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People in Ireland eat different kinds of foods. They have favorite foods and there are very popular foods in Ireland. Potatoes have been a part of the irish diet. They eat a lot of meat and vegetables. Soda Bread made with buttermilk is very popular in Ireland. People love to eat bread and seafood. Irish stew(Below), Irish lamb and smoked salmon are Irish specialties. Surprisingly people like crubeens which is a pigs feet. Colcannon is a cooked mixture of potatoes and cabbage. There are also traditional foods in Ireland. Irish stew(Below), Irish soda bread and corned beef with cabbage are traditional to eat in Ireland. Champ is one of the most widely eaten potato dishes in Ireland. Colcannon has potatoes and cabbage mixed together is traditionally served on halloween with a ring or lucky charm hidden in the middle. They eat barm brack, bread with sultanas and raisins traditionally. Irish christmas cake, which is a fruit cake served usually during christmas. Dublin coddle, Irish potato, sausage and bacon stew are traditional to eat a lot. Big Butter is a kind of butter that has been with the Irish for 5,000 years. People eat a lot of food everyday. The Irish eat more potatoes  per person than any other country in Europe. Potatoes in Ireland are used to make chips, french fries, cakes, bread and soup. Pizza, pasta and chinese food are popular to eat in Ireland everyday and all around the world. People in Ireland have traditional, favorite and everyday foods that they eat.

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There are three holidays that are very special to Ireland that are also celebrated around the world. They celebrate St. Patrick's day, Christmas and New Years. St. Patrick's day is very special to Ireland because it is celebrated for the death of St. Patrick. He was a patron saint in Ireland. This day is on March 17th. It’s a religious feast day on the 17th century and has a lot of festivals from around the world celebrating Irish culture. They have parades, food, music, dance and numerous other ways to celebrate this day. Everyone wears green because green is the St. Patrick's day color. They have pots of gold(Below) to represent good luck for the Irish. They also celebrate christmas. Christmas in Ireland starts on the first or second week of December. Each family has their own traditions every christmas in Ireland. One tradition is the twelve pubs of christmas. Twelve men come together to drink and to celebrate this day. They also decorate their trees like the rest of the world does with the lights, garlands and ornaments.They celebrate new year's every year on January 1st. You usually spend time with friends and family. One thing special about new years that people do in Ireland is keeping the doors open so they can remember the relatives that died in the years before. This is to celebrate and remember those people. Places close down so the people who work at those places can celebrate the new year with their family. On these holidays that they have been celebrating for centuries, they have numerous traditions.

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There is a lot of farming to make food in Ireland. They sell a lot of exports because of farming. The country's major crops are grass, barley, wheat and oats. Food makes up half of Ireland’s exports. Exports are goods sold to another country. Exports make a big role in making money in Ireland. They also grow a lot of crops in Ireland. Some crops are barley, wheat, oats and potatoes(Below). Spring barley is the most popular crop made in Ireland. About 9,000 farmers in 2010 used Spring Barley. Also they grow oilseed rape, sugar and maize in Ireland. Some other main crops in Ireland are corn, cotton, wool, fruit, tree nuts, rice, soybeans, oil crops, sugar, sweeteners, vegetables, pulses and wheat. There are a lot of farms in Ireland and they are pretty big. About 139,600 family farms in Ireland. ⅔ of Ireland's farms are less than 30 hectares in size. An average farm size is 32.3 hectares in Ireland. A hectare is equal to 100 ares and 2.471 ares is equal to 10,000 square meters. People in Ireland grow crops and sell crops on farms.

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People in Ireland speak the Gaelic language and many other languages. The Gaelic language is the main language in Ireland. In 2016 about 73,803 people spoke Gaelic fluently daily in Ireland, but outside of education system including 20,586 people who speak it every day in the Gaeltacht(Irish Pronunciation) outside the education system. In fact, it is the oldest and most historical language in the world. About 30% of the people can speak it and 5% use it regularly in Ireland. People in Ireland don’t only speak Gaelic, they speak other languages. 100% of Irish people speak English. 3% in the Republic of Ireland speak Irish as their first language and english as their second. In Ireland more than one out of ten people speak a language other than Irish or English. Fingal in north Dublin has the highest percentage of non-native language speakers in Ireland. There are 182 different languages in Ireland. Irish or Gaelic(Alphabet Below) is their first language and English is their second language.

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The Gaelic language in Ireland is very old. Gaelic language comes from the Celtic language. Gaelic is a member of the Indo-European family of the languages. The Gaelic language was introduced during the great Celtic migrations between the end of the second millennium and the fourth century BC. In fact, Old Irish is the first celtic language that was made. Also, during the early 16th century almost all of the people who lived in Ireland spoke Irish. Nobody knows how long ago Irish came to Ireland but people think about 2,500 years ago. The Irish language is a Celtic language. There were other Celtic languages spoken in Europe, but everyone stopped speaking them about 1,500 years ago. There are 26 letter in the Irish Gaelic alphabet. Very similar to english alphabet. As an example, British is also a celtic language. There are 6 celtic languages currently spoken. Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Breton. (Below you can see the Gaelic language translated to the English language). The Gaelic language in Ireland was made a long time ago and came from the Celtic language.

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People paint, draw and color art in Ireland. There are many popular artist in Ireland that are popular all over the world. As an example, Sean Scully is a very popular American-Irish artist. He makes very abstract paintings with layers of squares and stripes. Abstract is an idea not connected with life. He is very popular and some of his paintings are in museums from all over the world. Another artist Sean Hillen, is a different kind of artist then Sean Scully. He makes collages of different kinds of photographs. A collage is attaching pieces from different materials. There is also visual art in Ireland. There are over 1,200 visual artist in Ireland. These visual artist were called the sculptors society in Ireland. Paul Henry and Jack Yeats are two very popular visual artist. There is photography, sculpture(Below) and printmaking visual art in Ireland. Art made in Ireland that is sold around the world is very expensive. In 2011 the artist Jack Yeats’s painting ‘Fair Day Mayo’ sold for €1,000,000. This is the highest price ever paid for a piece of artwork in Ireland. Currently one of his paintings is signed and selling for around €500,000.00-€800,000.00. Jack Yeats has very amazing artwork that sells for a lot of money. There are many artist, that make very amazing paintings, that sell for a lot of money.

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Traditional art in Ireland is dance, music and singing. People dance in Ireland for fun and tradition. Ceili is what it is called to dance to the music. This dance usually has from 2 to 16 people. Ceili dance(Below) sometimes comes from the past. The footwork in the dancing is usually very distinct. Distinct means something different then something else. The Irish footwork(Below) is very different than other kinds of footwork around the world. Another traditional art in Ireland is music. Traditional music in Ireland usually shows the spirit of people in Ireland. Upbeat Tempos of the songs make you want to start clapping and joining in. The music is about making people want to join in. A gathering of people in Ireland to play music is called seisun. There are a lot of traditional songs that the Irish sing to. Traditional songs in Ireland have humor, character, experiences and history of the Irish. There is a lot of joy while singing and listening to singers sing in Ireland. There are different styles in regions in Ireland. Traditional art is not the drawing art, it is the art that you do the dancing, singing and listening to music in Ireland.

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Everyday in Ireland, people in Ireland usually go to school, eat and where clothes. Children from the age of 6-16 have to go to school. You can either go from 6-16 or you have to complete three years of second-level education to be done with school. The Irish education system has three levels of education and further education. People in Ireland eat numerous different kinds of food. People eat Irish Stew, which has carrots, potatoes and many more vegetables. They also have Irish soda bread and Champ which is a potato dish. Potato’s are very popular to eat in Ireland. Also, they have seafood, lamb and cheese which are popular foods in Ireland. The clothing in Ireland that people were everyday is usually nice and very well made. Clothes people have usually come from someone with a long history and significance attached to them. A lot of people were green(Below) a lot in Ireland. People in Ireland live their daily schedules everyday.

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How long do people live in Ireland? Women only live up to a certain age. Women are supposed to live 82.7 years. Since 1926 Irish woman life expectancy have grown from around 57 to 83. Men are supposed to live less years than women. Men are supposed to live 78.3 years. In 1926 men were supposed to live to 57 and now are supposed to live to 78. For women and men the life expectancy has grown. There are more men born then women but the men are dying earlier. There are 199 live births average per day in Ireland and 8.30 average births an hour. There are 82 average deaths per day and 3.41 average deaths per hour. The population in Ireland grows by about 39 people per day. People have been living longer in Ireland because of medicine and people staying healthy. When people die in Ireland they get buried in a graveyard(Below). People have been living longer in Ireland.

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There are many traditions from the past celebrated in Ireland. One of them is Good Friday(Below). It is a time for christians to commemorate Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. Crucifixion is nailing or hanging some one to a cross(Below) and killing them. It’s a day of rest and christian worship in the Republic of Ireland. Easter Monday is celebrated to remember the Easter uprising. This happened in 1916. On this day they do local sports and local fairs. St. Patrick's day is Ireland's main celebration in the Irish religion. Ireland's famous for it and this holiday is celebrated around the world with green colors and rainbows in the sky with a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It is on March 17th every year since the death of St. Patrick and it’s to celebrate him. Good Friday, Easter Monday and St. Patrick's day are important to the Irish religion.

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There are different people from different religions in Ireland. 87.4% Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland 2.9%,  other Christian 1.9%, Other 2.1%, Unspecified 1.5%, None 4.2%. A lot of Irish people in Ireland are catholic. These people in Ireland migrated from central Europe around 500 BCE. The blood of the Irish is celtic. After some research and test scientist found out that the DNA of the Irish is different than people think. Even though Irish people share many genetic similarities with Scottish and Welsh people. It is a myth that the Irish are Celts. Most people in Ireland have red hair(Below). There are different religions in Ireland.

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There have been some good and bad historical events that happened in Ireland. One event was Bloody Sunday. This was a very sad day for Ireland. Some people call it the Bogside Massacre. On January 30 1972, British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a nice protest against internment. This event was a very sad and unfortunate day in Ireland's history. An event that happened long ago was when Gospel came. Gospel is christianity. In 432 AD St. Patrick’s arrived in Ireland. The Sack of Drogheda(Seen Below) was bad for the population in Ireland. It was in August in 1649. Cromwell the leader of the other side wanted to settle affairs in Ireland. Cromwell and his army marched 30 miles along the coast to the royalist. Held in Drogheda. On September 10th and llth the town was surround and there walls were breached. A lot of the town’s people, which is Catholics, Protestants, English and Irish were indiscriminately put to the sword. ¼ of Ireland's population had died from fighting and disease in the war.

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Ireland makes there money mostly from farming(Below), and industry’s. They have made lots of progress overtime. Government finances have been growing because revenue growth. Revenue growth is when sales are increased or decreased overtime. They predict that this year and next year the GDP(Gross domestic product) growth rates will be more sustainable. House prices and rents are growing. Ireland was hit hard by global financial crisis in 2008, so they are trying to manage their debt. Getting jobs and farming is a way to make money in Ireland. The unemployment rate is below 7% this year. Which is good progress for people trying to get jobs. The economy in Ireland was depending on farming but now farming has not played a big role in making money in Ireland. Ranchers and dairy farmers are important jobs in Ireland. Industry has been a part of economy in Ireland. Companies in Ireland make fabric, medicine, machines, software and food products. Ireland's economy has had a lot of progress over time.

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The economy in Ireland is called Euro’s(Below). The old currency in Ireland was called punt and got replaced in 2002 by euro’s. On the money it says how much it is worth. They also have a monument in Ireland on everyone. The US has presidents while Ireland has monuments. Also the money has 12 stars in a circle. The symbol for their economy is €. Each euro is 100 cents. There are different kinds of euros(Below). 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500. Ireland's economy is different than the US because we don’t have 200 and 500 dollar bills and they don’t have 1 and 2 dollar bills. Only countries bordering or really close to Ireland can use there money to pay for things in Ireland. If you don’t live close to Ireland you will have to buy Ireland's money. A euro is equal to 1.19 US dollar. Euro is the currency they use currently in Ireland.

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There are laws in Ireland.There is the Dáil Éireann which is the House of Representatives. Seanad Éireann is what the Senate is called. To vote you need to be 18 and a an Irish citizen to vote for the president. In the House and Senate you need to be nominated by 20 people to be nominated for President. There are different kinds of laws in Ireland. Like in the constitution in Ireland it says that people in Ireland have certain rights. The decisions made are seen in the high court to find out if what happened is illegal. Every year the house and senate pass about 40 acts. Bills(Below) in Ireland are passed by Dáil Éireann, if not it is passed by the Seanad Éireann. In Ireland there are different kinds of laws, they vote for the laws, and pass bills in the government.

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The capital(Below) in Ireland is in Dublin. Dublin is in east Ireland. Dublin plays a major part in the government in Ireland. In Dublin they make the laws in Ireland. In the capital the Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann pass bills to make new laws. The current leaders are Michael D. Higgins who is the head of state president. He was elected in 2011. Leo Varadkar is the Prime Minister of Ireland's government. Every year the president serves for seven years but can’t serve more than two terms. The government is a democracy. There are two houses which are the house of representatives with 116 people and the senate with 60 people. Senators are chosen by the government, some are elected by local authorities, or they are elected by people in the public that were selected. The government in Ireland is run by their leaders in Dublin.