IRISH CULTURE POWER POINT

1. •LONDON
•DUBLIN
CELINA'S CITY
•LIMERICK

2. THE BRITISH ISLES
The British Isles are a group of islands off the
northwest coast of continental Europe that
include the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and
over six thousand smaller isles.
Two sovereign states are located on the islands:
The Republic of Ireland and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.
The British Isles also include three
dependencies of the British Crown: the Isle of
Man and, by tradition, the Bailiwick of Jersey
and the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel
Islands.

4. THE IRISH FLAG
The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach
na hÉireann) is a vertical tricolour of
green, white and orange.
The Irish government has described the
symbolism behind each colour as being that
of green representing the Gaelic tradition
of Ireland, orange representing the
followers of William of Orange in Ireland,
and white representing the aspiration for
peace between them.

5. IRISH
FOOD

6. SHAMROCK
CUPCAKES

7. CELTIC SPIRALS

8. SHAMROCK SUGAR
COOKIES

9. PEANUT BUTTER
MICE

10. IRISH BREAKFAST

11. FULL BREAKFAST
A full breakfast is a substantial breakfast meal,
usually consisting of bacon, sausages and eggs,
often served with a variety of side dishes and a
beverage such as coffee or tea. It is especially
popular in the UK and Ireland.
The phrase "full breakfast" is used to
differentiate it from the European continental
breakfast traditionally consisting of tea, milk
or coffee and fruit juices with croissants or
pastries.
Many British and Irish cafés and pubs serve the
meal at any time as an "all-day breakfast".

12. GUINNESS

13. GUINNES
Guinness is a popular Irish dry stout that
originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness
(1725–1803) at St. James's Gate, Dublin.
Guinness is one of the most successful beer
brands worldwide. It is brewed in almost 60
countries and is available in over 100. 850
million litre are sold annually.
The draught beer's thick, creamy head comes
from mixing the beer with nitrogen when
poured. It is popular with Irish people both in
Ireland and abroad, and, in spite of a decline in
consumption since 2001, is still the best-selling
alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness &
Co. makes almost €2 billion annually.

14. TEA AND SCONES

15. TEA & SCONES
• It is well known the strong relationship
that English people have with the tea.
• Tea & scones is a little pleasure that
English and Irish people usually have
between the lunch and the dinner time.
• Some time around 3 or 4 in the afternoon
they have a break and a little pick-me-up
to get some energy till night time.

16. SHAMROC
K
CELTIC SPIRAL
TRINITY
KNOT
CLADDAG
H

17. •The shamrock refers to the young sprigs
of clover or trefoil.
• It is known as a symbol of Ireland, with Trinity,
according to legend.
• The name shamrock is derived from Irish
seamróg, which is the diminutive version of the
Irish word for clover (seamair) meaning
simply "little clover" or "young clover".
•The trinity knot is a symbol that has been
used by Christians as a sign of the Blessed
Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), especially
since the Celtic Revival of the 19th century.
• When modern designers began to display the
triquetra as a stand-alone design, it recalled the
three-leafed shamrock which was similarly
offered as a Trinity symbol by Saint Patrick.

18. •The Claddagh ring (Irish: fáinne
Chladaigh) is a traditional Irish ring given
which represents love, loyalty and friendship
(hands represent friendship, heart represents
love, crown represents loyalty).
• The design and customs associated with it
originated in the Irish fishing village of
Claddagh, located just outside the old city
walls of Galway, now part of Galway City.
The ring as we know it was first produced in
the 17th century.
•The triple spiral or triskele is a Celtic
and pre-Celtic symbol found on a numberof
IrishMegalithic and Neolithic sites, most
notably inside the Newgrange passage tomb.

19. CELTIC HARP
CELTIC CROSS

20. •The celtic cross (Irish: cros Cheilteach) is
a symbol that combines a cross with a ring
surrounding the intersection. It belongs to a kind
of crosses with a nimbus.
• In the Celtic Christian world it was combined
with the Christian cross and became popular for
funerary monuments and other uses, and has
remained so, spreading well beyond Ireland.
•Cláirseach is the generic Gaelic word for 'a
harp', as derived from Middle Irish.
• In English, the word is used to refer specifically
to a variety of small Irish and Scottish harps.
• Three medieval Gaelic harps survived into the
modern period, two from Scotland (the Queen
Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp) and one in
Ireland (the Trinity College harp, sometimes
romantically called the Brian Boru harp)

21. HURLING

22. • Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht/Iomáint) is an
outdoor team game of ancient Gaelicorigin,
administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association.
The game hasprehistoric origins, has been played
for over 3,000 years,and is thought to be the
world's fastest field team game in terms of game
play.
• There is a similar game for women called camogie.
It shares a common Gaelic root with the sport
of shinty which is played predominantly in
Scotland.
• The object of the game is for players to use a
wooden stick called a hurley to hit a small ball
called a sliotar between the opponents' goalposts
either over the crossbar for one point, or under
the crossbar into a net.
• The sliotar can be caught in the hand and carried
for not more than four steps, struck in the air, or
struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be
kicked or slapped with an open hand for short-
range passing.

23. ENGLISH / GAELIC
•Ball /
Liathróid
•Apple / Úll
•Book /
Leabhar
•Teacher / Múinteor

24. ENGLISH / GAELIC
•Hello! / Dia Duit
•Good bye! / Slán
•Thanks! / Go raibh
míle
maith agat.
•School / Scoil