Ireland

It was part of the statue of westminister Dec. 1931. It was known as the great seal of Irish Free State and went of offical document including coins etc.

Like millions of other Europeans the reasons were three-fold: poverty (the principal cause, from 1847 onwards), political and religious persecution - begun mostly by Scots/Irish presbyterians from 1700 to 1800, and finally the sense of adventure, exploration, etc.

...there was also hundreds of thousands of survivors of the cromwellian reconquest of Ireland shipped to british America and the west indies as slaves. how much of that survives in the current make up of the states is debateable

generally speaking the Romans considered Ireland to be too great a risk for too little a reward to conquer, however there is evidence that the Romans established atleast one trading site in Ireland

Dubh Linn was the original Irish meaning black pool, it came to be slightly mispelt the bh written as a b with a dot above it, this was lost and the two words joined.

Mary Harney is the minister for health in Ireland. She survived a recent government reshuffle and is likely to stay in the position until the end of the current government. An election must be held by June 2012, so she could be there until that time.
At the time of answering the question, the 10th of October 2009, it is Mary Harney.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

In 1536, when King Henry VIII was declared as Supreme head of the Church on Earth.

Irish society was pagan for thousands of years, but this changed in the early fifth century AD when Christan Missionaries including the legendary St. Patrick arrived. Christianity replaced the old Pagan religions by the year 600. These monks introduced the Roman Alphabet to what had been largely an oral culture. They wrote down part of the rich collection of traditional stories, legends and mythology, which might have been otherwise lost. Christian Missionaries brought the Roman Alphabet to them.

Yes, they did a lot of building in Ireland.

The Druids

if you're referring to age?? children normally start school aged 4.5 - 5

if you're referring to time? most Irish schools begin between 0845 and 0915

Semantics here, I presume the questioner is American. Ireland that is to say the Republic of Ireland (or Éire) is a sovereign state. Northern Ireland is a country and part of the state "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

However I'm guessing you mean the equivalent of an American federal state. Ireland either north or south doesn't have the equivalent of US states which have their own considerable powers and legislation. There are however 4 provinces in Ireland:- Munster Leinster Connacht and Ulster (historically there were 5 - Meath). These then contain counties. Because of the split of Ulster between Ireland and Northern Ireland there are 26 counties in Ireland and 6 in Northern Ireland. Ulster is the split province containing 9 counties 3 of which are in the South the other 6 in the North. See the related question below.

Yes, in common with all other members of the European Union.

The President of the Repblic of Ireland in 1975 was the 9th president Cearbhall O Dalaigh.

Ireland is near the Atlantic Ocean, so it gets a lot of rain. It is not a very hot country, so there are no deserts or arid areas. So it is a good country for growing grass, trees and plants. Much of Ireland is rural, so there is a lot of farmland in Ireland.

There are no native snakes in Ireland. Folklore claims St. Patrick drove them out - However - ecologically speaking, they probably never made it far enough west before Ireland split from mainland Britain !

A disease called Potato Late Blight, caused by an oomycete named Phytophthora infestans. An oomycete is not a fungus as such, but is a eukaryotic microorganism with both saprophytic and pathogenic lifestyles. Even today, it cannot be controlled with fungicides, but incidence has been greatly reduced through crop rotation, improved varieties, and other cultural controls.

Ireland is a parliamentary republic, with a bicameral parliament the Dail (lower house) and a senate (upper house). The President is a non-executive head of state. Democratic as elected by the people
Democratic as elected by the people

You kiss it near Blarney Castle, where the stone is.

The exact start and end dates of the modern Troubles are difficult to pinpoint, but most people would agree they started with the civil rights demonstartions of 1968-1969 and ended in 1997 with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA). The original "cause" was really not religion, as is often stated, but rather discrimination and lack of civil rights. In the late 1960's, the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland began protesting for equality in housing, jobs, and voting, all areas in which they had been discriminated against. The predominantly Protestant police and British Army met these protests with brute force, because it was in the interest of the ruling parties to keep Catholics out of power and thereby assure that politicians in the north of Ireland remained in favor of remaining part of the United Kingdom (UK). On Bloody Sunday (January 30, 1972), a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulted in British Soldiers murdering 14 unarmed civil rights demonstrators. As a result of that event and many others, many Catholics began to abandon the peaceful civil rights tactics (which were aimed at winning equal rights within the British province for the Catholic minority) and instead began fighting for the British troops to leave the province altogether and for the north to reunite with the independent Republic of Ireland to the south. This fight for freedom and independence empowered the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which fought for this cause until the GFA was signed in 1997.

Northern Ireland has a mild to temperate maritime climate, like much of the rest of the UK and Ireland.

Basically, it rarely gets extremes of weather. It averages about 20-25 celcius in the summer and 0-5 celcius in the winter.

It is apparently the rainiest part of the UK (don't know how accurate that info. is though), but it still doesn't rain as much as British stereotypes would let on. For example, New York state in the US is much rainier that Britain on average.

I would describe it as dull, more than anything.

Some traditional foods from Ireland include various breads, pork dishes, potato dishes, and seafood. Some of these dishes include Coddle, which is a dish constructed to use up leftovers, mainly bacon and sausage layered with potatoes and onions; Colcannon - mashed potatoes mixed with cabbage or kale; and Irish stew - which is made from mutton or lamb.