Tag: Hill of Slane

Happy St Patrick’s day!

And “we have a resource on that” – that is, on the Irish in Australia and the major contributions they made since the very beginning of the colonies. You can get that lovely 5 page resource PDF for free if you check out using coupon code TRYARESOURCE. It’s an option we’ve recently put in place so anyone can grab one resource of their choice to see if they like our materials and assess their quality.

Back to St Patrick, we were briefly in Ireland last year and near Dublin we drove past a ruin at the top of a hill that piqued our interest, so we stopped and had a look. It turned out to be Slane Abbey, the site where it is believed in 433 AD, the first Christian missionary to Ireland, later known as St Patrick, lit a large (Easter) celebration fire (on the Hill of Slane). With this action he (unwittingly?) contravened orders by King Laoghaire at nearby Tara. The landscape photo past the Celtic cross shows the view towards Tara. Ireland is a beautiful country, with a rich history.