Ireland
Éire
CAPITAL: Dublin (Baile Átha Cliath)
FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of green, white, and orange vertical stripes.
ANTHEM: Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier'...
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Ireland - Bartholomew Patrick Ahern
Bartholomew Patrick AhernPrime Minister
(pronounced "bar-THAL-a-mew PA-trick ah-HERN")
"The people of Ireland want to see our country mode...
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Ireland
Ireland, the second-largest island in Europe, lies in the Atlantic Ocean on the western periphery of the European continent, separated from Great Britain to the east by the Irish Sea. Although...
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Ireland is a small island in Western Europe, where the past and the present joint together to form a setting full of architectural wonders, culture and music. The country, which was once ...
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The agriculture of Ireland was once great. There was plenty of land with somewhat good soil. Crops were grown every year. The most planted crop was the potato. However, the agriculture of Ireland was...
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The United Kingdom is one of the most powerful nations even today. After 1801 until 1916, Ireland was under the rule of the UK, which had England as its most powerful nations at the time. Because Engl...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the hist...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the histo...
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Area: 70,273 sq km (27,133 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 4,250,000Capital:
Dublin
Chief of state:
President
Mary
McAleese
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Bertie
Ahern
Some unfavourable sig...
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Cork, Ireland (dpa) - Ireland's rare glorious sunshine was dulled
this week by the tragic, apparently extended suicide of a young
family which has plunged the country into a...
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Ireland's average temperature has been rising at twice the global rate since the early 1980s and parts of the country are becoming wetter and more prone to flooding due to climate change, a governm...
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Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it will build a $500 million data center in Ireland to boost its services for tens of millions of customers, chiefly in Europe.Microsoft said the 550,000-square-foot ce...
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Six days of negotiations to form Ireland's next coalition government collapsed Friday, leaving Prime Minister Bertie Ahern with limited options for returning to power.Ahern's centrist Fianna Fail p...
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Bales of a record haul of cocaine spilled from a smuggling boat that capsized off the coast of Ireland are washing up on the shores of County Cork, officials said Tuesday.Police made the discovery ...
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Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, who put aside years of bitterness and Northern Ireland bloodshed to form a historic power-sharing administration, will be welcomed to the White House on Dec. 7 by...
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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Sunday that Ireland's next general election will be May 24 and vowed to extend his 10-year run in power.Ahern spoke after meeting Ireland's symbolic head of st...
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Belfast (dpa) - The following is a timeline of the major political
events in the 30-year Northern Irish conflict in which more than
3,000 people died:
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Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the leaders of Northern Ireland's hard-line Protestant and Catholic parties Wednesday to press for the formation of a joint administration in the territory by a l...
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