So, here's a special Friday Five for y'all:
5. Ireland, 1848. The country is not only struck by Great Famine, but by the emancipation of Catholics. Then, a group of revolutionaries known as Young Ireland launched an ill-prepared uprising which was quickly quelled.
4. Steampunk. In the early 1840's, before the Great Famine began, Ireland was home to
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I was sitting in theliterature section of the library the other day and took a photo of a pretty book in the Irish lit. aisle with a human/harp shaped emblem which you might like: http://pics.livejournal.com/animewave/pic/0005s0hk/g189
I think it was just a collection of biographies of famous/old Irish writers.
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