Travel Day - Ireland

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.

The green pale of the flag symbolises Roman Catholics, the orange represents the minority Protestants who were supporters of William of Orange, who had defeated King James II and his predominantly Irish Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.His title came from the Principality of Orange in the south of France that had been a Protestant bastion from the 16th century. It was included in the Irish flag in an attempt to reconcile the Orange Order in Ireland with the Irish independence movement. The white in the centre signifies a lasting peace and hope for union between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland.

Languages: English, Irish, Ulster Scots

Population: 6,572,728 (2016) (abut the same as Indiana)

Size: 32,595 sq miles (about the size of Indiana)

Religion:  Christianity, with the largest church being the Roman Catholic Church

Capital: Dublin

Currency: Euro

Flight: Newark to Dublin 6h, 15 mins, nonstop $422

Weather: 50 degrees, showers

Time: 6:15pm, 5 hours ahead 

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Duiske Abbey

Monastery

Duiske Abbey National Monument, also known as Graiguenamanagh Abbey, is a 13th-century Cistercian monastery situated in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny in Ireland. 

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