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)

• 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 ).….

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”

Fried Potato cake“hash-brown”

Black pudding

Beans

mushrooms

bacon

Scrambled eggs

sausage

Also will include toasted bread and black tea

The Irish Breakfast (again…)

Colcannon (seaweed and mashed potatos)

The Great Potato Famine1845-1852

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

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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.