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Transcript by the Prime Minister and Taoiseach for Internet broadcast on Northern Ireland, 20/04/00 Prime Minister I want to talk today about a subject on which I've probably spent almost as much time as anything else since I became Prime Minister -

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Joel: So, if I go to Ireland, what kind of food do you recommend that I eat? Ruth: The nicest things are probably Irish stew, which is made with lamb and also it's quite famous for it's seafood. Every year in Galway, there's an oyster festival. Joel:

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-08 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—11

His memory would be obliterated by events which would create Ireland's first and most enduring cult of personality. It is the story of a spiritual revolution born in an age of imperial collapse. Since the beginning of the fifth century, barbarian att

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-05 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—10

This type of inscribed stone is usually found only in Ireland or the far western fringes of Britain. These lines represent the oldest form of the Irish language. Michael, what is this stone? Well, it is a small Roman column, but what's very different

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-03 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—9

It seems the Romans did briefly contemplate an invasion until trouble in Scotland called the legions away. And so Ireland was never subordinated to Roman law or government. But they didn't need to dispatch an army to exert an influence that extended

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-01 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—8

A geographer living under Caesars rule described the Irish as a cannibal race who deemed it commendable to devour their deceased fathers and who lived a miserable existence because of the cold. But Mediterranean traders had long been immune to such d

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-29 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—7

The murdered man from the Meath bog reveals something of how the Irish lived several hundreds years before Christ. Their gods were the gods of nature whom they appeased with sacrifice. They had developed a social organisation with kings at the pinnac

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-15 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—1

There is an Ireland shrouded in clich, of heroes and villains, lost battles and sad songs. Perched on the margins of Europe, a claustrophobic island cut off from the world, its people turned in upon themselves, victims of their own ancient hatreds an

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-18 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—2

Here they constructed a memorial which celebrated revolution, faith and an idealized ancient world. At its center, this sculpture of the mythical Children of Lir condemned by an evil stepmother to wander the oceans as swans until the coming of Christ

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-20 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—3

-I remember one kid said, Sir, that doesn't make any sense? I said, How do you mean it doesn't make any sense? I said, Carson wanted the union of Ireland and Britain, he wanted what, for him, was the best thing for Ireland. Now can you say that he is

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-29 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—20

The Vikings who would eventually descend on Ireland had their ancestral roots here in Norway. From these fjords, they created a maritime empire that stretched from the shores of America in the west to central Russia in the east. The Viking world of t

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-12 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—13

Tell me what happens when the monks arrive. Well, they would have, first of all, made their way to the local king, the local lord, or something like that, because you couldnt just arrive off the next available flight and announce, hi, Im your new loc

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-15 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—14

And this is the great settlement of Clonmacnoise. As you sweep around this turn in the river Shannon, you get the round towers, the churches and everything. You get the first idea that this is a really substantial monastic foundation. How did we arri

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-17 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—15

What it says is that the Irish are the centre of the world. Theyre not a small insignificant people. It was woven together in the 11th century from earlier sources as a statement of Irish uniqueness. They didnt want to be seen as peripheral people li

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