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Ireland - Social, Religious, Changes | Britannica Ireland - Social, Religious, Changes: The close relationship between the Irish republic and the Roman Catholic Church was highlighted by the visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland in 1979, the first visit there by a reigning pontiff But the fraying of that relationship, signaled in the 1960s and ’70s by a collapse in vocations to the priesthood and a decline in attendance at mass, continued
Ireland - Celts, English, Religion | Britannica One regional distinction is that between the part of the country east of the River Shannon —with its industrial employment, fertile farmlands, economic growth, and rising standard of living—and the poorer areas of the west—particularly west Donegal, Leitrim, west Mayo, west Galway, Clare, west Cork, and south Kerry—where incomes were
Ireland - Neolithic, Megaliths, Burial Mounds | Britannica In Ireland the distribution indicates that these tomb builders sought well-drained grazing land, such as the Burren limestones in Clare, and also copper deposits, such as those on the Cork-Kerry coast and around the Silvermines area of Tipperary
Ireland - Sports, Recreation, Culture | Britannica In Ireland the distribution indicates that these tomb builders sought well-drained grazing land, such as the Burren limestones in Clare, and also copper deposits, such as those on the Cork-Kerry coast and around the Silvermines area of Tipperary
Ireland - Norse, Invasions, Aftermath | Britannica Desmond had sway in the counties of Limerick, Cork, Kerry, and Waterford; Ormonde in Tipperary and Kilkenny; and Kildare in Leinster Although both the Gaels and the Anglo-Irish had supported the Yorkist side in the Wars of the Roses, the Yorkist king Edward IV found them no less easy to subjugate than had his Lancastrian predecessors