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Thank you for the recent follows! What are you interested in hearing about Ireland?

A bit of the history of the places I'm passing through? (Ireland has a long, rich and violent history. The earliest evidence of human habitation stretches back 31,000 years.)

I'm not hot on flora and fauna, so perhaps you can help me identify trees and plants when I post snaps.

Something about the people? Folks in Ireland are up for a chat, so I expect to hear plenty of stories. Phones don't make for good portrait cameras, but I'll do my best!

Irish society has transformed in recent years, from a deeply religious, socially conservative, ethnically homogeneous society, to a more open, more diverse, broadly tolerant society. (Previously, Catholicism was the water we swam in; now it's Neoliberalism.)

Geology? Some of Ireland's rocks are very very old (despite its situation as an island off an island between a huge ocean and a wide continent, Ireland lies in the middle of a tectonic plate) and it is an extraordinary patchwork of rock types.

I'm a dilettante - interested in everything but having no deep knowledge of anything in particular. I'm here to learn too.