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1 day ago · Ireland’s capital is Dublin, a populous and affluent city whose metropolitan area is home to more than one-fourth of the country’s total population. The city’s old dockside neighbourhoods have given way to new residential and commercial development. Cork, Ireland’s second largest city, is a handsome cathedral city and port in the southwest.
- Northern Ireland
The scenery to the south of Lough Neagh is gentler, but the...
- Plant and Animal Life
Ireland - Flora, Fauna, Ecology: Ireland was almost...
- Sports and Recreation
Ireland - Sports, Recreation, Culture: The Irish are avid...
- Security
Ireland - Security, Politics, Geography: Ireland has no...
- Ireland Summary
The Easter Rising (1916) was followed by the Anglo-Irish War...
- Early Christianity
Ireland - Early Christianity, Monasteries, Saints: Little is...
- The Shane O'Neill Rebellion
The Shane O’Neill rebellion. The first of these rebellions,...
- The 20th-Century Crisis
Ireland - Troubles, Partition, Conflict: Disillusioned by...
- Daily Life and Social Customs
Ireland - Culture, Traditions, Cuisine: Ireland has several...
- Northern Ireland
5 days ago · ÉIGSE: A Journal of Irish Studies. The journal has been published by the University since 1939 with the aid of the Adam Boyd Simpson Bequest and is now funded by the NUI Publications Fund. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and ...
1 day ago · Cities are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English. The English version is followed by variants in other languages, in alphabetical order by name including any historical variants and former names. lu Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents may be listed.
4 days ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. It has become the world’s lingua franca.
1 day ago · Irish Travellers speak English and sometimes one of two dialects of Shelta — Gammon (or Gamin) and Irish Traveller Cant. Shelta has been dated back to the 18th century but may be older. Cant, which derives from Irish, is a combination of English and Shelta.
2 days ago · Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Irish: Saolaítear gach duine den chine daonna saor agus comhionann i ndínit agus i gcearta. Tá bua an réasúin agus ...
4 days ago · Dating from about the middle of the eighth century, these glosses comprise one of the earliest large bodies of text written in Irish. The purpose of this site is to make to make the Würzburg Irish glosses available in digital format. The digital text is based on the edition of the glosses available in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, Vol. 1 (Stokes ...
