Republic of Ireland
Culture
National Holiday- St. Patrick’s Day
March 17th
National Dish- Potatoes “Mashed Spuds, boiled spuds, roasted spuds, spuds with skins.”
National Dance- Irish Dancing
National Drink
-Guinness
-Tea
Hurling and gaelic football are the national sports
Same game but played with different balls. Soccer and rugby are the next biggest sports
Special places
Dublin is the capital city of Ireland
Vikings founded Dublin (Dubhlin)
guinness storehouse
sources
History
They think that people lived on Ireland about 8000 years BC
The flag of Ireland is green, white and orange. The green represents Catholics, the orange is for Protestants, and the white symbolizes the hope for peace between the two groups.
the north of ireland belong to the uk
Geography
The republic of Ireland covers five-sixths of the island
It is in the north-west of Europe
In the north Atlantic Ocean
The island is as big as 84,421 square kilometers
About 4,000,000
A small island on the edge of Europe