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	Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Ireland, a region of the United Kingdom.
		Ireland is separated from Britain by the Irish Sea and from mainland Europe by the Celtic Sea.
		92% of the population of the Republic of Ireland are Roman Catholic, and 40% in Northern Ireland.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/i/ir/ireland.html (2422 words)

	Economic history of the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 1980s Ireland was referred to as the 'sick man of Europe' [1] and was far behind its European rivals - frequent changes in government compounded the situation.
		The 1980s in the Republic of Ireland was one of the state's bleakest times.
		After joining the ERM in 1979, Ireland was also saddled for much of the 1980s with an overvalued currency, which wasn't rectified until the 1986 devaluation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland (1362 words)

	Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northern Ireland is unofficially known as "The North" (by nationalists and residents in the Republic of Ireland), the Six Counties (by nationalists) and "Ulster" (by unionists) (Ulster also includes Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan, which are in the Republic).
		The GAA is organised on an all-Ireland basis with all 32 counties competing; traditionally, counties first compete within their province, in the provincial championships, and the winners then compete in the All-Ireland senior hurling or football championships.
		Ireland's largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism (about 70% for the entire island, and over 90% for the Republic), and most of the rest of the population adhere to one of the various Protestant denominations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ireland (6478 words)

	IRELAND FACTS AND HISTORY
		In the late 1980s forestland occupied nearly 5% of Ireland's total area; the annual output of roundwood was 1.2 million cu m (42.3 million cu ft).
		Judicial authority in Ireland is vested in a supreme court, a high court, a court of criminal appeal, and circuit and district courts.
		Republic of Ireland, On Easter Monday, April 18, 1949, by the terms of the Republic of Ireland Bill approved by the Dáil in November 1948, Eire became the Republic of Ireland, formally free of allegiance to the British crown and the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/irelandhistory/1998.html (5493 words)

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		Ireland is quite unique in that we have a model of social partnership, which means that the country is essentially run on a consensus basis.
		The Economist magazine said recently of Ireland that "Ireland was the poorest country in the EU ten years ago, and it was destined to remain that." And today, it is the region's star, and it referred to us as the "Emerald Isle," and that is a fact.
		Ireland is now fast catching up, we hope, with some of the world leaders in terms of the infrastructure and the legislation, and we believe that's important.
	www.giic.org /events/1999annual/maryharney.asp (4668 words)

	Music of the United Kingdom (1980s) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early 1980s, the death of Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) and the alleged selling-out of bands like The Clash and The Jam led to still-frequent cries that punk is dead.
		By the end the 1980s, a uniquely British spin on house music, known as "acid house" had emerged as a result of the underground party scene based around, amongst others, the so-called "Orbital" raves near the M25 motorway of London.
		It was in the early 1990s after the so-called "Summer of Love" in the late 1980s that the concept of an outdoor rave began.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_the_United_Kingdom_(1980s) (1760 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy - Maine Policy Review - The Celtic Tiger: Ireland's Economic Success ...
		Ireland represents the most westerly part of Europe and, in recent years, with the completion of the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France, Ireland became the only island off the coast of Europe.
		Ireland is the only base in Europe for Intel, which employs more than four thousand people in two wafer fabrication facilities, and Dell Computer, which every year ships hundreds of thousands of personal computers all over Europe from their only manufacturing base in Limerick, Ireland, and for many other world-class corporations.
		Ireland has been fortunate to have an outstanding and largely free inheritance in second-level education by the teaching orders—the priests and nuns and brothers who did not have the family commitments of other lay teachers, and who gave of their time above and beyond the call of duty.
	www.umaine.edu /MCSC/MPR/Vol9No1/mcgowan.htm (3372 words)

	Free Essay Ireland Economic Data
		Ireland's story is unique: a small, English-speaking, non-industrialised country on the edge of Europe was able to secure structural funds from the EU, cut taxes, deregulate faster than its neighbours and attract lots of foreign companies in the process.
		Today, one-third of immigrants are returning Irish nationals, and for many the Ireland of their homecoming is unrecognisable from the place they left, not least the low-tax regime that has released energy and enterprise, that has generated self-confidence, created jobs and helped raise living standards.
		Ireland's unemployment rate in 1993 was over 15 per cent, and its GDP per capita was less than 70 per cent of the European Union (EU) average.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26523 (4160 words)

	CAIN: CSC: Report: Majority Minority Review 3: Housing and Religion in Northern Ireland, Section 6
		In response to the increase in the private sector during the 1980s the planned output of the NIHE was revised downwards.
		The downturn in private sector activity in the late 1980s was attributed to lower demand caused by a combination of high interest rates and increased migration amongst those in the household formation age-group.
		Those households considering purchasing their home in the early 1980s who were renting their dwellings prior to 1972 would have had the advantage of lower historic cost and considerable discount as a result of the length of time in residence.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /csc/reports/mm36.htm (7008 words)

	Benchmarking School Science, Technology and Mathematics Education in Ireland Against International Good Practice : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the 1980s, Ireland’s output stagnant, inflation was at 10% per annum and unemployment was close to 17%, and would been higher had it not been for emigration.
		The fiscal prudence of the late 1980s and the 1990s has helped Ireland to overcome many of the problems that were faced in trying to reduce the budget deficit and the government debt.
		Ireland’s trade surplus for 1998 was 30% of GNP compared with 22% in 1997 and 20% in 1996.
	www.forfas.ie /icsti/statements/benchmark/appendix3.htm (5046 words)

	Feature Article of the Month
		Ireland has no intention of retreating from more tax cuts, but some forces in the EU would like to stop them before the revolution spreads.
		Ireland's supply-siders came to power because of a government financial crisis: an unmanageable deficit, amounting to 14 percent of GDP, and a crushing burden of debt.
		In the 1980s the developed country with the lowest tax rate was Hong Kong with a top rate of 17 percent.
	www.goldhaven.com /ioi/Feature.htm (2678 words)

	Irish Times: Ireland in the 1980s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Let’s be clear about one thing first - the burgeoning nostalgiafor all things 1980s is all very fine and well in other countries,where the decade is a synonym for bad taste, wide shoulders,legwarmers and loadsamoney, and ripe for the sort ofaffectionate parody we saw in movies such as The WeddingSinger.
		Northern Ireland was a bleak, hopeless morass.We now know that the country was being run into the groundby crooks and incompetents (truth be told, we had a prettygood idea of that at the time).
		It may take a while for the keysignifiers of any decade to kick in, but with Ireland there’salways a feeling that we’re lagging a decade behind.
	www.u2world.com /news/article.php3?id_article=3223 (418 words)

	Ireland's Paper Tiger - Global Policy Forum - Globalization
		A relative laggard in economic and social development in the late 1980s, Ireland posted some of the world's highest rates of growth in the second half of the 1990s.
		Ireland's national debt had almost doubled in four years and was, in per capita terms, three times that of Mexico's.
		Despite Ireland's small size, its share of all U.S. foreign direct investment into the European Union averaged well over 5 percent annually over most of the 1990s.
	www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/special/2001/56celtic.htm (1015 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ireland has successfully put into place a set of policies to attract companies and their research activities, as has Finland.
		Today, Ireland is, on a per capita basis, one of Europe's wealthiest countries.50 In 1990, Ireland's per capita GDP of $12,891 (in current US dollars) ranked it 23rd of the 30 OCED member countries.
		By 2002, Ireland's per capita GDP had grown to $32,646, making it 4th highest among OECD member countries.51 Ireland's unemployment rate (as a percentage of the total percentage of total labor force) was 13.4% in 1990.
	darwin.nap.edu /books/0309100399/html/17.html (5956 words)

	[Grovenet] Learning from Lance
		Well, in the mid-1980s Ireland took a radical course of slashing public expenditure, abolishing agencies and cutting taxes and regulations.
		Ireland is now a technologically advanced economy with a well-educated labour force, many with experience of working abroad.
		The real attraction of Ireland is the absence of restrictions on doing business.
	www.rdrop.com /pipermail/grovenet/2005-July/007229.html (554 words)

	ireland.com - The Irish Times - IRELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Charles J. Haughey: as the 1980s began, it was assumed he would be a dynamic Taoiseach, a man who would get things done, who had made himself rich and would do the same for the country.
		The plain people of Ireland were told time beyond number that Haughey was a political thug and still they elected him.
		As the 1980s began, it was assumed that Haughey would be a dynamic Taoiseach, a man who would get things done.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/special/1999/eyeon20/1980e.htm (1756 words)

	Irish television drama in the 1980s by Helena Sheehan
		Ireland found its own confused and contradictory ways of combining old and new, of welding anachronistic traditions to the latest technologies, Knock being the most potent symbol of its ironic mixture of apparitions and airplanes.
		Ireland's experience of finding its way and giving cultural expression to its experience in an increasingly cosmopolitan context meant many new twists and turns to old traditions and the emergence of all sorts of hybrid phenomena.
		It was a whimsical "all their wars are merry" view of Ireland, which might have been amusing to the sort of circussy crowd that gathered at Beaubourg on a sunny day, but it was ridiculous to an Irish audience.
	www.comms.dcu.ie /sheehanh/80s-itvd.htm (19918 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Country profiles \| Timeline: Ireland
		It declines to join NATO because Northern Ireland is part of United Kingdom.
		He states in public that the unity of Ireland cannot be achieved by force.
		Ireland receives a guarantee that its strict abortion law will not be affected.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1038669.stm (842 words)

	Eileen Ciesla: "Laetitia's Lament" (France's prettiest lady splits for levy-shelter) [Free Republic]
		Ireland is in a supply-side boom, embarrassing Brussels Eurocrats who predicted disaster and reminding them just how much they hate the very idea of trimming taxes.
		Ireland is not interested in modest tax cuts, or modest growth.
		And yes, Ireland's EU partners do see the career fairs as another example of "poaching" by an Ireland growing too fast for comfort.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b2f06687445.htm (4856 words)

	The Progressive Building Society, The 1980s, Northern Ireland's Local Building Society Investments, Mortgages, in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Between 1981 and 1984 the Society grew by 300% with a level of reserves double that of the statutory requirement.
		At least part of that success was due to its firm roots in Northern Ireland and its knowledge of local character and preferences.
		This distinctiveness was reflected in the Society's advertising and marketing activity, an area which received increasing prominence in the media saturated 1980's.
	www.theprogressive.com /about_us/the_1980s (257 words)

	Ireland Artists Ceramics Visual Arts Arts
		There's this wonderful arch eological guide" to megaliths in Ireland, she said...
		Galway IndependentOnline resource for artists launchedGalway Independent, Ireland - Jul 19, 2006A new online resource for artists in Ireland, InspirationIreland.com, will be launched in Massimo?s Bar, New St West this Friday, 21 July, at 6.30pm as part...
		Taking place over the course of 10 packed days, some of the finest traditional musicians, singers and dancers from Ireland,...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Visual_Arts/Ceramics/Artists/Ireland (359 words)

	[Grovenet] Republic of Ireland, Was: Learning from Lance
		Krystof --- David Morelli wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 03:45 PM, Krystof > Zmudzinski wrote: > > > Well, in the mid-1980s Ireland took a radical > course > > of slashing public expenditure, abolishing > agencies > > and cutting taxes and regulations.
		> > > > Ireland is now a technologically advanced economy > with a well-educated > > labour force, many with experience of working > abroad.
		Employees are relatively free to hire > and fire, and social > > security payments are much lower than in other EU > countries.
	www.rdrop.com /pipermail/grovenet/2005-July/007250.html (529 words)

	1980s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		are signs in Tokyo of a return to the extravagant and inefficient investments that became the hallmark of Japanese business behaviour in the 1980s and which is...
		Round 16 will celebrate the 1980s, a decade remembered for bright guernseys, tight shorts, great music and crazy fashion.
		Former president Chun Doo-hwan ordered conscription of student activists in the early 1980s, according to a government investigation.
	www.freedownloadsoft.com /news/1980s.html (352 words)

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