1. Ireland

2. Dublin

3. Famous Irish beer brewery

4. Edwardian Houses

5. Grand Canal

6. Trinity College

7. Arnaldo Pomodoro’s sculpture : Sphere Within Sphere (Trinity College)

8. O’Connell Street

9. Liffey River

10. Christchurch Cathedral

11. Christchurch Cathedral Archway

12. Irish pub

13. Ireland monastic period From 6th to 11th century

14. Saint Patrick arrived in Ireland in the 5th century and converted the Irish people to christianity. Celtic tribes from Europe arrived in Ireland around 700 BC.

15. In 795 vikings from Norway and Danemark arrived in Ireland. They raided monasteries. They settled from 841.

16. Saint Kevin founded Glendalough monastery in the 6th century. (Wicklow County) Saint Kevin and the Black Bird

17. Glendalough monastic site - Gateway

18. Glendalough - Cathedral - 10th/11th century

19. Glendalough Round Tower - 10th century Entrance door - 4 meters high

20. Glendalough - Saint Kevin’s Church - 11th century

21. Clonmacnoise monastic site (Offaly County) Saint Kieran founded Clonmacnoise monastery in 545.

22. Clonmacnoise - Celtic Crosses - 9th century

23. Clonmacnoise monastic site - Cathedral - 10th century

24. Bas-reliefs representing St Dominic, St Patrick and St Francis - 15th century

25. The book of Kells is a magnificent illuminated book dating back to the 9th century. It is a masterpiece of the art of medieval illumination once called “the most precious object of the western world”. It contains the four Gospels of the New Testament.

26. The book of Kells is kept at Trinity College in Dublin.

27. Folio 5r contains a page of the Eusebian Canons. Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

28. Folio 7v contains an image of the Virgin and Child. This is the oldest existant image of the Virgin Mary in a Western manuscript. Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

29. Folio 27v contains the symbols of the Four Evangelists (Clockwise from top left): a man (Matthew), a lion (Mark), an eagle (John) and an ox (Luke). Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

30. Folio 291v contains a portrait of John the Evangelist. Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

31. The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), circa 800, showing the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John. Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

32. Folio 32v shows Christ enthroned. Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

33. Folio 34r contains the Chi Rho monogram.[44] Chi and rho are the first two letters of the word Christ in Greek. Book of Kells From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

34. A beautiful wild area with mountains and lakes Connemara (Galway County)

35. Connemara scenery

36. Connemara National Park

37. Connemara Ponies

38. Kylemore Abbey (1860 - 1867)- a benedictine abbey

39. Kylemore Abbey

40. Peat Bog

41. Peat Bog

42. Cut peat is then transformed into peat briquettes and used as fuel in chimneys and stoves.

43. The Burren (Clare county) A limestone plateau

44. Village of Ballyvaughan

45. Burren scenery

46. Burren scenery

47. A thatched pink cottage - Doolin

48. Doonagore Castle - The Burren

49. Burren scenery

50. Cliffs of Moher (8 kilometers long, 180 meters high)

51. Poulnabrone Portal Tomb - about 2500 BC

52. A limestone landscape made of “clints and grykes”

53. Typical Irish dry stone walls

54. Leamaneh Castle

55. The End