The banshee is a spirit and is considered to be an omen of death. The banshee roams the countryside and can be heard wailing when she predicts a death. The word banshee comes from the Irish bean sí (pronounced ban-shee) which translates as woman of the fairy mounds. She can appear in a number of guises, as a young beautiful …
Banshee (pronounced BAN-shee) is the English spelling of bean sidhe, the name of a fairy of Irish and Celtic folklore. Banshees were omens of death and let out a howl that chilled listeners to the bone. The banshee's nighttime howling warned people that a death was about to take place. When an important or holy person was about to die ...
For years, the group (like other Irish artists) benefited from an Artists Tax Exemption, set up in the late 1960s, to encourage creative types to stay in their homeland. In U2's case, the exemption kept them from being taxed on royalties, although they were still on the hook for income from, say, concert sales.
The volume of mortgage lending in Ireland is growing, which means it's gradually getting easier to secure a home loan. However, banks are still very careful about giving out funding, and you can expect to be asked for a broad range of documents to prove that any loan will be affordable for you. This handy guide covers which banks offer ...
Ireland was neutral in World War II and continues its policy of military neutrality. Ireland joined the European Community in 1973 and the euro-zone currency union in 1999. The economic boom years of the Celtic Tiger (1995-2007) saw rapid economic growth, which came to an abrupt end in 2008 with the meltdown of the Irish …
Pangur Bán or "White Pangur" is an anonymous poem written in Old Irish around the 9 th century originating, it is presumed, from the Abbey of Reichenau; a Benedictine Monastery founded on an island of the Rhine River in 724 AD by the itinerant Saint Pirmin. Download: Pangur Bán a 9th C. Old Irish Poem | The Original Irish …
England's trade with Ireland, after the Cattle Bill, fell precipitously. Its barrelled beef industry, once a lynchpin of the economy of the south-east, lost out to its Irish rivals. Potentially of even greater hazard to England's interests was Ireland's increasingly close trading relationship with the Dutch, and, God forbid, the French ...
In 2021 Irish GDP/capita was $100,129 compared to $47,508 for the UK and there is no sign of that divergent trend ending any time soon. Ireland's GDP growth rate was 13.5% in 2021 and is expected to be 7.9% in 2022 while the UK has entered a period of recession or GDP decline expected to last a least a year. Irish growth in 2023 is …
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Everyone's heard the basic story: There are no snakes in Ireland because St. Patrick drove them away. While that's not entirely true, both the full legend and the science behind Ireland's distinct lack of snakes is fascinating stuff. Medieval legend and lore says it wasn't just snakes that St. Patrick drove from the Emerald Isle.
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