1. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

2. INDEX
Basic information.
Historical framework.
Language and curiosities.
Culture.
Today’s news.

3. ENVIRONMENT
The Island of Ireland consist of a large central
lowland of limestone with a relief of hills and
several coastal mountains and is situated in
the extreme north-west Europe.

4. THE IRISH SEA TO THE EAST, WHICH
SEPARATES IRLAND FROM BRITAIN, IS FROM
17.6 TO 192 KM WIDE AND HAS A MAXIMUM
DEPTH OF ABOUT 200 METERS.

5. AT LEAST TWO GENERAL GLACIATIONS
HAVE AFFECTED THE ISLAND.

6. SITUATION

7. CLIMATE
THE CLIMATE OF
IRELAND IS
EQUABLE AND
TEMPERATURES
ARE FAIRLY
UNIFORM OVER
THE WHOLE
COUNTRY.

8. FLORA & FAUNA
• Only 26 land mammal species are
native to Ireland as the red fox.

9. Aquatic wildlife, About 400
such as species of species of birds
turtle, shark, have been
whale, and recorded in
dolphin, are Ireland. Many
common off the of these are
coast. migratory.

10. Until medieval Much of the land is
times, Ireland was now covered with
heavily forested pasture, and there
with oak, pine and are many species of
birch. wild-flower.

11. POPULATION
Ireland has been inhabited since the
stone age. People moved westwards
across the European continent for
more than seven thousand years and
settled in the country.
The major centres of population are
Dublin, Cork,Galway, Limerick and
Waterford.

12. CURRENCY
The Irish pound (English) or
punt Éireannach (Irish) was
the currency of Ireland.

13. 1 January 1999.

14. A BRIEF
HISTORY

15. Ireland, which has been inhabited
for about 7,000 years, has
experienced many incursions and
invasions, resulting in a rich
mixture of ancestry and traditions.
NEWGRANGE

16. By the sixth
century B.C.
waves of
Celtic
invaders from
Europe began
to reach the
country. The
Celts, did
generate a
cultural and
linguistic
TIPICAL CELTIC CROSS unity.

17. The
introduction
of
Christianity
in the fifth
century A.D.
Is
traditionally
credited to
Saint
Patrick.

18. THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH
CENTURIES SAW A
FLOWERING OF IRISH
ART, LEARNING AND
CULTURE CENTERING
ON THE MONASTERIES.

19. During the ninth and tenth
centuries, Ireland was regularly
raided by the Vikings.

20. Following the defeat of the Vikings by
Brian Boru, at Clontarf in 1014, the
Viking influence faded.

21. In the twelfth
century, the
Normans and
their
descendants
were an
influential
presence in
Ireland during
400 years.
DURHAM CATHEDRAL

22. RELIGIOUS DIFERENCES BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND IRELAND BECAME A
SERIES OF REVOLTS IN IRELAND

23. IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY, AFTER THE
BATTLES OF THE
BOYNE (1690) AND
AUGHRIM (1691)
MANY OF THE
GAELIC IRISH LEFT
IRELAND AND THE
PROTESTANTS
MONOPOLISED POLITIC
POWER AND OWNERSHIP OF
THE LAND, AND PENAL LAWS
DISCIRMINATED AGAINST CATHOLICS

24. IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,
THERE WAS MUCH ECONOMIC
DEVELOPEMENT

25. SUSTAINED IRISH EMIGRATION BEGAN IN THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, AS MANY THOUSANDS OF
ULSTER PRESBYTERIANS AND A LESSER NUMBER
OF CATHOLICS DEPARTED FOR THE NEW WORLD

26. IN THE
LATE OF
1840s, A
TERRIBLE
FAMINE
OCURRED ,
AND ONE
MILLION
PEOPLE
DIED IN
IRELAND.

27. THE FIRST WORLD WAR CHANGED
EVERYTHING:
IN 1916 A REPUBLIC WAS DECLARED IN DUBLIN
AND AN ARMED INSURRECTION TOOK PLACE.

28. IN 1918 SINN FÉIN WAS THE
ELECTION VICTORS.

29. WAR OF NATIONAL
INDEPENDENCE
ENSUED

30. IN 1921 AN
ANGLO-IRISH
TREATY WAS
CONCLUDED,
AND SIX
COUNTRIES IN
NORTH-EAST
ULSTER, HAD
ALREADY
BEEN
CONSTITUTED
AS NORTHERN
IRELAND.

31. AS A RESULT
OF THE
TREATY, THE
REMAINING 26
COUNTRIES
FORMED THE
IRISH FREE
STATE, WHICH
HAD DOMINION
STATUS WITHIN
THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

32. THE STABLISHMENT OF THE FREE STATE
WAS FOLLOWED BY A SHORT CIVIL WAR
THAT DETERMINED COLOUR ATTITUDES AND
POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES FOR DACADES.

33. 1955 in THE UNITED NATIONS
1973 in THE EUROPEAN UNION

34. ACTUALLY THERE ARE
TWO LARGER
POLITICAL PARTIES IN
IRELAND; WITH THE
LABOUR PARTY OR THE
PROGRESSIVE
DEMOCRATS.

35. LANGUAGES
OF IRELAND
AND
CURIOSITIES
ÍRSKA TUNGUMÁL
OG INSPÉISE

36. ENGLISH & IRISH

38. Street
signs

39. Use of the Irish
5% frequently
used the Irish
language.
2% considered it
their native
tongue.
30% of the
population,
however, claims
some proficiency
in Gaelic.

40. Ulster
Irish
Connacht
Irish
Munster
Irish

42. Curiosity about the language
Sorry the sadness is upon me (Tá orm Hebron)
I have a car there is a car in me (Tá carr agam)
I like music music is good to me (Is liom ceol Maitha)
The Irish alphabet
has only 18 letters.
j, k, q, v, w, x, y, z.

43. "the gentleman that pays the rent"

44. Titanic was built in Belfast

45. Murder Hole

46. CLOVER
TRINITY

47. Irish
Literature

49. Ireland has made enormous contribution
to the literature in the world in all it
branches
Irish has the third oldest literature in
Europe (after greek and latin )

50. Oscar Wilde James Joyce
The portrait of Ulysses
Doryan Grey

51. IRISH MITOLOGY
• IRISH MITOLOGY
Irish
history is
full of
myths and
legends

52. LEPRECHAUN
According to
legend, if someone
can fix the gaze
on a leprechaun, it
can not escape,
but at the time the
eye is removed, it
disappears.

53. music
and
dance

54. Traditional music can be heard
throughout the year all over
the country from city center
pubs to rural festivals.

55. Sinead o'connor
The Cranberries
U2

56. IRISH PUBS

57. There are many traditional
pubs whith traditional music
groups playing live

58. IRISH CUISINE

59. IRISH BREAKFAST MUSSEL SOUP
SMOKED SALMON IRISH STEW

60. STRAWBERRIES
AND CREAM

61. BLACK IRISH
BEER CREAM

62. NEWS

63. IRISH CURES
PEDERAST

64. IRISH CURES PEDERAST
The reputation of the Cardinal Sean Brady,
Catholic church in admitted being at a
Ireland has been severely meeting where
damaged children abused by the
convicted paedophile.

65. The scandal has His comments drew
also damaged condemnation
the pope from child abuse
victims' groups
and Jewish
representatives.

66. Irish priest committed abuse,
destroyed family

67. Many victims on two continents, like
Helen McGonigle, are living reminders
of the crimes of this pedophile priest
at the center of a sex scandal in the
Irish Catholic church.

68. Records dating back to the 1950s show
Smyth was moved from parish to parish,
.
each time under a cloud of suspicion,
after a family came forward to report
the priest was an abuser.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/17/ireland.abuse.abroad/index.html

69. HOMOSEXUAL TEACHERS
COULD BE LEGALLY
DESCRIMINATED AGAINST

70. Current legislation to promote
equality in the workplace continues
to allow religious schools to
discriminate against teachers
whose lifestyle they consider
contrary to their religious values.

71. In 1998, religious schools may discriminate
against Ireland homosexual teachers,
divorced, or living with a partner without
married.
In June 2009 of a bill that would authorize civil
unions for same-sex couples (which is
currently before Parliament), although some
teachers that make use of the new law may
face reprisals in their centers.