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Ireland can be an ancient land, filled up with prehistoric ruins, age-old traditions, and a abundant and abiding folklore. Many of the old Irish traditions and stories dwell upon the earth beyond our own, the shadow world of spirits. Every town and landmark has a tale mounted on it, plenty of of these rooted in pagan values from prehistoric times. Others are more modern, and package with ancient tragedies such as the English invasion, the Potato Famine, or the Troubles. According to some locals, ghosts appear to haunt every ancient building and place, acting as symbols of the past that still haunts this troubled land. For example, at Aughagreagh in State Longford there's a wall operating alongside a road. It's just a typical drystone wall structure like so many in Ireland used to show the boundary of an farmer's field. The street is just a typical road. But sometimes at night passersby will dsicover a woman and two small children sitting on this wall structure. They wear tattered clothing in the style of the 19th century. Their faces are attracted and emaciated, their eyes sunken. They take a glance of hopeless resignation about them. It is because they can be famine subjects. The wall structure stands on the road to the old workhouse, where Ireland's poor and starving were loaded into cool rooms and compelled to work long hours of hard labor in trade for a crust of loaf of bread and constant misuse. They were actually punished to be poor, and their spirits have continued to be in this unhappy place. Ireland has a abundant folklore. Everyone knows about the fairy folk and leprechauns and many have heard of the fearsome banshee. The stranger area of the Emerald Isle moves much deeper than that, however, with stories of phantom armies marching through the sky, sea monsters going swimming in the waters throughout the island, and tales of strange forces and dark magic. Indeed, these stories are not consigned to the past; many unexplained occurrences continue to happen, even today. This is a sampling of some of the Emerald Isle's better-known spirits, and also a few obscure ones. They stand for just a small part of the a huge selection of restless spirits that haunt this troubled land. For the purposes of the book our company is covering the whole island, including North Ireland. The Ghosts of Ireland: A Assortment of Ghost Stories Across the Emerald Isle offers a sampling of the many strange tales and unexplained phenomena that make Ireland such an intriguing place. You will learn about the spirits of Ireland like never before.
