Lift a Pint

by Dec 10, 2021Dublin, Europe, Ireland

Lift a Pint

Written By: Gail Clifford | Published By: Food and Travel Guides |December 10, 2021

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For a peaceful country, Ireland has survived many battles. The koala-shaped
island located in the brisk waters of the North Atlantic is known for Guinness, kinship, and emigration populating the rest of the world
— 10% of Americans claim Irish ancestry. Dublin, in east-central Ireland, on the River Liffey long ago became Ireland’s capital city and main port. Its name derives from the River Poddle, originally known as the Black Pool, or in the Irish language, Dubhlinn.


Over the past 800 years, Britain’s conquest of Ireland led to many rebellions before the revolution that split the Republic of Ireland from
Northern Ireland. During World War I, seven Irish nationalists attempted to take advantage of the United Kingdom distracted by war. Winston Churchill said,
“We have to put down this uprising or it will act as a precedent for empire.”


The men whose names appeared on the treasonable document were signing their own death warrant. The mural of the seven signatories of the 1916 proclamation — the Irish Declaration of independence — resides in Temple Bar.

The American Revolution provided Ireland with the road map for a new political model: a democratic republic.

Visit the historic General Post Office on O’Connell Street to bear witness to the 1916 Easter Rising. Spend time in the Garden of Remembrance. Stop at Trinity College to see the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels of the Christian New Testament, and Dublin Castle on the way to the Defence Forces Memorial in Merrion Square and the National Wax Museum. Travel up to Kilmainham Gaol. Then stop in Temple Square and toast those who shaped the government and country we visit today.

—By Gail L. Clifford, a travel writer

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