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Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. According to legend, the basalt columns were erected by the great hero and giant Finn MacCool across the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland so he could meet a Scottish giant in single...

Decorated stone from Kilwarden, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 2500-1700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

Three gold torcs, found at Tipper South, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 1200-1000 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

Gold disc, most likely a terminal of a collar or part of an earspool, from Co. Armagh, Ireland, 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

Mould for palstave, a form of early Bronze Age axes, found near Dromore, Co. Down, Ireland, 1500-1000 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

Map of Ireland around 950 CE, showing both the local Irish kingdoms and the Viking territories. Map credited to www.irelandhistory.com

Colorized image of the RMS Empress of Ireland. Original photo taken sometime between 1906 and 1914 when the ship sank in under fourteen minutes on the St. Lawrence River.

The Portal Tomb of Poulnabrone, County Clare, Ireland.

A view of the RMS Empress of Ireland at sea which sank after a collision in May 1914. (Library and Archives Canada, PA-116389)

A view of the first-class dining saloon on RMS Empress of Ireland which sank after a collision in 1914. Photograph taken in 1906. (Royal Museums Greenwich Collection)