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Mill Worker's Cottage, Mill Lane, Palmerstown
Mill worker's cottage in Mill Lane, Palmerstown. This is an example of the type of dwelling built for the workers of Palmerstown Mill.
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Ireland's distance to Kyoto Limit. Source: Ireland's Environment 2008.
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Lucan House and Demesne, County Dublin (c.1773-75) by Thomas Roberts (1748-78)
Thomas Roberts (1748-78), Lucan House and Demesne, County Dublin (c.1773-75). This painting places the big house at the centre of a benign, well-ordered and productive landscape, suggesting that the social order was a mirror of the natural order. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland
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Songs of Erin was published in 1901. It contains a collection of fifty Irish folk songs with words by Alfred Perceval Graves and music arranged by Stanford. Among the collection are three divisions of traditional Irish music comprising of the Gauntree (jigs, reels and quick-step marches), the Golltree (lamentations and loves songs), and the Soontree (lullabies and fairy slumber songs). While the collection comprises adaptations of medieval Irish lyrics, as well as a number based on Hiberno-English folk songs, the majority of the collection is comprised of original works.
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