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How to learn more about historical places?

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  • 22-09-2013 7:13pm
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    celica00
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭


    Hiya,

    one of my hobbies is, to visit (public) places like old ruins (churches, castles, etc), because for some reason im very fascinated by them.
    Often it is not fully possible to get all the info and reasearch via internet and i was wondering if there is any courses (especially in Cork) or places etc where you could find out more about places.
    I would like to educate myself about irish history, especially if it comes to old remains which you can still visit.

    Can anyone point me in the right direction? Dont have any friends with the same hobby so im not too sure where best to start.

    thank you sooo much!


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    mickmackey1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭mickmackey1


    Well I presume you've seen Abandoned Ireland? Excellent site:

    http://www.abandonedireland.com/start.html


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    AI
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭AI


    Following on from Abandoned Ireland / Abandoned Mansions of Ireland my next project was history/heritage sites. It was two years of hard work researching and photographing. The photographs should be top notch and I also did not skimp on the research. The result 'Ancient Ireland' a top quality coffee table type book will be in the shops in October. I went round all 32 counties and all sites are mapped with GPS coordinates provided.
    You can check a trailer for the book here :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xrmXDDL7apw&vq=hd720

    The books aren't back from the printer yet but it is already listed on amazon and will be in easons/waterstones etc by the end of October.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Ireland-Exploring-Historic-Monuments/dp/1848891857


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    celica00
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭celica00


    thanks for advertising your products here but besides knowing AI already i'd prefer to know how to find out about the history of places and nit where places are ;)


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    spurious
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    Seek out local history societies. Local libraries would be the best place to start. Often people have self-published small pamphlets on local sites.


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    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    celica00 wrote: »
    thanks for advertising your products here but besides knowing AI already i'd prefer to know how to find out about the history of places and nit where places are ;)

    You might like to reread that post and perhaps edit it as it comes across as being smart-assed which I'm sure is not what you intended.


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