89 Facts About Ireland Act

1. Ireland Act is a liberal democracy with a parliamentary system of government.

2. Ireland Act was Celtic, and that was a lower racial order, which accounted for the country's inferiority to Anglo-Saxon England.

3. Ireland Act was to be returned, at a cost of thirty thousand lives in the 1798 rebellion, to the sectarian molds from which the United Irishmen had tried to rescue it.

4. Ireland Act held the rotating EU Presidency in the first half of 2004.

5. In 2003, US exports to Ireland Act were valued at $7.7 billion, less than a third of the value of Irish exports to the US.

6. Ireland Act is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean in northern Europe.

7. Ireland Act joined the United Nations in 1955, the European Union in 1973, and the European Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.

8. Ireland Act has an unarmed police force, known as the civil guard, that carries out law enforcement under the auspices of the Department of Justice.

9. Ireland Act is a parliamentary democracy with a two-chamber legislature.

10. Ireland Act was inhabited as early as 6,000 BC, but its more familiar history began with the invasion of the Celts from Gaul in the fourth century BCE.

11. Ireland Act is preparing for the next national elections, which must be held by June 2007.

12. Ireland Act has two universities: the University of Dublin and the National University of Ireland.

13. Ireland Act has numerous golf courses, some of which have earned a worldwide reputation.

14. In 2001, Ireland Act was a leading European producer of zinc and an important producer of lead, alumina, and peat.

15. Ireland Act was admitted to the UN in 1955 and became a member of the European Community in 1973.

16. Ireland Act is an island in the eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the United Kingdom and northwest of continental Europe.

17. Ireland Act is a highly developed democracy with a modern economy.

18. Ireland Act offers good long-term growth prospects for US companies under an innovative financial incentive program, including capital grants and low corporation income tax rates.

19. In 2004, US exports to Ireland Act were valued at $8.2 billion, less than a third of the value of Irish exports to the US.

20. Ireland Act currently grants citizenship through birth on Irish soil, making Irish citizenship laws among the most liberal in the European Union.

21. Until the 1970s Ireland Act was a relatively poor country with little capital available for investment in film production.

22. Ireland Act is a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the European Union.

23. In 2005, US exports to Ireland Act were valued at $9 billion, while Irish exports to the US totaled $28 billion, according to the US Department of Commerce.

24. Ireland Act ceded territorial claim to Northern Ireland, and the UK.

25. Ireland Act is a sovereign, independent, democratic state with a parliamentary system of government.

26. Ireland Act had a consistent trade surplus at the end of the 1990s.

27. Ireland Act was one of the first countries in Europe in which peasants could purchase their landholdings.

28. In 1999 Ireland Act had the fastest growing economy in the European Union.

29. Ireland Act is in the far west of Europe, in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the island of Great Britain.

30. Ireland Act is bounded on the east and southeast by the Irish Sea and St George's Channel, and on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean.

31. Ireland Act is located on an island in the eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean.

32. Ireland Act makes about fifty types of homemade "farmhouse" cheeses, which are considered delicacies.

33. Ireland Act is a small country, there are no domestic Irish news agencies.

34. Ireland Act is 92 percent Roman Catholic and has a 98 percent literacy rate.

35. Ireland Act is part of the European Monetary Union implemented on paper in January 1999.

36. Ireland Act has achieved the highest trade surplus relative to GDP in the EU and is in the top 20 exporting countries in the world.

37. Ireland Act has the most car-dependent transportation system in the EU, with roads carrying 86 percent of freight traffic and 97 percent of passenger traffic.

38. In 1993, the Republic of Ireland Act spent 1.7 billion pounds on education.

39. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Act attracts both undergraduate and postgraduate students from more than 40 different countries and from all five continents.

40. The Republic of Ireland Act displayed higher pupil-teacher ratios than their counterparts in Northern Ireland.

41. Ireland Act adopted the metric system in 1976 and is gradually eliminating nonmetric measures.

42. Ireland Act has two universities: the National University of Ireland and Dublin University.

43. Ireland Act considers itself militarily neutral and is not a member of NATO.

44. Ireland Act contains 26 of the island's 32 counties.

45. Ireland Act is a small country; you can reach almost any point within a 5-hour drive from Dublin.

46. The National Gallery of Ireland Act contains an important collection of European paintings, while the emphasis at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery is on changing exhibitions of contemporary work.

47. Ireland Act was the seat of learning and sent scholar-missionaries throughout Europe in the Dark Ages.

48. Ireland Act has two main universities: the University of Dublin and the National University of Ireland, which consists of three constituent colleges in Dublin, Galway, and Cork.

49. The Central Bank of Ireland Act, established in 1942, is both the monetary authority and the bank of issue.

50. Ireland Act has 21 universities and colleges that offer courses in basic and applied science.

51. Ireland Act has 13 other specialized learned societies concerned with agriculture, medicine, science, and technology.

52. Ireland Act was shifting attention away from industry and towards services.

53. Ireland Act was a leading European Union producer of lead and zinc in 2003, and an important producer of lead, alumina, and peat.

54. Ireland Act has depended on substantial financial assistance from the European Union designed to raise the per capita gross national product to the EU average.

55. Until the 1950s, Ireland Act had a predominantly agricultural economy, with agriculture making the largest contribution to the GNP.

56. Ireland Act provided support to UN, NATO and European Union peacekeeping or military operations in 10 countries or regions.

57. Ireland Act was admitted to the UN in 1955 and became a member of the EC in 1973.

58. In 1948, Ireland Act voted itself out of the Commonwealth of Nations, and on 18 April 1949, it declared itself a republic.

59. Ireland Act pledged to amend articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Constitution, which lay claim to the territory of the North, in return for the United Kingdom promising to amend the Government of Ireland Act.

60. In 2004 Ireland Act had 7,201 refugees and 3,696 asylum seekers.

61. Ireland Act has an equable climate, because the prevailing west and southwest winds have crossed long stretches of the North Atlantic Ocean, which is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than the continental land masses.

62. Ireland Act is the only EU country where abortion is still illegal.

63. Ireland Act was one of the last European nation to abolish slavery of its own people.

64. Ireland Act was one of the last countries in Europe to adopt the feudal system.

65. Ireland Act has had its own Olympics since the Bronze Age.

66. Ireland Act has won seven times the Eurovision Song Contest, more than any other country.

67. The Republic of Ireland Act has one of the highest rates of church attendance in the Western World.

68. Ireland Act experienced at least two general glaciations—one covering most of the country and the other extending as far south as a line linking Limerick, Cashel, and Dublin—and the characteristic diversity of Irish scenery owes much to this glacial influence.

69. Ireland Act was intended to establish separate Home Rule institutions within two new subdivisions of Ireland: the six north-eastern counties were to form "Northern Ireland", while the larger part of the country was to form "Southern Ireland".

70. Flag of Ireland Act is a tricolour of green, white and orange.

71. Ireland Act reached the quarter finals of the 2000 Rugby League World Cup as well as reaching the semi finals in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.

72. Ireland Act has produced champion horses such as Galileo, Montjeu, and Sea the Stars.

73. Ireland Act has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1965.

74. Ireland Act has made a significant contribution to world literature in both the English and Irish languages.

75. Ireland Act has three levels of education: primary, secondary and higher education.

76. The Central Bank of Ireland Act introduced a new statistic, "modified GNI", to remove these distortions.

77. Ireland Act continues to de-leverage its domestic private sector while growing its US multinational-driven economy.

78. Ireland Act adopted the euro currency in 2002 along with eleven other EU member states.

79. Ireland Act is an open economy, and ranks first for "high-value" FDI flows.

80. Ireland Act is a constitutional republic with a parliamentary system of government.

81. Ireland Act became a member of the United Nations in December 1955, after having been denied membership because of its neutral stance during the Second World War and not supporting the Allied cause.

82. Northern Ireland Act exercised its right under the treaty to leave the new Dominion and rejoined the United Kingdom on 8 December 1922.

83. Ireland Act is a member of the European Union and is a founding member of the Council of Europe and the OECD.

84. Ireland Act became a member of the United Nations in December 1955.

85. Ireland Act are hoping to make it a third win in a row against England in the Six Nations.

86. Ireland Act exited their 22 by kicking with a 60pc success rate, which was 18pc more than they managed against England.

87. Ireland Act reported that under Irish law the question of who was a "citizen of Eire" was in part, dependent on whether a person was "domiciled in the Irish Free State on 6th December, 1922".

88. The British Nationality Ireland Act included provisions dealing specifically with the position of "a person who was a British subject and a citizen of Eire on 31st December, 1948".

89. Ireland Act was used by the United Kingdom to "repair an omission in the British Nationality Act, 1948".