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63/Ireland-Capitals.PNG/280px-Ireland-Capitals.PNG Ireland is situated in Western Europe. The capital city of Ireland is Dublin. Another important cities are: Cork Galway Limerick Waterford

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BC - Celts arrive on the island 430 – 490 – St. Patrick lived on the island About 700 – Ireland was divided into 150 small kingdoms 795 – Vikings beg a n to attack Ireland 814 – Vikings founded Dublin B attle of Clontarf 23rd April 1916 – Easter U prising Irish government is formed illegal April the outbreak of the C ivil W ar between IRA and Irish Free State Army 1949 – Ireland is officially a r ebublic 1959 – Eamon de Valera became a president of Ireland 2002 – Ireland adopted the euro tbn2.gstatic.com/i mages?q=tbn:ANd 9GcQ53100V0Pxl Wtupr7iIKaeTcfTS yEoiRWQesxtGYqP 2hBCAXMD3A

It’s celebrated on 17th March. The most important tradition is wearing clothes only in green colour. Irish people in the most of cities organize festivals and street parades. The main symbols of this festival are: shamrock, pot of gold and Leprechaun. org/wikipedia/commons /thumb/8/8c/Shamrock.svg/375px- Shamrock.svg.png mage/800px/svg_to_png /190500/pot-of-gold.png ultusk/files/2014/01/patry k_1_12-150x150.jpg

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Leprechaun is a midget who knows where all treasures are hid d e n. He always ha s 2 purses. One with gold coin and one with silver coin. People meet him very rarely. If you catch one of them, he’ll tell you where the treasure is but he won’t give you his riches. Because of L eprechauns there is an idiom: „ T he treasure is at the other end of a rainbow” which means that it’s uncatchable. pedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/20 06_AEGold_Proof_Rev.png/170p x-2006_AEGold_Proof_Rev.png pedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/2 006_AESilver_Proof_Obv.png/22 0px- 2006_AESilver_Proof_Obv.png ds/photo/2013/07/12/17/20/ luck _640.png

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