Ireland History, Map, Flag, Capital, Population, Facts Britannica

OverviewLandReliefIreland, country of western Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the The magnificent scenery of Ireland’s Atlantic coastline faces a 2,000-mile- (3,200-km-) wide expanse of ocean, and its geographic isolation has helped it to develop a rich heritage of culture and tradition that was linked initially to the Gaelic language. Washed by abundant rain, the counThe emergence of Ireland as an independent country is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the 1Since then Ireland has become integrated with the rest of western Europe. It joined the European Economic Community (forerunner of the EU) in 1973. Though the country generally retained a neutral role in international affairs, in 2008 Ireland became an impediment to the enactment of t在britannica上8