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Size: 27,137 square miles Water:1,390 km Land: 68,890 km States: 27 Capital: Dublin Population growth: 1.143% Population 1996: 3,462,000 National Anthem: Solider Song ** Climate: ** Mild, Wet. winter-41°C. summer-59°F. Rainfall average- 60 inches. ** Food: ** Many meals feature boiled potatoes, onions, herbs, and meats with mutton. Such as Irish stew, beef, chicken, pork, veal, and lamb. Along with meat many people enjoy seafood, such as, lobster, trout, prawns, and oyster. Soda bread is also very popular served with many meals. Adults usually drink stout beer. Guinness Irish whiskey is also sold all around the world. ** Sports: ** There are very many popular sports in Ireland such as horse racing, golfing, fishing, hunting, Gaelic football, hurling, soccer, rugby, and greyhound dog racing. Yet the most popular sport is horse racing and golf.
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**Religion: ** Since 1973 Irish had freedom of religion. Yet 95% of the Irish are Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic is a strong bond, who teaches influences of Irish legislators, which play a big roll in Irish culture. The remaining 5% are Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Jewish.  In Ireland 40% of the people are middle class workers and the other 60% is working class.  __Working Class Jobs __ Cleaners-29,642 Government Clerks-10,221 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Catering Assistants- 16,013 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Hairdressers, Beauticians- 19,112 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Child minders- 17,342 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Security Guards-12,822 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Nurses- 51,145 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Sales Assistants- 93,555 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Bar staff-15,727 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Drivers-35,111 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Store keepers-21,369 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Brick layers-15,645 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Metal work project workers-23,199 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> __<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Middle Class Working __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Most middle class workers are basically managers they manage all type of business, such as- Restaurant, catering, clubs, building, entertainment, sports, transportation, store, warehouse, personal, production, work general chartered, hotel, and travel managers. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Also two other popular jobs in middle class are Barristers and all types of teachers. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Ireland is greatly known for there strong education. They also have colleges, such as U of Ireland, U of Limerick Trinity. In the republic of Ireland 8% of children attend college. Ireland children attend school from the ages 6-15. Mo0st kids attend private schools run y Roman Catholics and the Church of Ireland, all children wear uniforms and are in same gender schools at the 2nd grade level. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Ireland people celebrate many holidays. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">New Years <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">St. Patrick’s Day <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Easter <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Good Friday <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">May Holiday-first day of May. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">June Holiday-first day of June. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">August Holiday- first day of August. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">October holiday- last day in October. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Christmas <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">St. Stephens Day-day after Christmas. <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> __<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Music and Dance __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Music and Dance is a big part of Ireland’s culture. The mostly used instruments are the harp, tin whistle, pipes, wooden flute, button accordion, and the fiddle. Dances include reels, jigs, hornpipes, set and celili. More traditional songs include parodies, rebel songs, national air, lullabies, and comalyes. Also Ireland has very many famous composers such as Thomas Moore- 1779-1852 and William Vincent Wallance- 1812-1920. <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> __<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Festivals __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> Ireland also holds very many festivals such as: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Dublin Int.- a film that takes place in April for 10 days. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Dublin Agriculture Spring Show- held in royal Dublin society in Ballsbridge. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Choral and folk Dance Festival- held in Cork. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Cork Fishing Festival- held in Donegal. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Cork Arts Festival- held in Cork. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Kilkenney Arts Week. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Puck Fair- all Ireland hurling and football finals. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Match making Festival. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Silgo Arts week. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Cork Int. Film and Jazz festival. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Dublin Marathon- held at Dublin Theatre. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Gourmet Festival. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Wexford Opra Festival. <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> __<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Similarities- __<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">The people In Ireland do many of the same things as us Americans such as: <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Celebrate New Years <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">St. Patricks Day <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Easter <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Good Friday <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Christmas <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">They also speech English. Have a flag with 3 colors. Have many of the same jobs. Have private schools available. They enjoy many of the same sports as we do like basketball, baseball, horse racing, golf, and many more. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';"> __<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">Differences-  __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial for Sunburst','sans-serif';">They have 27 states and we have 50. In second grade most children attend private and same gender schools. Kids start school at age 6 which her you can start as young as 3. Have a Mild, wet climate. Summer average is only 59% and winter average is 41%. In Ireland they have a higher rainfall average 60 inches and in some place 110 inches. Some people speech Gaelic there. __ Bibliography __ Sydney Toronto. __The World Book Encyclopedia- Ireland__. Chicago: World Book Inc., 1997. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Broadway; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Harry Jones Lerner. __Ireland...In pictures__. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1990. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Richard Means. "Ireland/Republic of Ireland." __Ebscohost- CIA World Fact Book__. Software. Great Neck Publishing, 2007. [|www.dublinopion.com/2007/09/20/occupations-in-ireland-a-class-analysis/]
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