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Ferries To Ireland
Ireland is a country that, once vistited, is never forgotten. The Irish landscape has a mythic resonance, the counties history is almost tangable and it's peopl seem put on earth expressly to restore faith in humanity. The weather may sometimes give you the impression that you're swimming through an airbourne ocean, but the luminous greens and luxuriant wildflowers, and afternoons spent holed up on riotous pubs will more thn console you for the wet weather. The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, a result of the Anglo-Irish war from 1919 to the middle of 1921, gave independence to 26 Irish counties, and allowed six, largely protestant, Ulster counties the cioce of opting out. Northern Ireland parliament came into being, with James Craig as its first prime minister. The south of Ireland was finally declared a republic in 1948, and left the British Commonwealth in 1949. Instability in the North began to reveal itself in the 1960s when a peaceful civil rights march was broken up by the RUC. British Troops were sent to Derry and Belfast in 1969 and soon after the IRA surfaced. The upheaval was punctuated by seemingly endless tit-for-tat killings on both sides, an array of everchanging acronyms, the massacre of civilians by troops, the internment of IRA sympathisers without trial, the death by hunger strike of the imprisoned and the introduction of terrorism to mainland Britain. In recent years, polictical developments have quelled the majority of major incidents and as a result Ireland is being visited by more and more tourists every year. We currently offer the following ferry services to Ireland; Larne - Fleetwood, Larne - Cairnryan, Larne - Troon, Belfast - Douglas, Belfast - Stranraer, Belfast - Troon, Dublin - Cherbourg, Dublin - Douglas, Dublin - Holyhead, Dublin - Liverpool, Dublin - Mostyn, Dun Laoghaire - Holyhead, Rosslare - Fishguard, Rosslare - Pembroke. |
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