Irlandiamo

25/03/2022

🇮🇪17. March🇮🇪 St.Patrick Parade
"Celebrating Irish Sports"

🇮🇪 Write some Irish Sports you know down on the comments🏸🏏🏇🏈🏌️‍♂️⛳🏇

25/03/2022

🇮🇪17. March🇮🇪 St.Patrick Parade

25/03/2022

🇮🇪17. March🇮🇪 waiting for St.Patrick Parade

15/02/2022

🌳The Phoenix Park🌳 is one of the largest enclosed public parks in any capital city in Europe.

🌳do you know...
it is larger than all of London's city parks put together,
and more than twice the area of New York's Central Park.

🌳I love walking here...
I always meet lots of squirrels🐿️...
and even deers🦌!

31/12/2021

...one of the most iconic view in Dublin skyline:

🏛️The Four Courts is Ireland's most prominent courts building, located on Inns Quay in Dublin. The Four Courts is the principal seat of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Dublin Circuit Court.

31/12/2021

...one of the most iconic view in Dublin skyline:

🏛️The Four Courts is Ireland's most prominent courts building, located on Inns Quay in Dublin. The Four Courts is the principal seat of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Dublin Circuit Court.

04/12/2021

04/12/2021

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31/10/2021

👻October.31👻 Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker-half" of the year. 

👻The early literature says Samhain was marked by great gatherings and feasts and was when the ancient burial mounds, which were seen as portals to the Otherworld, were opened.

👻Samhain was a liminal or threshold festival, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned, meaning the Aos Sí (the 'spirits' or 'fairies') could more easily come into our world. The souls of dead kin were also thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality, and a place was set at the table for them during a Samhain meal.

👻Mumming and guising were part of the festival from at least the early modern era, whereby people went door-to-door in costume reciting verses in exchange for food. The costumes may have been a way of imitating, and disguising oneself from, the Aos Sí.

👻In the 9th century the Church had shifted the date of All Saints' Day to 1 November and 2 November later became All Souls' Day. It is believed that over time Samhain and All Saints'/All Souls' influenced each other and eventually syncretised into the modern "Halloween".

Did you know the origin of Halloween?

31/10/2021

👻For the Celts this day marked the end of the season of Sun and the beginning of the season of Darkness.
It was believed that on Samhain the borders between this World and the Otherworld opened, allowing the spirits to pass through.

👻Costumes and decorations are a kind of way of imitating and disguising oneself from the spirits.

👻Do you like Halloween atmosphere?🦇

24/10/2021

✈️my way to heaven...

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24/10/2021

✈️Aereo è....un cofanetto di sognatori...

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24/10/2021

501 days later....I am here again!!!
Il primo volo dopo un anno e 5 mesi...finalmente "on tour" again☘️

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26/09/2021

🌾"Mabon" celebrates the autumnal equinox.

🌾The name "Mabon" comes from the Welsh God, who was the son of the Celtic Earth Mother Goddess, Modron. 

🌾Mabon is the dark god of the second harvest. According to the mythical epic of 'Culhwch and Olwen', as a child Mabon was kidnapped, imprisoned and later freed and transformed into a young god. His story symbolises the Autumn Equinox: as Mabon disappeared into the darkness and later returned, so are the Sun and nature's energy disappearing, to regenerate and later be reborn.

26/09/2021

🌾September.22🌾In the northern hemisphere, today is the autumnal equinox. 

🌾It also celebrates the mid-harvest festival (also known as the second harvest). This time of year is when farmers know how well their summer crops did, and how well fed their animals have become. This determines whether you and your family would have enough food for the winter. That is why people used to give thanks around this time, thanks for their crops, and animals, and food. 

🌾It is time of rest after the labour of harvest.

🌾It is the moment of reaping what you have sown, time to look at the hopes and aspirations and reflect on how they have manifested. 
It is time to let go that which is no longer needed as we prepare for descent, so that the winter can offer a time for reflection and peace.
And it is time to plant seeds of new ideas which will lie dormant but nourished in the dark, until the return of Spring.

20/09/2021

🌊"There's no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music"
Roland Kemler

🌊“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself”
Mehmet Murat Ildan

20/09/2021

Today we'll discover📍Powerscourt waterfall.

🌊It is the second highest waterfall in Ireland at 121 metres high.

🌊It is located at the base of the Glensoulan Valley on the River Dargle near Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow.

🌊Do you know in which famous movie this magnificent waterfall appears?

20/09/2021

🌊In "Excalibur" (1981), the fight scene between King Arthur and Lancelot was filmed at Powerscourt Estate waterfall.

18/09/2021

Today we'll discover📍Trim Castle, Co.Meath. It is the largest, best-preserved and most impressive Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland.

🏰 Trim get its name from the Irish 'Baile Átha Troim' , meaning ‘Town of the Ford of the Elder Trees', indicating that this was an important fording point on the River Boyne.
-Such was the significance of this crossing point that by the fifth century a chieftain's dún (fort) and an early monastery were sited here-

🏰Trim Castle was built In 1172, shortly after the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in Ireland. King Henry II granted his baron Hugh de Lacy the Kingdom of Meath.

🏰 🎬...we all know this castle because it appeared in a famous movie...do you remember which one?

18/09/2021

🏰The 1995 film "Braveheart", directed and co-produced by Mel Gibson, was filmed at Trim Castle.

🏰Do you remember some of its famous scenes?

18/09/2021

🏰In "Braveheart" Mel Gibson portrays William Wallace, a late-13th-century Scottish warrior. The film depicts the life of Wallace leading the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

16/09/2021

From📍the Clarence rooftop, you can enjoy this beautiful view on the Liffey river and its bridges...

🎶Do you know why this place is connected with U2?

16/09/2021

🎶On 25 September 1976, Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik Evans, and Adam Clayton responded to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. seeking people interested in forming a rock band.

🎶The band had occasional jam sessions in which they did covers of other bands.

🎶They played quite often in Temple Bar, but sometimes the director of the Clarence Hotel was angry because "these guys playing songs" disturbed his hosts, so Bono promised to himself to buy that hotel one day!

🎶The hotel was finally bought by Bono, the U2guitarist The Edge and their business partners in 1992.

🎶They refurbished the two-star 70-room hotel, and converted it into a "contemporary boutique" 49-room hotel.

Did you know this story? 🎸🎶

15/09/2021

Did you visit📍Guinness Storehouse, the "Home of Guinness"?

🍺It is one of Dublin's most popular tourist attraction.

🍺A converted brewing factory, it is now a Guinness museum, incorporating elements from the old brewing factory to explain the history of its production.

🍺You can see some of the old brewing equipment, as well as stout ingredients, brewing techniques, advertising methods and storage devices.

🍺...and, of course, you can taste your Guinness!

🍺Which one do you prefer? I LOVE 😋

15/09/2021

🍻St. James's Gate Brewery was founded in 1759 in Dublin by Arthur Guinness.

🍻Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at £45 per year for 9,000 years.

🍻It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886.

🍻The famous St. James's Gate area has been the home of Guinness ever since!

🍻It is one of the symbol of the city, and it appeared even in a famous cartoon episode.
Do you remember Simpson's Guinness Brewery tour?

15/09/2021

🍺The Simpson family travels to Ireland to take Grandpa to have one last beer at his beloved O'Flanagan's Pub. During that trip Marge, Lisa and Bart visited the famous Guinness Brewery.

🍺Season 20, Ep 14 "In the Name of the Grandfather" aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland on March 17, 2009.

08/09/2021

☘️Did you know📍Cliffs of Moher have appeared in numerous media and in several films?

⚡In 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' the exterior of the cave scene was filmed at the Cliffs of Moher. This was the only location to be filmed outside of the United Kingdom throughout the film series.

⚡Do you remember that great scene?

07/09/2021

☘️Let's continue our "photo-Tour" around Ireland, I'd like to show you an enchanting place in📍Northern Ireland..

☘️Have you ever been here? After "Game of Thrones", this avenue became very popular

☘️The Dark Hedges were used as a filming location for the "King's Road" in the television series GoT (you can see it on Season2, Episode1)

☘️Do you know any other places connected to Game of Thrones?

07/09/2021

☘️Have you ever been here? After "Game of Thrones", this avenue became very popular

☘️In this scene Arya escapes King's Landing disguised as a boy. Travelling on the King's Road in the back of a cart, she starts her long and arduous journey north.

07/09/2021

☘️Did you know that originally, in about 1775, James Stuart built a new house, named Gracehill House after his wife Grace Lynd, and over 150 beech trees were planted along the entrance road to the estate, to create an imposing approach.

☘️According to legend, the hedges are visited by a ghost who travels the road and flits across it from tree to tree. She is claimed to be either the spirit of James Stuart's daughter...

☘️Today this beautiful avenue with its atmospheric tree tunnel has been used as a location in HBO's popular television series Game of Thrones. Do you remember the famous scene filmed here?

04/06/2021

I noticed I have never posted any pict from NI..today we'll discover📍Dunluce Castle.

Do you know this castle was the film location of the Game of Thrones Seat of House Greyjoy, the great castle of Pyke!

@ Dunluce Castle, North Coast

04/06/2021

🐫Can you see the Camel?

🐫.....it lies along the bottom of the cliffs!

🐫Apparently he was the only steed capable of carrying the giant, Finn McCool, home across long distances.

Let me know if you identified it🐫...
I am sure you will see it when you'll go for a walk along the ☺️☘️

04/06/2021

🚶‍♂️Would you like to go for a scenic walk?

🚶‍♂️The beautiful trail at the Giant's Causeway is a bracing walk with spectacular views of the world-famous Causeway Coast and North Channel.

🚶‍♂️I am sure you will love it!

04/06/2021

📍The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, most of them are perfectly hexagonal!

🌋Geologically they are the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. Around 50 to 60 million years ago, during the Paleocene Epoch, Antrim was indeed subject to intense volcanic activity.

Have you ever been here?