Culture Identity N Ireland

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Culture Identity N Ireland

• Our We Comenius Project

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Our flag

• This flag is a banner of the arms of the old
  Government of Northern Ireland. The flag ceased
  to be official in 1973, but continues to be used
  by Unionists.
• This is the official flag of Northern Ireland

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A symbol of our Country

• The flax flower, representing the linen industry,
  has been used as a neutral symbol.

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Where we live
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Our School in the Community
Our school site
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Our School
Our school buildings
Our sports fields
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Our School
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Our Climate

• Like much of the country, Belfast has a temperate
  climate with significant rainfall. Average daily
  maximums are 18 C (64 F) in July, 6 C (43 F)
  in January.
• There is substantial rainfall on over two hundred
  days in an average year, and an annual rainfall
  total of approximately 846 millimetres (33.3 in)
• While sleet and snow fall occasionally in winter,
  as an urban, coastal area, snow lies in Belfast
  on an average of only 2-3 days per year. Belfast
  is not noted for its temperature extremes.
• The highest temperature recorded in Belfast was
  30.8 C (87.44 F) on 12 July 1983. The lowest
  temperature was -13 C (8.6 F).

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Capital / Population

• Belfast (from the Irish Béal Feirste meaning
  "Mouth of the sandy ford") is the capital of
  Northern Ireland.
• It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and
  the province of Ulster, and the second-largest
  city on the island of Ireland (after Dublin).
• In the 2001 census of the population within the
  city limits (the Belfast Urban Area) was 277,391,
  while 579,276 people lived in the wider Belfast
  Metropolitan Area.

City Hall Belfast
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Buildings of Belfast
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Buildings of Belfast
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Meeting and Greeting

• Good morning
• Good afternoon
• Good night
• How are you?

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A Landscape that we Love

• The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000
  interlocking basalt columns resulting from a
  volcanic eruption
• The tops of the columns form stepping stones that
  lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the
  sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, however
  there are some with four, five, seven and eight
  sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (36 ft)
  high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is
  28 metres thick in places.

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A famous poet of ours

• Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) was the eldest child of
  nine born to a farming family in, Northern
  Ireland.
• As a poet, Heaney has become both critically
  feted and publicly popular. Among his many awards
  are the Nobel Prize for Literature 1995 and the
  Whitbread prize (twice) he was made a Commandeur
  de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996

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A product of our country
The Titanic was a passenger liner that became
infamous for her collision with an iceberg on 14
April 1912 and dramatic sinking on 15 April 1912.
Built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in
Belfast, Titanic was the largest passenger
steamship in the world at the time of her
sinking.
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Culture of Belfast

• Belfast is evenly split between two distinct
  vibrant cultural communities simply described as
  Catholic and Protestant both of which have made
  their own contributions to the city's culture.
• Throughout the troubles Belfast continued to
  express itself through art and music.
• Today, it has a growing international cultural
  reputation as both communities move into the
  future to heal the divisions of the past and
  promote social growth for the future.

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Famous people from Belfast

• Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 22
  November 1963), commonly referred to as
  C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. He
  is best known today for his series The Chronicles
  of Narnia.

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Famous people from Belfast

• Sir James Galway (born December 8, 1939) is a
  Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flutist from
  Belfast, often called The Man With the Golden
  Flute.
• Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal,
  he became one of the first flutists to establish
  an international career as a soloist.
• Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in June 2001

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• Van Morrison (born August 31 1945) is a
  singer-songwriter from Belfast,
• He plays a variety of instruments, including the
  guitar, harmonica, keyboards, drums, and
  saxophone.
• Featuring his characteristic growl a unique mix
  of throaty folk, blues, Irish, scat, and Celtic
  influences Morrison is widely considered one of
  the most unusual and influential vocalists in the
  history of rock and roll.

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• "Katie" Melua born 16 September 1984) is a
  British-Georgian singer and musician, who was
  born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at
  the age of eight and then relocated to England at
  the age of 14.
• She is, as of 2006, the United Kingdom's
  biggest-selling female artist and Europe's
  highest selling European female artist.
• In November 2003, at the age of just 19, Melua
  released her first album, Call Off the Search,
  which reached the top of the United Kingdom album
  charts and sold 1.2 million copies within its
  first five months of release.

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Famous people from Belfast

• George Best (22 May 1946 25 November 2005) was
  a football player from Belfast.
• He won the European Cup with Manchester United,
  and was himself named the European Footballer of
  the Year, in 1968.
• He was a winger whose game combined pace,
  acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goal
  scoring and the ability to beat defenders.

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A Favourite Recipe from Belfast

• An Ulster fry is a dish of fried food that is
  popular throughout the province of Ulster in
  Ireland. Some claim it as the national dish of
  Northern Ireland.
• A traditional Ulster fry consists of bacon, eggs,
  sausages (either pork or beef), the farl form of
  soda bread, potato bread and tomatoes.
• Other common components include mushrooms, baked
  beans, wheaten bread and pancakes.