Photo exhibition promotes Georgia in Ireland

A photo exhibition promoting Georgia as a tourist destination is being held in Ireland.

The exhibition "Life and Language in Georgia’’ is hosted by the dlr LexIcon Library near Dublin, and features photographs of the country’s beautiful landscape, architecture and three ancient writing systems.

The guests of the exhibition were informed that the Georgian alphabet is one of 14 distinct alphabets in use in the world today and one of oldest.

Advertising the exhibition, the library wrote on its website that Georgia is a land of great antiquity, located on the edge of Eastern Europe at a crossroads between Europe and Asia. It highlighted that in a Homeric legend, Georgia attracted Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece to its shores.

"Nowadays, tourists are drawn to the Black Sea beaches, the lofty mountains, the holy sites of ancient Christian parables and its deep caves are a rich resource for palaeontologists”, it said.

The exhibition is organised by the Georgian Embassy to Ireland. Photo: Georgian Embassy 

The exhibition was officially launched on April 5 by the Charge d'Affaires of Georgia to Ireland George Zurabashvili, Mayor of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Cormac Devlin and Senior Executive Librarian Marian Therese Keyes. At the event Dublin-based Georgian Youth Choir ‘'Mixed Melodies'' performed traditional Georgian songs.

The opening ceremony was followed by a Georgian wine reception hosted by the embassy.

The event was attended by representatives of Irish governmental institutions as well as members of the cultural and education sector, diplomatic corps accredited in Ireland and Georgian diaspora.

The exhibition will run until May 29. Photo: Georgian Embassy to Ireland 

The exhibition will run until May 29 at the dlr LexIcon library in Dun Laoghaire, a suburban seaside town in County Dublin and it is open to public.