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The Blarney Stone () is a block of bluestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about from Cork, Ireland.
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* The Blarney Stone is set into a tower of Blarney Castle in Blarney, County Cork in Ireland.
Attractions include the Blarney Stone and Cobh, the port where many Irish emigrants boarded for their voyage to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa or the United States and also the last stop of the Titanic, before departing on its fated journey.
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The most traditional story of the famous Blarney Stone involves Clíodhna.
Thus the Blarney Stone is said to impart " the ability to deceive without offending ".
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Thus the Blarney Stone is said to impart " the ability to deceive without offending.
View of the Blarney Stone from the ground
This legend holds that this was a piece of the Stone of Scone and was installed at McCarthy's castle of Blarney.
Person kissing the Blarney Stone
The ritual of kissing the Blarney Stone, according to the castle's proprietors, has been performed by " millions of people ", including " world statesmen, literary giants legends of the silver screen ".
In the Sherlock Holmes radio dramatisation " The Adventure of the Blarney Stone " ( first broadcast March 18, 1946 ), a man attempting to kiss the Blarney Stone falls to his death.
According to tradition at Texas Tech University, a stone fragment on display since 1939 outside the old Electrical Engineering Building is a missing piece of the Blarney Stone.
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Blarney () is a town and townland in County Cork, Ireland.
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John O ' Connor Power's definition is succinct: ' Blarney is something more than mere flattery.
The old Blarney Stone Tavern is still in business on the corner of Avery Avenue and Hamilton Street.
" It is also from Blarney Castle that the legend of " kissing the Blarney Stone " derives.
Blarney Castle ( Irish: Caisleán na Blarnan ) is a medieval stronghold in Blarney, near Cork, Ireland, and the River Martin.
The noted Blarney Stone is found among the machicolations of the castle.
Tourists visiting Blarney Castle may hang upside-down over a sheer drop to kiss the stone, which is said to give the gift of eloquence.
Blarney House, also open to the public, is a Scottish baronial-style mansion that was built on the grounds in 1874.
It lies north-west of Cork and is famed as the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone.
Blarney town is a major tourist attraction in County Cork.
By kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle, it is claimed that one can receive the " Gift of the Gab " ( eloquence, or skill at flattery or persuasion ).
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This house was destroyed by fire however, and in 1874 a replacement baronial mansion — known as Blarney House — was built overlooking the nearby lake.
Cahir, alternately spelt: Cahier, Caher, Cathair Dún Iascaigh, may have been built by Richard Butler, 10th Baron Cahir, 1st Earl of Glengall ( 1775 – 1819 ), who married 1793, Emily Jeffereys from Blarney Castle.
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Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, being involved in a lawsuit, appealed to Clíodhna for her assistance.
Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, being involved in a lawsuit, appealed to Clíodhna for her assistance.
The proprietors of Blarney Castle list several other explanations of the origins of the stone on their website.
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The dungeons of Blarney Castle, Ireland.
* Location of the medieval stronghold of Blarney Castle, County Cork, seat of the MacCarthy clan, once the kings of Munster and later the viscounts Muskerry and earls of Clancarty ( first creation )
From its rebuilding in the late 15th century by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, Blarney Castle, near to Cork city, was the principal seat of the MacCarthys of Muskerry.
During the Williamite War in Ireland in the 1690s, the then 4th Earl of Clancarty ( also named Donough MacCarty ) was captured and his lands ( including Blarney Castle ) were confiscated by the Williamites.
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Blarney is also the home of a secondary school called Scoil Mhuire Gan Smál which was established in 1952 and has about 500 students.
It is about from Cork City, Blarney and Limerick City, and lies just north off the main N72 road, from Mallow and about from Killarney.
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Another suggests that Queen Elizabeth I, while requesting an oath of loyalty to retain occupancy of land, received responses from Cormac Teige McCarthy, the Lord of Blarney, which amounted to subtle diplomacy, and promised loyalty to the Queen without " giving in.
Among the more popular spots in Underground Atlanta were Dante's Down the Hatch, Scarlet O ' Hara, The Blarney Stone, The Rustler's Den, The Front Page, The Bank Note, and Mulenbrink's Saloon, where Atlanta's Piano Red, under the name Dr. Feelgood and the Interns, played from 1969 to 1979.
Blarney CastleThe MacCarthys of Muskerry, on the other hand, derived more recently from the MacCarthys Mór, and so were ( and still are ) considered a sept of the main dynasty.
It was from alleged dialogue between Cormac Teige McCarthy, the Lord of Blarney, and Queen Elizabeth I of England, that the term " blarney " was coined to mean " empty flattery " or " beguiling talk.
He served as Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing Mid-Cork from 1901 to 1918, a constituency comprising the districts of Ballincollig, Blarney, Ballyvourney, Coachford, Macroom and Millstreet.
There, they notably filmed A Lad from Old Ireland plus they made a number of film shorts in Blarney Castle, Glengarriff and the Lakes of Killarney.
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