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Ireland (/ˈaɪərlənd/ ^ⓘ YRE-lənd; Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ^ⓘ; Ulster-Scots: Airlann [ˈɑːrlən]) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world.

Geopolitically, the island of Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), an independent state covering five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain.

The geography of Ireland comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. Its lush vegetation is a product of its mild but changeable climate which is free of extremes in temperature. Much of Ireland was woodland until the end of the Middle Ages. Today, woodland makes up about 10% of the island, compared with a European average of over 33%, with most of it being non-native conifer plantations. The Irish climate is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and thus very moderate, and winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, although summers are cooler than those in continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant. (Full article...)

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The Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order or the Orange Lodge, is a Protestant fraternal organisation based predominantly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the Commonwealth and the United States. It was founded in Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland in 1795; its name is a tribute to Dutch-born Protestant king of England, William III, of the House of Orange-Nassau. William had defeated the Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Observers have accused the Orange Institution of being a sectarian organisation, due to its goals and exclusion of Roman Catholics as members. Read more...

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Tom Crean (20 July 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer, from County Kerry. He enlisted in the British Royal Navy at the age of fifteen as a Boy 2nd class. In 1901, while on naval duty serving as an Able Seaman on HMS Ringarooma in New Zealand, he volunteered to join Robert Falcon Scott's 1901–1904 British National Antarctic Expedition on Discovery, thus beginning a distinguished career as an explorer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Crean was on three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during this period. After the Discovery Expedition he joined Captain Scott on the 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition, in which the race to reach the South Pole was lost to Roald Amundsen, followed by the deaths of Scott and his polar party. During this expedition Crean's 35–mile (56 km) solo walk across the Ross Ice Shelf to save the life of Edward Evans led to the award of the Albert Medal. His third Antarctic venture was the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition on Endurance led by Ernest Shackleton, in which he served as Second Officer. After the sinking of Endurance he was a participant in the 800–mile (1,280 km) open boat journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia, and was one of the party of three which undertook the first land crossing of South Georgia.

These feats earned him a reputation as a tough and dependable polar traveller. After the Endurance expedition Crean returned to the Navy, and when his naval career ended in 1920 he moved back to County Kerry. Here he opened a public house in his home town, Annascaul, called the South Pole Inn. He lived there quietly and unobtrusively until his death on 27 July 1938. Read more...

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Image 1The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin. (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 2Three men digging for potatoes in Ahascragh, County Galway (Circa 1900) (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 3Irish soldiers, 1521 – by Albrecht Dürer. (from History of Ireland)
Image 4Irish cream cheesecake (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 5The Irish tricolour (from History of Ireland)
Image 6Irish stew (Stobhach) (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 7The Easter Proclamation, issued by Leaders of the Easter Rising (from History of Ireland)
Image 8The ruins of the ancient monastery at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 9Hurling ball (sliotar) and hurley (camán) (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 10Gaelic football (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 11Irish traditional music sessions usually take place in public houses (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 12Daniel O'Connell (from History of Ireland)
Image 13Irish Soda bread served with Irish butter (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 14Cork Opera House. (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 15The extent of Norman control of Ireland in 1300 (from History of Ireland)
Image 16Political map of Ireland (from History of Ireland)
Image 17A pint of Guinness (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 18A typical Irish pub in County Donegal (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 19Map showing the Viking settlements in Ireland (from History of Ireland)
Image 20Portrait of James II of England by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Forty years later, Irish Catholics, known as "Jacobites", fought for James from 1688 to 1691, but failed to restore James to the throne of Ireland, England and Scotland. (from History of Ireland)
Image 21Lough Gur, an early Irish farming settlement (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 22Full Irish breakfast (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 23Ireland in 1014: a patchwork of rival kingdoms (from History of Ireland)
Image 24Coddle (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 25Kevin's monastery at Glendalough, County Wicklow (from History of Ireland)
Image 26President John F. Kennedy in motorcade in Cork on 27 June 1963 (from History of Ireland)
Image 27Bloomsday celebrations in Dublin (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 28Barmbrack / Bairín breac (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 29Irish dancers in Irish dancing costumes, which often feature lace or an embroidered pattern copied from the medieval Irish Book of Kells. (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 30Seafood chowder (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 31Irish family evicted at Moyasta, County Clare during Land War, c.1879 (from History of Ireland)
Image 32Bacon and cabbage (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 33A plaster cast of a traditional Irish Halloween turnip lantern (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 34Champ (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 35Ireland during the Ice Age (from History of Ireland)
Image 36Colcannon (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 37Newgrange, built c. 3200 BC, is an Irish passage tomb located at Brú na Bóinne. (from History of Ireland)
Image 38Ulster Museum, Belfast. (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 39An Irish coffee. (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 40An Irish-language information sign in the Donegal Gaeltacht (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 41After an unusually bitter Irish Catholic rebellion and civil war, Oliver Cromwell, on behalf of the English Commonwealth, re-conquered Ireland by invasion which lasted from 1649 to 1651. Under Cromwell's government, landownership in Ireland was transferred overwhelmingly to Puritan soldiery and commercial undertakers to pay for the war. (from History of Ireland)
Image 42A tower house near Quin, County Clare. The Normans consolidated their presence in Ireland by building hundreds of castles and towers such as this. (from History of Ireland)
Image 43A 16th century perception of Irish women and girls, illustrated in the manuscript "Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel". Painted by Lucas d'Heere in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library. (from History of Ireland)
Image 44Buí Bolg at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 45A page from the Book of Kells that opens the Gospel of John (from History of Ireland)
Image 46Modern depiction of a Leprechaun (from Culture of Ireland)
Image 47Institute of Education and Celtic Culture, Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland (from Culture of Ireland)

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Image 1The Chicago River, Saint Patrick's Day 2009
Image 2St. Stephen's Green, Dublin
Image 3A memorial to the first non-stop transatlantic flight
Image 4Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Felim, Cavan
Image 5Dervish at Eurovision 2007
Image 6Limerick on the Shannon River (1840)
Image 7Slieve League, Co. Donegal
Image 8Christmas shoppers in Dublin
Image 9William Butler Yeats, by John Butler Yeats
Image 10The Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim
Image 11Theatre Royal, Wexford
Image 12The Leviathan of Parsonstown
Image 13Newgrange, Co. Meath
Image 14Leamaneh Castle, Co. Clare
Image 15Athenry, Co. Galway
Image 16Wind-surfing on Lough Lene, Co. Westmeath
Image 17A horse drinking near Downpatrick
Image 18Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba
Image 19City Hall, Cork
Image 20Famine sculpture at the IFSC
Image 21A back road in Co. Mayo
Image 22Gaelic Irish soldiers
Image 23Snap-Apple Night (Halloween) by Daniel Maclise
Image 24The Gap of Dunloe, Co. Kerry
Image 2519th century Irish crochet
Image 26Clew Bay, Co. Mayo
Image 27Arthur Guinness, founder of the Guinness
Image 28The woolsack, the Irish House of Lords.
Image 29Hurling
Image 30Doolin, Co. Clare
Image 31Lighthouse at Hook Head
Image 32City Hall, Belfast
Image 33Jerpoint Abbey, Co. Kilkenny
Image 34Carlingford Lough
Image 35Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, Dublin
Image 36Yeats' grave, Co. Sligo
Image 37The Foyle at night.
Image 38Selskar Abbey, Wexford
Image 39Redwood Castle, Co. Tipperary
Image 40The Cross of Cong
Image 41St Eunan's College, Letterkenny
Image 42Iron cross, Malin Head, Co. Donegal
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Image 44St. Patrick's Street, Cork circa. 1890-1900
Image 45An anti-Irish cartoon from 1871
Image 46Scotch Quay, Waterford
Image 47The Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry
Image 48A Galway Hooker.

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Clockwise from top: Kilkenny Castle and the River Nore; Butler Gardens; central Kilkenny

Kilkenny (Irish: Cill Chainnigh [ˌciːl̠ʲ ˈxan̠ʲəj], meaning 'church of Cainnech') is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2022 census gave the population of Kilkenny as 27,184, the thirteenth-largest urban center in Ireland.

Kilkenny is a tourist destination, and its environs include historic buildings such as Kilkenny Castle, St Canice's Cathedral and round tower, Rothe House, Shee Alms House, Black Abbey, St. Mary's Cathedral, The Tholsel, St. Francis Abbey, Grace's Castle, and St. John's Priory. Kilkenny is also known for its craft and design workshops, the Watergate Theatre, public gardens and museums. Annual events include Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Cat Laughs comedy festival and music at the Kilkenny Roots Festival. (Full article...)

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...that Early Irish law permitted a husband to hit his wife to "correct" her, but that if the blow left a mark she was entitled to the equivalent of her bride price in compensation and could divorce him if she wished?
...that mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003?
...that the headland of Drumanagh in Co. Dublin may once have hosted a fort acting as bridgehead for Roman military invasion?
…that some 2006 New York productions of DruidSynge, a production of the complete plays of John Millington Synge by the Druid Theatre Company, were performed in day-long cycles?

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