If you mention Ireland and someone asks you to name a city there you will no doubt say Dublin. It dates back well over 1,000 years and the earliest reference to the city is in the year 140 A.D. by Claudius Ptolemaues who was an astronomer and cartographer or Greek and Egyptian origin. The settlement [...]
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Saint Patrick’s Day is a National holiday in Ireland and celebrated in many places throughout the world where people of Irish descent live. The festival can include celebrations for a period of up to a week. About Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was not Irish as many might mistakenly believe, nor was he the first Christian [...]
The term luck of the Irish has been the subject of many a scholarly argument. Irish are not an inherently lucky people. They have endured invasions, privations, starvation and more. Even the Irish songs tend toward tragedy. The debate rages over where this term came from and the origin appears to be somewhere during the [...]