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Arms of the Borough of Ballymena, County Antrim.

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The Smugglers Cave, Silver Strand, Wicklow William Alfred Green (1870–1958) Ulster Folk Museum

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November 1, 1864: Two of the Dillon sisters and one of the Crofton brothers in the garden of Clonbrock House, Ahascragh, Co. Galway, Ireland.

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The Marchioness of Waterford and her first child Lady Blanche Maud de la Poer Beresford. Circa 1898. Ireland.

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“Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.” - Éamon de Valera (1882-1975), former President and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland.

#eamon de Valera #irish history #ireland #history #british history #English democracy #democracy #culture #american politics #America #dictatorship

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St. Conall Cael's Bell Shrine, Ireland, 7-8th century AD with additions and restorations made in the 11-12, and 15th centuries.

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Portrait of James FitzGerald (1722 - 1773), 1st Duke of Leinster. By Jean-Baptiste van Loo.

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Ériu or Éire, daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland. She is often interpreted as the modern-day personification of Ireland. Ireland the ancient land of scholars, poets ands Druids. Its history did not begin in violence in 1916 or in treaty in 1922, it spans thousands of years, its history is the history of western civilisation. The Vikings, the Normans, the English, the Scottish, the British have all come to these isles. Alliances were made, romance and dynasties were created, and blood was shed. The spirit of the Irish people and their love for peace remained. Its people spread throughout the world, to the Britain, to France, to Spain, to the Americas and beyond.

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Tunnel on the Kenmare Road, Killarney William Alfred Green Ulster Folk Museum

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Saturday, 9 August 1902. Coronation of Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII. London. Baron and Baroness Clonbrock of Clonbrock House, Galway, Ireland leave their London home for the Coronation.

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“What runs on most through a family living in one place is a continuous, semi-physical dream. Above this dream-level successive lives show their tips, their little conscious formations of will and thought. With the end of each generation, the lives that submerged here were absorbed again. With each death, the air of the place had thickened: it had been added to. The dead do not need to visit Bowen's Court rooms - as I said, we had no ghosts in that house - because they already permeated them. The land outside Bowen's Court windows left prints on my ancestors' eyes that looked out: perhaps their eyes left, also, prints on the scene? If so, those prints were part of the scene for me.” - Bowen’s Court (1942) by Elizabeth Bowen.

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Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow, December 1922.

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Whitestone House Estate

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Ladies who Luncheon, Tramore, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

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