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VIEW GALLERY. Ireland is to be temporarily plunged into darkness next month by a near-total solar eclipse. Over 90% of the sun will be obscured during the astronomical event, which will be visible from Ireland on March 20, 2015.
In northwestern Europe, the eclipse will only be visible as a partial eclipse, in the evening or at sunset. Only Iceland, Scotland and Ireland will see the eclipse from beginning to end, in the rest of the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal sunset will occur before the end of the eclipse. In Germany, only in the extreme northwest the beginning of the eclipse might be visible just at sunset.