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   Noahide Information - Ireland.   
   Ireland is a land made up of two nations – the Republic of Ireland and   
   Northern Ireland, which is a nation of the United Kingdom. The Irish people   
   speak English for the most part in the 21st century of the modern era, but old   
   Irish is still spoken in    
   places as well. The Irish band 'The Corrs' have a popular worldwide seller in   
   their album 'Home' which features traditional Irish songs in the Irish   
   language. The Irish people are rooted in celtic culture as well as Christian   
   religion. St Patrick is the    
   traditional source for establishing christianity in Ireland, and legend tells   
   that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland. Today Catholicism is the main   
   religion in the Republic of Ireland, but in Northern Ireland protestant   
   Christianity is particularly    
   strong. Throughout the 20th century there was much conflict between the Irish   
   Repblican Army (The IRA) and the British over Irish sovereignty. The IRA were   
   responsbile for terrorist acts in attempting to boot the British out of   
   Northern Ireland and    
   reunite Ireland to the way it had functioned for centuries before the British   
   moved in. This, by and large, has failed, with Northern Ireland remaining in   
   the Union. The Cranberries, an Irish band, released an album called 'No Need   
   to Argue' back in the    
   1990s (which has a magnficent picture of the band sitting on a couch in a   
   field with a Rainbow overhead) which featured the song Zombie, which was a   
   very popular hit worldwide condemning the hostilities between the warring   
   parties. The capital of the    
   Republic of Ireland is Dublin and the capital of Northern Ireland is Belfast.   
   The republic of Ireland is part of the European Union, and uses the Euro as   
   its currency. It has a population, as of 2016 of 4.7 million people. Northern   
   Ireland, being part of    
   the United Kingdom, left the European Union recently with Brexit. It utilizes   
   the pound as its currency, and has a population, as of 2011 of 1.8 million.   
   Ireland is famous for its music, celtic melody, which has a very distinct   
   sound to it, with merry    
   jigs and reels; its dancing, and shows like Riverdance have gone on to be   
   worldwide phenomenons; and its sarcasm. Like the Scots, Welsh and English,   
   there is an Irish sarcasm, which can indeed come thick and fast at times.   
   Famous Irish authors include    
   Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Bram Stoker,   
   famous for writing 'Dracula'. Modern Ireland, as of 2017, is quite a   
   prosperous country in current times, and after a lull in economic activity in   
   former years is doing quiet    
   well again. Famous Irish bands and artists include U2, the Corrs, Boyzone,   
   Ronan Keating, The Cranberries, the movie band 'The Commitments', Snow Patrol,   
   My Bloody Valentine, Westlife, The Irish Rovers and the Boomtown Rats.   
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