ireland
Éire or Poblacht na hÉireann
§About five-sixths of the island of Ireland
§Northern Ireland to the north & east, Atlantic to the north & west, Celtic Sea to the south, Saint
George’s Channel to the south-east & Irish Sea to the east
§70,280 km2, 4.6 million people
§Dublin
§7.5 million foreign tourists
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nature
§Emerald Island – rural greenery & natural beauty
§West – hills, mountains & rugged cliffs (islands, peninsulas, headlands & bays)
§Centre – lowlands covered with areas of bogland & lakes
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Tourist attractions
§Wealth of structures from Neolithic period
§Thatched-roof cottages (roof built with dry vegetation – straw, heather)
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Castlestrange stone (granite boulder decorated with flowing spirals, 500BC)
Dromberg stone circle
Turoe stone (granite, decorated Celtic style)
Poulnabrone dolmen (portal tomb)
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Tourist attractions
§Christianity – monastic houses
§Franciscans – numerous abbeys
§Gothic cathedrals – Saint Patrick’s in Dublin
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Clonmacnoise (6 c)
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Monasterboice (5 c)
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Saint Patric

Tourist attractions
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§Surviving walled trading towns (Normans) – Drogheda & Youghal
§Castles built by Normans – Dublin & Kilkenny
§Tower houses – Bunratty castle (Gaelic & Norman aristocracy)
Drogheda
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Youghal
Dublin
Kilkenny
Bunratty
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Dublin
§Vikings – 840s, gained by British – 1171, from 1800 Irish strived to gain independence, won in
1922
§Christ Church Cathedral (11 century), Cathedral of Saint Patrick (1191)
§Dublin Castle – massive stronghold (1204, Normans)
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Dublin
§Trinity College – Book of Kells (illustrated manuscript, Irish monks, app 800)
§Merrion Square – Georgian garden square (Oscar Wilde)
§National Museum (all archaeological objects found in Ireland)
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Aran islands
§Archipelago of three small islands, largest Inis Mór – 12 by 3 kilometres
§Unfertile, rocky → digging dirt from cracks & composting seaweed (greenery to lifeless rock)
§Stone forts of Aengus & of Aonghasa, stone walls crisscross islands (1,600 kilometres, livestock)
§Scattered with early clocháns (dry-stone beehive huts from the early-Christian period)
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Fort of Aengus
Fort of Aonghasa

Cliffs of moher
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Ring of kerry
§Typical Irish landscape with stunning scenery
§Dramatic coastline, windswept cliffs, unspoilt beaches, blue lakes, green hills, rich flora &
fauna
§Ancient monuments, romantic castles, outstanding gardens, colourful towns & villages
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Blarney castle
§Originally timber house, replaced by stone fortification (12 century), destroyed (1440s)
§Medieval stronghold (15 century, abandoned in 1690)
§Romantic partial ruin, some rooms & battlements accessible
§Extensive gardens incl poisonous garden (poisonous plants – mandrake, opium, cannabis)
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Unesco world heritage sites
§Only two sites
§Both of cultural character
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Brú na Bóinne (Palace of the Boyne)
§Complexes of Megalithic sites (Neolithic period, 35 century BC)
§Burial mounds, chamber tombs, standing stones, hedges & other prehistoric enclosures
§App 90 recorded monuments & unknown quantity of yet unrecorded sites
–Significant collections of megalithic art; social, economic, religious & funerary functions
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Sceilig Mhichíl (Skellig Michael or Great Skellig)
§Larger of two Skellig Islands, pyramidal rock (12 km west off the south-west coast)
§Monastery on steep sides of rocky island (7 century)
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