Sharing with you a ppt I used to talk about the most basic and relevant aspects of the Republic of Ireland (Eire)

1. Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador
Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas
Departamento de Idiomas Modernos

2. Geographical Location

3. - Capital city: Dublin
- Official languages: Irish and English
- Religion: Roman Catholicism
- Land Extention: 70, 273 sq km
- Population: 4,832,765 (2014)
- Highest Point: Carrantuohill peak 1,041 m
- Lowest Point: Atlantic Ocean 0m
- Most important River: Shannon
- Resources: Limestone, dolomite, barite, natural
gas, petroleum, silver, peat, copper, lead,
blueberries and gypsum.
- Currency: Euro (€)

4. - Dublin
- Wexford
- Cork
- Limerick

5. Bonney
Valley
Cliffs of
Mother

8. - GDP (Official Exchange rate): $220.9 billion (2013 )
- GDP Composition: agriculture: 1.6%, industry: 28%, services: 70.4%
(2013)
- Agriculture – Main products: Barley, potatoes, wheat; beef, dairy products.
- Industrial products: Pharmaceuticals, chemicals, computer hardware and
software, food products, beverages.
- Unemployment rate: 13.5% (2013)
- Population below poverty line: 5.5% (2009)
- Inflation rate: 0.6% (2013 )
- National debt: $2.164 trillion (2012)

9. Dates to remember
- 700 BC Celts arrived in Ireland, they built numerous stone forts, divided
Ireland into many kingdoms called tuathas and Irish society was divided into
3 classes: Kings and Aristocrats at the top, freemen and farmers below them
and slaves at the bottom.
- 432 AD St. Patrick arrived Ireland and organizes the church in Ireland along
Roman rules and Bishops as leaders which further changed to monasteries.
- 795 Vikings invaded the island and gave Ireland its name; Éire, and
founded the main shires; Wexford, Limerick, Dublin and Cork.
- 1541 Henry II proclaimed king of all Ireland by the Treaty of Windsor after a
series of invasions and battles by Norman and Englishmen.
- 1264 The first Irish Parliament was established but represented by the
Anglo-Irish ruling class only

10. - In 1558 plantations in Ireland started under the reign of Elizabeth I and
much of the lands in Munster were confiscated and given to English settlers.
- In 1592 Elizabeth founded the first university in Ireland; Trinity College,
Dublin.
- In 1649 Oliver Cromwell imposed Protestantism on Ireland and land
belonging to Catholics was confiscated and given to English colonists.
- In 1798 the Irish Rebellion known as clashes between Catholics and
Protestants in Northern Ireland that ended after thousands of deaths over the
course of three months.
- Potato Famine 1845 – 1852, the greatest famine registered in Ireland.
- In 1920 Michael Collins masterminds the War of Independence between
Britain and Ireland.
- In 1948 Ireland is declared a Republic by Costello and its named changes
from Irish Free State to Éire or Republic of Ireland.

11. Leprechaun

12. - Gabriel Rosenstock
- Michael Harnett (poet)
- Áine Ní Ghlinn (novelist)
-Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
(professor)

13. - Jonathan Swift (the great
Anglo-Irish satirist)
“Gulliver’s travels.
- William Butler Yeats
(Nobel Prize for literature
1923)
- Seamus Heaney (Nobel
Prize for Literature1995)
- James Joyce
- C.S Lewis