BR-02-08 Ireland

 

“ ’Cead mile failte’

‘A hundred thousand welcome’ ” (p.19)

 

Do you know about Ireland? I learned it detail when I entered my college. Ireland is strange and interesting country. There are beautiful high mountains, wide empty beaches and long deep rivers. Ireland has much nature for example, the largest lake, Lough Neagh, the highest mountain, Carrantuohill, hundreds of flowers in the green fields, and the beaches are wide and empty.

Ireland is country which has many stories and music. A lot of Irish people speak English and a lot of the most in the English language are Irish but some people in Ireland do not speak English. They speak their own language which name is Gaelic. Today, most Irish people speak English, but they all learn Gaelic at school and some in the west of Ireland speak Gaelic at home. There are Gaelic sports. Do you know hurling? In hurling, the player can carry a small hard ball and also hit it with a stick. In Gaelic football the players can kick the round football with feet, and also hold it in their hands. I think that it is little difficult for me but it is nice to have own sports in the country.

On the one hand, there are sad histories. Since 1968, thousands of people have died in Northern Ireland. But most Irish people are not interested in the fighting. There are two religions, Catholic and Protestant. England was Protestant country. Ireland is a Catholic country. There is difference between two countries and there are a lot of victim for fight. We can learn what happened hundreds of years ago, in Irish history in this book.

 

Susan Poole. (2013). Ireland.Graphic Arts Center Pub Co.

 

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