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Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island in Europe. The earliest records of the Irish people date back 9000 years.
The collection of folktales form Ireland consists of three books with 38 folktales.

Irish Fairy Tales


Notes
: Contains 7 folktales of the Irish people.

Author: Edmond Leamy
Published: 1906
Publisher: M.A. Gill & Son. Ltd, Dublin

Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland


Notes
: Contains 20 Irish folktales.

Author: Jeremiah Curtin
Published: 1890
Publisher: Sampson Low, Martson, Searle & Rivington, London

Fairies and Folk of Ireland


Notes
: Contains 11 Irish folktales.

Author: William Henry Frost
Published: 1900
Publisher: Charles Scribner's sons, New York

What's interesting in Ireland


St Patrick's Cathedral
is a cathedral founded in 1191 in Dublin, Ireland. The Church has designated it as The National Cathedral of Ireland.

Cliffs of Moher
are 214m high at the highest point and range for eight kilometers over the Atlantic Ocean on the western seaboard of County Clare in Ireland.

Belfast Castle
, located in the Cave Hill area of north Belfast, was built in the 1860s and is one of the city's most famous landmarks.


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