• Ireland

• First facts and impressions

• Republic of Ireland - Northern Ireland
• Irish Gaelic - St Patrick - “Blarney“
• Bernhard O’Donoghue: Westering Home
• History of Ireland - Dublin - Giant’s Causeway

• A sea change

• Philip Chevron: “Thousands are sailing“ - The Pogues
• Great famine (1845-1852) - Music of Ireland
• CBS News: The Celtic Tiger (2000) - Celtic Tiger (1995-2008) -  Asian Tigers - Global Financial Crisis - PIGS

• An Irish film: “Once“ (2006)

• iconmovies.co.uk - kinowelt.de - picturehouse.co.uk

• The Troubles (1968-1998)

• Times: Sinn Fein has hijacked the history of Ulster (2007)
• Partition of Ireland (1921) - RUC - British Army
• Unionism - Ulster loyalism - Orange Order
• Irish nationalism / republicanism - IRA - Sinn Féin
• Brighton hotel bombing (1984)
• Murals - Peace lines - Interface area - Parades

•  Travelling to Ireland

• Pete McCarty: “McCarthy’s Bar“ - Bohonagh
• Michael Collins - “Michael Collins“ (film, 1996)

• Spot on language

• Talking about the present

• Simple Present - Present Progressive  

Holy Cross dispute

• Guardian: At the mercy of the mob (2003)
• BBC News: Tension in North Belfast (2001)

Drumcree conflict

• Guardian: Drama at Drumcree (2000)

Queen visits R. of Ireland (2011)

• BBC News: Queen on first state visit  

2011

• BBC News: NI grand plan to tackle sectarianism  
• BBC News: Church targeted again by vandals
• BBC News: East Belfast interface
• BBC News: Belfast violence flares again
• Guardian: Sectarian violence erupts in Belfast