAquinas College loves Irish culture! We’ve embraced Irish culture - offering a study-away experience in Tullycross, Ireland, since the early 1970s. Aquinas is the only college in Michigan to offer an Irish Studies minor.

 

1 Outstanding Irish Studies Minor
9 Thatched roof cottages in Tully Cross
47 Years Aquinas has studied away in Ireland
900+ AQ students and faculty have experienced Ireland

 

Students in Dr. Michelle DeRose's Literature of the Black and Green Atlantic course

Research

 

Students in Dr. Michelle DeRose's Literature of the Black and Green Atlantic course: Maggie Rose, Lauren Heyboer, and Alyssa Noch (pictured with Dr. Michelle DeRose).
AQ Delegation in Ireland

AQ Delegation

 

Dr. Jennifer Dawson, Ireland faculty director 2020; Dr. Michelle DeRose, Ireland faculty director 2021 and coordinator of the Irish studies minor; Dr. Heather Kesselring-Quakenbush; and Tim Ramsay, former director of international programs visited the U.S. embassy in Dublin, Ireland.

 

Community Partners

Connemara West (Ireland Partner) Michigan Irish Music Festival Sparta Celtic Festival