The Irish government may be heading towards collapse after agreeing to a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he will call an election for early next year, but some politicians in Irelan

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President Bush Meets with Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern PRESIDENT BUSH: Taoiseach, welcome, and Happy St. Patrick's Day. It's always a joy to welcome the Taoiseach here to the Oval Office. And it's a reminder of the unbelievably powerful in

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What's been happening in Ireland is quite interesting because five, ten years ago, Ireland was seen as the poster child economy of the European Union, have grown very fast, has attracted a lot of eminent investment, (it was) called the Celtic tiger,

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Song: Take Me Home Country Roads 歌曲名:乡村路带我回家 Artist: John Denver 演唱者:约翰丹佛 Almost heaven, West Virginia 就像是天堂,西维吉尼亚州 Blue ridge mountain shenandoah river 有蓝色山脊的群山和雪纳杜河

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It's on foot. It's amazing how quickly you find yourself in isolation. There's nobody here, just the baboons. The morning mist seems to be pretty determined not to lift. No sooner have I begun to make progress on my walk, then the path ahead goes com

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And before that the arriver of the zolos had already caused the indigene sun prople to be driven out up into the high mountains. What I may look pretty into dominating, Casiru peak is actually a fairly where laid on mountain for walker, but it is a h

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Day two, and rather worryingly, the weather doesnt seem to be improving. It also requires a painfully early start. Its an 18-kilometer round trip from the hotel to the summit, which most hikers tackle in one go, averaging eight to nine hours of stead

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An unexpected break in the weather means I am able to make one more stab at the summit. -It's difficult to believe this is the same spot as yesterday without the rain. You can actually see. And look at that vista! With the spring back into my stab, t

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elusive peak. -Come on. Let's get one last view. Well, that last gravel was worth it. -It was. -So what about 2,500 meters up here which is about 8000 feet?What's this summit called? -Doesn't have a name. -Doesn't have a name? -No. Doesn't have a

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What is his practical impact on Christianitys development? He in chance says that he went where no men went before. Its a famous expression that survives down to the present day, and he clearly did go where no other Christian missionary had gone befo

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Irish monks would carry their Gospel across the seas. Men like Brendan the Voyager, Colum Cille in the Irish kingdom of Dal Riata in Scotland, or Aidain at Lindisfarne in Northumbria. Now, the Lord had said, Get thee out of thy country and from thy k

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But Columbanus was deeply loyal to the idea of church led by the pope from Rome. He was a decentrer, not a revolutionary. He looked beyond the monastery walls, imagining a Europe united in faith and culture. Is the narration spoken in the language of

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In 795, monks on an island near Dublin saw a fleet of ships approaching. The long ships with a dragons head carved on the bow carried a force of warriors who would plunder the treasures accumulated by the monastery over 2 centuries. A monk wrote late

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By the 11th century, the Vikings who had settled in Ireland, the Hiberno-Norse, had been here for over a century and a half. Theyd intermarried, become Christian and formed local alliances. Theyd founded thriving port cities like Waterford, Wexford,

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Brian did not see himself as a king among equals but as high king of all Ireland, and with a mighty army he set about trying to control the island. In the only statement of his that we know about, he describes himself as Imperator Scottorum, Emperor

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On Good Friday 1014, the opposing forces faced each other at Clontarf, outside Dublin. There were two Irish armies, but both with their Viking allies. Of these Vikings it was said they carried arrows anointed and browned in the blood of dragons. The

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