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Irish travels
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A glorious pastoral hideaway: An Doras Bui shepherds’ hut in the Sperrin Mountains
Walking the lane near An Doras Bui can be beautiful — and with the tight curves and no dies, a bit…challenging.
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The Village of the Dead is all about the living. Slievemore, Achill Island.
Achill Island, Ireland. Such a stunningly beautiful place to experience such profound sadness.Of all the fraught tales of Ireland, none gets near the collective pain of the Potato Famine, the Great Hunger, several names for one massive tragedy: one million people died, one million left for the US. Done by 1851 for the most part,…
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