historical facts about

Ireland

Tyr Chatenay
 The republic of Ireland ( Eire, south Ireland )

The republic of Ireland ( Eire, south Ireland ) got their independence in 1921.

They have a population of around 4.4 million people.

And they are 91% Catholic

The emblem of the republic of Ireland ( Eire, south Ireland ) is the shamrock
Northern Ireland ( Ulster )

Northern Ireland are the part of Ireland that is still part of the UK.

They have a population of around 1.8 million people

53% of them are protestants.

Protestants are the people that are against

Northern Ireland being a part of the UK.
Irish facts:

● The patron saint of Ireland is Saint Patrick

● They have around 4.7 million sheep ( almost more sheep than people )
● There is evidence of the human presence in Ireland dated 12,000 BC. This was proven by a bear
bone that was found in a cave. The bear bone had clear cut marks from stone tools.
● Ireland has some pretty strange and difficult to pronounce names for some of its towns, villages
and cities. The longest name of them all is Muckanaghederdauhaulia.
The great famine

Also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish
Potato Famine, was a period of starvation in ireland from 1845 to 1852.
During the great famine the country’s population fell by 20-25%
The cause of this famine was a mushroom named potato blight that infected potato crops throughout
Europe during the 1840s, the strained relations between many Irish and their ruling British government
worsened further because of the famine.
The Irish revolution

From 1912 to 1923

The revolution resulted in Ireland getting split apart into south Ireland ( Ulster )and the Republic of
Ireland ( south Ireland, Eire ).