One, two, or three concrete walls usually surrounding the summit of a hill. Too extensive for permanent fortification, the area enclosed may have served as temporary refuge or for annual folk gatherings. Most were erected in the last dozen pre-Christian centuries. Dotted across Ireland See them on...
A Family of brewers. In 1756 Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) established a brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare, which he moved to Dublin in 1759. The business grew under his son Arthur (1767-1855) and grandson Benjamin (1798-1868), who developed export markets in the United States and Europe. Sir Benjamin's sons,...
The longest river in Ireland or Britain. The Shannon rises in the "Shannon Pot" in County Cavan ...
Natural springs, found throughout Ireland and other Celtic countries. Before Christianity, gthese springs were dedicated to female deities, representitives of the local earth mother deities. Holy wells are an example of how Christianity became superimposed on local pagan customs and beliefs of the pre-Christian Celtic...
This was an ancient battle fought by "Brian Boru" and the forces of Munster ...
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A music group formed in O Donaghues music bar in Dublin in 1962...
These are political wall paintings and Belfast is famous for them. Belfast has a long tradition of Loyalist murals (loyalists are the group that want to remain part of the United Kingdom). The first one , painted in around 1908 , depicted the Battle of the Boyne...
During the Williamite War, on April 18, 1690, Derry (Londonderry) locked out James 2 with cries of " No surrender!" thus beginning the siege. Major Baker (replaced after his death by John Mitchelbourne) and Reverend Walker took over the command of the thirty thousand civilians, mostly...
For many centuries , as everyone knows , English monarchs tried to impose their will on Ireland. Queen Elizabeth 1 , eager to extend the influence of her government , sent a deputy to Cormac MacDermot MacCarthy, who was Lord of Blarney , and demanded that...