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- Part two of ten.
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- Frequently Asked Questions on soc.culture.irish with answers.
- Send corrections, suggestions, additions, and other feedback
- to <irish-faq@pobox.com>
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- Tourism and the Web
-
- 1) How can I contact the Irish Tourist Board?
- 2) How can I contact the Northern Ireland Tourist Board?
- 3) How can I contact hostels in Ireland?
- 4) What festivals are worth visiting?
- 5) Can I visit Ireland on the web?
-
-
- [ Telephone numbers are given with the international dialling
- code preceded by a '+' and area codes enclosed in brackets '('
- and ')'. Put a zero in front of Irish area codes if you are
- dialling from Ireland. Please let me know if any of these
- numbers are out of date or just wrong. ]
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- Subject: 1) How can I contact the Irish Tourist Board?
-
-
- BORD F┴ILTE (The Irish Tourist Board), Head Office,
- Baggot Street Bridge,
- Dublin 2,
- Ireland.
-
- +353 (1) 676 5871 or +353 (1) 661 6500
-
-
- In the States
- 1-800 223 6470
- also
- +1 (212) 418 0800
- +1 (416) 929 2777
-
-
- [ I've deleted the numbers for other countries because I've
- no way of checking them without straining my telephone bill.
- If anyone comes across a brochure or the like with the numbers,
- please let me know...]
-
-
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-
- Subject: 2) How can I contact the Northern Ireland Tourist Board?
-
-
- In Northern Ireland:
- 59 North Street, Belfast BT1 1NB
- Tel: (011232) 246609 - Minicom (011232) 233228
- Fax: (011232) 240960
-
- US Office:
- 551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 701
- New York, NY 10176
- Tel: (212) 922-0101 or (800) 326-0036
- Fax: (212) 922-0099
-
- Canadian Office:
- 111 Avenue Road, Suite 450
- Toronto, Ontario M5R 3J8
- Tel: (416) 925-6368
- Fax: (416) 961-2175
-
-
-
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-
- Subject: 3) How can I contact hostels in Ireland?
-
-
- IRISH YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION,
- An Oige, Head Office, 61 Mountjoy Street,
- Dublin 7, Ireland.
- Membership required. 43 Hostels in Republic.
- Tel +353 (1) 830 4555.
- Fax +353 (1) 830 5808.
- Telex 32988 IYHA EI
-
- YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN IRELAND.
- YHIANI, 56 Bradbury Place, Belfast BT7 1RU, Northern Ireland
- Tel +44 (232) 324 733.
- Fax +44 (232) 439 699
- Membership required. 6 hostels in Northern Ireland
-
- Be aware that the hostels affiliated to these two
- official organisations usually have a curfew around 11pm!
-
-
- IRISH BUDGET HOSTELS LTD.
- Kinlay House, 2-12 Lord Edward Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
- Tel +353 (1) 269 7696.
- Fax +353 (1) 269 7704
- No membership required. 26 hostels in Republic.
-
-
- INDEPENDENT HOLIDAY HOSTELS OF IRELAND
- 57 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, 1. Ireland.
- Tel +353 (1) 836 4700
- No membership required.
-
- INDEPENDENT HOSTEL OWNERS INFORMATION OFFICE
- Dooley Hostel, Glencolumcille, Co. Donegal
- Tel +353 (73) 30130
- No membership required.
-
-
-
-
- Gulliver is a reservations database for Ireland run by the
- Tourist Board. It covers hotels, guest houses, car hire etc.
- All Bord Failte international offices are connected to Gulliver.
- Call on 1-800-600-800 in Ireland or +353 (1) 284 1765 outside
- Ireland to make a reservation using a credit card number to
- guarantee arrival.
-
-
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-
- Subject: 4) What festivals are worth visiting?
-
- [ This needs to be updated and expanded! ]
-
- Music festivals are covered by Ceolas
- (http://www.ceolas.org/events/).
-
- Bord Fßilte publish a booklet called "Calendar of Events"
- with hundreds of festivals around the country. You should be
- able to get a copy from your nearest Irish Tourist Board office.
-
-
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-
- Subject: 5) Can I visit Ireland on the web?
-
- Yes. Here are a few starting points. This is just a small
- sampling of what is available.
-
-
- The ever popular yahoo...
- http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Ireland/
- http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Northern_Ireland/
- http://www.yahoo.ie/
-
- Telecom Internet's Doras [Irish for "door"]
- http://doras.tinet.ie/
-
- Links under various categories
- http://swift.kerna.com/
-
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library's Irish section
- http://www.itw.ie/Itw/wwwlib.html
-
- More links
- http://www.ceolas.org/IrishNet/
-
- Good starting points for Northern Ireland web links
- http://www.niweb.com/niid/
-
- CELT - "text material of Irish interest"
- (successor to Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae project)
- http://www.ucc.ie/celt/
-
- Tourism Information
- http://www.Ireland.travel.ie/ [ gruesome, but official! ]
- http://www.interknowledge.com/northern-ireland/
- http://www.iol.ie/~discover/
- http://www.aerlingus.ie/
- http://www.fjiordlands.org/strngfrd/
- http://www.hostel.ie/
-
- The soc.culture.celtic FAQ (large chunks of this FAQ are taken
- from it!) should remind you that Ireland is only one country
- with Celtic roots. The current version is at
- http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/celtfaq.html
- (The old version is still available at
- http://metalab.unc.edu/gaelic/sccfaq.html)
-
-
-
- Book shops with a Web presence
- http://www.hannas.ie/
- http://www.kennys.ie/
- http://www.readireland.ie/
- http://www.iol.ie/~readout/gael.html
-
- A list of Irish Newspapers and other news media with a presence
- on the web is available at http://www.enteract.com/~cpm/irish-faq/news.html
-
- Some Irish writers are lucky enough (through fame and timely death)
- to have their work on the web. There's a search engine at
- Carnegie-Mellon that can help find them.
- http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/authorsearch?Yeats
- http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/search?author=joyce+james&amode=start
- http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/search?author=Shaw+George+Bernard&mode=start
- http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/search?author=Swift+Jonathan&amode=start
- http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/search?author=Wilde+Oscar&amode=start
-
- A good source for Irish poetry (from the living and the dead)
- can be found at
-
- http://spinfo1.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/eire.html
-
- Sports
-
- http://www.fai.ie/ Football Asosociation of Ireland
- http://www.gaa.ie/ The Unofficial GAA site
-
- More sports web links at
- http://www.enteract.com/~cpm/irish-faq/sports.html
-
- An excellent jump list for politics in Ireland is provided by
- the UCD Politics Department at
- http://www.ucd.ie/~politics/irpols.html
-
- General business info
- http://www.itw.ie/
- http://www.iol.ie/~aidanh/business/
-
- The government in Dublin
- http://www.irlgov.ie/
- http://www.revenue.ie/
-
- The Constitution (Bunreacht na h╔ireann)
- http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/Constitution/
-
-
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-
- End of Irish FAQ part 2
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