What is Ireland's Culture?

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What is Ireland's Culture?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Ireland has one of the oldest and richest cultures in the world. A gravesite and temple called Newgrange (just north of Dublin) was built over 3,000 years ago - before the pyramids in Egypt. Scientists today are still discovering how advanced the builders were. And, during the "Dark Ages" when Europe was without culture or organization, Ireland was undergoing a renaissance of art and literature. The famous Book of Kells was created in these times.

Ireland has its own language (Irish), its own myths and folklore, and its own political heritage. Unfortunately, much of Ireland's recent history (from 1300 to today) involves struggles against England who invaded, raped, murdered, enslaved, and terrorized the Irish inhabitants of the smaller island. They made it illegal for the original inhabitants to own their own land, speak their own language, or practice their own religion. The only thing Irish were allowed to do was work for English landlords and pay taxes to England (they were taxed for the land they lived on but did not own).

All came to a head in the mid-1800s when British landlords took advantage of a potato blight which killed off all the potato crops in Ireland for two years. Although Ireland had plenty of other food - wheat, oats, cattle, pigs, sheep, etc., Britain refused to allow the Irish who raised this food to eat any of it. In fact, Britain not only shipped tons of foodstuffs out of Ireland while entire villages starved in the streets, the British government even taxed and held up any charity which was attempted to be supplied by America and others. British newspapers encouraged the starving and publicly urged the entire eradication of the Irish "pestilence."

Based on that violent history of political and actual genocide, Ireland launched a rebellion (like America's revolution of 1776) to get rid of the British pestilence on the Monday following Easter 1916. In 1922, Ireland finally got free of the British oppressors.

Today, Ireland is the second wealthiest nation in the world (based on per capita wealth) and has the strongest economy in the European Union. Many believe this is the natural result of Irish people finally getting to live their own lives free from the Brits. Ireland today is referred to as the "Celtic Tiger" because of its impressive strengths.

The culture of Ireland is faith, strength of character - even under superior oppression - and the ability to rejoice in life regardless of immediate circumstances.

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