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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 Noworktoday
November 20th 2008

City to City!

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London to Amesburry England, Amesburry to Salisbury, Salisbury to Dublin. Yesterday, or two days ago not counting a full 24+ day of traveling we saw the ancient ruins of Stonehenge. We stayed in a beautiful little hostel in a small English town called Amesburry. When doing research for areas to stay near the Henge the "Rare Breeds Farm" was listed as a small affordable place to say close to Stonehenge. What I didn't realize was that Amesburry is in the middle of NOWHERE! It's a very small town outside of the Henge and a mile and a half walk from the [View Full Entry]

By Noworktoday
November 20th 2008

Roll me over and turn me around Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground

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Is it odd that in a city of such intriguing architecture, viking history and literary importance the first monument I want to see in Dublin is one erected in 2005 of the great rock God Phil Lynott? Call me crazy but that's going to be awesome. So far in Dublin we have checked in and slept from 2pm to 8pm. Woke up, took a shower, walked around a few and ate Chinese food. Something seems out of place here.. Tomorrow is going to be a adventurous day that I hope to start early, but of course we'll see about that. Either [View Full Entry]

By Caroline Joren
November 17th 2008

Dublinia

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Church at Night

A day of Vikings, a Perfect Red Dress and Joren's introduction into Slavery Monday morning we woke around 9 packed and hauled our bags across town to the train station. Times like these you wished you had packed less. After our last voyage with Ireland's public transit we decided to get Caroline some travel sickness meds. When they kicked in she basically was incapacitated for the next 3 hours, "may result in drowsiness" was right. We arrived in Dublin safely and took out our map to navigate our way to the hostel once again. We crossed the street and found a [View Full Entry]

By saintjohnnymexico
November 14th 2008

Shut Up That Honky Voodoo

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The Dog Races
Brelly's at the doggy races

From now on, when your girlfriend talks shit to you or won't stop bugging you just say the simple phrase, "Shut up that honky voodoo." We went to the Galway races yesterday. Though i didn't drink, i missed the Liverpool vs Chelsea match and Tara tried to poison me with a hot meat sandwhich (it's not a sexual thing, it's actually a dry meat, cabbage and butter sandwich), i still had a blast. It's funny to me how dressed up some people get to watch horses run around and circles and how angry people get over it all. I'm sure some [View Full Entry]

By Kat Larsen
November 13th 2008

Ireland

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Guinness
The factory

Dale and I both got friday off work and flew to Ireland to see the All Blacks play Ireland. As soon as we got into town we headed straight to the Guinness brewery. The brewery was set out well and it was great to see how Guinness was developed into such a unique tasting beer. At the top of the brewery was a bar with 360 degree views of Dublin which was great, so we sat with our free beer and had a look around. The highlight for us both was when I looked up and saw Richie McCaw looking at [View Full Entry]

By saleensteve
November 11th 2008

Enough of the Guinness!!

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I must be getting old!!! Only a week of guinness indulgence and i'm ready for a break from the drink. It's been a good week, the usual amount of pubs and bars and an a huge amount of guinness, in fact, I figured I had 16 pints on Friday. Ugh, the kidneys/liver/bladder can't be happy with me right now. It's been great to see all the folks here, all the new babies and the old babies are now kids. Of course I managed to get myself to a shooting range, did some nice over/under shotgun clay pigeoning and a couple pistols. [View Full Entry]

By The Honeymooners
November 8th 2008

Back in Dublin

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Well, it's back for me anyway. Amanda's first time here. We went to the Guinness Storehouse yesterday (of course) and are taking it easy today. Tomorrow we fly home. Let's see, from Mostar, Herzegovina we went to Dubrovnik, Croatia, and spent two days there. We took the overnight ferry up the Dalmatian coast to Rejeka and spent part of the day there before getting on the train to Ljubljana, Slovenia. Another few days there, and then a train to Budapest, a few more days spent, and finally a flight to Dublin. We've become quite adept at sleeping on transport. Amanda even [View Full Entry]

By saleensteve
November 7th 2008

Guinness.... Oh the Guinness

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Yesterday, I spend the majority of the day in town working on my plans for hitting the continent. Unfortunately the plan of buying a car will probably not come to fruition due to problems registerring it. It just happenned that the owner of the used car company that i was looking at is from Dublin, so the second i mentioned i was here drinking guinness, he openned up and spilt all his information on me. So a train trip it will be. Due to the stressful planning situation I found myself in yesterday, a guinness was definitely in order..... but having [View Full Entry]

By kimby
November 5th 2008

The 10 day european trek has begunnnn...

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well hello! so im sitting here perched at a computer screen with a carlsburg to my left in our hostel in Dublin. its now the "wee" hours of the fifth of november, and unlike the rest of you all, im going to bed not knowing the results of our US election. i have to say.. its pretty interesting just how equally interested the rest of the world is in our elections. despite all of the crap that ive endured here in ITALYYY.. booo...it really is a once in a lifetime experience to be around the rest of the world as such [View Full Entry]

By saleensteve
November 5th 2008

Dublin Arrival

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I'd like to say this was my first, but honestly, it was probably #4 or so.

I arrived without a hitch, a relatively easy time flying considering that i had a seat which folded flat into a bed, more alcohol than I needed and a belly full of saltspring island goat cheese, lamb shank ossobuco, and nicely grilled arctic char. Darren was there to meet me at the airport, smile and hug at the ready. Straight to the pub!! 2 Guinness and a traditional 'farm bake' and i was totally ready for a nap before the pub quiz night. Met up with the weekly quizzers in the corner pub 'Vaughns' for all out competition. We were a [View Full Entry]

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