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The Guiness Factory

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March 20th 2007
The next day we set of to explore explore Dublin. We left the bus on O'Connell street and started our Irish adventure with a look around Carroll's gift shop - Rupert is still amazed at the amount of tat I buy, but at least I can claim to have a magnet to remember each holiday by and we needed some oven gloves anyway! We stopped for lunch at a pub on the side of the River Liffey. The smoking ba ... read more

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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