Ireland, also referred to as and known as the Republic of Ireland, is located in Western Europe. Ireland is seperated from Great Britain to the east by the Irish Sea, St. Georges Channel, and the North Channel. It is the second largest island of the British Isles, third largest in Europe, and the twentieth largest on Earth. A sized example of the island would be estimated to be a little over the size of West Virginia. As of 2015, Ireland’s population was 4,892,305 and was ranked 123 in the world. Male infant mortality rate is 4.07 deaths/1,000 births as to female is 3.32 deaths/1,000 births. Including both male and female, the infant mortality rate is 5.31 deaths/1,000 births and falls as 192 as comparison to the world. The life expectancy at birth for the total popualtion is 80.68 years. …show more content…
Primary education is taught at all the schools. Education is manditory for kids from ages five to sixteen or until your child has completed three years of second-level eduation. Ireland’s unemployment rate as of 2015 is 9.4% and is ranked 110 around the world. Ireland has fewer plant and animal life than Europe or Britain because it became and island shortly after the rising sea from the Ice Age. There are only 26 animal species that are native to the county but hundreds of plant species that grow only in Ireland. Badgers, foxes, and hedgehogs are very common. There are no snakes on the island at all, the closet thing you would see to a reptile are little lizards. Most of the island is covered in wildflowers and pastures. Music is a very popular thing in Ireland whether people are creating it or listening to it at a pub. Traditional celtic music is sometimes referred to as the music of Ireland because of its distinct rhythm. Celtic music is mainly played at a celtic music festival. Irish Folk music is part of Ireland’s national heritage. The cost of living is always rising in Ireland due to it’s great
“Ireland must be governed in the English interest” as Document 1 states. The Irish and English relationship is one of ethnic superiority over the other and geographical divide. The English feel like it is their duty to make the Irish people like themselves and they believe that their religion is the crux of what makes them inferior and the Irish just want to be left alone. The geographical divide between the nations is the mainly protestant, Ulster, and the Catholic rest of the island as Document 9 suggests. This has caused many disputes because of the fact that Irish Nationalists want the whole island unified.
Ireland has an exact location of 53 00 N, 8 00 W. These include the St. George’s Channel, the North Sea and the Irish sea. Also some other bodies of water include the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ireland is an island so that is why there are numerous amounts of water features surrounding it. Ireland is a little larger than West Virginia and is in the shape of a bear's leg claw.
The first thing that we will look at is the Irish demographics. The Irish population had fluctuated tremendously over the years. When looking at where they came from, the highest group seems to have been coming from Dublin and Nothern Ireland, along with Kerry County, Ireland as well. Previous to the the 1840's, there were two other waves of Irish immigration in the US. According to the Colombia Guide to Irish American History, the first of the Irish immigrants came in the 1500's due to Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition and the population has continued to grow even since. The third wave began in the 1840's. From census data from US during the Gilded Age, in the 1860's the total number of Irish born immigrants were 22,926. Throughout this time, until around 1910, that number decreased. The number of I...
The relationship between Ireland and England played a major role in the causes of the Great Famine. Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801 due to the Act of Union (Edwards & Williams 19). Under this act, Ireland was placed under "the jurisdiction of the richest and most industrially advanced empire in the world" (Kinealy 33). From this act, Ireland's parliament was abolished and became controlled by England through political leadership established throughout the Irish state. A...
Ireland is a beautiful country in Europe, about the size of Maine. Today, Ireland is mostly populated with middle-class families. Irish is famous for its potatoes, but in 1845 a disease attacked the potato crops. The potatoes were what most of the Irish families lived on. They ate and sold potatoes in order to make a living, so when the potatoes stopped growing, people ran out of money. This is known as "The Great Potato Famine". It was so bad; people were actually starving to death. Two million people died. There was almost no help from the British government. Often people rebelled against the government, angered by its carelessness. Many people didn't want to leave their beloved country, afraid of change. With no food to eat, emigration seemed to be the only solution for most of the population. People often talked about "streets paved with gold" in a country called America. There was said to be many job opportunities in this new country. America seemed like the best choice to settle down and finally start a new life.
In order to legitimise a regime or cause, traditions may be constructed around historical or mythological events, people or symbols that reinforce the image required to focus people’s conception of the past. People can be encouraged to invent a cohesive view of their shared ‘traditions’ by what could be called cherry picking bits of history.
In my opinion Britain had all the opportunities to help the Irish but were to proud and cared to much about its own economy and the well being of themselves. If i were an official at the time and I knew I could have done more to help I would've carried all of those deaths on my back for the rest of my life! Eventually Ireland rebuilt and is now starting to strive. In this report I learned a lot of things I never knew or would never know throughout my life. It gives you a thankfulness for being in a place were foods always been on the table and a roofs been over my head.
To start with, Irish people are known for their sense of humor, their hardworking, loyal, love tall tales, and especially the love of their family. There are also many stereotypical characteristics that we are given such as: all Irish people are drunks (now I can not totally argue with that because most Irish people do enjoy their alcohol), we all have red hair, that the way we speak is so beautiful and poetic when in all reality it is like “where the bloody hell are you?” There are many more stereotypical characteristics we are
The “New Ireland” emerged in the 1990s’ when the country experienced an economic-cultural boom in which it was transformed from one of Europe's poorer countries into one of its wealthiest.
It has moved from an emigrant society. Where 1/3rd of a generation emigrated to find work to a diverse society.it has moved from a country with marginal social services to a modern welfare state. While the Irish social security system was initially considered as a pale copy of that of its nearest neighbor, the United Kingdom. After the economic downturn in the 1980’s Ireland experienced a increase in employment which in turn then boosted competitiveness and caused rapid economic growth. This continued until 2000 when Ireland became level with western world in terms of wage levels.
...outward migration has grown steadily (Wp.sme.ie, 2014). Ireland has seen the collapse of Irish exports despite the weakening of the Euro imports decreased and exports increased. Ireland has also faced difficulties in the international financial market after the crisis as it lost some of its credibility. This was reflected by Ireland bond yields, which increased to a dangerous high of just under 12% in 2011 (Tradingeconomics.com, 2014).
This paper will investigate the culture of Ireland by taking a look at the five characteristics. Each characteristic will be allotted its own subsections. The first section will encompass the history to illuminate the connection of a country’s struggle and their learned culture. I will communicate the key aspects that connect an individual culture to the region of the world it inhabits in the second section. In the third section, the language and art of the land are discussed to draw lines to the symbols a culture is founded upon. The fourth section of the essay is dedicated to the characteristic of culture being made up of many components. This is illustrated by the ethnicity/racial, weather, terrain, and military breakdown of the island. The final section is commentary on the dynamic characteristic that interacting cultures learn, develop, and transform due to their shared contact and friction.
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During the twentieth century, Ireland was suffering through a time of economic hardship. “Economic growth was stagnant, unemployment was at a historic high and exceeded anywhere in the EU, except possibly Spain, and the state was one of the most indebted in the world” . Irish men and women who had received a formal education had immigrated to other nations due to the unavailability of jobs at home. This left Ireland in a state of further economic downfall, and the lack of skilled workers left Ireland stuck. The 1990’s were a turning point for Ireland. A rise in industry within the nation, as well as an increase in exports, led Ireland to become the “shining nation” in Europe. It became internationally linked with one of the biggest power nations, the United States, and international trade became Ireland’s new source for a booming economy. This brought the rise of what was known as the Celtic Tiger in Ireland.