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What comes to your mind when you think of Ireland?

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The Irish Republican Army. A bit of Ireland is Belfast. They were quite in the news in the 70s and 80s



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Guinness, lots of meals based on potatoes, gorgeous red-haired ladies, lots of rain, and absolutely amazing scenery, castles, and coastlines.
 
Irish Rebel Songs!
 
Irish pubs, fictional stories about leprechauns, part of my ancestral roots, and on a negative note, past history of IRA terrorism.
 
Irish Mist
 
"Booze, boring food, Irishmen with the gift of gab"

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ElChupacabra said:
Definitely go. It's a beautiful country. I highly recommend the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The Cliffs of Moher were really impressive as well.
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It is my hope and a something I would love to do (and Scotland) for my 30th wedding anniversary.
 
Potato famine, and Victoria, the Famine Queen.
Bobby Sands and Maze Prison.
Diplock courts.
Good Friday Accords.
 
Irish fairy stories
 
good!
 
j brown's body said:
That this overwhelmingly Catholic country has enshrined the right to an abortion in the Constitution.
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I remember it well. My sister was an activist for the movement. A couple of years before that, we legalised gay marriage. The first country to do so by popular vote, I believe.
 
The fight for independence against the British Empire.
 
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