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Going to Ireland. Tips anyone?

Is there anything in Limerick to do? I remember when I was there (about 10 years ago), all the Let's Go books said about it was that it was best seen in your rear view mirror.

In Dingle, there's a pub that fixes your shoes during the day and serves drinks at night. Neat place. Maybe they have a "buy a heel, get a Guinness" deal going.

I never went through Kilkenny, but some people spend 3 weeks just exploring the national park, which is as spectacular as anyplace.
 
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Alright, im from ireland, belfast. First, go to the pubs!

If your round Kerry you should go to Skellig, heres the site:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skellig_Michael , its a world heritage site.. its just an amazing island 15km off shore with a monastry built to avoid the vikings in the 9th century. I advice you to see this most!

Near Dublin theres Newgrange, its a great tomb built around 3000bc.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

If you go up north go to donegal see Slieve league and the north cost, The Giant's Causeway. Wiki them if u need info.

There just the main ones...theres tones to do, you'l love it

Where are you from btw?
 
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yes i am moving to ireland :p as my mother is irish from [SIZE=-1] Tipperary:) there is a lot of nice places to see, the cliffs of mohur cahir castle :p i always go for a walk in the woods and country i love it, i love ireland so much id die for it to protect it ;) you can go to some folk pubs and listen to irish music and sit next to an open fire, and just relax and have a pint,and the castles are like from a fairy tail http://www.mythandlegends.net/newirelcastle8.html take a look at this picture http://sat2.space.noa.gr/~daglis/tipperary.jpg
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I imagine you're somewhat interested in history and that sort of stuff because you play this game?

Never been there, but . . .

I'd go to the National Museum of Ireland. George Bernard Shaw, the Fabian socialist and playwright, who never received a formal education, said he learned everything he knew from this museum, and when he died in the 1950's, he left his entire estate to it.

All that money from Pygmalion really helped the museum a lot, and they've been able to make a lot of acquisitions and expand the museum.

You might also want to vist the famous downtown Dublin Post Office where the Easter Rebellion occurred in 1916. It was a disaster, and its leaders were executed by the British; but was a political and social victory, and helped paved the way to Irish Free State Independence.

On a more fun note, there's one pub called Davey Byrne's or Danny Byrne's where a lot of Irish writers like Brendan Behan (who had his "office" there) and I believe James Joyce hung out at. Sounds like a good place to have some Guinness (sorry, I don't know where it is located, but I saw it in a recent book about Irish pubs at the bookstore).

Certainly (if you're real high brow) go to the Irish Parliament, National Library (I'm sure they got one), and Trinity College (the traditional Protestant University, thought now it doesn't discriminate based on race), and Queen's University (set up in the 19th century as a non-denominational university by Queen Victoria). If they have a Stock Market, that could be interesting too.

So, how about posting a few pictures of the sites you saw when you get back?:D
 
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Don't listen to him. Northern Ireland may be the prettiest, most historic part of Ireland. You could have a great vacation just tooling around there.
Northern Ireland seemed pretty chaotic. When I was in Ireland in the summer of 2005, all I heard on the news were reports of rocks being thrown at ambulance drivers and other rioting against British rule.
 
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I'm from County Antrim in the North. TBH there ain't too many things here for visitors. There are the usual tourist traps but I would get bored pretty quick here if I were a visitor.

Only 2 places really impress me every time I see them... the Antrim Coast and the Mourne Mountains.

If you are going to Limerick, bring your stab vest! It is known locally as Stab City :)
 
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Depends what you're into I guess, just avoid the Shankill ;)

Only been to Ireland a few times and mostly to visit family or looking at the various Anglo-Irish/civil war places. To be honest though I always find the best holidays are the ones where you just throw yourself in with a clue and work it out as you go along. Even if things go wrong it's usually fun, so just work out where you wanna start and where you wanna finish and wing it for the rest :p
 
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Make sure you don't miss out on the north, as said the antrim coast, giant causeway is a must, as are the moutains of mourne... but it's not just the places it's the people and pubs, amazing! obviously there were lots of problems there at one time, and although not gone, it is not like it was when the troubles were at their peak... just use your head and like all cities a few rough places best to avoid, but tell me what city doesn't have that?

dublin was a huge dissapointment over Belfast imo, don't get me wrong, Dublin was ok, but way too touristy...

The countryside is stunning in Ireland but remeber to pack your brolly, as i was told by an irishman once, tis a great country it just needs a roof on it..
 
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