Eire

On the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rising. Andrew O'Hehir wrote a very good piece about just how odd an event it was.

Kilmainham Gaol, where many of the rising's organizers were executed.

Inside the prison, which has been used in a lot of film shoots.

Dunguaire Castle, in western Ireland.

The Burren, an area that is dominated by karstic rock formations.

An Irish High Cross

Raven Kingdom

The Cliffs of Moher

 

A building that is now a bank in Galway, but was once the home of a prominent local family.

Medieval detail of a bar in Galway.

Inside Galway Cathedral

 

From an exhibit in Galway. I cannot overstate how much of the tourism industry is geared towards attracting people of Irish descent.

The old outer wall of the city is now housed inside Galway's shopping mall. The city was an important port that changed hands many times. It is now a big music/cultural/party center.

St. Stephen's Green, where a lot of the fighting occurred during the Easter Rising.

A memorial to the potato famine.