1. Does Ireland use the Euro or the Pound? 2. What colour are the Postboxes in Ireland? 3. What is the Celtic word for 'fiction' (in a bookstore, say) 4. Why is the central pub district called 'Temple Bar'?
1. Ireland uses the Euro! I kept trying to buy some chips from a machine with pounds before I asked someone. Lucky I had some change from Greece so I could buy it!
2. Postboxes are Green... of course!
3. 'ficsean' is the Celtic word for fiction. It was like the bookstore was telling me where I should be looking.
4. Based on the nightlife here you might think that this neigbourhood is called Temple Bar because of the number of bars and that everyone comes here to worship them. It is actually named after a guy (Sir Temple) who lived near here and the 'bar' which is a strip of land near the river.
Actually I don't know if it really was named after Sir Temple. Based on this website: http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/dublin/templebar.htm they start talking about the Templar Knights and Masonic links *** pretty popular these days in ficsean ***
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1. Ireland uses the Euro! I kept trying to buy some chips from a machine with pounds before I asked someone. Lucky I had some change from Greece so I could buy it!
2. Postboxes are Green... of course!
3. 'ficsean' is the Celtic word for fiction. It was like the bookstore was telling me where I should be looking.
4. Based on the nightlife here you might think that this neigbourhood is called Temple Bar because of the number of bars and that everyone comes here to worship them. It is actually named after a guy (Sir Temple) who lived near here and the 'bar' which is a strip of land near the river.
Actually I don't know if it really was named after Sir Temple. Based on this website: http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/dublin/templebar.htm they start talking about the Templar Knights and Masonic links *** pretty popular these days in ficsean ***
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