ENGLAND – YORKSHIRE

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With a population as big as Scotland’s and an area half the size of Belgium, Yorkshire is almost a country…

PLAGUE – THE BLACK DEATH

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SUMMARY. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually, this…

SCOTLAND – WEST HIGHLAND WAY

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Thought of in the 1930s and 40s, development started in 1974 and opened in 1980, it was the first long-distance…

IRELAND – SOUTH DUBLIN, S DUBLIN COAST & WICKLOW

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WEST & SOUTH DUBLIN National Museum. The first paper was invented in China in about 105 AD and the first…

LEVELING AMERICA’S PLAYING FIELD

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by Steven Brill May 17, 2018 Time Magazine Lately, most Americans, regardless of their political leanings, have been asking themselves…

IRELAND – TIPPERARY, OFFALY, WESTMEATH, LOUTH & N MEATH

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ROYAL SITES of IRELAND Tentative World Heritage Sites (2010), represent the locations of the early kings of Ireland prior to…

IRELAND – CORK, WATERFORD, KILKENNY & CALOW

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CORK COUNTY By far Ireland’s largest county, most visitors ignore its massive hinterland of dairy farms, dotted with low mountains…

IRELAND – CLAIR, LIMERICK & KERRY

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CLARE COUNTY THE BURREN The Burren’s name derives from the Irish word boireann, meaning “stony place” – an apt description…

IRELAND – CLARE, SLIGO, MAYO & GALWAY

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DONEGAL COUNTY May 13-14 INISHOWEN PENINSULA. In the NE of Donegal, it has beaches and towering headland bluffs (Malin, Inishowen,…

IRELAND – DUBLIN

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Dublin May 26-29 2018 THE ABORTION REFERENDUM in IRELAND On May 25th the Irish voted to repeal the 8th amendment…