Is Ireland more of an Urban or Rural area?
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Ireland is more a rural area than urban.Maybe the south has more urban area but not good enough to make the country a urban area
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If it has a cathedral it's a city...not sure about the village/town one though.
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I'm from Dublin, Ireland... Such a small city, but a lovely place to live :)
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I think that Scotland and Wales both have their own identity and language and there are probably separatist movements.  Northern Ireland should be returned to Ireland IMHO.
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Culturally (not including the Western Coastal areas, which are a culture unto themselves) the belief systems are more like the South-primarily because most people in the West are descendants of settlers from the South- Also, both the South and West have high percentages of Irish families, which seem to exert a strong cultural influence, while the Midwest is influenced by German and Scandinavian immigrants, and the NE by English, Scottish and Italian groups.\nNext would easily be the Midwest-In fact an argument can be made that the West is more like the Midwest in many ways- If you look at voting patterns, the west (again, apart from the Coast) and the south are the most staunchly conservative- the midwest is split between liberal and conservative, with the lean towards democrates.  Political party voting patterns are probably a fairly good gauge, since the political parties in the US are so culturally divided now.
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Wales might be a good comparison or perhaps eire ( ireland )
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No, all leprechauns live in Ireland because everywhere else they're known as dwarves, midgets, or little people (I have no idea which of those if any is the PC acceptable term).
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Yes, it is.  The roots of the name in Ireland are somewhat unclear, but it seems to have both Irish Gaelic and Norman roots.\n\nCheck out the website I've attached.  It should help.
886969
Cant help but suggest that you also ask this question in "Travel" sub section "Ireland".....a lot of Irish people are there and may be of help to you.
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About 5 million square kilometers are marked as agricultural, Europe is 9,938,000 sq km, so that makes about 50% of the total surface!
110133
The Irish are Latin Rite Catholics just like most others of the Western world. There is no actual difference. People who say that are telling you about their religious AND ethnic affiliation.
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i love the countryside and the country life. i love seeing fields and open land all around. away from the city lights where you can see every star in the sky on a clear night. it's absolutely incredible.
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In recent years, the reform of rural schools, like the reform of urban and suburban schools, has been urged as a means of contributing to the construction of a competitive national economy. The issue of economic development, however, differs in rural and urban America (DeYoung, 1985; Jacobs, 1984; Stephens, 1988).\n\nThe difference stems in part from the traditional relationship of rural and urban areas. Traditionally, rural areas export to cities goods such as lumber, minerals, and agricultural products, but they have also contributed the work of employees who have abandoned rural areas in search of city jobs. Moreover, some observers suggest that even when businesses transplant factories to rural areas, urban economies reap most of the benefits (Jacobs, 1984). These observers cite low-wages, export of profits, and the failure of transplanted factories to stimulate locally-based production enterprises as problems.\n\nRural areas differ, too, from urban areas because their economies tend to be specialized (Stephens, 1988). Though rural areas differ from one another in the type of specialized economic activity each conducts, they share the fact of specialization. Rural areas, then, contribute to the national economy in ways different from urban areas, and what benefits the national economy will not necessarily benefit the rural economy or rural schools.\n\nFor these reasons, the effect that specialized rural industries have on educational outcomes is a topic of growing interest. The purpose of this digest is to review the available literature on this emerging topic. The research reported below deals with a variety of outcomes, though those of greatest interest are academic outcomes.
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No, rural people contribute warmth to a big city with their naivete, which can be as charming as that of a small child. And urban people contribute culture to a usually isolated small town.
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East of Ireland\nSouthWest of Iceland\nExtreme-Western Europe.
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So I've lived in 4 countries - England, Ireland, Switzerland and the USA. From those 4 it would have to be Switzerland.\n\nWhy? - More advanced democratic model, the government works; High quality of life; Good and safe place to bring up a family; Low Tax; Low unemployment; High disposable income; Beautiful; Great Skiing; Diversity; Central location in Europe.\n\nWhy not Ireland and England? For me this is home, and there is so much that is right here, especially culturally, but the rain and high tax are the big issues.\n\nWhy not USA? Again a lot that is good and it is my current home, but high Tax; poor family life quality; absence of real culture; broken government system and education system would not allow it to make the top.
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biggest difference is lack of an NHS system in Ireland.