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IRELANDMuseums
Guiness Hopstore (see where the famous Guiness beer is made and take a tour of historical buildings in Dublin)
Irish National Heritage Park (a reconstruction of how people in Ireland lived from the Stone Age through the Norman Period)
Sites to See
Stones of Ireland (pictures of megalith sites, stone circles)
Historic Castles of Ireland (pictures and history)
Famous People
Thomas Andrews (chief engineer of the RMS Titanic)
Eamon De Valera (first President of the Irish Republic)
U2 (biographies of the band members and more)
Oscar Wilde (excerpts from his letters and quotes from his contemporaries)
James Joyce (biography, photos, and essays)
William Butler Yeats (biography and some of his poetry)
Mary McAleese (current President of Ireland)
History
Old Ireland (a history of Ireland, including a photo tour of Ireland in the 19th century)
Exodus (the tale off mass emigration in the 19th century)
View of the Famine (articles from contemporary newspapers)
Cuisine
Miscellaneous Cultural Links