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CELINA'S CITY

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THE BRITISH ISLES

The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles.

Two sovereign states are located on the islands: The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The British Isles also include three dependencies of the British Crown: the Isle of Man and, by tradition, the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

THE IRISH FLAG

The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach na hÉireann) is a vertical tricolour of green, white and orange.

The Irish government has described the symbolism behind each colour as being that of green representing the Gaelic tradition of Ireland, orange representing the followers of William of Orange in Ireland, and white representing the aspiration for peace between them.

IRISH FOOD

SHAMROCK CUPCAKES

CELTIC SPIRALS

SHAMROCK SUGAR COOKIES

PEANUT BUTTER MICE

IRISH BREAKFAST

FULL BREAKFAST

A full breakfast is a substantial breakfast meal, usually consisting of bacon, sausages and eggs, often served with a variety of side dishes and a beverage such as coffee or tea. It is especially popular in the UK and Ireland.

The phrase "full breakfast" is used to differentiate it from the European continental breakfast traditionally consisting of tea, milk or coffee and fruit juices with croissants or pastries.

Many British and Irish cafés and pubs serve the meal at any time as an "all-day breakfast".

GUINNESS

GUINNES

Guinness is a popular Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725–1803) at St. James's Gate, Dublin. Guinness is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide. It is brewed in almost 60 countries and is available in over 100. 850 million litre are sold annually.

The draught beer's thick, creamy head comes from mixing the beer with nitrogen when poured. It is popular with Irish people both in Ireland and abroad, and, in spite of a decline in consumption since 2001, is still the best-selling alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness & Co. makes almost €2 billion annually.

TEA AND SCONES

TEA & SCONES

• It is well known the strong relationship that English people have with the tea.

• Tea & scones is a little pleasure that English and Irish people usually have between the lunch and the dinner time.

• Some time around 3 or 4 in the afternoon they have a break and a little pick-me-up to get some energy till night time.

SHAMROCK CELTIC SPIRAL

TRINITY KNOT CLADDAGH

• The shamrock refers to the young sprigs of clover or trefoil.

• It is known as a symbol of Ireland, with Trinity, according to legend.

• The name shamrock is derived from Irish seamróg, which is the diminutive version of the Irish word for clover (seamair) meaning simply "little clover" or "young clover".

• The trinity knot is a symbol that has been used by Christians as a sign of the Blessed Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), especially since the Celtic Revival of the 19th century.

• When modern designers began to display the triquetra as a stand-alone design, it recalled the three-leafed shamrock which was similarly offered as a Trinity symbol by Saint Patrick. 

• The Claddagh ring (Irish: fáinne Chladaigh) is a traditional Irish ring given which represents love, loyalty and friendship (hands represent friendship, heart represents love, crown represents loyalty). 

•  The design and customs associated with it originated in the Irish fishing village of Claddagh, located just outside the old city walls of Galway, now part of Galway City. The ring as we know it was first produced in the 17th century.

• The triple spiral or triskele is a Celtic and pre-Celtic symbol found on a numberof IrishMegalithic and Neolithic sites, most notably inside the Newgrange passage tomb.

CELTIC HARPCELTIC CROSS

•The celtic cross (Irish: cros Cheilteach) is a symbol that combines a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection. It belongs to a kind of crosses with a nimbus.

•  In the Celtic Christian world it was combined with the Christian cross  and became popular for funerary monuments and other uses, and has remained so, spreading well beyond Ireland.

•Cláirseach  is the generic Gaelic word for 'a harp', as derived from Middle Irish.

•  In English, the word is used to refer specifically to a variety of small Irish and Scottish harps.

• Three medieval Gaelic harps survived into the modern period, two from Scotland (the Queen Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp) and one in Ireland (the Trinity College harp, sometimes romantically called the Brian Boru harp)

HURLING

• Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht/Iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelicorigin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The game hasprehistoric origins, has been played for over 3,000 years,and is thought to be the world's fastest field team game in terms of game play.

• There is a similar game for women called camogie. It shares a common Gaelic root with the sport of shinty which is played predominantly in Scotland.

• The object of the game is for players to use a wooden stick called a hurley to hit a small ball called a sliotar between the opponents' goalposts either over the crossbar for one point, or under the crossbar into a net.

• The sliotar can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air, or struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked or slapped with an open hand for short-range passing. 

ENGLISH / GAELIC

•Ball / Liathróid

•Apple / Úll

•Book / Leabhar

•Teacher / Múinteor

ENGLISH / GAELIC

•Hello! / Dia Duit•Good bye! / Slán•Thanks! / Go raibh míle

maith agat.

•School / Scoil