88% of Irish citizens are nominally Roman Catholic. The Republic of Ireland has one of the highest rates of church attendance in the Western World (around 45% of regular Mass attendance). The ancestral language of Irish people is Irish Gaelic. Nowadays 1.6 million people claim a self-reported...
The ancient Celts were a widespread group of tribes whose rich culture has been identified through burials, artifacts and language.
Even though Irish is the official language ofIreland, Polish is more widely spoken. There’s a bar in Yukon that serves a “Sourtoe cocktail.” It consists of a shot of whisky with a human toe floating in the glass. An estimated 60,000 people have had it. The Stockholm archipelago has...
The letterz, by the way, has not always been relegated to the end of the alphabet. In the Greek alphabet, it came in at a quite respectable number seven. According to Tom McArthur inThe Oxford Companion to the English Language(1992), "The Romans adoptedZlater than the rest of the alph...
Population: about 69 million people live in the United Kingdom (2025) Capital: London with 9 million inhabitants Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Government: Parliamentary Monarchy, Democracy Language: English Religion: mainly Christians 60% ...
The Irish have a genuine appreciation of the countryside and the rest of nature. Even the first coins issued by the nation had animal images. The majority of Ireland’s open spaces have remained essentially unaltered due to the country’s low levels of development and pollution. Ireland is ...
Population: about 5.2 million people live in the Republic of Ireland (2023) Capital: Dublin with 1.2 million inhabitants Name: Ireland (orÉirein Gaelic) Nickname: Emerald Isle Government: Parliamentary Republic Languages: English, Irish Gaelic ...
Manx is a Gaelic language similar to some types of Irish Gaelic. The last native speaker of Manx, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974. There are modern attempts to revive Manx, although only 2% of the population have any knowledge of the language, making this a pretty tough feat. ...
Fionn Bennett. "Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland." In Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Edited by Marie Mianowski. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 39-50....
974) At the age of nine years old, actor Liam Neeson joined the All Saints Boxing Club put together by his parish priest, Father Darragh. He continued boxing until 17, according to Neeson becoming “juvenile champion of Northern Ireland three times and Irish runner-up a couple times in my...