1. An English Speaking Culture Dark Blue Dark Blue: official language. Light Blue: official, but not a primary language.

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3. An English Speaking Culture Enya

4. An English Speaking Culture The Cranberries

5. An English Speaking Culture James Joyce The novel Ulysses (1922), Ulysses a short story collection Dubliners (1914),short story Dubliners the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManFinnegans Wake

6. An English Speaking Culture Sinéad O'Connor. Sinéad O'Connor

7. An English Speaking Culture Oscar Wilde Novel novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray,The Picture of Dorian Gray Plays The Importance of Being Earnest, Salomé and An Ideal Husband.

8. An English Speaking Culture Riverdance

9. An English Speaking Culture George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw Play Pygmalion (1912)—on which My Fair Lady was basedPygmalionMy Fair Lady

10. An English Speaking Culture The Corrs

11. An English Speaking Culture Where are these people from? England South Africa USA Ireland

12. An English Speaking Culture Ireland The Republic of Ireland is the official description of the sovereign state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. The state's official name is Ireland (in the Irish language: Éire) and this is how international organisations and residents usually refer to the country. It is a member of the European Union, has a developed economy and a population of slightly more than 4.2 million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as Northern Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom. Source: Wikipedia

13. An English Speaking Culture Ireland and Northern Ireland

14. An English Speaking Culture Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

15. An English Speaking Culture Republic of Ireland Capital: Dublin Official Languages: Irish and English Government: Republic Independence from United Kingdom Declared: 21 January 1919 Recognised: 6 December 1922 Accession to EU: January 1, 1973

16. An English Speaking Culture The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar Wilde This play was a great triumph since its first performance. Earnest is free of any melodrama; it brought irony, satire and verbal witt to English drama. Yet follows an unusually clever plotline, where alter egos adopt false identities while adopting the name that was popular among women at that time, Earnest.

17. An English Speaking Culture Oscar Wilde and His Style Oscar Wilde is known for his incisive and scathing attach on Victorian values. A married father of two, fell madly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. Oscar Wilde was sued by the father of his lover and inprisioned. This way hee falls from the heights of British society to the depths of prison and exile. Oscar Wilde was the first famous homosexual in history. One of the 19th century’s greatest contributors to literature, his epigrams are endlessly quoted. His paradoxical parables remain inprint, most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray. In his play Salome, Wilde applies the musical technique of constructing melodies by repeating words, phrases and thoughts like musical motifs, the text is very poetic and melodic and thus suits well for musical arrangings.