Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland in the A.D. 400's. Born in Britain, Saint Patrick first arrived in Ireland as a slave. After six years of slavery, he escaped to France where he studied for the
Ireland is divided into two separate countries - the independent Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of Great Britain.
Five-Minute Tales is a collection of 151 short Irish folk tales, some dating back to the twelfth century.
"Blarney is celebrated the world over for a stone on the parapet that is said to endow whoever kisses it with the eternal gift of eloquence - the 'Gift of the Gab'.
"It began with a blight of the potato crop that left acre upon acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot.
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