Can you tell me something interesting about ireland..?

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Ã‰irerua

Ireland has 32 county's.
Are favorite Tv icon of all time is a turkey (no joke his name is Dustin) if your teacher is Irish she'll know of him.
We,ve had 2 female presidents.
We love are tea.
We spent â‚¬4.8 million on an ugly looking statue in Dublin City that believe it or not is just a silver spike sticking out of the ground, we have knicked named it the stiffy by the liffey.
We still have bullet holes in the GPO from the 1916 rising.
Also look up a woman called Dr Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955) she has a really interesting life.

robin H

It has four provinces - Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaucht. Munster are the European rugby champions.

Tee A

According to some historians, over 40% of all American presidents have had some Irish ancestry.

greenorlagh

The Harrier Jump Jet was invented in Belfast.

Harry Ferguson came from Ireland - Massey Ferguson tractor man.

First Prime Minister of New Zealand came from Limavady, N I. (William Massey)

...and I'd just like to add - Shane Magowan was born in England, not Ireland.

All Sound No picture

St Brendan (Irish) discovered America long before Columbas!

Billie M

Ireland - Known as the land of Saints and Scholars.

First in the world to ban smoking in public.

Famous for Waterford Crystal, knitted Aran sweaters, Guinness and St Patrick's Day 'parades'.

Boys are all called Paddy and the girls called Coleen dear.

Weather is rainy & grass is green.

Irish have free access to UK residency as written in UK constitution.

National Step Dance is Michael Flatleys well known 'River Dance'.

Ireland won more Eurovision Song contests than any other country.

Irish Famine resulted in mass exodus to the USA and the forefathers of many famous/well known US people.

Orla C

Billie M: There are plenty of names used other than Paddy, and no self-respecting Irish person born and reared in Ireland would ever saddle their child with a name as naff as Colleen. Or Erin. Please.

Grace O'Malley, aka Granuaile, pissed off the English navy for quite some time before being invited to visit Queen Elizabeth I. Grace did not curtsy to Elizabeth, and when Elizabeth asked her why she didn't, Grace said 'I am a Queen in my own country, so we are equal'. Elizabeth might not have liked her, but she respected Grace's neck.

James Joyce, who greatly influenced modern literature, was from Dublin. So was Oscar Wilde, although he was Anglo-Irish. He was also gay.

Many early Nationalists were Protestant, a little fact conveniently ignored by the fire and brimstone crowd on both sides.

There are dozens of castles in Ireland still standing, but ruins of thousands exist. There are two within 2 miles of my house in County LimerickAbout 8 miles away is the ruin of a fairly large fortress which unfortunately is on private property, and has signs warning people away all around it.

The sport of steeplechasing came from Ireland, from County Cork to be exact, between the villages of Buttevant and Doneraile.

Mallow Castle is said to be haunted by a white rat, and many of the great houses have 'white ladies' - ghosts of young women of Anglo-Irish extraction whose English beaux decided to marry elsewhere, or who went to war and never came back.

Irish traditional music and dance is very eclectic - the music is greatly influenced by Northern African, Arabic and Mediterranean music genres, while the dance is very close to both Spanish flamenco dancing and English country dances.

Google 'bodhran' and see what you find. And look on YouTube as well, come to think of it ....

Visual arts are back with a vengeance .....

bluebell

Although Ireland doesn't necessarily spring to mind when one is asked to name countries at the forefront of gender equality, it certainly holds one record. Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland. She was followed, with little fuss, by Mary McAleese. This is the only instance in the world where one female President was replaced by another.

Chocco B - some interesting information, but could be more than 10 years out of date. Ireland's currency changed from the Irish Pound to the euro on 1st January 1999. This is March 2009.

CiaraBabii.x

The Girants Causeway

http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=giants+causeway&fr=my-myy&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

Its very interesting ive been myself :) x

babylwc.x

they speak irish

Atalanta

They do the most magnificent breakfasts. In Donegal city I once ate the breakfast of a lifetime. All sorts of cereals, porridge, mixed grill, kippers, kedgeree, toast, superb marmalade, lots of orange juice and fine coffee - and that was only in a bed-and-breakfast place ! Not even a two-star hotel !!

Paul Murphy

J.R.R Tolkien spent some of his time in "Connemara", Galway while writing the Lord of the Rings. the terrain there is believed to influence how the author developed ideas for Rohan and Mordor. the landscape is phenominal. Desolate, greatly un-touched by man, windswept and scenic...

The west coast of Ireland exhibits some of the most beautiful landscape i've ever seen...

Now, bet you did'nt know that !

mrburton

Oliver Cromwell killed over a quarter of it's population. In his own words he remarked to his superiors after a campaign in one city there "I must have left 30 standing"

Tommy2cans

Bluebell if your going to correct someone get it right!!!!!

The Euro came into existance in 1999 but it wasn't till 2002 that the punt was actually replaced by the Euro

As for interesting facts about Ireland

Halloween is an ancient Celtic irish festival when the Celts believed it was the boundry between the living and the dead and they used lanterns carved into a head from Parsnips on the window to frighten evil spirits. Americans now use pumpkins as they are easier to carve

It was celebrated down thru the years then when the Irish moved to America during the famine and subsequent years after they brought the festival over with them and Americans started to celebrate it and some rituals changed like for some apparent reason Trick or Treat came about

Although the Celts did dress in Masks in order to mimic the spirits as kids still do today although alot tend to go for fancy dress than dress as ghosts

ronreg26

When you fly over Ireland,it is true what they say in the song forty shades of green it is really beautiful, all the different colours of patchwork fields. the people are really friendly, the guiness is amazing, yummy,Dublin is a very international city,it has more young population than any other irish city. Titanic sailed from Ireland on her maiden voyage,Bushmills is the Irish Whisky,In the olden days the potao famine killed a big majority of the population,thats when a lot of them emigrated,

Mr finklestein

There are no moles in ireland

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They respect foreign people more than the Brits...Here in Ireland I haven't seen any skinhead. Just only bold old men drinking beer and laughing loud....I hope to kick out the Brits from the North and I pray the Scottish will get their independence very soon.

mystic k

they make really amazing meat pie.
10% of the population is red headed, versus 2% of the rest of the world

Josephine

Ireland has NO snakes... at all... not even 1

best place ever!! LOVE IT!! Tell your teacher to "pÃ³g mo thÃ³in" ha

Jonny S

People are irish

Apex2

Oliver Cromwell killed around 40-45% percent of the catholic population of Ireland the english town of warrington has a statue of Cromwell at the end of its main high street. The provisional IRA picked Warrington as a target for terrorist bombing in 1993 and no one has ever considered that the statue may have been the reason for selection.

Goes to show ya really you can stick a rocket up an englishman's butt he still won't pay you any attention.

aloha welly boots

i'll let yall know when the oirish govt get rid of the dissident ira look it up you'll get areal surprise.

David H

In 1921 Ireland was partitioned and became Northern Ireland and the Ireland. It became an independent republic in 1948 after breaking away from the United Kingdom although Northern Ireland remained part of the union. U2 are from there as well

Kier

Birthplace of brilliant writers e.g. James Joyce. Also birth place of Shane McGowan, The Pogues lead singer. Great Country, friendly people. Just a shame it's still politically divided between north and south.
Oops, I stand corrected - Shane McGowan was born in England.... never mind he's still Irish :-)