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Within the Pale, and into the future!

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November 5th 2008
Hi everybody! Due to reasons which will be later explained, I wasn't able to get this entry off before this weekend, so you'll have more than one entry clogging up your mailbox if I can get my act together. As a side note, "the pale" is the area of and just around Dublin. The expression "beyond the pale" referred originally to those Wild Irish that the English occupiers of Dublin were not too ... read more

Europe » Ireland » County Dublin » Dublin

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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 se... ... read more