Cliffs of Moher in north Clare, west Ireland.

The Cliffs of Moher (Irish: Aillte an Mhothair) are located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They rise 120 metres (390 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and reach their maximum height of 214 metres (702 ft) just north of O'Brien's Tower, eight kilometres to the north. The cliffs receive almost one million visitors a year. ^(Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

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Guinness storehouse, Dublin. In case you like beer ...

O' Brian ? O' Connor ? What's in an Irish name ? Learning more about Ireland ...

 "In traditional Irish society surnames were rarely used and single names were actually more common. This changed around the eleventh century as the population grew and it became necessary to have a second name, a surname

. Often these names had one of two prefixes at the beginning - an ‘O' meaning ‘grandson of', or ‘Mac' meaning ‘son of'.

 

The importance of ancestry in Irish society is demonstrated by the fact that surnames were used as a way of identifying that you were descended from your forefathers. "

(Irish Expressions.com)

IRISH NEWSPAPERS. There are daily, evening and sunday newspapers. Some newspapers like The Irish Times have gor Irish-language columns.

Quality newspapers: Irish Independent, The Irish Times and Irish Examiner.

Tabloids: Irish Daily Star, The Irish Sun, Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Mail.

 

Oxford dictionary:

Definition of tabloid in English

Pronunciation: /ˈtablɔɪd/

• a newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories: [as modifier]:the tabloid press

Origin:

late 19th century: from tablet + -oid. Originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets, the term came to denote any small medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’

Glendalough, Wicklow National Park.

Famine Memorial, Dublin Docklands. These statues commemorate the Great Famine of the mid 19th century. The Great Irish Famine lasted from 1845 to 1849. More than one million men, women and children died and a further one and a half million were forced to emigrate. It's also known as the Irish Potato Famine.

 

 

Baile Átha Cliath es Dublín en gaélico. Cuando los celtas se establecieron a orillas del Liffey en los primeros siglos de nuestra era, el río podía cruzarse vadeando de ahí su nombre en gaélico "la ciudad del vado".

Road signs ans street signs in Dublin are written first in Gaelic and immediately below in English.(Irish (Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of the population. Irish enjoys constitutional status as the national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland. It is an official language of the European Union and an officially recognised minority language in Northern Ireland.) (Wikipedia)

Transport in Dublin. A double-decker bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks. What are the similarities and differences between the transport in Dublin and the transport in your country?

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He is best known for Ulysses (1922). Do you want to learn more about him ?

Yes, it's me ! I've turned into a leprechaun ! (Un leprechaun o lepracaun (Irlandés: leipreachán) es un tipo de duende o ser feérico —criatura de naturaleza dual: material y espiritual— masculino que habita en la isla de Irlanda. Los leprechauns son criaturas que pertenecen al folclore y a la mitología irlandesa, y se dice que habitan en Irlanda junto a todas las criaturas feéricas, los Tuatha Dé Danann y las otras gentes legendarias desde antes de la llegada de los celtas.)(Wikipedia)

Do you know any of these Irish symbols? What do they represent?

The Spike is a 120-metre-high stainless-steel needle in Dublin's O'Connell Street. It's one of the city's modern landmarks.

Trinity College, Dublin. "It was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I to prevent the Irish from being "infected with popery and other ill qualities" at French, Spanish and Italian universities." (The rough guide to Ireland)