'My first visit to Ireland was a wonderful journey that formed a great impression'
Zhang Fang, lecturer and Irish language teacher, Irish Studies Centre, School of English and International Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Zhang Fang, lecturer and Irish language teacher, Irish Studies Centre, School of English and International Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University, recalls his time in Ireland.
“Like most of the Chinese people, my knowledge of Ireland used to be meagre: I knew the difference between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, I had already heard about the Irish language and knew it belonging to the Celtic languages of the Indo-European family, but the most I used to know about Ireland was that Northern Ireland had the Troubles of three decades – sin sin, before autumn 2010, when I became an MA student in the School of English and International Studies at BFSU.
