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A drone in Connemara, Ireland

My latest flight with the Phantom 2 Quadcopter last weekend over the Maumturk Mountains and the Twelve Bens in Connemara, Ireland. The Maumturk Mountains are a picturesque mountain range in Connemara in the west of Ireland. They are less well known than their more famous neighbours, the Twelve Bens, a mountain range of sharp-peaked quartzite […]

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A drone in the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

My third flight with my new DJI Phantom 2 was at the Cliffs of Moher in the west of Ireland. This was shot last weekend and I have to say that I was very lucky with the weather. I’m still getting used with the controls of the drone, it is actually not that hard, but […]

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Dunquin | The most westerly settlement of Ireland

This weekend I went for the second time to one of my favorite areas here in Ireland – the Dingle Peninsula – and this time I was in the most westerly settlement of the country: Dún Chaoin, anglicised as Dunquin. A small village in west County Kerry where the Irish language is still widely used.  It […]

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Have you ever been in jail? Meet Kilmainham Gaol, one of the largest unoccupied jails in Europe

Kilmainham Gaol (Jail) in Dublin, Ireland is one of the largest unoccupied gaols in Europe, it was involved in some of the most heroic and tragic events in Ireland’s history and its emergence as a modern nation from 1780s to the 1920s. When it was built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was referred to as the […]

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Trinity College Library | Is this the most beautiful one?

Trinity College Library Dublin is the library of Trinity College and the University of Dublin. It is the largest library in Ireland and, as a legal deposit or “copyright library”, it has rights to receive material published in the Republic of Ireland free of charge; it is also the only Irish library to hold such […]

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