Homework

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Homework

• One more week to read Unit 2
• Chose 5 topics from the Focal Points and write
  a few sentences
• next week The Troubles
• week after next we will review!

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Ireland (Todays Topics)

• Geography Giants Causeway, Dublin
• Writers and Artists
• Music
• Food and Drink
• The Great Famine
• St Patricks Day
• Next week unit 2 The Troubles

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Ireland

• Ireland is a large island west of Great Britain.
  The island is divided into 2 parts. The Northern
  part still belongs to Great Britain and the rest
  of Ireland is a Republic.

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Ireland

• Next week we will talk more about the differences
  between Northern Ireland and the Republic of
  Ireland (and The Troubles)
• We will also watch parts of the movie The Wind
  that Shakes the Barley.
• Optional Movies Hunger, In the Name of the
  Father, Michael Collins, The Boxer (?), Bloody
  Sunday (?)

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Mná na h-ÉireannThe Women of Ireland

• Tá bean in Éirinn a phronnfadh séad domh is mo
  sháith le n-ól
• Is tá bean in Éirinn is ba bhinne léithe mo ráfla
  ceoil
• Ná seinm théad atá bean in Éirinn is níorbh
  fhearr léi beo
• Mise ag léimnigh nó leagtha i gcré is mo thárr
  faoi fhód
• Tá bean in Éirinn a bheadh ag éad liom mur'
  bhfaighfinn ach póg
• Ó bhean ar aonach, nach ait an scéala, is mo
  dháimh féin leo
• Tá bean ab fhearr liom nó cath is céad dhíobh
  nach bhfagham go deo
• Is tá cailín spéiriúil ag fear gan Bhéarla,
  dubhghránna cróin.

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The Irish Language

• Most people in Ireland only speak English
• However, there are areas where a majority of
  people can speak Irish.
• For many years the Irish were forbidden to speak
  their own language in public. (During British
  rule)

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Ireland

• Ireland is known for its green color, due to
  year-round rainfall. It is called The Emerald
  Isle (????)

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Irelands Tourist Spots

• Two of Irelands famous tourist destinations are
  the city of Dublin and The Giants Causeway

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• Located in Northeast Ireland, The Giants
  Causeway a natural tourist destination. The
  Causeway is a large area of connected basalt
  (???) columns. The columns were created by an
  ancient volcano eruption (????).

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The Giants Causeway

• The basalt columns are created when the lava
  (??) cools. Most of the columns are in a
  hexagonal shape (6-sides), like a honeycomb (??).

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tall basalt columns
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Legend of Giants Causeway

• The Legend says that an Irish giant, Finn McCool,
  built the causeway (??) to go fight a Scottish
  giant. However, on his way to Scotland Finn fell
  asleep

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Legend of Giants Causeway

• Finns wife then covered him with a blanket and
  told the Scottish giant that it was her son. The
  Scottish giant saw how big the infant was and
  ran away from Ireland. As he ran, he broke the
  causeway.

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The Giants Causeway
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The Giants Causeway
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Dublin
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Dublin

• Dublin has been one of the main cities of Ireland
  for centuries, and Dublins history goes back for
  over 1,000 years.
• Dublin is particularly famous for producing some
  of the English languages most famous writers.

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Dublins Literary History

• Nobel Prize Winners
• William Butler Yeats
• George Bernard Shaw
• Samuel Beckett
• Seamus Heaney
• Also James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett,
  Bram Stoker

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William Butler Yeats

• Famous Irish poet. One of the few Nobel Prize
  winners who is believed to have written his
  greatest work after he won the Nobel prize.

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The Second Coming (Yeats)

• Turning and turning in the widening gyre
  (??) ?    The falcon (??) cannot hear the
  falconer ?    Things fall apart the centre
  cannot hold ?    Mere anarchy (??) is loosed
  upon the world, ?    The blood-dimmed tide (??,
  ??) is loosed, and everywhere ?   
• The ceremony of innocence is drowned ?   
• The best lack all conviction (??), while the
  worst ?    Are full of passionate intensity (??).
• .

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Oscar Wilde

• A famous Irish writer, playwright, and poet.
• His comedies The Importance of Being Earnest
  and An Ideal Husband are classic
• novel Portrait of Dorian Gray

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Irish Music

• Traditional Irish music includes ballads and
  laments and also traditional dance music.
• the 4 most popular modern Irish musicians are
• 1. U2 , 2. Enya (??), 3. Van Morrison, 4. The
  Cranberries

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O Danny Boy

• Is a song written by an Englishman, but is
  considered more of an Irish anthem.
• It can be sung by a man or a woman, and the
  meaning is either about a lover or a child
  leaving home.

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• O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
• From glen to glen (??), and down the mountain
  side.
• The summer's gone and all the roses falling
• Its you, its you must go and I must bide (?).
• But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
• Or when the valleys hushed (??) and white with
  snow.
• Yes, I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
• Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so!
• But when ye come, and all the flow'rs are dying,
• If I am dead, as dead I well may be.
• Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,
• And kneel and say an Ave there for me. (Ave, a
  prayer)
• And I shall hear, though soft you tread (?)above
  me
• And oh my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
• For you will bend and tell me that you love me
• And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!

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Irish Food

• Irish food is generally considered quite simple.
  For hundreds of years potatoes have been the main
  food. Like the rest of Europe, milk, sausages,
  soups, and breads are also traditionally eaten.

Irish stew with pork, carrots, and potatoes.
Probably eaten with bread, butter, and beer.
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Irish stew (again.)
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Irish Breakfast Tea

• Many Irish like to drink black tea daily. Many
  people add milk or lemon. Most of their black tea
  is imported from India.

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The Irish Breakfast

• Aka the full breakfast

sausage
Beans
mushrooms
Black pudding
bacon
Fried Potato cake hash-brown
Scrambled eggs
Also will include toasted bread and black tea
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The Irish Breakfast (again)
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Colcannon (seaweed and mashed potatos)
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The Great Potato Famine1845-1852
Potato blight
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The Great Famine

• estimated 1 million died of disease and
  starvation
• estimated more than 1 million people left
  Ireland
• The Irish population has
• still not recovered

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American-Irish

• By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter (1/4) of the
  population in Boston, New York City Philadelphia
  and Baltimore. Also many American mining
  communities.
• (wikipedia)
• Movies Gangs of New York, The Departed, In
  America

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Famine memorial in Dublin
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Irish Alcohol

• The Irish are famous for their alcohol.
  Especially Guinness beer and Irish Whiskey
  (Jameson). Baileys Irish Cream is also a popular
  drink nowadays.

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Pub Culture
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• A pub (public house) is a bar, and many Irish
  people will often visit the pub to socialize,
  drink, eat, watch sports, listen to music and
  discuss important topics

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• In 2003, Ireland had the second-highest per
  capita alcohol consumption in the world, just
  below Luxembourg at 13.5 litres (per person 15 or
  more years old), according to the OECD Health
  Data 2009 survey
• In other words, Irish people drink
• more than anyone else in the
• world (according to the survey)

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Pub Crawl

• A popular tourist activity in Dublin is a pub
  crawl, in which tourists will visit the famous
  pubs, learn about the citys history, and sample
  beers, wines, and other drinks.

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St Patricks Day
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St Patricks Day

• Every year on March 17, many people all over the
  world celebrate St. Patricks Day
• Originally, St. Ps Day was just a Catholic
  holiday, but it became more secular and is now a
  way for people to celebrate Irish culture all
  over the world.

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Saint Patrick

• Catholic Saint, Irelands patron Saint
• He was British, and kidnapped by Irishmen and
  forced to become a slave
• He escaped, but later came back to tell the
  Irish about Christianity
• Legend says he used the shamrock to teach about
  the Trinity

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The Secret of Roan Inish(The Island of the Seals)
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The Secret of Roan Inish(The Island of the Seals)

• Roan Inish is the name of an island
• Fionas mother died. She goes to live with her
  grandparents.
• The families used to all live on Roan Inish, but
  everyone left.
• Grandfather tells the story about the day
  everyone left Roan Inish and the day they last
  saw her baby brother, Jaime.

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The Secret of Roan Inish(The Island of the Seals)

• Later, her grandfather and her cousin take Fiona
  to the island.
• The men go fishing while Fiona explores the
  island and finds some strange things.

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The Secret of Roan Inish

• In the next scene, Fiona meets her dark, daft
  cousin, who tells her a legend about their
  family.
• selkie ½ man ½ animal
• Fiona then later returns to the island and makes
  more discoveries.

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The Secret of Roan Inish

• Fiona tells her cousin that she thinks the seals
  will give back her brother if they move back to
  the island
• Fiona and her cousin make an agreement to fix the
  houses (scenes with Irish music and landscape)

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The Secret of Roan Inish

• A storm is coming.
• Fiona says, I hope Jamie comes in out of the
  storm.
• Fiona explains what she has seen to grandmother
• Grandmother believes Fiona
• They go the island to try to find and take care
  of Jaime

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• An Old Irish Blessing
• May the road rise up to meet you.
• May the wind always be at your back.
• May the sun shine warm upon your face,
• and rains fall soft upon your fields.
• And until we meet again,
• May God hold you in the palm of His hand.