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Stradbally in the early-20th Century
Stradbally in the early-20th Century
In Slater's Directory we find a description of Stradbally in the year 1857. "A small market town in the parish and territory of the name. Surrounded by a delightful country and numerous beautiful residences of the gentry. Among them the seat of the Cosby family, a lovely spot embellished with wood and water in charming diversity. One long street kept remarkably clean."
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Carrick-on-Suir castle
Carrick-on-Suir castle
This castle of the Butlers - Earls and later Dukes of Ormonde - stands above the Suir on the east side of Carrick. It was acquired in 1315, though the oldest part of the castle is a mid-fifteenth-century walled bawn with a tower house in each of its northern corners. There are few defensive features save for small firing-holes either side of the front door.
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Dowth, Co. Meath
Dowth, Co. Meath
Dowth is one of the three principal tombs of the Brú na Bóinne complex of passage-tombs (the others being Newgrange and Knowth). It is less developed as a tourist attraction than its neighbours, partly because the chamber is much lower, and partly because the decoration is poorer.
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Timahoe Village
Timahoe Village
Timahoe is a small quiet village in county Laois, which lies in the centre of a broad and fertile valley. It is eight miles from Portlaoise and five-and-a-half miles from Stradbally. Guarding this village is a Round Tower which contains a vast amount of history.
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Ireland in 1904
Ireland in 1904
In 1904 on the 16th of June Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, walked out together for the first time; and as a tribute Joyce set his masterpiece Ulysses on that day. This feature looks at the Ireland, and most specifically the Dublin, of 1904 to 2004.
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Bunratty Castle
Bunratty Castle
Bunratty Castle in Co. Clare is a fine example of a larger type tower-house in Ireland. This particular structure was built in 1425.
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Christ Church Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral
Standing on high ground in the oldest part of the city, Christ Church cathedral is one of Dublin's finest historic buildings. It dates back to 1038 when Sitric, the then Danish king of Dublin, built the first wooden church here. In 1171 the original simple foundation was transformed into a cruciform stone church, though the present structure dates mainly from 1871 to 1878 when a huge restoration was undertaken. Only the transepts, the crypt, and a few other portions date from the medieval period.
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Roche Castle
Roche Castle
Roche Castle, like its sister castle at Carlingford, were both built by the Anglo-Normans as part of the process of taming and colonizing north Louth in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Striking and powerful, it commands a pass northwards and affords wonderful views over the surrounding country.
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Sick and Dying in the Workhouse
Sick and Dying in the Workhouse
This is an engraving that was used in The Illustrated London News in 1846. It shows the interiors of the workhouse with the sick and the dying lying on the beds, as the women and children look on. http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/index.html
Views of the Famine: Vassar College NY USA
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Charles Fort
Charles Fort
Charles Fort near Kinsale, Co. Cork was constructed in the late 17th century on the site of an earlier coastal fortification. It is a classic example of a star-shaped fort and has five bastions. The two seaward bastions, the Devil's and the Charles' were for defending the harbour and both are casemated - that is, they have gun embrasures inside as well as on top of the walls.
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