The Green Isle and land of the leprechaun, that's what non-Irish people first think of when they hear Ireland. Ireland, the country is the state that occupies much of the southern part of the island of Ireland. The constituent country is Northern Ireland which is port of the United Kingdom.
The flag of Ireland that represents the country is a tricolor of green, white, and orange.
A catholic nation, Ireland is most famous for its patron saint, St. Patrick. St. Patrick was known to have banished all serpents out of the island and until now, there are no snakes in Ireland. The Irish people and other citizens of the world who are of Irish descent celebrate the feast of St. Patrick with much merriment. But as they say everyone is an Irish every March 17, St. Patrick's Day. People wear green as green being St. Patrick's color and pin shamrocks on themselves. During this day, the Chicago river is even dyed green, and Boston, New York, and Philadelphia have their parades which dates back to the 1700s.
Ireland is synonymous to St. Patrick as it is to the
Irish Flag. It has an illustrious history, paired with it's struggle for selfhood from the more powerful neighbor, the United Kingdom. Ireland has also produced a lot of important people from the Irish king Brian Boru, to literary luminaries such as playwrights George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, to men of science like Robert Boyle of the famed Boyle's law, to music like Enya, and to Hollywood, who can forget James Bond alumni, Pierce Brosnan. There was a time when Ireland was so poor that a lot Irish immigrated to other nations, this is the widely-known Irish diaspora. One famous product of the Irish diaspora is one John F. Kennedy, one of the most beloved American president and icon of the American Camelot.
Ireland is not a very big country, in fact, it only has a little less than six million people. There are metropolis which have a bigger population. But it's influence and importance all over the world is undeniable.
by:
The Flagman
