The people are:        
The country is:    
The languages are:            
The name of Ireland
   in the Gaelic language is:   		 Irish
Ireland       
Gaelic and English
eire    say it like 'aira'
 shamrock

statue of liberty and immigrant family arriving in the US
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flute player

Saint Patrick's Day
 St. Patrick's Day Parade

Drummers at St. Patrick's Day Parade
More St. Patrick's Day Parade
Green hat at St. Patrick's Day Parade



Still more St. Patrick's Day Parade
Saint
Patrick
statue of Saint Patrick

Police playing bagpipes
Irish Dancers
Irish dancing




Dublin House pub in Dorchester









Most Irish immigrants are Catholic.

Communion

Mary

Preacher

Kneeling

Praying

Church

Bible

Cathedral







Irish Immigration Stamp
Bronze Famine Memorial Around 1845, potato plants in Ireland
started getting sick and dying.
Between 1845 and 1848
a million people
died of hunger
in Ireland.

In 1850, one in every four people in Boston was Irish.

 Famine Memorial

Mill Worker
Many young Irish women went to work in the mills in Lowell, and Lawrence, Massachusetts.










flag of Ireland















Statue of Liberty
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