Ireland Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Part One
. . . It was then still a sleepy, little country, filled with picturesque, quaint villages and counties, and awash in history.
With its thousand shades of green due to its many fine, soft rains, its countless pristine lakes, streams and rivers, its tumble-down ancient castles, peat bogs, tiny roads where people drive on the wrong side, its Blarney Stone, Ring of Kerry, Galway Bay, Cliffs of Moher, Aran Islands, Ireland was a beautiful, simple place then.
And, Mr. Joyce, Dublin was bustling—and far from dirty. But the Ireland of 1978 could not hide the reality that it was a benighted land.
The Battle of the Boyne in 1690 had been a watershed and since that British victory on that July day, the fate of Ireland was sealed for centuries. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1547)
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