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    The collapse of the banks in the Great Financial Crisis has left the Irish economy in ruins and forced many people out of jobs long thought secure. Younger people and students have been especially hard hit and the seemingly inherent Irish talent for music, now helps to put food on the table. by: apprentice Views[330] Daniel ‘O’ Connell, known to the Irish as the Liberator, fought for Irish freedom as well as equal rights for the Irish Catholics, often treated as second class citizens by the more Protestant British Empire. He represents the lengthy and difficult Irish freedom struggle in this piece. He is honored in the city of Dublin where this statue stands, except perhaps by the pigeons. by: apprentice Views[383] The harp, a symbol of Ireland and the guitar, a modern, imported instrument, played in harmony to sell Irish culture to the world, for euros. A symbol of how the old and the new may carry Ireland into the future without losing its past. by: apprentice Views[737] This formation near the Cliffs of Moher, called the Hag's Head, is the face of Ireland’s ancient past. It is rooted in Irish mythology as part of a story involving the legendary Irish warrior Cuchulainn and a hag named Mal who chased him to these very cliffs and whose face, it is supposed to be. by: apprentice Views[1989] This grumpy Romanian immigrant in a traditional leprechaun costume is symbolic of the wave of Eastern European migrants who now represent much of the new labour workforce in Ireland...to the discontent of some Irish. by: apprentice Views[1434]
     


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