Ireland

Tralee is a town in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland

We wouldn't really call it 'Gaelic' here in Ireland, just Irish.

It's taught in schools from nursery all the way up to secondary and is made compulsory to everyone (with the exception of those who have dyslexia and can choose not to).

TV shows, the news, newspapers, books and all sorts of other things are made in Irish to help promote the language and encourage younger people to speak it (that is why most books in Irish are for young children).

There is a TV channel called TG4 that has lots of shows in Irish. They mainly have cartoons (like Spongebob and anime type) that have been dubbed in Irish. They also do news reports, dramas and game shows. All in Irish.
If you'd like to have a look, check it out here: http://www.tg4.ie/
(If you don't speak Irish there is a button on the top labeled "English" and it will translate the page for you).

Because of this, the majority of Irish people can speak Irish. The only people who don't are those who forgot what they were taught at school or people who have immigrated here.


In fact, there is a group of people who recently appeared on the news who are encouraging people to use the original Irish names for places (e.g. Baile Átha Cliath rather then Dublin) because their given English names mean absolutely nothing.

Aingeal [ang-yal]

About 142 kilometres or 88 miles.

Let, allow, permit

Ireland has never gone to war with England as such. Irish history is long and complicated in this regard, Throughout 800 years of Irish history, there have been many revolutions in Ireland against British occupation, and a war of independence was fought in Ireland between 1919 and 1921. This lead to a treaty which created what are now called Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland was kept under British control, while the rest of Ireland became independent. In the period since then there were troubles within Northern Ireland, most notably between 1969 and 1994. This was in the form of terrorism and not open warfare as is often believed by some people. The troubles were almost exclusively within Northern Ireland and not throughout Ireland, which is another misconception. There were some incidents in the Republic of Ireland and some in Britain, but very few. The troubles were between those who wanted Northern Ireland to join the rest of Ireland in independence and those that wanted to stay under British control. The Irish and British armies were not fighting each other. British army soldiers were based in Northern Ireland, dealing with the terrorism there. Since 1994 and through an ongoing peace process, this has quietened down a lot now, though there are still occasional isolated incidents by some extremists.

Unfortunely, my father bought coins from this mint back in 1985 also. They sent him the same buy back promise. I found an article in the New York Times from 1988 about this company. The parent company is Raffoler. Here is the web site with the New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/07/style/consumer-s-world-mail-order-house-of-a-hundred-names.html?pagewanted=all

Literally "on-me". It is used in phrases such as "Tá ocras orm" means "I am hungry" (there is hunger on-me).

Yes.

There are various routes you can take, depending on where you start from and where you are going to, but it is possible to go from Meath, through county Offaly and into Tipperary. More than likely you would pass through more counties than that, maybe going through Kildare, Laois and Kilkenny, before reaching Tipperary.

Irish is a language that is spoken in certain areas of Ireland. There are many Irish words so it is difficult to know what the Irish word is you are looking for since you haven\'t mentioned it.

The Irish word for goodbye is: Slán.

The phonetic sound of it, to the best of my knowledge is: Shlahn.

BadCat

It is a village in County Galway, Ireland

Bobby Sands MP - 5th May 1981- 66 days

Francis Hughes - 12th May 1981- 59 days

Raymond McCreesh - 21st May 1981- 61 days

Patsy O'Hara - 21st May 1981- 61 days

Joe McDonnell - 8th July 1981- 61 days

Martin Hurson - 13th July 1981- 49 days

Kevin Lynch - 1st August 1981- 71 days

Kieran Doherty - 2nd August 1981- 73 days

Thomas McIlwee - 8th August 1981- 62 days

Mickey Devine - 20th August 1981- 60 days

Ireland.

"macushla" is an anglicisation of the Irish words "mo chuisle" my pulse.

Ireland and Britain are both islands off mainland Europe.

It is aislingeach.

Seven

Wales is in the UK because Henry VII of Wales won a battle against Richard III of England and became the King of England. He became the King of two different countries and united them.

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The battle of Bosworth Field (1485) during the English Civil War of the Roses alluded to above certainly is a factor, but Wales likely would have been part of the UK regardless of the fact that after this victory for Henry (who became Henry VII of England not of Wales) and the House of Lancaster, the Welsh more readily associated themselves with the Tudor line of kings than before (because Henry had Welsh ancestry as well as a claim to the English throne which he took as victor of the above battle).

Wales had been conquered by the English King Edward I in the late 13th Century but an Act of Union was not made between England and Wales until 1536 during the reign of Henry VIII. Even this was not a complete union as Wales was not privy to it. It was law passed by the English without Welsh intervention. The scene for this next step toward complete union was set during Henry VII's reign but it is probably not as simple as saying this is the sole reason. When the UK came to be, many centuries later, Wales was a member of an existing union. The UK simply resembled the addition of a further member to this union (which had already expanded to include England, Wales and Scotland). Ireland was the new member (later only Northern Ireland) and Great Britain became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (later Northern Ireland). That is why Wales is in the UK.

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To Frankfurt in Germany, t is about 677 miles or 1089 kilometres. It is a two hour plane journey.

Ireland is not in the United States of America. It is a country in Europe.