FROM WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_languageIrish, also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family that belongs to the Goidelic languages and further to Insular Celtic, and is indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism.
Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022.
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland is the national cathedral of the Church of Ireland. Christ Church Cathedral, also a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, is designated as the local cathedral of the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.
Unusually, St Patrick's is not the seat of a bishop, as the Archbishop of Dublin has his seat in the nearby Christ Church Cathedral; the two cathedrals are about 400 metres apart. Since 1870, the Church of Ireland has designated St Patrick's as the national cathedral for the whole of Ireland, drawing chapter members from each of the 12 dioceses of the Church of Ireland. The dean is the ordinary for the cathedral; this office has existed since 1219. The most famous office holder was Jonathan Swift.
Although whiskey in one form or another had been drunk in Ireland since around the 10th century, it wasn’t until 1752 that the first licensed distillery in Dublin opened on Marrowbone Lane.
The next key year was 1780, when a Scottish distiller called John Stein bought that distillery and then opened a second across the Liffey on Bow Lane. In 1786 he appointed his son-in-law John Jameson to be general manager of the Bow Street plant; within a few years Jameson bought both distilleries, installed his son William in charge of Marrowbone Lane and created a whiskey dynasty that lasts to this day.
By the turn of the 19th century there were no less than 37 distilleries spread across Dublin. The epicentre, though, was the Liberties, where six distilleries operated at full pelt, earning the area the nickname of the ‘Golden Triangle.’
Needless to say that Guinness is one of Ireland's national treasure!
Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Since opening in 2000, it has received over twenty million visitors.
The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the form of a pint of Guinness. The ground floor introduces the beer's four ingredients (water, barley, hops and yeast), and the brewery's founder, Arthur Guinness. Other floors feature the history of Guinness advertising and include an interactive exhibit on responsible drinking. The seventh floor houses the Gravity Bar with views of Dublin and where visitors may drink a pint of Guinness included in the price of most admission tickets.
The building in which the Storehouse is located was constructed in 1902 as a fermentation plant for the St. James's Gate Brewery (yeast is added to the brew). It was designed in the style of the Chicago School of Architecture and was the first multi-storey steel-framed building to be constructed in Ireland. The building was used continuously as the fermentation plant of the Brewery until its closure in 1988, when a new fermentation plant was completed near the River Liffey.
I arrived there and asked a couple of men at the door where I can get tickets. One gently said: "Here I've got an extra one for you, and the next tour starts in 5 minutes" and he let me in.
When it was first built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was called the "New Gaol" to distinguish it from the old prison it was intended to replace – a noisome dungeon, just a few hundred metres from the present site. It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin.
Originally, public hangings took place at the front of the prison. However, from the 1820s onward very few hangings, public or private, took place at Kilmainham. A small hanging cell was built in the prison in 1891. It is located on the first floor, between the west wing and the east wing.
There was no segregation of prisoners; men, women and children were incarcerated up to 5 in each cell, with only a single candle for light and heat. Most of their time was spent in the cold and the dark, and each candle had to last for two weeks. Its cells were roughly 28 square metres in area.
Children were sometimes arrested for petty theft, the youngest said to be a three-year-old child, while many of the adult prisoners were transported to Australia.
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IMMA's courtyard.
My first Guinness in Ireland.
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