ÉIRE (Írország)10th AEC-NET Conference in Dundalk

Céad Mile Fáilte Éire(A Hundred Thousand Welcome In Ireland)

ÉIRE (Írország)10th AEC-NET Conference in Dundalk

Céad Mile Fáilte Éire(A Hundred Thousand Welcome In Ireland)

Előadás az Írországban megtartottprojekt alapú, Ázsia és Európa iskoláit összefogó

10. Nemzetközi Konferenciáról, valamint az országjárás élményeiről(2011. dec. 14-én az Angol Városi Munkaközösség és a Varga

Katalin Angol munkaközössége számáraKészítette: Kajdi Marianna – Varga Katalin Gimnázium)

A Short Portfolio of Ireland

• 26 + 6 = 32 counties (1921)

• Population: 3.5 million

• Irish descent: 2 million in the UK, 500,000 in the USA 213,000 in Australia 74,000 in Canada

• Edna Brian’s novel: Mother Ireland

Molly Malone

Molly Malone

Ancient history

• UNESCO World Heritage Site in Newgrange in the Boyne Valley

• The prehistoric mould dates back to prehistoric times, around 3200 BC in the Neolithic period.

The Book of Kells

• a lavishly decorated copy of the four gospels (= four books in the Bible)

• in Latin• probably produced early in the 9th century• on display in Trinity College, Dublin (the oldest

university in Ireland founded by Elisabeth I in 1592)

Trinity College

Daniel O’ Connell

• Catholic politician in the 19th century• street named after him with his statue in it• referred to as a Liberator• a campaign for Catholic Emancipation against • Act of Union in 1801 (merged the Parliaments of

the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain)

Potato famine 1845-1851

• One million people died.

• One million people emigrated to the USA.

• Many died on the ‘coffin’ ships.

• A statue in St. Stephen’s Green

Eamon de Valera

• 1922 – the English-Irish agreement

• Michael Collins (governing for 18 months)

• Formation of the Free Irish State (Éire)

• E. de Valera – first president of the Republic

• 1937 - Constitution

• 1949 – leaves the British Commonwealth

1990 - 2007

• 1990 – Mary Robinson – first woman president

• 1997 – divorce is legitimate• 1998 – David Timble and John Hume –

Nobel Peace Prize• 2002 - Euro• 2005 - IRA declares to finish its war• 2007 – old government resigned, new

elections

Peat bogs in Connemara

Kylemore Abbey

The Guinness Estate in the Wicklow Mountain