domingo, 21 de agosto de 2011

GEOGRAPHY


Capital: Belfast.
Is divided in 26 districts:
  1. Antrim
  2. Ards
  3. Armagh
  4. Ballymena
  5. Ballymoney
  6. Banbridge
  7. Belfast
  8. Carrickfergus
  9. Castlereagh
  10. Coleraine
  11. Cookstown
  12. Craigavon
  13. Derry
  1. Down
  2. Dungannon e South Tyrone
  3. Fermanagh
  4. Larne
  5. Limavady
  6. Lisburn
  7. Magherafelt
  8. Moyle
  9. Newry e Mourne
  10. Newtownabbey
  11. North Down
  12. Omagh
  13. Strabane
Located in Europe, and its climate is tempered and oceanic.
Main cities:
1.    Belfast
2.    Omagh
3.    Derry
4.    Bangor
Language:  english and irishan.


This song is considered the hymn of the country, but, in the fact, there isn’t one.


MAP



POLITIC


Is a constitutional monarchy, where the “head of State” is the monarch of UK. The population choose 18 members for the british parliament.
The Government
Constitutional Monarchy -
Monarch of the United Kingdom Isabel II
Prime Minister of the UK - David Cameron
Secretary of State - Shaun Woodward
Prime Minister - Peter Robinson

HOLYDAYS


01/01 - New Year’s Day


17/03 - St. Patrick’s Day


06/04 - Good Friday


09/04 - Easter Monday


12/07 - Orangefest


25/12 - Christmas Day


26/12 - Boxing Day 

CULTURE


They are influenced by the Republic of Ireland culture and the UK Culture.
Cookery
So long the Irish eat only potatoes. Later came the disease of potatoes and half the population died. So in Ireland there is not typical foods. Most people only eat the famous "fast food", But the cookery of the country Is divided in two categories: traditional, with simple plates and modern plates, served in restaurants.

Colcannon, “the typical plate”

Irish Stew


Boxty
Music and dance
The country is known for be a dynamic society contemporarym.  They love the tradition.  Has its proper cultere. Principal Instruments:  drum of Lambeg, violin and flute. All of the musics follow the traditional dances “Highland Dancing”, “Scottish Country Dancing” and “Ulster-Scots Square and Country Dancing”.
If you want tradition in a bigger scale, you need to go to the small village called Rostrevor for watch the Fiddler's Green Folk Festival, that receives the biggest parties of the country with music, dance and histories or theaters.