#ireland2017

[kuldeep85-blog]

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war#unitedstatesofamerica #unitedtogether #kingdomwoman #unitednotdivided #irelandinspires #kingdomheartsiii #golftour #golfcarts #weddingsinireland #irelandgram #unitedjourney #ireland🇮🇪 #ireland2017 #irelandrugby #tagify_app #unitedweare #kingdomcouples #kingdomheartscosplay #unitedkindom #kingdomofheaven #manunited #golfdrills #golfequipment #unitedarbemirates #ireland_passion #unitedtokyo #golfresort #unitedstatesofstance #unitednation #golfishard (at Hardoi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch3V_pKJcVT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pioneerbushcraft]

Flashback to sleeping out in a natural shelter I built in southwest Ireland. . The moss-covered roof kept me nice and dry. . Deer would occasionally pass by as would the occasional fox. Fantastic memories in this old. oak wood by a lake. . . . . #campinglife #campvibes #campfire #camping #outdoor #outdoors #outdoorsy #outdoorfun #outdoorlife #adventure #adventurer #adventures #adventuretime #bushcraft #bushcrafter #bushcrafting #survival #irish #ireland🍀 #ireland2017 (at Kerry, Ireland)

[denmom23-blog]

Inis Mor

Today, I took a bus to Roseveel, then the ferry to Inis Mor. After dropping off my luggage and the B&B, I walked to the grocery store and grabbed some lunch and began my walk. I walked the lower road and my first stop was the Seal Colony area. I saw a few seals pop their heads up, but it was not prime time for viewing them. I continued on to Dun Aonghasa, an ancient fort on the coast. The views from Dun Aonghasa were amazing! At the Worm hole (just down the coastline from Dun Aonghasa), the are setting up for the Red Bull Cliff Diving event happening next weekend. The Worm Hole is a natural rectangular "hole". After leaving Dun Aonghasa, I walked back to my B&B via the upper road. All total, it was 15.5 KM (Just over 9 miles). The weather has been great for most of the trip -- today was GORGEOUS! Even with suscreen, I got a lot of color (yes, mostly pink).

I went to Joe Watty's Pub for dinner and listed to some live music.

Tomorrow: Explore more of Inis Mor and head back to Dublin

[colindotpdx]

Belfast: Troubles + Titanic = Tourists

Belfast seems to have reinvented itself by showcasing the tragedies of its past. The place is bustling, and confident, and almost cosmopolitan - now about 80 cruise ships dock here every year opposite the slip from which the Titanic was launched in 1912.

TITANIC

The Titanic Museum is one of the best in the world - an interactive and fascinating trip through the history of the city, the development of shipbuilding up to the Harland and Wolff epoch, and the construction and destruction of their most famous ship. “Built by Irishmen but, to be sure, crashed by an Englishman”. There is even a multi-storey adventure ride through an imagined shipyard to give you an idea of the lives of those who worked on it.

TROUBLES

The Troubles, or the Northern Ireland Conflict, is the name given to the sectarian civil war that took place from 1969, when British troops were brought in to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary who were failing to control the violence between Unionists who were generally Protestants loyal to the British crown and Nationalists who were generally Catholics who wanted a united Ireland. The end only came in 1998 when the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Over 3,500 people were killed, half of them civilians, and about 50,000 injured in this nonsense. Today the people who live here try to stick to the principles of “Remember, Respect, Resolution” but the fault lines are still there and the architecture remains to remind us.

Belfast’s taxi drivers have become the de facto tour guides to the areas affected by The Troubles and we had a great afternoon with Joe who took us to see the areas that are still bedecked with competing signs of their allegiances, and grievances, and heroes - William of Orange in the Shankhill area and, in the Republican areas, murals of Patrick Pearse and James Connolly who led the Easter Rising in 1916. Joe did a terrific job explaining the history of both sides and wove in several stories of his own life and family.

Here we are adding our graffiti signatures to the “peace line” wall that separates nationalist and unionist neighborhoods and Joe showing us a picture of his grandfather who served in the British Army in the First World War. (He was injured and flagged down an ambulance only to find that it had been hijacked by two German soldiers who took him prisoner and certainly saved his life by keeping him from fighting in the Somme.)

[martilluminatis-blog]

Today ( the last day in Ireland 😭😭😭 ) I went in the Collins ( I don't remember the name of the county but I know his signification is "two lakes between valleys" or something like this 😂😂😂😂😂 ) #Ireland2017 #Ireland #Irlande2017 #Lake #Water #Nature #Mountains #Photography #Collins #Landscape #Collin #Mountain #Sky #Clouds #Cloud #AwesomeLandscape #AwesomePhotography #AwesomeNature #OurWonderfulEarth (at Portmarnock)

[aranislands]

#Repost @rosemarykeatingdesign with @repostapp ・・・ 💚Love this special place Inis Oirr #instaireland #aranislands #specialplace #ireland2017 #ireland #inisoirr #galway #memoriesmade #irishcollege #gaeilgeabú 💚💚

[printagonist]

Ireland Geological Map - 3D effect relief Print, Ireland Relief Map, Ireland Topo Map, Dublin, Limerick, Ulster, Connaught, Munster,Leinster #white #housewarming #printingprintmaking #bedroom #midcentury #red #irelandmap #3dmap #reliefmap #3d https://etsy.me/3ET7vBU #ireland #Irelandaily #irelandball #irelanddaily #irelandgram #irelandtravel #irelandtrip #irelandsancienteast #irelandinspires #irelandcalling #irelandwedding #ireland2017 #Ireland2016 #irelandlove #irelandisgreat #irelandphotography #irelandcalling1 #irelande #irelandgirl (at Ireland, Europe) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5DxJpIGUM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[usmccarter]

#Repost @creativeirishgifts ・・・ #ireland #Irelandaily #irelandball #irelanddaily #irelandgram #irelandtravel #irelandtrip #irelandsancienteast #irelandinspires #irelandcalling #irelandwedding #ireland2017 #Ireland2016 #irelandlove #irelandphotography #irelandisgreat #irelandcalling1 #irelandgirl #irelande #irelandpassion #IrelandTourism #irelandweddingphotographer #irelandreid #irelandreidcosplay #irelandlife #irelandvacation #irelandvsengland #irelands #irelandtour https://www.instagram.com/p/BqPr5vAHpBi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l05dg5nshlec

[cathyvagos]

Goodbye rainy Ireland! Off to Edinburgh we go! #ireland2017 #girlstrip #ryanair #edinburghbound #edinburgh2017 (em Dublin Airport - Terminal 1)

[pioneerbushcraft]

Up to old tricks again. . . . . #campvibes #campfire #camping #camp #survival #outdoor #outdoors #outdoorsy #outdoorlife #outdoorslife #adventure #adventurer #adventures #adventuretime #adventurethatislife #hiking #nature #naturel #naturepic #ireland🍀 #ireland2017 #ireland #ireland2018 #

[vincentcanavan]

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Video taken of boyle from the top of knowth Neolithic burial passage grave #knowth #boynevalley #ancienteast #irlanda #ireland #ancient #ireland_passion #irelandinspires #irelandcalling #ireland🍀 #vidoftheday #videooftheday #ireland_insta #irelandgram #instavideo #instagood #instagram #irelandaily #siopaancaislean #ireland🇮🇪 #ireland_gram #irelanddaily #ireland2017 #beautifulscenery (at Knowth)

[denmom23-blog]

Day 8: Explore the Dingle Peninsula

We started our day off with visits to some archaeological sites. The first site was near an all girls all Gaelic school (classes are all taught in Gaelic, except for English class). Here we saw the Ogham stones. The cuts on the sides indicate different letters.

After that, we stopped at Rathanane Castle for a photo opportunity. Then, we headed out to the Dingle Peninsula to visit the most western point in Europe (according to the Irish – they are ignoring Iceland). We hiked out there, took pictures and returned to the van and went to lunch. Again, the scenery out there is amazing and beautiful.

On the way to our next hike, we stopped at the Gallarus Oratory. This was believed to be a church used by the local farmers. It was built using dry-stone, meaning they cut each stone to fit and did not use mortar. It is, indeed, dry inside, despite no mortar.

After that, we stopped at Kilmalkedar Church and wandered around for a while. Then, we went on a hike up to a Napoleonic fort. Finally, we returned to our B&B, showered and went to dinner at Global Village. The food was absolutely delicious – especially the chocolate “loaf” I had for dessert.

Tomorrow: Cliff of Moher

[colindotpdx]

I Love The Smell of Peat in the Morning

Mick Sumpter and I have been riding around Ireland from Dublin to Belfast clockwise following, where we can, the Wild Atlantic Way which is a network of roads labeled as the most scenic and which push as close as possible to the ocean. We have been largely exploring as our whims take us and we found some astonishing places that we’d never heard of - like Slieve League, the highest sea cliffs in Europe - and we have barely scratched the surface of this labyrinth.

It is obviously a cliché to describe Ireland as a country where the old and the new live side by side. But that thought pops up every day traveling around this beautiful island; old, new - ancient, modern - Irish, European.

Outside of the towns it is hardly possible to figure out whether a house is old or new construction. All the houses are neat and clean and unadorned and made from the same slate and the same stone and, apparently using the same building design regulations for the last couple of centuries.

In a country that is very traditionally Catholic and hidebound, Ireland made same-sex marriage legal with a referendum in 2015 and just chose for its new Prime Minister Leo Varadkar; the son of an Indian immigrant who is openly gay. A lesson for many other countries and especially Trumplandia.

There are many petrol stations in Ireland where the food available would put to shame many boulangeries and patisseries in France - seriously. Those same modern and hip petrol stations also sell home heating fuel including coal and peat - so again the 21st century meets the dark ages. The peat sold at the petrol stations is produced by a state owned company that sells peat to power stations as well as for domestic use. In addition it is common to see piles of peat that has been cut with a two-sided spade called a sleán and piled to dry.

Peat is, apparently, the most efficient carbon sink on the planet because the plants that grow on it consume the CO2 that the peat itself emits. The largest peat bog in the world is in Siberia, the size of France and Germany combined, and is, due to a warming climate, starting to thaw and release staggering amounts of climate changing methane.

So the peat fire smoke that you smell roaming Ireland is not the biggest issue facing the planet.

Good news for Ireland. Have another Guinness. Don’t mind if I do.

[martilluminatis-blog]

Today I went to Belfast! It's an amazing city! ( the problem is that they pay in Sterling... ) #Belfast #UnitedKingdom #UK #Sky #White #Cloud #Clouds #Cloudy #Church #Cityscape #Irlande2017 #Ireland #Ireland2017 #NorthIsland #NorthernIreland #Sterling #Photography #AwesomeCityscape #AwesomePhotography #OurWonderfulEarth (at Belfast, United Kingdom)

[cafelusk]

(clockwise from the top) Irish coddle, potato chowder, and Irish hash #cafeluskabroad #ireland2017

[raesreadingcorner]

Mysterious and welcoming at the same time! #ireland #glendalough #photography #nature #forest #wicklow #naturephotography #nature_perfection #peaceful #ireland2017 #irishphotography (at Wicklow, Ireland)