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I love Ireland

I love Ireland

31.10.09

5 Reasons Why You Should Visit Us:

1. It is a modern cosmopolitan city.
2. It is one of Europe’s oldest cities.
3. There's a lot more here that you can imagine.
4. There are 3 means of public transport
5. All the city’s galleries and national museums are free.

28.10.09

You... should Visit


Guinness Storehouse






Guinness Storehouse is Ireland’s No. 1
international visitor attraction.
You can see step by step through the Brewing Process
You'll find the history of ®GUINNESS®
Inside the Storehouse you will find an informal and relaxing place to eat and drink something.
Really this is the most spectacular place to visit in Dublin.






River Liffey:
The River Liffey is a river in Dublin, Ireland.
Which goes through the capital from west to east.
Dividing the Northside of Dublin from the Southside

2000 years ago the Vikings arrived and used the town
as a slave trade town.
The River Liffey is the most important in the capital and is cleaner than Bogota's River.

Some people prefer to pass a day near a River doing BBQ.
YOU CAN PARTICIPATE in the canoeing event


Do you Know About Vikings?
Visiting the viking excavations, you going to learn our past, this is an interactive and exciting place.

This could be your biggest experience.





Public Transport

To visit Dublin you don't need a car.
You can use public transport.

There are 3 options
:

1. Rail.


2. Tram.



3. Bus or taxi.

The Most Popular Sports In The City

Soccer


Rugby Union



Hurling


Gaelic football



Horse racing



Dubliners are big sports fans, and you can visit "Croke Park". It is the principal and largest stadium in all Ireland.

Sports in Dublin are very fun, and you can go with all your family.
Football is very exciting and you can enjoy with the national or local teams.

That is the home to the Gaelic Athletic and all their Fans:

Croke Park

27.10.09

History


The Irish history is full of myths and legends, since romantic tales of warriors and fairies until old saints and celt's myths are part of the cultural history.
Some of the most famous tales are based on the lir's children, who were convert in swans for their stepmother; the big Cú Chulainn warrior; and one of the principal celts heroes, Finn McCool, who convert himself in wise when he was young to try a "knowledge" salmon, and to become adult and triumph over the giants.

Traditions


The Irish are tradition’s lovers, because all the country is full of them. From dishes as “colcannon” (a cabbage’s mixture and mashed potatoes) that it take in Halloween’s day, until carry something green on Saint Patrick’s Day. The traditional music is heard for all the country, from pubs in the city’s center until country’s festivals. The “Bodhrán” is like a drum that you hold on in the hand, is one of the most important instruments in the Irish music, along with the “Fiddle”, (a kind of violin), and the tin whistle (a metal’s whistle). Usually Irish dancing is very competitive, and it takes so seriously in national’s championship. The Irish make up a nation who likes laugh. The count jokes’s art and the elegant cynicism are diary life’s part in Ireland.

26.10.09

Do you know Famous Dubliners?

This city has produced an array of famous characters. You could bump into some famous characters around the city.
They have made their mark on the sporting, literary, musical, political, scientific and so much more
Some Of Them Are..

Musical

U2 (1976 – present)
Are a alternative-rock band that formed by Bono (Paul Hewson), Larry Mullen, Dave Evans
(guitar) and Adam Clayton
U2 has won 22 Grammy Awards
U2 as a band and as humans, they have campaigned for human rights.




Literary

Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

He was a novelist. Best known for writing "Dracula", his first Gothic horror novel.




Sporting

Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley
Are Irish professional golfers they have earned many
events on the European Tour and have won the World Cup of Golf


Business

Arthur Guinness (1725 – 1803)

He was a major brewer and the founder of the Guinness company, named Arthur Guinness's St. James's Gate Brewery.
Also "Guinness" is a dark beer, is a stout, originated in the brewery of Arthur Ginness.

25.10.09

Saint Patrick


There is an important date in Ireland, generally is celebrated on 17th March, Saint Patrick's day. Dublin have a huge celebration for it, that it offers music, carnivals, comedy, dances, theater in the street, night shows and performances since 15th to 19th of March. More than million of people join this parade.

The Saint Patrick's Festival is a great occasion to visit this capital and know a bit of their culture characterized for its music and its dancings. In the night of March 17 its programmed a Céili Mór, a date where the foot can't stop flow the rhythm and hands can't let of applaud.