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		<title>Irish Dancing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Irish dancing has seen a major boost in recent years with the global success of Riverdance and, Michael Flatley’s, Lord of the Dance. There are three dance schools that operate in Crawley who wish to extend their welcome for more participants.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/irish-dancing/</link>
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		<title>Ireland and the Cricket World Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ireland has rarely been considered a cricketing nation, but the 2007 Cricket World Cup began a new chapter in Ireland’s sporting history as Ireland reached the “Super 8” stage of the competition.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/ireland-and-the-cricket-world-cup/</link>
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		<title>History of Irish Gaelic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Old Irish is the earliest variant of the Celtic languages, and the earliest of European vernaculars north of the Alps, in which extensive writings still exist.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/history-of-irish-gaelic/</link>
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		<title>Irish Contribution To Literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the English language reached Ireland during the Middle Ages, the first major flowering of English literature in Ireland came during the eighteenth century.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/irish-contribution-to-literature/</link>
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		<title>Varieties of Irish Gaelic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Old Irish was the language of Ireland’s ‘Golden Age’, and its classical phase is generally assigned to the period AD 700-850. Old Irish evolved into Middle Irish, the language of the late Viking and post-Viking period. In comparison with Old Irish, Middle Irish is characterized by a simplification of the inflections of noun and verb and of the system of pronouns.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/varieties-of-irish-gaelic/</link>
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		<title>Irish Stout: The Black Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stout, or The Black Stuff, has been closely associated with Ireland for decades with its most popular variety, Guinness, ranking high as Ireland’s most famous export.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/irish-stout-the-black-stuff/</link>
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		<title>The Fields of Athenry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fields of Athenry is a folk song about the Great Irish Famine, of the 1840s and tells a story through first-person narrative.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/the-fields-of-athenry/</link>
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		<title>Shorter History of Ireland (1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: pre-history to 1600 - Ireland’s location and proximity to Britain has in large measure shaped her history. From the earliest of times, migration and assimilation impacted the development of Ireland for millennia.
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		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/shorter-history-of-ireland-1/</link>
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		<title>Shorter History of Ireland (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 2: 1600s to Modern Day - From the Flight of the Earls to the Peace Process]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/shorter-history-of-ireland-2/</link>
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		<title>Flags of Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with many nations, there are a number of flags that represent Ireland at home and abroad. The flags represented here are those of the nation of Ireland (often referred to as the Republic of Ireland).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.celtic-irish.co.uk/resources/flags-of-ireland/</link>
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