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According to tradition, a wedding party should always take the longest road home from church.
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Aran Island sweaters have a variety of "family weaves." These were developed because when a fisherman drowned, his sweater would often be the only thing washed up on shore. The distinctive weave would tell a family their loved one had been lost.
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Achill Island is the largest island off Ireland's coast. It's 56 miles square, with dramatic landscape featuring wild cliffs and moors.
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Killary Bay, on the Mayo-Galway border, is the only true fjord in Ireland. A fjord is a long, narrow inlet from the sea between high slopes.
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Ireland's 15 principal railway stations are named after the leaders of the 1916 uprising.
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An Fáinne is a lapel pin, worn by some fluent Irish speakers to invite others to speak to them in the traditional language.
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Director John Huston filmed the New Bedford, Massachusetts scenes in his 1956 movie "Moby Dick" in Youghal, County Cork.
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Famed Hollywood movie director John Ford was born Sean O'Feeney in 1894, in Spiddal, County Galway.
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The scenic "Wicklow Way" is the oldest and most popular hiking route in Ireland. Stretching from the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham in a south-westerly direction toward the village of Clonegal, in County Carlow, the 25 year old public walking route is traversed by over 20,000 people each year.
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James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland."
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