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Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Somewhere along the M18 motorway in County Clare, tucked between the northbound carriageway and a slip road …
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Photo: Photo by Oleksandr Kobuta on Pexels On the morning of August 16, 1858, the most important telegram in human history began its journey from …
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Ireland had 8.2 million people in 1841 and has 7.1 million today. See the fall county by county, what caused it and where the people went.
Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Group IV (1907). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The National Gallery of Ireland just became an even …