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Carla Amelia Marcus - 30 June 2018 12:06am
The tracks are interesting it is worth a further research.
'the Irish nationalists abandoned high-profile buildings like Dublin Castle as it was symbolic of their British oppressors, and it fell into ruin. Yet they proudly restored older sites like Cashel and New Grange, which is even older than the pyramids, to emphasise an earlier romantic Irish past.'
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Joseph Gallagher - 7 December 2019 3:57pm
Quite the contrary. I did a tour of Dublin Castle two weeks ago. It has been restored and is used for Irish State functions, such as the inauguration of the Irish President and greeting dignitaries, most recently Pope Francis. The restored rooms show their use prior to when Dublin Castle was surrendered to the Irish State by the British in the 1920s. It's well worth a visit if you are ever in Dublin. They are currently restoring the one remaining round tower that stands from the time it was commissoned by King John (of Magna Carta and Robin Hood fame). The other towers had fallen long before the castle was handed back to the Irish State.