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Little Women's Christmas is celebrated in Ireland on January 6th, marking the traditional end of the Christmas season. Parties and gatherings of women and girls are common on this day. Halloween originated in Ireland and traditions include bonfires, trick-or-treating, and eating colcannon. Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th commemorates Saint Patrick and Irish culture with parades and wearing of green. The two official languages of Ireland are Irish and English, with Irish having around 355,000 native speakers and 538,283 daily speakers. Traditional Irish foods include cottage pie, colcannon, coddle, and bacon and cabbage. The Gaeltacht is the designation for Irish-speaking regions of Ireland,

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Ireland

Little Women's Christmas is celebrated in Ireland on January 6th, marking the traditional end of the Christmas season. Parties and gatherings of women and girls are common on this day. Halloween originated in Ireland and traditions include bonfires, trick-or-treating, and eating colcannon. Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th commemorates Saint Patrick and Irish culture with parades and wearing of green. The two official languages of Ireland are Irish and English, with Irish having around 355,000 native speakers and 538,283 daily speakers. Traditional Irish foods include cottage pie, colcannon, coddle, and bacon and cabbage. The Gaeltacht is the designation for Irish-speaking regions of Ireland,

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! IRELAND !

TRADITIONS
Little Women’s Christmas
It’s celebrated every 6th of January. It’s
the traditional end of the Christmas
season. In that day some women hold
parties or go out to celebrate the day
with their friends, sisters, mothers and
aunts. As a result, parties of women and
girls are common in restaurants on this
night.
Also the 6th of January it is the
traditional day to remove the Christmas
decorations.
Halloween
It’s a time for thrills, chills and scaring ourselves silly. Everyone’s
favourite fright-filled holiday began in Ireland.
There are some traditional aspects of an Irish Halloween for example:
The Bonfire, Trick or Treat, eat ‘colcannon’, The Snap apple,..
Saint Patrick’s Day
It’s celebrated every 17 or March.
The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and
celebrates the culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations generally involve public
parades and festivals, and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks.
LANGUAGE
IN IRELAND IT IS SPOKEN TWO LANGUAGES; IRISH AND ENGLISH.

IN IRELAND THERE ARE 2 755 283 NATIVES. FROM THERE 355 000 NATIVE SPEAKERS OF

FLUENT IRISH. 538 283 DAILY SPEAKERS. 1 860 000 NATIVES WITH SOME KNOWLEDGE.

- SINCE 1922 THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND HAS BEEN THE

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE NEXT TO ENGLISH

- THE IRISHMAN IS PART OF THE CELTIC ISLAND GROUP OF THE CELTIC LANGUAGES
TIPICAL
FOOD
Cottage Pie: is a salty cake made with a ground beef base and covered in mashed
potatoes. It is usually added onion or garlic and some type of sauce.

Colcannon: typical mashed potatoes with cabbage and onions. It is often


accompanied by cooked ham or bacon.

Coddle: is made with layers of pork sausage cut into slices and wrapped in bacon. All
mixed with potatoes cut into slices and onions.

Bacon and cabbage: this dish consists of bacon cooked with cabbage and potato.
Sometimes other types of vegetables are added such as turnips or carrots. And in
some cases it is also accompanied by smoked bacon.
GAELTACHT
GAELTACHT
History

In 1926 the official Gaeltacht was designated as a result of the report of the first Gaeltacht
Commission Coimisiún na Gaeltachta.In the 1950s another Gaeltacht Commission concluded that
the Gaeltacht boundaries were ill-defined. It recommended that Gaeltacht status be based solely on
the strength of language use in an area. In the 1950s, Gaeltacht districts were initially defined
precisely and excluded many areas in which the number of Irish speakers had declined.It was not
officially recognized as a Gaeltacht area until 1967.

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