• The largest Titanic visitor experience
Rock of Cashel Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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Culture Ireland
• Celtic Cluture • Religions • Holidays & Festivals • Language & Literature • Irish Wedding
• A three-leafed old white clover
• St. Patrick used it as a metaphor for the Christian Trinity
• Around 6000BC ➢ Mid-Stone Age culture
• About 4,000 years later ➢ Neolithic culture
Traditions • Food & Drink
Celtic Nations
• Appeared in the middle period of 2000 BC
• Celtic Nations ➢ Scotland ➢ Ireland ➢ Isle of Man ➢ Wales ➢ Cornwall ➢ Brittany
Cliffs of Moher
• Premier tourist attraction • 214m in height • 8 km stretch along County
Clare’s Atlantic Coast
Giant’s Causeway
• Situated on the North coast of Ireland
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CONTENT
• About Ireland • History & Heritage • Icons of Ireland • Unique Culture • Quiz Time
• The Republic of Ireland
• 40,000 unique hexagonal basalt columns
• Ireland’s first World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1986
• Folklore & Legend
Titanic Belfast
• Titanic was born in Belfast, built by Belfast and imagined by Belfast
Ireland's 32 counties from the United Kingdom
Connemara
Icons of Ireland
Giant’s
Causeway
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Cliffs of Moher
Titanic Belfast
The Ring of Kerry
• Second Language:
English
National Emblem
National Anthem
• GDP
• US$ 212.792 billion
(2010 estimate)
• GDP Per Capita • US$ 47,751
(2010 estimate)
➢ Celtic Tiger (1995-2007) ➢ Financial Crisis (2008-)
Famine Memorial, City Quay, Dublin
Irish War of Independence
Belligerents
Irish Republic United Kingdom
• Date: 21 January 1919 – 11 July 1921 • Location: Ireland ➢ Anglo-Irish Treaty ➢ Partition of Ireland, secession of 26 of
Data from International Monetary Fund (IMF) -World Economic Outlook October 2010
Data from World Economic Forum Last updated: Nov 21, 2011
Symbol of
• Shamrock
• Theatrical show
<Riverdance>
• Traditional Irish stepdancing • The story of the Irish culture • The Irish immigration to
Celtic Clothing
• A kilt(plaid skirt) is not an everyday purchase
• It identifies the wearer's roots
Celtic Music
<<<Highland Bagpipe
Irish Harp>>>
Celtic Dance
• The megalithic passage tombs of Newgrange and Knowth
• Built around 3200BC in County Meath
• The 19th Century ——Tragedy in Irish History
➢ 1845-1849 ➢ The Great Famine ➢ Over a million people died from starvation ➢ Others fell prey to diseases
ØCapital: Dublin
• Northern Ireland ➢Capital: Belfast
The Republic of Ireland
• Country Area: 70,282 k㎡ • Population: 4,581,269 (Apr.2011)
National Flag
• First Language: Irish