1. The most kick-ass country in the world
2. Only country with a holiday celebrated world-wide.
3. Is not full of alcoholics.
4. No-Leprechauns aren't real you dumbasses.
5. If you're from there you rock!!
6. The greenest and most beautiful country.
7. Home to amazing musicians and actors. (U2, The Script, The Cranberries, Colin Farrell, etc.)
8. You are one lucky son of a bitch if you've got Irish blood running through your veins.
A beautiful country! full of the most Friendliest people you will ever meet! Beautiful women! Invented guinness and the colour green Beautiful culture and music! Incredible landscape Won eurovision more times then anyone else!
Sexiest accents ever. Irishmen can talk there way out of anything. Defeated the vikings and the english!
although i am not irish i wish i was!. The irish are just great
Seeing as Ireland's economy is on the rocks at the moment I though it'd be nice to remember some of the things that we can be proud of while we're on the road to recovery! (Oh and while I'm bored offshore!)
There's a disproportionately high amount of stuff to be proud of for such a small country... IRELAND IS AWESOME!!!
Literature:
1: Seamus Heaney (Yes England your Poet Laureate was once Irish! )
2: WB Yeats
3: George Bernard Shaw
4: Brian Friel
5: James Joyce (Possibly the most significant writer of the 20th Century)
6: Jonathan Swift
7: Samuel Beckett
Entertainment and Arts:
Where do we start here?!
1: U2
2: Enya
3: Riverdance
4: Daniel O Donnell
5: The Chieftans
6: Van Morrisson
7: Damien Rice
8: The Corrs
9: Sinead O' Connor
10: Clannad
11: The Cranberries
12: Westlife
13: Boyzone
14: The Pogues/Shane McGowan (Christmas just wouldn't be the same without them now would it?!)
15: Seven... Yes SEVEN Eurovision wins. Who else has done that???
16: Johnny Logan
Science and Exploration:
1: Robert Boyle (Boyles law's)
2: John Tyndall (Now you know why the sky is blue!)
3: Ernest Walton (Nuclear physicist)
4: Lord Kelvin.... Now why does "Kelvin" sound familiar???
5: Ernest Shackleton... Enough Said!
Sports:
1: Munster Rugby
2: Irelands rugby team. Grand Slam Winners 2009
3: Padraig Harrington. (Golfing Sensation)
4: Irelands Cricket Team (Surprisingly successful all of a sudden!)
Heritage:
We have three. Yes THREE UNESCO World Heritage Sites!!!
1: Skellig Michael
2: Bend of the Boyne
3: The Giants Causeway
That's all I can think of for now. Pretty amazing for 15mins research online. =D
" Ireland, IRELAND, together standing tall.
Shoulder, to shoulder....We'll answer IRELAND's CALL!!! "