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TSaveCulture1 9/2/05 5:02 pm Page 10

TIMESAVER CUSTOMS & LIFESTYLE IN THE UK & IRELAND What is Britain?

Ireland and Northern Ireland


Info-stop NORTHERN
What is Northern Ireland?
IRELAND
• It’s physically* part of the island
of Ireland. Belfast •
• It’s politically* part of the UK.

What is Ireland?
• It’s a country and a member of the IRELAND
European Union.
• Galway
What is Eire?
• It’s the Gaelic* name for Ireland. You can •
Dublin
say Ireland or Eire.

Did you know?


• Don’t call Irish people British. They aren’t.
They’re Irish!

Is Queen Elizabeth the Queen of Ireland?


• No, she isn’t. She’s the Queen of the UK so •
she’s only the Queen of Northern Ireland. Cork

Find someone who … I live in Belfast. It’s a modern city.


It’s had some troubles in the past but
1 finds the place where they live boring. ............................
now it’s a safe place to live. There
2 can speak Gaelic. ............................ are lots of clubs for young people
and things to do. I like clothes and
3 is studying computer technology. ............................ I’d like to be a fashion designer.
4 wants to study in London. ............................
Belfast has a good university but
I’d like to study in London.
5 wants to live abroad. ............................ Jonny
6 is interested in fashion. ............................ I’m a Dubliner and Dublin is the
coolest city in Ireland. It’s home to
7 hates folk music. ............................
U2, the best band in the world, and
8 lives in a small lively city. ............................ lots of foreign students come to
Trinity College, the university. I never
9 never wants to leave Ireland. ............................
want to leave Dublin. I’m studying
10 plays traditional Irish music. ............................ computer technology, Nowadays there
are lots of job opportunities here.
Cait
I come from Galway on the West I’m from Allihies, a small village in
coast. It’s a small city but very the county of West Cork. It’s a bit
lively. It’s full of young people and boring here. There are lots of pubs,
university students. I play in an Irish but nothing for young people to do.
folk band and we do gigs* in pubs Everyone is into Irish folk music, which
and bars. I’m really into Celtic I hate! I love dance music. Cork’s got
mythology and I’m fluent in Gaelic. a good music scene but it takes hours
When I want to get away from the to get there by bus. I want to go
crowds, I cycle down to the sea. to Dublin and study languages.
I love watching the waves come in. Then I’d love to live abroad.
Liam Eileen

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TIMESAVER CUSTOMS & LIFESTYLE IN THE UK & IRELAND What is Britain?

The Giant’s Causeway is an amazing


volcanic* rock formation in
Northern Ireland. It is made up
of hundreds of huge, hexagonal
pillars* of stone. 1 The Irish harp is
Join up the information to find an instrument
out more about Ireland. that

2 James Joyce r
was a caused* millions of
Dubliner people to die.
who

3 Guinness
k
is a beer you can see an old
illustrated bible, the
Book of Kells.
that

4A
leprechaun
s
is a small is used in
person Celtic music.
where

o
people kiss the Blarney
5 The 19th century stone and become
potato famine* brilliant at talking.
was an event where

6 Blarney h
Castle is wrote the famous
novel Ulysses.

who

c
monks lived many
7 The Skellig centuries ago.
islands are
that

m
is dressed in green
8 Trinity College and brings you
is good luck.
where
Write the letters in order and find
the name of a lucky Irish plant. a
1 _____ 2 _____ 3 _____ 4 ______ 5 _____ 6 ______ 7 ______ 8 ______ is black and white.

* What is it in your language? Find out!

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