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17/08/2024

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16/08/2024

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01/08/2024

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31/07/2024

Daniel Wiffen became the first Irishman to win an Olympic swimming medal when he struck GOLD in the 800 metres 🥇☘️🏊🏼‍♂️🌈

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29/07/2024

Ireland Designed For You, By You! ☘️

More rounds of stout and slainte! Or made-from-scratch soda bread? 🍞

More Wilde or the Wild Atlantic Way? 💦

Enjoy a grand craic in Ireland’s oldest pub 🍺 or the grand architecture of Kylemore Abbey. ⛪️

Who’s ready to indulge in endless shenanigans with help from Globus Choice Touring in Ireland?!

You choose how you’d like to tip your hat to adventure on this 8-day discovery from Dublin to Dublin with a menu of complimentary YourChoice Excursions.







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05/05/2024

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18/03/2024

Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

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15/03/2024

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13/03/2024

Corned beef is an Irish “American” tradition ☘️

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Despite being perceived as 'Ireland's national dish,' most Irish people have never eaten corned beef and cabbage

12/03/2024

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Malachy McCourt, renowned actor and writer, dies in New York aged 92.

11/03/2024

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Allow me to explain...

The 4-leaf clover is associated with luck; they're quite rare so finding one is lucky, right? So far, so good, we're all in agreement. And being lucky is associated with the Irish, right? Wrong! Seriously? Invasions, colonisation, confiscation of land, displacement, oppression, Penal Laws, starvation, mass emigration etc, etc... historically we're probably one of the unluckiest nations in the world! So where in God's name did the expression 'The Luck of the Irish' come from? You won't hear anyone say it here in Ireland, not unless it's very tongue-in-cheek, so where does its origin lie?

It was actually born in the US. It has nothing to do with leprechauns and pots of gold, it's an expression that came out of the American gold rush years. When poor immigrants from Ireland started making their way across to America at the time of The Great Hunger, many took up jobs in the bustling mining industry. A number of them went on to become some of the most famous and successful miners, something that those who worked alongside them didn't like. There was a lot of prejudice against Irish immigrants in the US at the time and they begrudged these Irish interlopers their success, putting their ability to source mining fortunes down to sheer luck, rather than perseverance, diligence and hard graft. The expression 'The Luck of the Irish' was coined as a disparaging way of explaining away the ‘luck’ the Irish miners were experiencing. As Thomas Jefferson said, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” The expression 'The Luck of the Irish' dogged successful Irish miners for the duration of the gold rush in America.

Now we come to the shamrock. The word shamrock comes from the Irish 'seamróg' which is the diminutive form of the Irish word 'seamair' and simply means 'young clover'. So it's a young clover. But it does only have 3 leaves ☘️, not 4 🍀. The shamrock has long been sacred to the Irish, going right back to the pagans who revered it for several reasons. Its leaves formed a triad, three was a significant number to pagans and they had many triple deities. This helped St Patrick in his efforts to introduce Christianity into Ireland and it's said he used the shamrock as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity. Whether that's true or not, who knows, but the fact remains that the 3-leaf shamrock is deeply ingrained into Irish culture and, along with the harp, is one of Ireland's two Official State Emblems. And as St. Patrick's Day approaches, no other symbol stands above the shamrock, certainly not the 4-leaf clover which has nothing whatsoever to do with Irish culture and was only ever connected to Ireland as a sarcastic phrase intended to belittle successful Irish miners.

So there you have it. We're not nit-picking, it's important. Thank you for listening, please pass it on. ☘️🥰☘️

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10/03/2024

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It’s Mothering Sunday here in Ireland today, at least that’s what we called it until we adopted the Americanism ‘Mother’s Day’, and the most popular way of addressing mothers here in Ireland is Mam. Next comes Mum although 12% prefer Mom and another 12% Mammy. Now our Mothering Sunday has no connection whatsoever with the American festival of Mother’s Day (which I believe was designated the 2nd Sunday in May by Woodrow Wilson in 1914). Ours began as a religious celebration, based on the fact that it’s Laetare Sunday today, the 4th Sunday of Lent, half way through (and a day of relaxation from) normal Lenten rigours.

Traditionally, weddings (otherwise banned during Lent) could be performed on this day and servants were given the day off to visit their 'Mother Church' (the church they'd been baptised in), usually with their own mothers and other members of the family, to worship the sacred Virgin Mary at special masses. Those taking part (so pretty much everyone) were said to have 'gone a-mothering', hence 'Mothering Sunday'. So it’s undoubtedly Mothering Sunday here in Ireland and, whether or not you celebrate it in your part of the world, have a happy one! 🥰

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21/02/2024

As we near our national holiday, St. Patricks day, a small reminder to all ☘️

Using a 4 leaf clover to symbolize Ireland is wrong 🍀👎🏼

However, The 3 Leaf Shamrock is correct and connected to Ireland, its culture, religion and myth ☘️👍🏼

The 4 leaf clover is a Generic good luck symbol with ZERO connections to Irish culture

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17/02/2024

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Video and recipe showing how to make a traditional Irish potato and leek soup.

06/02/2024

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01/02/2024

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