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24 Cards in this Set
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Who were the Pre-Christian Irish?
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Celts
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True or False: Celtic tribes are polytheistic and animalistic
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True
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Celtic meanings of snakes, deer, dog, and horse
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snakes - rebirth/ eternal life
deer - growth cycles dog - hunters/ healers horse - beauty/ speed |
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Who brought Chritianity to Ireland?
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Romans, expanding the Roman Empire
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St Patrick drive out _____ and _____.
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snakes and druids
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shamrock = ____________
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trinity
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snake = _________
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symbol for druids
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List three Celtic influences
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knock on wood
mistletoe solstices |
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Samhain
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beginning of winter, when spirits and humans are close (Halloween)
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Imbolc
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beginning of spring, weather divination
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What is a Neo-druid?
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a born again druid
Stonehenge, solstice, and earth sky |
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Irish history post Romans was was religion?
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Christianity
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Protestant majority was in what part of Ireland?
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Northern
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Northern Ireland included:
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Belfast, U.K. province (England, Scotland)
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True or False: The entire republic of Ireland is a part of the U.K.
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false, only part of it is
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colonization, regression, and Irish potato famine all happened where?
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Republic of Ireland
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What are the languages in the Republic of Ireland?
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English and Irish Gaelic
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Republic of Ireland is what religious majority?
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Catholic
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When did the Republic of Ireland gain independence?
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1949
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2 big names in Irish literature and poetry
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William Butler Yeats
James Joyce |
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Radio Eireann
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has something to do with an Irish harp in 1926
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post war era was when?
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post 1949
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What happened in the post war era?
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1. Industrialisation and urbanisation
2. Economic prosperity 3. Fear of cultural loss |
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When was the Irish Music revival?
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1960s
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