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After the last ice age, as ice retreated whatever water that was there would have slowly connected to the Atlantic at its northern and southern ends, and changed from being an enclosed freshwater lake to being a sea.

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It takes its name from one of the countries that it is near, like the English Channel, between France and England, also does. The Irish Sea has Ireland to its west and England, Wales and Scotland all touching it on the east.

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