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The whole of Ireland on an open map. Zoom in and explore.
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Strands
Bounded subjects, each one followed properly rather than skimmed.
People
One person, followed properly.
Jews in Ireland to the 1960s
A small community with a long presence. Arrivals, synagogues, Little Jerusalem in Portobello, the refugees who were let in and the many who were not.
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog
The Talmudist from the Pale of Settlement who became the Sinn Féin Rabbi, and a friend to de Valera.
Father John Creagh: Complicated
The Redemptorist preacher who emptied Limerick of most of its Jews.
Journeys
One journey, followed end to end.
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Places
One subject of place, followed in full.
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Movements
One movement, followed in full.
British Wars
Wars fought by Britain, and what they did inside Ireland.
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Counties
Written so far
32 of 32. The rest are waiting.
County Donegal
The far northwest. Atlantic coast, the largest Gaeltacht in the country, and a county that touches Northern Ireland on three sides.
County Derry
Walled city on the Foyle, the Sperrins to the south, and the north coast running east to Portrush.
County Antrim
Belfast, the Glens, the basalt coast and the Giant's Causeway. The most industrial county on the island.
County Tyrone
The largest county in Ulster. Sperrin uplands, drumlin farmland, and no coastline at all.
County Sligo
Benbulben and the Yeats country. Coastal, compact, and thick with megalithic tombs at Carrowmore and Carrowkeel.
County Fermanagh
Lakeland. Upper and Lower Lough Erne take up much of the county, with Devenish and Boa Island in the water.
County Monaghan
Drumlin country on the border. Small hills, small fields, and the landscape Patrick Kavanagh wrote out of.
County Armagh
The ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, orchard country in the north, and the Ring of Gullion in the south.
County Down
Mourne Mountains, Strangford Lough, and the burial place claimed for Saint Patrick at Downpatrick.
County Mayo
Big, empty and Atlantic. Croagh Patrick, Achill, the Céide Fields, and the emptiest landscapes in Ireland after the Famine.
County Leitrim
The least populated county. A narrow strip from the Shannon to a few kilometres of coast at Tullaghan.
County Cavan
Lakes counted in the hundreds. Border county, drumlins, and the source of both the Shannon and the Erne.
County Louth
The smallest county. Cooley peninsula, Carlingford, Mellifont and Monasterboice, and the Táin.
County Galway
City and Gaeltacht, Connemara and the Aran Islands to the west, limestone plain to the east.
County Roscommon
Inland, agricultural, bounded by the Shannon. Rathcroghan holds one of the great royal sites of Gaelic Ireland.
County Longford
Small, midland and quiet. The Royal Canal, Ardagh, and Corlea with its Iron Age bog trackway.
County Westmeath
Lakes and midland farmland. The Hill of Uisneach, claimed as the symbolic centre of Ireland.
County Meath
The Royal County. Newgrange and the Boyne Valley tombs, Tara, and the richest land on the island.
County Dublin
The capital and the county around it. A third of the state's population in the smallest practical space.
County Offaly
Bog and esker country. Clonmacnoise on the Shannon, Birr Castle, and the Slieve Bloom mountains.
County Laois
Landlocked midlands. The Rock of Dunamase, the Slieve Blooms, and the first of the Tudor plantations.
County Kildare
Horses, the Curragh plain, the Bog of Allen and the two canals running west out of Dublin.
County Wicklow
The garden county. Granite mountains, Glendalough, and wilderness within an hour of the capital.
County Clare
The Burren, the Cliffs of Moher, and the strongest traditional music tradition in the country.
County Tipperary
Inland and large. The Golden Vale, the Rock of Cashel, the Galtees and the Glen of Aherlow.
County Kilkenny
Medieval city on the Nore, marble, and the best preserved Norman town fabric in Ireland.
County Carlow
Second smallest county. The Barrow valley, Mount Leinster, and the Browneshill dolmen.
County Limerick
Shannon city and the Golden Vale. Viking foundation, Norman castle, two sieges and a broken treaty.
County Waterford
Oldest city in Ireland, founded by Vikings. The Comeraghs behind it and the Copper Coast beside it.
County Wexford
Sunny southeast. Norman landing place in 1169, Hook lighthouse, and the 1798 rising.
County Kerry
Mountain and peninsula. Carrauntoohil, the Dingle and Iveragh peninsulas, Skellig Michael offshore.
County Cork
The largest county. Harbour city, west Cork peninsulas, and a strong habit of disagreeing with Dublin.
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