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The story of a grand convent in the West of Ireland is the story of Irish education. In 1950, the building owned by the Ursuline nuns became the first college of Domestic Science in the country. Last week, it became an integral part of the State’s third-level structure.

Devin Seán Martin started his college career in Ireland two years ago, but he hasn't seen his classmates, or the inside of an academic building for 18 months. He writes about what happens when his overseas college bucket list is all but cancelled, but how living in a deserted city thousands of kilometres away from his family has had its own lessons.