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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people. [/quote]

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental. [/quote]

I'm also not being judgemental. You are being defensive. I never said that people who stay at castles in Ireland are bad people. I just choose not to. I prefer to seek out the more authentic Celtic sites. If I want to see an English or Norman Castle, I will go to England.[/quote]

Pot calling kettle black? Your tone was quite judgemental.

And it's not true all Irish castles are gone. There are plenty of ruined tower houses that belonged to the old barons and some are still inhabitable. Truth be told, there was really nothing comparable to the castles of England or France because Ireland was a very primitive and wild and extremely impoverished and quite barbaric island long before the English invasions. The first proper castles in Ireland were the ones built by the Normans when they arrived in the 12th century, and it's up to you to decide if the Normans were sufficiently Irish enough (an old saying is that the Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves). [/quote]

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