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  • Morelli's, on The Promenade since 1911, Portstewart, Northern Ireland. The Morelli family have been in Southern Ireland since the turn of the century. A young Angelo Morelli headed North to help his uncle run the “Ice Palace”, on Portstewart’s Promenade in 1927, eventually he took the business over and created the “Sundae Garden” in 1957. Angelo and his wife Anastasia worked long and hard through some very hard times, including, of course the 2nd Word War.                                                 On his retirement in 1974, his oldest Son Nino took the shop over, and with the help of his family ran the business successfully, expanding to create “Nino’s” in 1988 and still specialising in ice-cream but offering a much larger selection of hot food and drinks.<br />
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Perhaps the biggest change came in 2002, when the original building was demolished to allow for a brand new cafe/restaurant, gift shop and apartment complex.
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  • The Dark Hedges. As if the undulating Irish countryside wasn't magical enough, close to the town of Ballymoney you can treat yourself to a magical and mysterious moment with a visit to the Dark Hedges. This breathtaking avenue of gnarled beech trees lines the Bregagh Road close to the village of Armoy in County Antrim.
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  • Dunluce Castle, Bushmills, Northern Ireland. Dramatically poised on a cliff overlooking the sea in Northern Ireland, Dunluce Castle is undoubtedly one of the best castles in Ireland. But the sheer drop-offs surrounding the castle on every side still couldn’t protect it from being conquered by the fearsome MacDonnell clan.<br />
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Unfortunately, the castle was so precariously perched that the kitchen literally fell into the sea during a particularly bad storm and the beautiful 16th-century structure was abandoned.                                                                         The earliest written record of Dunluce Castle dates back to 1513, though the foreboding structure was probably built a few years earlier around 1500. The castle perched on a cliff in what is now northern County Antrim was built by the McQuillan family – but they were unable to hold onto their dramatic castle for very long.<br />
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In the 1550s, the MacDonnell family seized Dunluce Castle for themselves. The castle was conquered by the Scottish clan’s famous chieftain, Sorley Boy. Because Dunluce is surrounded by sheer drop-offs on every side, the warrior chief had to get an accomplice on the inside. He arranged to have heavily armed soldiers pulled up into attacking position by being hoisted up inside a basket that hung over the side of the cliff.
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  • The Port Path, or The Cliff Walk, Portstewart, Northern Ireland. A Celtic legend says that this is the place where the first Irish harp was invented, when the Bann estuary was called Inverglass. A man and his wife were living contentedly on the banks of the Bann but suddenly one day, the wife took a fit of rage. She railed against her husband and ran away to the seashore at Portstewart. Sometime before, a whale had been washed up on the beach and all that was left of it was its skeleton with some sinews stretched between the bones of its ribs. When the wind blew, it stirred the sinews and made sweet sounds that lulled the wife into a deep sleep. Her distressed husband was out looking for her for days and eventually found her asleep on the sand. He realised that it was the music of the whalebones and sinews that had calmed her. Later she awoke and her husband took her gently by the hand and led her home. The next day he went into the woods, cut down a bent branch and strung it with animal sinews. After that, when his wife was distressed, he played on his new instrument and all was calm again.<br />
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This might seem like a lovely legend, but a whale was washed ashore on the strand in 1992 and who’s to say that another whale wasn’t the inspiration for the symbolic instrument of Ireland, two thousand years ago?
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  • The Crescent Play Park, Portstewart, Northern Ireland
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  • Giants Causeway, Bushmills, Northern Ireland. The The Chimney Stacks. This is the first view of the Causeway, as one passes the Great Stookan. The causeway is the low line of rocks extending furthest to the left, beyond the inlet.
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  • Bushmills, Northern Ireland.  The town of PortBallintrae lies across Port Ballintrae Harbour. On the way to Dunluce Castle.
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  • Giants Causeway, Bushmills, Northern Ireland. Middle Causeway<br />
This part of the formation is also referred to as the Honeycomb.                                                                   In the story of Giant’s Causeway , Finn MacCool is described as a giant who is challenged to a fight from another giant, the Scottish Benandonner. The story then unfolds in the spirit often sported in ancient European myths – full of wit, noble deeds, and glory. Finn accepts the challenge, and is resolved to outwit his opponent. In order to be able to meet his giant Scottish foe, Finn builds a huge causeway across the North Channel. But once he sees how Benandonner is enormous and much larger than he, Finn resorts to cunning. He disguises himself as a baby, and pretends to be nursed in a cradle by his own wife, Oonagh.<br />
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Benandonner sees this, and deduces that if Finn’s child is so enormous, Finn himself must be incredibly large – a giant of giants. Frightened by this prospect, the Scottish giant Benandonner flees in panic across the bridge, destroying it behind him so Finn could not follow. And thus, what remains of that bridge is the Giant’s Causeway we see today.
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  • The Camel's Back, Giants Causeway, Bushmills, Northern Ireland. Portnaboe<br />
Looking south west from the path towards the Giant's Causeway towards the bay and headland at Portnaboe.
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