The Hollies, a 19th-century manor house, opened 16 April as a Natural Retreats property in County Kerry, Ireland.

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For larger waves, head to County Kerry, in Ireland's southwest.

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In very much the same way that the Swedes do about the Norwegians, Americans used to about Poles and the Irish themselves do about those from County Kerry.

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In 1910, silent filmmaker Sidney Olcott, a Canadian-American of Irish descent, became the first Hollywood director to shoot an on-location movie when he travelled to County Kerry to make A Lad from Old Ireland.

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Further north along the southwestern coast are the Skelligs, two islands that poke dramatically skywards out of the flinty waters of the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 12km off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry.

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The canny heroism of a wild puck or male goat who alerted villagers to the arrival of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century is the supposed origin of the historic three-day Puck Fair in Killorglin, County Kerry every August, allegedly Ireland's oldest.

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Kerry McDaniel, Hart County emergency management director, told CNN everyone had been removed from the bus.

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George Bush carried Macomb County in 2004 even though John Kerry narrowly took the state of Michigan.

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"We are calling the Pinellas County Democratic Party chair about this ad and demand that it be retracted, " Kerry campaign spokesman Stephanie Cutter told CNN.

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