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The Irish Wikipedia ( Irish: Vicipéid na Gaeilge ), also known as An Vicipéid, is the Irish-language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004.
- October 2003; 20 years ago
- Irish
- 58,056 (total registered, as of 10 October 2023)
- Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach na hÉireann), frequently referred to in Ireland as 'the tricolour' (an trídhathach) and elsewhere as the Irish tricolour is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white and orange. The proportions of the flag are 1:2 (that is to say, flown horizontally, the flag is half as high as it is wide).
- 1:2
- A vertical tricolour of green, white and orange.
- 1922 (constitutional status; 1937)
The Irish Times, referring to his analysis published in the Irish language newspaper Foinse, quoted him as follows: "It is an absolute indictment of successive Irish Governments that at the foundation of the Irish State there were 250,000 fluent Irish speakers living in Irish-speaking or semi Irish-speaking areas, but the number now is between ...
Alphonse Pierre Juin [b] (16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967 [1]) was a senior French Army general who became Marshal of France. A graduate of the École Spéciale Militaire class of 1912, he served in Morocco in 1914 in command of native troops. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, he was sent to the Western Front in France, where he ...
- Pierre Juin
- 1912 – 1962
- French
- Army general
1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1907) 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (d. 1896) 1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d. 1901) 1852 – Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter (d. 1930)
Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe. Éire, Irish language name for the isle. Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state. Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken ...
Irish is one of the oldest written and historical languages in the world. It was seen for the first time in Ogham form in the fifth century. Today it can be found in up to 4,500 books, on television, radio, newspapers, magazines and on the internet. Irish is a Celtic language which is closely related to Scottish and Manx Gaelic.
