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Ireland & Irish Culture Educational Posters & Prints
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and as Irish theme decor for office and studio.
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geography > Europe > IRELAND & IRISH CULTURE < social studies
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Ireland, the third largest island in Europe, lies in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The Republic of Ireland covers the south, east, west and northwest; Northern Ireland covers the northeast portion and is governed by the United Kingdom. Ireland is called the Emerald Isle because of its mild climate and frequent rainfall result in lush green landscape.
Ireland and Irish culture gallery of educational images include famous people of Irish descent, satellite map of Ireland, Dublin, Book of Kells, Irish Blessings, and St. Patrick.
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Belfast, the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland, is situated on a large, natural intertidal sea lough (bay) at the mouth of the River Lagan on the east coast of Northern Ireland. The name Belfast, from the Irish Béal Feirste means “The sandy ford at the river mouth”.
Belfast was once famous as a shipbuilding city: the Titanic was built here 1911-1912.
Belfast is also remembered for the the sectarian conflict between its Roman Catholic and Protestant citizens with various paramilitary groups devolving into crime and racketeering.
Notable people associated with Belfast: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mairead Corrigan, James Galway, C.S. Lewis.
• more city posters
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Dublin, the capital and most populous city of Ireland, situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey.
Dublin was originally founded as a Viking colony in the 9th century though there were human living around the bay since prehistoric times.
The name Dublin is from the Irish name Dubh Linn, meaning “black pool”.
Notable people associated with Dublin include Samuel Beckett, Edmund Burke, Bono, Bob Geldof, Oliver Goldsmith, Patrick Kavanagh, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, Maureen O'Hara, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Villiers Stanford, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, J. M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats.
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St. Patrick's Day, March 17
Shillelaghs & Shamrocks
Did you you know the “walking” cane (Gaelic bata) is called a shillelagh because the original stick came from the Shillelagh Forest in County Wicklow? The shamrock is a three leaf clover closely associated with Ireland and all things Irish, and reputed to have been used by Saint Patrick to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity. Irish Blessing, pdf download.
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Éamonn de Valera
b. 10-14-1882; NYC
d. 8-29-1975
Éamonn de Valera was the 3rd President of Ireland and author Ireland's Constitution.
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Grace O'Malley
Grace O'Malley was an Irish chieftan and pirate, c.1530-c.1603.
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The Ould Irish Jig
“Then a fig for the new fashioned waltzes
Imported from Spain and from France,
And a fig for the thing called the polka,
Our own Irish jig we will dance.”
• dance posters
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The original Irish Wolfhounds were bred as war dogs by the ancient Celts.
In Irish mythology Culann was a smith who was protected by a fierce dog. An unexpected friendly visitor killed the attack dog to save himself and then offered to become Cú Chulainn (“Culann's hound”), to replace the loss.
• dog posters
• folklore posters
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