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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 kellwood
June 1st 2006

A long time of not writing

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Sin e Bar
Matt (Canadian) with a pint of Guinness

Well I have not written in a while and the reason for that is because my room mate moved his computer into his room, and now I don’t feel right for using him computer (before it was on the kitchen table for all to use when he was there and when he was not). I also hardly ever get the chance to come to the internet café anymore. So about my life so far in Dublin… there have not been a lot of things on the go, well at least that I can remember now. I went to a bar Sin [View Full Entry]

By Kai and Kerry
June 1st 2006

Top of the mornin´ to ya!

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Trinity College, Dublin. It is an amazing university

In Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she wheeled her wheelbarrow,through streets broad and narrow, Crying cockles and mussels alive,alive-oh. Sitting low on the edge of the River Liffey, Dublin is a marvellously contradictory and vibrant place, the locals are more sophisticated than you might have expected, but can be small-town friendly too, and the city's tense history and rebellious nature, hidden by the inevitable accoutrements of modernity and affluence, appear when you least expect it. We loved [View Full Entry]

Kerry outside the Book of Kells display, Trinity College

By Zpet
May 31st 2006

Dublin1stNight2ndDay

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Globetrotters Hostel

After some shopping..and resting, we headed out to Taylor's Irish Night. Unfortunately, we got off the bus at the wrong place and had to walk a couple miles, finally catch a Taxi, but arrived almost on time. The food was great and the entertainment even better! The Merry Ploughboys sure could play and sing (Leon would have loved this!) and the Taylor's Irish dancers were also great. Somehow or other, I let Manoli convince me to accept the offer to dance with one of the young ladies (pic included). Wednesday, we took the Tour Bus around Dublin, and then stopped at [View Full Entry]

By Zpet
May 30th 2006

Arrived Dublin

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Well, we made it to Dublin. Sending this from hostel pc, since I killed both the batteries on my handheld. Will try to recharge some before show tonight (Taylor's Irish Night Dance, Song and dinner) and maybe get a pic there. [View Full Entry]

By K W
May 28th 2006

Great Day in Dublin.

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The Dublin Spire
120 meters (393 ft) high

In one day we traveled from Dublin => Howth => Brey => Dalkey => Killeney => Bray => Dublin. A day I'll not forget that easy. We started the day, after we woke up and had a, believe it or not, Irish breakfast. Something I'm not planned to do again, In Dublin. We walked true O'Connell Street and saw this huge something in de middle of the street. After asking several times of what it is how high it is and what it's meaning. We only know how high it is. The Dublin Spire. 120 meters (393 ft) high. Then on [View Full Entry]

By wherearewenow
May 23rd 2006

Ireland: Guinness for Strength!

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My Goodness My Guinness!

Hello Everyone! We basically had about 6 days to take on the countries of North Ireland and Ireland and we wanted to make sure we did them justice with such little time. We started off with one day in Belfast, one day in Dublin, one day in Killarney, one day in Cork, and then our last two nights back in Dublin before we took off for France. We had a great time and met many wonderful travelers and enjoyed some of the most beautiful green scenery we have seen…also drank plenty of Guinness to get our hearts pumping with some Irish [View Full Entry]

Ross, Johnny, and Ryan....Damn Belfast Holligans! Just kidding, they were great to meet.

By no mad
May 23rd 2006

Phew!

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I hope you guys enjoy these new pictures. I finally burned them all to CD so it was much easier to upload them for your enjoyment! But of course my memory card stopped working so no pictures of Ireland just yet...but soon to come. See ya later... PS the weather here is aweful, but the Guinness is delicious; and good for you! [View Full Entry]

By Erun
May 22nd 2006

Crazy Europeans....

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me and katie in dublin city centre

SO! Me and Katie got to the Gatwkick airport yesterday morning at 7:20 am... then took got to the South Terminal to get a train ticket. The guy at the train ticket counter said "ah... yes.. the train leaves in 5 minutes for Holyhead..." and by the time we got through paying he said "you've got a minute and a half to get to Platform 4!". It was like a racing game. So when we got there, we got on the next train... and about 20 minutes later, when arriving in London city centre, we then realized it was THE WRONG [View Full Entry]

By ConnHockey22
May 18th 2006

Dublin and London

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Guinness Factory

Its 1:16 here in London, and we just arrived tonight at 12. I only have a limited time on the computer, so I'll make this quick. We arrived in Dublin at 9 am Tuesday and went to all the sites. We saw the Gusiness Brewery, St Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity University, Dublin Castle, and all the other Dublin sites. We ate dinner at a real Irish place, then hung out in our hostel with the other 16 people in our room. It was interesting to say the least, but a lot of fun. We went ot the Brazen Head, which is the [View Full Entry]

By kellwood
May 18th 2006

Bray Excursion

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Graystones

14/15/16/17 May 06 I haven't written in a few days and nothing really exciting has happened except for today so the past few dazs are going to get blurred into one. Well first off the whole thing with having two jobs didn't really work out. If I kept the office job full time all that I could work at Bewley's was weekend shifts and who wants to be working everyday for a whole summer and not being able to go anywhere or see anything.. definitely not me. so after a bit of thinking I chose to go with Bewley's full time [View Full Entry]

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