While it seems that the Docklands are a prime area to continue advancing the economy in Dublin and create job opportunities, it also seems that the rapid development could be a hazard to the business cycle. Such a rapid level of development is changing the natural business cycle rapidly, and may be unsustainable. As Dr….

DocuSign:  in preparation for your site visit to DocuSign, DocuSign is a start-up from Silicon Valley in California that has evolved into one of the world’s leading e-based document signing technology companies.  As the linked article shows, DocuSign has serious expansion plans for the Dublin office and hopes to hire 1,000 additional workers.  Based on…

Your First Impressions of Ireland:  For our first blog post in Ireland, let’s focus first on your initial impressions of Dublin from our first day in town.  What caught your attention during this first day in Ireland and in the city? What caught my attention as I took my first steps in Ireland was the…

As I sat in my seat sandwiched between a couple of middling age, I could think only two things. One was how hungry I was, and the other was how I wanted to sleep through the flight. Much to my dismay, I did not get enough of either the food or the rest I so…

Throughout the Pittsburgh portion of this experience, I have grown significantly as a person in multiple ways. I made a group of new friends with which I gained a new level of independence. As an intro into college life, the Pittsburgh portion of this fellowship has increased my knowledge of the area, and how to…

I would like to know more about my paternal grandfather, as well as my paternal great-grandparents who came to America from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. I’ve scoured databases for information about my paternal grandfather, but he passed away over 20 years ago, so the information is hard to come by. Other than knowing…

Because my uncle has been affected by the “The Troubles” in Ireland, that is an area of history that I would like to learn more about. To this day, my uncle is still against Catholicism due to the conflicts he saw in Ireland, and I would like to learn more about what it was like…

My uncle is actually an immigrant from Dublin, and I have some relatives that live just outside the city. My uncle gave me contact information for his sisters, so if I want to meet them in Dublin at some point, I will be able. Outside of this connection, my mom said that Dublin was one…

Real Estate and Opportunities for Commercial Development:  The interesting aspect of Andrew’s real estate career is that he was born and raised in Eastern Pennsylvania near Philadelphia (ask him if he grew up near Doylestown).  While at Pitt Business, he started to see potential in Pittsburgh’s real estate market, which has led him to build…