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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 Leon and Nic
March 18th 2007

St Patricks Day

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Fingers

Nic, Sheree, Ben, Rachel and I all head to Cork for the weekend for Paddys day awesome time had by all Irish awesome people loads of guiness and laughs [View Full Entry]

By LastDrinkStanding
March 17th 2007

Cork - Trip Day 4 (St. Patrick's Day)

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Group of Freaks

Steve here: For those looking for more blogs, I am sorry. I'm having internet problems, both with my computer and the hotels. I'm sending this from an internet cafe. Second day in Cork, and I don't have to drive anywhere, so life is good. We don't get moving until 2pm or so. It is St. Patrick's Day and the streets are filled with people of all ages wearing green clothing, funny hats and painted-on shamrocks. After a prolonged decision making process, we decide to eat at Zanzibar. Not because it looks cool or we heard good things, just because we [View Full Entry]

By LastDrinkStanding
March 16th 2007

Cork

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First Waterboys show
taken at the Opera House in Cork

Jackie here- The 16th dawns and the Waterboys await! Cork is a 3 hour drive (Gilligans Island anyone)! We will have time to drink and “get pretty” for the show. 7 ½ hours later we locate our lodgings and barely arrive for the show. Only we could pull off a stunt like this. No problem we think, we can get plenty of drinks during the show, wrong again sparky- the bar closes when the show starts- what kind of backward-ass logic is that! The show is soberingly good! 8 new songs, no This is the Sea and no Purple Rain, the [View Full Entry]

By americangypsy
March 14th 2007

Gypsy Spirit

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Mine is broken due to an illness that I discovered after surviving a bout of economy class syndrome over a year ago. Yes, I was lucky to survive ...95% die during a first episode of pulmonary embolism. I will take meds for it for the rest of my life. I really want to go to see Aerosmith on their world tour but I think that going alone would be irresponsible since I have a family who needs for me to take good care of myself and come home alive and still walking, talking , and thinking. This also makes me realize [View Full Entry]

By Sam and Sal
January 29th 2007

Cork Life

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River Lee Cork City

We finally got around to setting up this site!! As you all know we have been living in the land of little green men. We are on to our 11th month living in Cork City come February. Moving here last April, Sam and I set ourselves up to just work hard, play little and save for bigger and better travels in April 07. We set ourself up in a little one bed unit smack in the centre of Cork city. I wouldn't call it the Ritz but it did us alright. The walls are paper thin, and we're just around the [View Full Entry]

Cobh - last port of call for the Titanic

By vlgee1
January 27th 2007

My first pub experience!

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Common room
This is the area I share with my 2 other roomies...there are a total of 10 ppl in the house but there are separate areas for the 3 different groups. Big house!

Made it to another weekend and the jet lag is slowly disappearing. I know this because I've been pressing the snooze button one too many times and it has resulted in pretty frantic mornings. It's been a good week work-wise as well. I made a batch of yogurt and I am getting to use some very fancy microscopes...I got to see the microstructure of a 6% fat yogurt that I had made! Very very cool! This is probably only exciting to my fellow food science nerds. Some students from France were leaving this week so there was an authentic crepe making [View Full Entry]

By vlgee1
January 16th 2007

A foggy day...

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Shops along the River Blackwater

Things are going well, I'm getting a PPN number (the equivalent to the SIN number) soon so I will be paid. Thank goodness...things are expensive! I bought a small container of oyster sauce (~175 mL) and it cost like 4 euro! I don't know why I bought it...i don't even know how to cook with it! Just missing my momma's home cooking I guess. Things run differently here and that is taking some getting used to. Banks are open from 10am-4pm PLUS they're closed for lunch at 1230-1:30pm! Ah, to be a banker in Ireland! What fabulous hours...but it's not conducive [View Full Entry]

The church across the street with creepy hooded dudes

By EmilyZ
January 13th 2007

Cork trip

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Blarney

We set out really early this morning to catch the bus to Cork. Four hours later we arrived to windy, rainy weather(so the usual), checked in at our hostel and then headed out to see Cork. There wasn't a whole lot to do, so after going to this sort of indoor market(I got a scone, and a pretzel which was amazing) we went to catch a bus into Kinsale. An hour later we arrived in this adorable little town and began to walk to some sort of fort that one of the girls had heard about. We made it after a [View Full Entry]

By Sarah and Danny
November 1st 2006

One Day to Go

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This is just a test to see if I can get this up and running. We are starting our travells tomorro and our first stop is the one and only Bangkok where we will work our way through S E Asia from there. At the moment we are quite nervous and excited and we cant sleep so we are suffering from JetLag already !!! I suppose having going away parties for the last seven nites doesn't help either. Well I hop you will all enjoy our journals once we get posting properly !! Sarah and Danny [View Full Entry]

By americangypsy
October 22nd 2006

Living In Ireland?

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My husband and I are here looking at living in Ireland.We have vacationed here once before and thought it was beautiful and the people so friendly.Loking at it through the eyes of being an expat here makes it a litle different.We have not been doing the "fun ' things that we did during our Dun Loarghrie(Forgive the spelling),Dublin vacation in the winter of 2002 or 2003(sorry for the foggy memory.)We are looking at schools for our two teens and houses that will make us feel at home for at least 3 years and likely more.EXPENSIVE and sparce is what I have [View Full Entry]

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