Ireland

What is Ireland famous for?/Facts

• Beautiful landscape
à Endless, green fields, untouched nature, spectacular coastal
landscape
• Many small convents, monasterys and castles
• Pubculture
• Guinness (national drink of ireland, popular all around the world)
• Currency: Euro
• Capital: Dublin
Landscape
• Major mountain ranges:
- Macgillycuddy’s Reeks
- Wicklow Mountains
• Major rivers:
- Shannon
- Liffey
- Boyne
- Moy
- Barrow
Typical dishes
• «Full Irish» (Irish Breakfast; bacon, sausages, baked beans, eggs, mushrooms,
grilled tomatoes,….)
• Mushroomsoup
• Smoked salmon
• Oysters
• Irish stew (traditional stew, consists mainly of mutton or lamb, potatoes, onions
and parsley)
• Porter Cake (fruit cake with Porter beer)
Irish culture
• many traditions and symbols
• celtic heritage
àIrish language
àfestivities like halloween
Irish Goblin
• best known landmark of ireland
àNext to the harp and the cloverleaf
• called Leprechaun
• diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore,
• Usually decipted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and a hat, who
partake in mischief
• Later they have been depicted as shoe-makers who have a hidden pot
of gold at the end of the rainbow.
• They rarely appear in Irish mythology and only became prominent in
later folklore
Music
• harp:
- one of the cultural icons of Ireland
- Was used extensively in the Middle Ages
• fiddle/penny whistle:
- well-known for their use in traditional Irish music
• bodhran: goat-skin drum
• concertina and accordion: popular as well
Languages
• Official Languages: English and Irish (gaelic language)
• Soft strains of Ullans (Ulster-Scots) in Northern Ireland
• Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) areas predominantly along the west coast
Places to visit
• Dublin
• Newgrange (5200 year old passage tomb, built by Stone Age farmers)
• Rock of Cashel (sacred place for the irish)
• Gallarus oratory (oratory of the celtic church)
• Cliffs of Moher (best-known cliffs of Ireland)
• Kylemore Abbey (abbey of the Benedictine order)
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