Anybody know any interesting facts about ireland i am doing a report anything!!!!!?

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Here are a few more unusual things about the Irish language

-We call it Gaeilge.

-brianeanna is right we have no words for yes and no, we use tá (yes) and níl (no) which sort of translate to is and isnt.

-There are only 18 letters in the alphabet no ( j k q v w x y z)

-We have a tense (Aimsir Ghnáth-láithreach), the continuous present tense that doesnt exist in english,

for example,

these tenses are found in both languages:

past- bhí mé ag obair - I was working
present- táim ag obair - I am working
future- beidh mé ao obair - I will be working

only in Irish:

continuous present- bím ag obair - I do be working

Thats why you will hear Irish people saying things like "I do be going"etc. its not just bad english its a direct translation from Irish.

-The population in Ireland before the famine was 8 million and as a result fo the famine the population dropped to 5 million (a combination of death and emigration). It still hasnt fully recovered and is approx. 6 million now.

- The Choctaw Indians sent money help feed the starving during the famine.

-Some rural parts of Ireland didnt have electricity until the 1970's.

Orla C

We don't fight that much really, we do like to talk a lot, and are artists when it comes to talking a lot and saying absolutely nothing really.

The greatest writers in English Literature come from Ireland: James Joyce, Walter Macken, Seamus Heaney, John B. Keane to name but a few.

The weather is notoriously unreliable - that's the only thing you can rely on about it, it's completely unreliable! (oxymoron alert!)

Lots of immigrants are coming to Ireland now to work. We've had a huge influx of Polish, Czech and Latvian workers here. Compared to many Irish men, a huge advantage of these is their eye-candy appeal - they really do look after themselves so much better than Irish men do.

This has had an interesting influence on things like food, cafes and restaurants, and generally the standard and the variety has improved a lot in recent years.

The roads here are not built for large volumes of fast traffic. They are narrow and scare the living bejaysus out of many non-Irish drivers, and that's just the main roads! You always know a city or foreign driver on the secondary roads, they are the ones that always slow down and practically stop when they meet a car coming against them. Very frustrating to be caught behind them!

Music: you know what? Google it. It's just too much to go into here, and my dinner is ready.

Katie D

for some reason everyone thinks wer all a bunch of raging alcoholics who are just looking for a fight with anyone who looks sideways at us! not necessarily tru!

but i agree with the other comment about Newgrange, it doesnt get half as much publicity as it should as it is truely amazing. in basic terms, on the 21st of December every year the sun passes through the tunnel and lights up the chamber inside. its a truely amazing and ancient tomb.

Also for some reason everyone wants to be Irish!! ever notice how every american or australian actor claims to be irish cos their great great great grandmothers cousins babysitter was married to an irish man!!!!!! :):)

brianeanna

The national language, Irish (Americans call it "Gaelic") has no words for "Yes" or "No", but two words for "to be."

The national sport, hurling, is two thousand years old.

The ASL symbol for Ireland is the same as for a potato, except it also includes the symbol for "I"

Ireland is a member of the EU (European Union) and no longer has its own currency, instead using the Euro.

Irish eyes

Ever heard the saying "Daylight Robbery". This saying is used by people all over the world and they prob dont think twice about it.

It comes from Ireland and goes back a long time ago when the British ruled Ireland. They put tax on the amount of light you had coming into your house so everyone had tiny windows ( you can still see them in old cottages) But the Irish were cute and the door leading into the house was halved so the top part could be opened to let more light in. The bottom part was left closed most of the time to keep the young ones in and the animals out.

tamil..from vellore

yes, i answer to my knowledge..
The island is 3rd largest in europe. 20th largest island in the earth. 96% are Roman cathelic. 4% protestants. The official languages are English and Irish. The National sports are hurling similar to hockey, and Gaelic football similar to soccer. Horse race is very popular. The famous poet Thomas moore made irish melodies early. Their economy is based on agriculture. They in the early days play with the dead. They eat porks much. Instead we use yes or no they generally use 'to be'. They fight each other for simple reasons.
Interestingly, the Irish language is spoken by lessor population and most of the people will talk only English. Freedom to worship is guaranteed. Health treatment are free to all low income people and moderate charge to others. Irish leberation movement from British rule achieved. This is the tips i can give as per my knowledge and for further details, better to browse google.com

Volusian

I’m on the other side of the pond but I knew a few things about the beautiful Emerald Isle.

I know that St. Patrick, who was NOT Irish, DID NOT drive all of the snakes out of Ireland to the sea where they drowned. This is the legend but the fact is there are no snakes in Ireland and have never been snakes in Ireland since the time the island was separated from the rest of the continent at the end of the ice age. As in many old pagan religions, serpent symbols were common, and possibly even worshiped. 'Driving the snakes out of Ireland' is a metaphor and symbolic for putting an end to the pagan practices and the conversion of the pagan worshipers to Christianity.

The song ‘Danny Boy’ was written by an Englishman who never set foot in Ireland about a Scottish event and is actually more popular in places other than the Emerald Isle.

Corned Beef and Cabbage is not a traditional Irish meal ……….in Ireland.

Many people believe this is the traditional Irish feast. While corned beef and cabbage may be the traditional Irish feast in the U.S., this is far from true in Ireland. Pork is a much more popular dish in Ireland than beef. In earlier times, beef was a a costly delicacy because of the amount of salt required to corn the beef. Beef was a delicacy for kings only. The term “corn” comes from Anglo-Saxon times when meat was dry cured in coarse “corns” or pellets of salt. The corned beef was eaten at Easter, and sometimes Halloween. Corned beef and cabbage only gained popularity with the Irish when they emigrated from Ireland to America. Salt and meat were both cheaper here, so the immigrants treated beef as they had treated various cuts of pork in their former homeland.

And the most important fact I know about Ireland is that Guinness Stout is a meal in itself. I wholeheartedly AGREE!

Happy St. Patty’s Day!

bumshelf

The Irish have a wonderful attitude towardes death. The Irish wake has been made famous and sentimentalised by American movies etc, but there is a partial truth there. Death is embraced by our culture, not that we welcome it or anything, but we accept it, and our rituals really help to have a heatlhy attitude towards it.

THe wake is a sort of party where everyone who ever knew the dead person gathers together in his house. PLenty of drink circulates, and cigarettes, and everyone sits around with teh body in the corner.

The fun happens in the night time, where the best friends and family members of teh deceased sty up, as well as anyone who feels like taking part in the craic. They play games, sometimes involving the body, taking it from teh coffin and playing with it, maybe playing cards over the body etc. All very irreverent, adn people don't really like talking aboput it, but it certainly all comes together to take away the disgust and fear felt by people who never really come across death until someone close to them dies, and then they don't really know how to feel about it. Children are never protected from death, and we just grow up seeing that it is ajust a part of life.

This is how it was in the old days, anyway, adn doesn't really happen in the cities anymore. I don't thikn any of those games take place any more either (probably not in the past twenty years), but a wake is still always very much enjoyed, and a good one will last for about three days, non-stop.

That is the most interesting thing that I can think of about Irish culture, becasue it really is a very different attitude to anywhere else I have ever been in the Western World (first world),

david d

You could mention 'Newgrange'. It's the oldest free-standing building in the world, and the roof is 100% water-proof. It's over 5,000 years old, older than the pyramids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

darren h

Lizzy

The best meal in Ireland is Cabbage and Bacon washed down with a pint of Guinness.

Ashley R

I would write about the Blarney Stone. You climb up a castle, lie on your back, kiss a rock upside down, and you'll have the luck of fast tongue (or something like that --- where you'll be able to talk your way out of anything forever!)

Can't get more interesting then that!

Londons Finest

they drink alot (guiness, whiskey)
they fight alot (each over, them selfs)
they call people "eejits"
they say "tree" instead of three
they also say "whats the crack, whats the crack"
theyve been called the blacks of europe

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