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Before describing my visit To Ireland,I would like to tell you about the history of IRELAND in brief.The Republic of Ireland occupies 85% of the island of Ireland,with the remainder(Northern Ireland)Being part of the United Kingdom.Geography(Low mountain ranges aling am irregular coastline suurround an inland plain punctuated by lakes,undulating hills and peat bogs).(The Gulf-stream accounts for the mild and wet climate.Snow is rare,except in the mountains).Offical Name(Republic of Ireland).Date of Formation(1921/1922).Capital(Dublin).Population(3.5 million).Languages(English/Irish Gaelic).Currency(Irish Pound=100 pence).
Sometime ago I visited Ireland with my family. We flew by Royal Jordanian Airlines. We started our journey from Lahore to Karachi with a night stay at Marriot Hotel. After that we left for our journey and our first stay was in Dubai, thereafter at Amman Airport and finally left for London. We stayed there for about two hours at Heathrow Airport. Finally we took off by BMW, British Midland, for the destination that was Dublin. It is the capital of Ireland. The capital of Ireland is very much European city of low-profile buildings, many of them outstanding examples of 18th century architecture. It is the birth place and inspiration of great authors. I visited theTrinity College It is founded by Queen Elizibeth in 1951.Its older survivng buildings are the re-brick structures put up into early 1700s.The striking West Front is worthy of note,as are the 1740 Printing House and the dining Hall dating to 1770.It is,however , the old library that you should be sure not to miss. You can see it in the Picture below.

TRINITY COLLEGE


And at the entrance of it, we found the two statues of famous literary writers - the Philosopher Edmund Burke and the play wright Oliver Goldsmith.Trinity remains a timeless enclave of calm and scholarship in the middle of a bustling city.For centuries it was regarded as as exclusively Protestant instituition; as recently as 1956.The Campus is mostly a monument to the good taste of the 18th century,and visitors will enjoy roaming the cobbled walks among st trimmed lawns, high old trees,statues and graceful stone buildings.But Trimity's greatest treasure may be found in the vaulted Long Room upstairs in the Old library.Here the double-decker stacks hold thousands of books published before 1800, and priceless early manuscripts are displayed in glass cases. Long queues of students and tourists reverently wait for a look at the book of Kells.

Enterance of Trinity College

The main street of Dublin is O'Connel street. It is the main thoroughfare and one of the widest city street in the world. The street is well known for its large departmental stores.It is 150 feet across and as straight as the morals of Father Theobald Mathew, the widely admired 19th century priest known as the Apostle of Temperance.The landmark for O'Connel street is the General Post Office,has a significancefar greater than its postal predominance.The GPO(as it always known)was the command post of the 1916 Easter Rising and badly damaged in fighting.At the south end of the street, facing O'Connel Bridge, is the large and complicated monument to Daniel O'Connel(1775-1847),"The Liberator", after whom the street and bridge are named. From the three-arched bridge,almost as wide as it is long,you can look up and down the River Liffey and along the embankments.In Dublin, I also had seen the river Liffey. You can see the O'Connel Street in the picture below:

O'Connel Street

I visited Wexford with my family.It is the county seat(15 miles to the south),was one of the first viking settlements in Ireland.In the 9th century it was called Waesfjord, meaning the harbour of the mudflats. at low tide the original name still seems appropriate.

Few ancient monuments survive, and dozens of informative plaques explaining just about every lagend in Wexford add to the interest of strolling the back streets. In addition at the Irish National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig, just north of town is a collection of life size raplicas of ancient dwellings, burial sites, monastic settlements and various types of fortification, from early Irish man upto the 12th century. Reminders of the areas sea faring past are on view at the Maritime Museum in the picturesque village of Kilmore Quay, about 15 miles south of Wexford.

In October, the Wexford Opera Festival attracts international performers and fans for the presentation of little - known works. The town is also proud of its year - around cultural activities. South - East of Wexford the popular Resort of Rosslare boasts a six mile crescent of dune - backed beach.

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