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Background: Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600-150 B.C. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014. English invasions began in the 12th century and set off more than seven centuries of Anglo-Irish struggle marked by fierce rebellions and harsh repressions. A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for 26 southern counties; six northern (Ulster) counties remained part of the United Kingdom. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, known as the Good Friday Agreement and approved in 1998, is being implemented with some difficulties.

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By thedullards
May 22nd 2007

Glendalough Pictures

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St. Steven's

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By thedullards
May 22nd 2007

Traveller's Prayer

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I, Janie, have been seeing this in alot of the tourist shops, and I thought it was kind of funny, so I thought I'd post it. Love the part about tipping. Travelers' Prayer ‘Heavenly Father, look down on us your humble, obedient tourist servants, who are doomed to travel this earth, taking photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs and walking around in drip-dry underwear.’ ‘Give us this day divine guidance in the selection of our hotels, that we may find our reservations honoured, our rooms made up and hot water running from the faucets.’ ‘We pray [View Full Entry]

By thedullards
May 21st 2007

Catching up.

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We set out from Dublin on friday on the Wicklow Way and hiked to about 14 miles to Enniskerry. We had the path almost to ourselves once we left the city. The views of Dublin, the bay and the Irish Sea were amazing. It rained for about 10 minutes everyhour. This gave us just enought time to decide that we should put on rain gear, and get it on before the rain stopped. Everyone we meet keeps telling us how beautiful it was the previous week. Between the down pours it was great. This is the Ireland I envisioned. We had [View Full Entry]

By CCNorman
May 16th 2007

Cork City

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Coral: Well we've made a lot of progress distance wise since our last post. Still haven't managed to find an internet cafe with a place to download pictures yet. Oh well. There will be many pictures to see when we return, we had to buy another memory card for the camera today. Today we've ended up in Cork which is a surprisingly large city, much bigger than we expected and we haven't even seen anything but our BB yet, just trying to find it was crazy, a bit like getting around in Seattle. Anyways, since Dublin we have been to Newgrange [View Full Entry]

By Fingerprints
April 27th 2007

More at Ballymaloe

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my room at Ballymaloe
This is the Roof Room at Ballymaloe, where I slept for 2 nights

After breakfast at the Gresham Metropole, we got a much better start off towards Ballymaloe since we now knew the direction we wanted to go. We arrived only about 20 minutes late, at 8:20ish, and we started off with a little b-roll of whatever we could find: chickens, pigs, geese, cows, glass houses (green houses), landscapes, etc. The weather wasn't as nice as yesterday, but the sun was still out here and there. Soon, the cookery students were preparing their dishes for lunch for the day, and we began shooting them as they scurried nervously around the two large kitchens. [View Full Entry]

By Fingerprints
April 26th 2007

Ballymaloe & Farmgate

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We met up for breakfast in the hotel and then started our drive East to go to the Ballymaloe Cookery School, but we kept getting lost along the way. We didn't have an address, so our GPS unit wasn't too helpful. We made a turn a bit too early and had to go around a huge block again in rush hour traffic. Made a second turn too early because the GPS unit seemed to be a bit delayed when updating on our exact position. Then we realized it was sending us in the opposite direction of where we wanted to go, [View Full Entry]

By ChellesFootsteps
April 20th 2007

Surprise!

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Today was spent on a city tour of Cork and a visit to the City Gaol.. Anyone noticing a theme of jail visits here?? Well I do have a criminolgy degree people! What do you expect?! hah.. One thing that I found out the other day which I find really bizarre is that begging on the streets is legal here in Ireland. I've never seen so many beggars on the street before starting this trip, not just here in Ireland but in England and Scotland, dont know what the laws are there but I just find this unbelievable! Ok and now [View Full Entry]

By Sam and Sal
April 15th 2007

Leavin behind the luck of the Irish

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Paddys Day Glamour

The time has finally come for us to pack up and leave another place we called home for the past year. Ireland was an interesting place to live I must say (and Ive lived in a few over the past four years) they do and say things a little different over here but thats what makes this place what it is and we will never forget it or the many characters we have met with along the way. We havent done too bad here, as you all saw from our last blog, the summer is the best time for getting around [View Full Entry]

By vlgee1
April 8th 2007

This is what everyone wanted to see...*

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Gates
These are the gates of Castlehyde, his home.

So I just had to post this because I KNOW that you will undoubtedly be super impressed...this is the home of Michael Flatley. Yes, yes. THE lord of the dance. He lives in the countryside near Fermoy. I personally have not had a sighting but when I do, I will post the celebrity photo with haste. *Note the tongue in cheek-ness, please. [View Full Entry]

By rachellzbth
March 19th 2007

The City of Cork

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Cork

Between Blarney Castle and the Ring of Kerry, we decided to stay in Cork for a night. Cork has a lot of great shopping, though we didn't do much of that other than Tesco due to the bank holiday. I did plenty of window shopping though! There were more than enough shoe stores to make any girl happy. There was also a carnival on the same street as our hostel. Gaby and I made the mistake of actually riding a few of the attractions. Luckily we hadn't actually eaten that day. I also won at one of the luck games. [View Full Entry]

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