Homework
• One more week to read Unit 2
• Chose 5 topics from the “Focal Points”
and write a few sentences
• next week “The Troubles”
• week after next we will review!
Ireland (Today’s Topics)
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Geography – Giant’s Causeway, Dublin
Writers and Artists
Music
Food and Drink
The Great Famine
St Patrick’s Day
Next week: unit 2 The Troubles
Ireland
Ireland is a large island west of Great Britain.
The island is divided into 2 parts. The
Northern part still belongs to Great Britain
and the rest of Ireland is a Republic.
Ireland
• Next week we will talk more about the
differences between Northern Ireland and
the Republic of Ireland (and “The Troubles”)
• We will also watch parts of the movie The
Wind that Shakes the Barley.
• Optional Movies: Hunger, In the Name of the
Father*, Michael Collins, The Boxer (?),
Bloody Sunday (?)
Mná na h-Éireann
“The Women of Ireland”
Tá bean in Éirinn a phronnfadh séad domh is mo sháith le n-ól
Is tá bean in Éirinn is ba bhinne léithe mo ráfla ceoil
Ná seinm théad; atá bean in Éirinn is níorbh fhearr léi beo
Mise ag léimnigh nó leagtha i gcré is mo thárr faoi fhód
Tá bean in Éirinn a bheadh ag éad liom mur' bhfaighfinn ach póg
Ó bhean ar aonach, nach ait an scéala, is mo dháimh féin leo;
Tá bean ab fhearr liom nó cath is céad dhíobh nach bhfagham go deo
Is tá cailín spéiriúil ag fear gan Bhéarla, dubhghránna cróin.
• Most people in Ireland only
speak English
• However, there are areas
where a majority of people can
speak Irish.
• For many years the Irish were
forbidden to speak their own
language in public. (During
British rule)
Ireland is known for it’s green color,
due to year-round rainfall. It is called
“The Emerald Isle” （绿宝石岛）
Ireland’s Tourist Spots
Two of Ireland’s famous tourist
destinations are the city of Dublin and
The Giant’s Causeway
Located in Northeast Ireland, The Giant’s
Causeway a natural tourist destination. The
Causeway is a large area of connected basalt (
玄武岩) columns. The columns were created
by an ancient volcano eruption (火山喷发).
The Giant’s Causeway
The basalt columns are created when the
lava (熔岩) cools. Most of the columns are
in a hexagonal shape (6-sides), like a
honeycomb (蜂巢).
tall basalt columns
Legend of Giant’s Causeway
The Legend says that an Irish giant, Finn
McCool, built the causeway (堤道) to go
fight a Scottish giant. However, on his
way to Scotland Finn fell asleep…
Legend of Giant’s Causeway
… Finn’s wife then covered him with a blanket
and told the Scottish giant that it was her
son. The Scottish giant saw how big the
“infant” was and ran away from Ireland. As
he ran, he broke the causeway.
The Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway
• Dublin has been one of the main cities of
Ireland for centuries, and Dublin’s history
goes back for over 1,000 years.
• Dublin is particularly famous for producing
some of the English language’s most
famous writers.
Dublin’s Literary History
• Nobel Prize Winners
William Butler Yeats
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Seamus Heaney
• Also: James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel
Beckett, Bram Stoker
William Butler Yeats
• Famous Irish poet. One of the few Nobel
Prize winners who is believed to have
written his greatest work after he won the
Nobel prize.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre (回旋)
The falcon (猎鹰) cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy (混乱) is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide (潮汐, 趋向) is loosed,
and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction (坚信), while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity (强度).
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Oscar Wilde
• A famous Irish writer, playwright, and poet.
• His comedies The Importance of Being
Earnest* and An Ideal Husband* are classic
• novel: Portrait of Dorian Gray
• Traditional Irish music includes ballads
and laments and also traditional dance
music.
• the 4 most popular modern Irish musicians
are:
1. U2 , 2. Enya （恩雅), 3. Van Morrison,
4. The Cranberries
• Is a song written by an Englishman, but is
considered more of an Irish anthem.
• It can be sung by a man or a woman, and
the meaning is either about a lover or a
child leaving home.
O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen (山谷), and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone and all the roses falling;
It‘s you, it’s you must go and I must bide (等).
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley‘s hushed (安静) and white with snow.
Yes, I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow;
Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so!
But when ye come, and all the flow'rs are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be.
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me. (Ave, a prayer)
And I shall hear, though soft you tread (走)above me;
And oh my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me;
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!
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• Irish food is generally considered quite
simple. For hundreds of years potatoes
have been the main food. Like the rest of
Europe, milk, sausages, soups, and
breads are also traditionally eaten.
Irish stew with pork, carrots,
and potatoes. Probably eaten
with bread, butter, and beer.
Irish stew (again….)
Irish Breakfast Tea
Many Irish like to drink
black tea daily.
Many people add
milk or lemon. Most
of their black tea is
imported from India.
• Aka “the full breakfast”
Beans
sausage
mushrooms
Black pudding
bacon
Fried
Potato cake
“hash-brown”
Scrambled
eggs
Also will include
toasted bread
and black tea
The Irish Breakfast (again…)
Colcannon
(seaweed and mashed potatos)
The Great Potato Famine
1845-1852
Potato blight
• estimated 1 million died of disease and
starvation
• estimated more than 1 million people left
Ireland
• The Irish population has
still not “recovered”
American-Irish
• By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter (1/4)
of the population in Boston, New York
City; Philadelphia and Baltimore. Also
many American mining communities.
• (wikipedia)
• Movies: Gangs of New York, The
Departed*, In America
Famine memorial in Dublin
• ooz
The Irish are famous for their alcohol.
Especially Guinness beer and Irish
Whiskey (Jameson). Bailey’s Irish Cream
is also a popular drink nowadays.
A pub (“public house”) is a bar, and
many Irish people will often visit the
pub to socialize, drink, eat, watch
sports, listen to music and discuss
important topics
• In 2003, Ireland had the second-highest
per capita alcohol consumption in the
world, just below Luxembourg at 13.5 litres
(per person 15 or more years old),
according to the OECD Health Data 2009
survey
• In other words, Irish people drink
more than anyone else in the
world (according to the survey)
“Pub Crawl”
A popular tourist activity in Dublin is a “pub
crawl,” in which tourists will visit the famous
pubs, learn about the city’s history, and
sample beers, wines, and other drinks.
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St Patrick’s Day
• Every year on March 17, many people all
over the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
• Originally, St. P’s Day was just a Catholic
holiday, but it became more secular and is
now a way for people to celebrate Irish
culture all over the world.
• Catholic Saint, Ireland’s “patron”
Saint
• He was British, and kidnapped by
Irishmen and forced to become a
slave
• He escaped, but later came back
to tell the Irish about Christianity
• Legend says he used the
shamrock to teach about the
Trinity
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The Secret of Roan Inish
(The Island of the Seals)
The Secret of Roan Inish
(The Island of the Seals)
• Roan Inish is the name of an island
• Fiona’s mother died. She goes to live with
her grandparents.
• The families used to all live on Roan
Inish, but everyone left.
• Grandfather tells the story about the day
everyone left Roan Inish and the day they
last saw her baby brother, Jaime.
The Secret of Roan Inish
(The Island of the Seals)
• Later, her grandfather and her cousin take
Fiona to the island.
• The men go fishing while Fiona explores
the island and finds some strange things.
The Secret of Roan Inish
• In the next scene, Fiona meets her
dark, “daft” cousin, who tells her a
legend about their family.
• selkie: ½ man ½ animal
• Fiona then later returns to the island
and makes more discoveries.
The Secret of Roan Inish
• Fiona tells her cousin that she thinks the
seals will give back her brother if they
move back to the island
• Fiona and her cousin make an agreement
to fix the houses (scenes with Irish music
and landscape)
• T.e.
The Secret of Roan Inish
• A storm is coming.
• Fiona says, “I hope Jamie comes in out of
the storm.”
• Fiona explains what she has seen to
grandmother
• Grandmother believes Fiona
• They go the island to try to find and take
care of Jaime
• An Old Irish Blessing
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.