Information about Ireland? *Urgent*?

Question

Ok so i'm doing a geo project.

I need:

special traditions

10 **interesting** facts

10 places to visit/attractions

foods (any ideas? we have to make it)

years of their migration/how they got there

reasons for coming to ireland

how the culture has changed since arriving

okay so the last 3 questions..me and my partner had no frickin clue what they meant =\

anyways yeah this is urgent, any help would be appreciated :D

Answer 1

Go to this link and it will tell you everyting you need to know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland

Answer 2

Hi, there's a lot of information on this website...

http://www.yourirish.com/

There are recipes for Soda bread, Irish stew, a full Irish breakfast... and so on.

If you're looking for drinks (if you can include alcohol) I'd reccommend Guinness, Baileys (irish cream - should be drank over ice), whiskey (even hot whiskey with cloves in it?), or Magners (cider).

Sports - there's a big following for Gaelic football and hurling ... also camogie (kind of the female version of hurling).

I'm not really sure what to tell you in way of interesting facts and traditions....

There's a big pub tradition and music tradition as you probably know.  People go to their local pub either on a certain night or certain nights or every night... They either go to chat with other locals or to watch tv (very often the football) while having a pint or to get together for a session.  A session is when people get together and play trad music.  Often, the pub owner will provide the main musicians with free drinks and/or food.

Generally, the musicians will know the same songs and tunes (well-known traditional ones) and can play along with each other, giving way for a solo piece from time to time.  A session could consist of only 2 or 3 people or could fill a pub.  Other people go to the pub to listen and have a drink but chat too so it's not a performance.  Sessions are usually completely informal and aren't in any way limited so people can sing non-Irish songs and play non-Irish instruments.  The music can range from upbeat jigs and reels to drinking songs to ballads or slow airs and people say poems and tell jokes and so on.  In some areas, people might do a bit of Irish dancing in a pub but it doesn't happen everywhere as usually there isn't any room! The instruments you'd often see at a session include (but aren't in any way limited to) fiddle (violin), accordian or concertina (also known as squeeze-box), mandolin, bango, tin whistle, traditional flute, uilleann pipes and bodhran.  Pubs usually stay open until about 1 or 2 in the morning everynight, though they close earlier on Sunday nights.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_tradi...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music_...

For Irish folk songs you could check out my answer to this question... http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Search for any of them on youtube and you should be able to get good enough versions.

Another tradition is to have a céilí.  This is when there's a céilí band providing music and someone calls out dance steps and everyone dances along.  An example.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCNNWJ0pT... and a popular (and fun) dance is The Waves of Tory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Dk21iMU...

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceili#Moder...

A fun dance to watch is the brush dance ... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac... (the sound and picture are a bit out of sync there but you get the idea...) You can find more versions of it on youtube (just search "brush dance")

Umm I'm not sure about interesting facts but I'll give it a shot ... we use the word "craic" a lot ... it's quite difficult to explain what it means.  It's pronounced "crack" and it kind of means gossip or news or a good time.  This site explains it pretty well...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...

The Irish language is still spoken by many but everyone speaks English aswell.  The areas that still have Irish as their community language are called the Gaeltacht. http://www.gaelsaoire.ie/asp/gaeltachtai...

Ireland's split into four provences: Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht.  Though 6 counties of Ulster are politically known as Northern Ireland.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_provi...

This also means that people simply drive across the boarder and have to use a different currency.

Do a few searches for the troubles in Ireland if that would be of any use.  The troubles are over now but there's still a lot of problems in certain areas.

In the Eurovision this year, Ireland's entry was a puppet of a turkey... http://youtube.com/watch?v=W31Q4a-bWow

We didn't even get through to the final.  The entry was trying to make a bit of a joke about the whole eurovision (there are a lot of entries like that) but it didn't go down too well...

For more facts check out http://www.ireland-fun-facts.com/

There's quite a lot on that site.

Attractions in Ireland:

http://www.fantasy-ireland.com/tourist-a...

http://goireland.about.com/od/preparingy...

I'm not sure what you mean about migration... sorry.  Do you mean Irish people emigrating or recent immigration??

Hope some of this helps ... otherwise that's a load of useless blabbering!!