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Ireland. by Ian McLelland. Table of Contents. 1.Map,Absolute and Relative  location p3 2.Timeline  p4  3.   Regions in Ireland P5  4.Form of Government  and currency p6 5.Shelter p7 6. Family life p8 7.Religions p9 8.Values p10 9.Food p11 10.Entertainment , hobbies, sports p12

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  1. Ireland by Ian McLelland

  2. Table of Contents 1.Map,Absolute and Relative  location p3 2.Timeline  p4  3.   Regions in Ireland P5  4.Form of Government  and currency p6 5.Shelter p7 6. Family life p8 7.Religions p9 8.Values p10 9.Food p11 10.Entertainment, hobbies, sports p12 11.Irish Holidays and Customs p13 12.Clothing p14

  3. MapAbsolute and Relative location  Ireland is in Northwestern Europe, and its relative location is a 50.20 longitude and its latitude is -6.15 

  4. Time Line 500ad               1527               1921 Ireland was   The first ever       Ireland was first                game of hand     founded as a  mentioned   ball was played      free country in historical       in Ireland  times            998                 1921 The vikings                 Ireland signed a treaty         founded Dublin            with the UK                                                                                        

  5. ReRegions in Ireland Ireland has flat and rugged land and has a lot of lush green landscape:mountains, lowlands, coasts,steephills,low plains rocky lands,steep cliffs, beaches and islands.

  6. Form of Government and currency Ireland is a republic country.Their type of currency is the Euro. 

  7. Shelter  Shelter in Ireland is tall apartment buildings, large modern houses outside the city,but inside the city they live in row houses. The houses are made out of cement and brick.

  8. Family Life Families in Ireland  are often large. They live  with their parents until they are married. Elderly relatives remain with the family. Women used to work at home but now they  take jobs outside the house. Since ancient times it has been rude to turn strangers away. Families eat and go to church together. After primary school students attend a secondary school. Many have a special  job training or go off to college. 

  9. Religions  Religions in Ireland are Roman Catholic, Christian, Church of Ireland and there are other religions.

  10. Values  Going to pubs is a perfect activity for all ages. Teenagers enjoy movies and dancing. The traditional special date is the graduating ball. More than 70% of women chose to have a catholic wedding. Catholic and some civil people  have their weddings  in a church. Civil people have their weddings in a civil office.

  11. Food The Irish cook hearty foods. They serve crusty brown soda bread made from wheat, flour. A full Irish breakfast would be sausage, bacon, eggs, Irish pudding, baked beans, boiled tomatoes, bread and butter and tea. Potatoes are a big part of the Irish diet. Boxty is a baked dish of potatoes mashed, with butter, buttermilk and flour. Champ is boiled potatoes mashed, butter, milk, and scallions.

  12. EntertainmentHobbiesSports Traditional sports in Ireland are football,and hurtling (hurtling is     like field hockey).In football teams of 15 kick a soccer like ball in a goal. They also play rugby and horse racing.For hobbies they play golf,dance, and sports.For entertainmentthey watch all the sporting events,watch the bagpipers on St. Patrick's day,and a lot more activities .  

  13. Irish  Holidays and Customs Irish customs are having a parade on St. Patrick's day with bagpipes performing  in it.The Irish celebrate many Roman Catholic holidays, for instance Christmas,and Easter  are very important to the Irish family's. Other holidays the celebrate  are May day, New years day,St. Stephens  day and St Patrick's day.

  14. Clothing in Ireland In Ireland the clothing that they wear are fancy kilts for special occasion witch includes arms, chunky sweaters and chunky figured cloaks.Women wear dress's for special occasion, similar to the ones that the people in the US wear.The every day kind of clothing that they wear is blue jeans,long sleeved shirt with collar and buttons up the front.They also wear some US and European clothing to.

  15.                       Glossary Bagpipes-a reed instrument consisting of a melody pipe and one or more accompanying drone pipes protrudingfrom a windbag into which the air is blown by the mouth or a bellows Catholic-pertaining to thewholeChristian body or church Christian- of, pertaining to, or derived from Jesus Christ  or His teachings Christmas-a holiday celebrating Jesus Christs birth Church of Ireland-autonomous branch of the Church of England in Ireland Civil Office-an office of the civil people in Ireland Easter-a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ  Euro-the type of money they use in the Britten and Switzerland area  Latitude-the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point Longitude-angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian

  16. May Day-the first day of May, long celebrated with various festivities, asthe crowning of the May queen, dancing around the Maypole, and,in recent years, often marked by labor parades and political demonstrations New Years Day-the first day of the new year(January 1) pub-a bar or tavern Roman Catholic-of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church  Rugged-having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface St.Patricks Day-March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland St. Stephens Day-a day in honor of Saint Stephen 

  17. Index C                            H                      Religion-9 Clothing-14            History-4                     Customs-13           Hobbies-12       S                                Holidays-13      School-8 E                                                     Shelter-7                       Entertainment-12    L                      Sports-12                                Location-3                                                         V F                             M                      Values-10                     Family Life-8           Money-6 Food-11 G                             R Government-6         Regions-5     

  18. Bibliography Books Wade,Mary."Ireland A Question and Answer book" Capstone press,Mankato, Minnesota .2007. Print. Pohl,Kathleen."Looking at Ireland" Gareth Stevens Publishing, Pleasantville,New York.2008.Print. Websites  "CultureGrams.com"ProQuest LLC.ProQuest.2012.<online.culturegrams.com>2012.print. Gillmor, Desmond A. "Dublin." World Book Student. World Book. <www,worldbook.com/ >2012. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.Print.P

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