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  • 16 Irish things to see before you die: Fair City set left off list

    April 23, 2008 @ 9:11 am | by Shane Hegarty

    The book 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die has 16 Irish entries. They are:

    Blarney Castle, Co Cork
    Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly
    Derry town walls, Derry
    Dublin Castle
    General Post Office, Dublin
    Grave of WB Yeats, Drumcliff, Co Sligo
    Guinness Brewery, Dublin
    Hill of Tara, Co Meath
    Jerpoint Abbey, near Thomastown, Co Kilkenny
    Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
    Newgrange, near Drogheda, Co Meath
    Old Jameson Whiskey Distillery, Dublin
    Oscar Wilde’s house, Dublin
    Prospect Cemetery, Dublin
    Rock of Cashel, Co Tipperary
    Trinity College Dublin

    All predictable enough, although I have a soft spot for the Gallarus Oratory in Kerry. And while Trinity makes it, it’s unfair on UCD. That really should be seen before you die, just so you can say you’ve seen the ugliest university campus on the planet.


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