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Saint Patrick. Saint Brigid. Saint Colmcille. ^ Including surrounding islands. Ireland ( / ˈaɪərlənd / ⓘ IRE-lənd; Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ; Ulster-Scots: Airlann [ˈɑːrlən]) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and ...
The Picts were called Cruithni in Old Irish and Prydyn in Old Welsh. These are lexical cognates, from the proto-Celtic *kwritu 'form', from which *Pretania (Britain) also derives. Pretani (and with it Cruithni and Prydyn) is likely to have originated as a generalised term for any native inhabitant of Britain.
The Irish War for Independence followed, leading to eventual independence in 1922 for the Irish Free State, which comprised 26 of the 32 Irish counties. In Ulster , particularly in the six counties which became Northern Ireland , Sinn Féin fared relatively poorly in the 1918 election, and unionists won a majority.
The term sean-nós, which simply means "in the old way", is a vague term that can also refer to various other traditional activities, musical and non-musical. The musician and academic Tomás Ó Canainn said:: 49 ... no aspect of Irish music can be fully understood without a deep appreciation of sean-nós singing. It is the key which opens ...
The Irish Free State, subsequently known as Ireland, resolved in the mid-1920s to design its own coins and banknotes. Upon issuing the new currency, the Free State government pegged its value to the pound sterling. The Currency Act, 1927 was passed as a basis for creating banknotes and the "Saorstát pound" (later the "Irish pound") as the ...
There are five recognized declensions in Irish. The makeup of the declensions depends on three factors: the gender of the noun. the formation of the genitive singular. relation of genitive singular to nominative plural. The following chart describes the characteristics of each declension class: Nom. sing. ends with:
irishroversmusic .com. The Irish Rovers is a group of Irish musicians that formed in Toronto, Canada in 1963 [1] and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover". They are best known for their international television series, contributing to the popularization of Irish Music in North America, and for the songs "The Unicorn", "Drunken ...
