Ireland Andrea Valdés Padial

IRELAND

EMPEZAR

6. Famous Irish writers

INdex

8. Irish food and drink

7. Sport

5. Myths and legends

4. Irish traditions, holiday and customs

3. Things to see in Ireland

2. The geography of Ireland

1. History

People have lived in Ireland since around 6000 BC, but we don´t know much about their origins. We know that around 700 BC, people called the Celts came to the island.Then, around 400 AD, the Celts in Ireland decided the needed slaves to work their land. They sent ships across to Britain, captured people from there and brought them back to Ireland. Historians believe this happens to Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

ST PATRICK

One day, Patrick heard strange voices, and he believed these voices came from God. So Patrick walked to the sea, got on a boat and sailed back to England. After this, he spent the rest of his life in Ireland, building churches and teaching the word of God.

The Vikings invaded Ireland in the 9th century. They built settlements and these later became important cities like Dublin, Cork and Limerik.The Vikings soon became part of the population of Ireland. In 1169, the English invaded Ireland and also integrated into the Irish population.In 1607, the English king, James I, sent Protestant English farmers to Ireland to take the land from Catholic farmers. Very soon, much of the land belonged to the English Protestants, and the Irish Catholics became tenants on their land, they paid rent to the English owners.But the real trouble came in 1801 when the British Parliament abolished the Irish Parliament and governed Ireland themselves.

VIKINGS

Then, disaster hit the country in 1845 and 1846 because a fungus infected the potato crop and the potatoes became soft and started to decompose. The farm workers had nothing to eat and more than one million people died from starvation.

irish Potato famine

The Irish farm workers were very poor and lived in one-room houses with a small area of land to grow their potatoes. This was the main crop in Ireland and very often the only food the poor people ate - about 90% of the population survived on potatoes.

VIDEO ABOUT IRISH POTATO FAMINE

IRISH REBELLION

On 24th April 1916, about 1,600 Irish rebels took possession of some important public building the Post Office, in Dublin. One of the leaders, Patrick Pearse, stood on the steps of the General Post Office and read the Proclamation of the Republic, calling for total independence grom Britain. The rebels only had a few guns and petrol bombs. Soon, they were fighting the powerful British army´s machine guns, artillery and battlesdhips in the port. This fight became known as the Easter Rebellion and a total of 1,350 people died in the fighting

By now, the Irish republicans had more followers and this fighters were better organised. The Irish and the English fought until 1921, when the war ended, with a treaty dividing Ireland into two parts. Six counties in Northern Ireland remained under British control because the wanted this. The rest became the Irish Free State, and the British surrendered control of it.

After six days, the Irish rebels surrendered and the British executed 14 of the leaders. These 14 men became martyrs to the Irish cause and the idea of an independent Ireland became more popular among the Irish population.In December 1918 won 73 seats in the British Parliament. But the refused to sit n the parliament in London and decided to form their own parliament in Dublin. The British were furious and immediately sent troops to Ireland to re-establish British control and fight the IRA.

After 1922, Ireland became two different regions. On the map you can see the mainly Catholic Republic of Ireland and the mainly Protestant Northern Ireland. The Republic convers five sixths of the island. The remaining sixth is Northern Ireland ant it is in the North East of the island, with Great Britain to its east.Ireland is the third largest island in Europe, after Gret Britain and Iceland.

the geography of ireland

THE GIANT´S CAUSEWAY

THE BURREN

It is famous for its 40,000 columns make a path os stepping stones, and these disappear into the sea. Most of the columns, nearer the mountain, are about 12 metres high.

About 15,000 years ago, glaciers completely covered Ireland. These large rivers of ice took the earth from some of the land in the north-west of Ireland and exposed the flat rock.

Blarney Castle is a medievla fortress near Cork, dating from 1446. Most come to see the famous "Blarney Stone" - a block of dark stone built into the walls of the castle. There are many legends about it.

BLARney castle

things to see in ireland

THE book of kells

newgrange

The book of kells is a beautiful medieval manuscript containing the four Gospels of the New Testament. It is Ireland´s finest national treasure .Celtic monks created it around the year 800 AD, probably on the Isle of Iona.

Newgrange is an ancient temple in County Meath, near the east coast of Ireland. Deep onside the monument, there is a 19-metre passage leading to a chamber. There is a small hole and it is perfectly aligned for the winter sun.

These are the Famine Sculptures. Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie designed them and they represent the Irish people leaving Ireland because of the Famine

Jeanie Johnston FAMINE SHIP

The avaricious ship owners crowded too many people onto their ships and many people died on the way because of disease and the terrible conditions on board.A ship owner called John Munn was different. He cared about his passengers and limited the number he took on each journey. Between 1848 and 1855, his ship, the Jeanie Johnston, made 16 journeys between Ireland and North America, transporting more than 2,500 people, and not one passenger died. Today, there is a replica of this ship on the River Liffey, in Dublin. Visitors can experience life on board a passenger ship as it was then. Back on dry land, visitors can see bronze statues of starving people.

WEDDING CUSTOMS

HALLOWEEN

IRISH DANCING

IRISH TRADITIONS, HOLIDAY AND CUSTOMS

ST PATRICK´S DAY

She cries and screams t the death of a person.

Leprechauns supposedly spend their time making shous and collecting gold coins in a pot at the end of the rainbow.

CHANGELINGS

THE DAGDA´S HARP

BANSHEES

THE CHILDREN OF LIR

LEPRECHAUNS

The Dadga was the leader and high priest of the blond people. He owned a magic harp with beautiful jewels on it and he played wonderful music.

The changelings look like human babies, but are evil. Fear of changelings made young mothers very vigilant over their new babies.

One day, the children to a lake called Lake Derravaredh. While they were swimming, she cursed them and turned them into swans. Only the sound of the bell of new god could change the swans into humans again

Is a female spirit.

MYTHS AND LEGENDS

C. S. Lewis, was a Christian apologist, medievalist and British writer, known for his works of fiction, especially for his saga The Chronicles of Narnia.

Oscar Wilde, was an Irish-born writer, poet and playwright.Wilde is considered one of the most outstanding playwrights of late Victorian London; he was also a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish writer, world-renowned as one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century, acclaimed for his masterpiece, Ulysses, and for his controversial later novel, Finnegans Wake.

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)

C.S. LEWIS (1898-1963)

JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)

FAMOUS IRISH WRITERS

WOMEN´S GAELIC SPORTS

HORSE RACING

GAELIC FOOTBALL

SPORT

HURLING

guinness

irish coffee

irish whiskey

dulse

champ and boxty

barmbrack

irish food and drink

BY ANDREA VALDÉS PADIAL

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