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Visits Dublin with its museums, castle and zoo - goes picnicking in the beautiful countryside of County Cork - cheers on a game of hurling - expends some energy beachcombing, hill trekking, horse-riding and dolphin watching - listens in wonder to Ireland's myths and legends. Natural History Museum: This wonderful unchanged Victorian museum is part of the National Museum of Ireland network and is called Dublin's 'Dead Zoo' because it is stuffed full of stuffed animals. Children of a scientific bent will love its musty old atmosphere where its ground floor (the Irish Room) contains Irish insects, strange-looking earth and sea-creatures in jars, and mammals, including skeletons of the extinct giant deer known as the Irish Elk, and the skeleton of a basking shark.

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'Just the thing to help you sort out the school holidays' - The Sunday Times

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Amy Corzine grew up in Texas. She paid her first visit to Ireland 30 years ago to study its folklore after discovering that it was the source of many of the fairytales she loved as a child. She subsequently studied theatre in London where she now works as a writer and editor. She also updated the 5th edition of Cadogan's Ireland guide.

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