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• Dark Blue official language.
• Light Blue official, but not a primary
  language. 

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• U2

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• Enya

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• The Cranberries

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• James Joyce
• The novel Ulysses (1922),
• a short story collection Dubliners (1914),
• the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
  Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

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• Sinéad O'Connor.

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• Oscar Wilde
• Novel novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray,
• Plays The Importance of Being Earnest, Salomé and
  An Ideal Husband.

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• Riverdance

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• George Bernard Shaw
• Play Pygmalion (1912)on which My Fair Lady was
  based

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• The Corrs

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• Where are these people from?
• England
• South Africa
• USA
• Ireland

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• Ireland

The Republic of Ireland is the official
description of the sovereign state which covers
approximately five-sixths of the island of
Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. The
state's official name is Ireland (in the Irish
language Éire) and this is how international
organisations and residents usually refer to the
country. It is a member of the European Union,
has a developed economy and a population of
slightly more than 4.2 million. The remaining
sixth of the island of Ireland is known as
Northern Ireland and is part of the United
Kingdom. Source Wikipedia
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• Ireland and Northern Ireland

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• Republic of Ireland
• and
• Northern Ireland

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• Republic of Ireland

Capital Dublin Official Languages Irish and
English Government Republic Independence from
United Kingdom Declared 21 January
1919 Recognised 6 December 1922 Accession to
EU January 1, 1973
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• The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar
  Wilde

This play was a great triumph since its first
performance. Earnest is free of any melodrama it
brought irony, satire and verbal witt to English
drama. Yet follows an unusually clever plotline,
where alter egos adopt false identities while
adopting the name that was popular among women at
that time, Earnest.
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• Oscar Wilde and His Style

Oscar Wilde is known for his incisive and
scathing attach on Victorian values. A married
father of two, fell madly in love with Lord
Alfred Douglas. Oscar Wilde was sued by the
father of his lover and inprisioned. This way
hee falls from the heights of British society to
the depths of prison and exile. Oscar Wilde was
the first famous homosexual in history. One of
the 19th centurys greatest contributors to
literature, his epigrams are endlessly quoted.
His paradoxical parables remain inprint, most
notably The Picture of Dorian Gray. In his play
Salome, Wilde applies the musical technique of
constructing melodies by repeating words, phrases
and thoughts like musical motifs, the text is
very poetic and melodic and thus suits well for
musical arrangings.