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3 days ago · 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 ...
- 84,421 km² (32,595 sq mi)
- Northwestern Europe
- 20th
- Northern Ireland
May 1, 2024 · Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund. Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g Irish Máire (anglicised Maura ), Máirín ( Máire + - ín "a diminutive suffix"; anglicised Maureen) and English Mary all derive from French: Marie, which ultimately derives ...
2 days ago · ISO 3166 code. IE. Internet TLD. .ie [d] Ireland ( Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ ), also known as the Republic of Ireland ( Poblacht na hÉireann ), [a] is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island.
3 days ago · Water pollution, Leaching, Climate change, Waste disposal. Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean. The island, of up to around 480 km north-south, and 275 km east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate. Its main geographical features include low central plains ...
- Carrauntoohil 1,039 metres (3,409 ft)
- North Slob −3 metres (−10 ft)
- Lough Neagh 392 km² (151 sq mi)
- Northwestern Europe
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4 days 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.
5 days ago · t. e. Irish people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants. Irish migration to Great Britain has occurred from the earliest recorded history to the present. There has been a continuous movement of people between the islands of Ireland and Great ...
May 2, 2024 · Paul Muldoon (born June 20, 1951, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish poet whose oeuvre covers both intensely personal and political terrain—from his wife’s miscarriage to the conflict in Northern Ireland. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel (2002).
