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Ireland Introduction Key Facts Chapter 01 LAND & PEOPLE Geography and Climate Irish Society and People The Importance of History to the Irish The Making of Modern Ireland The Main Irish Cities Politics Chapter 02 VALUES & ATTITUDES Irishness The Irish View of the Outside World Ireland Today Sex and Morality Censorship and Bad Longunge Social Attitudes and the TV Screen Chapter 03 RELIGION & TRADITION Religion Is Important The Catholic Church in Ireland Education The Irish Way of Death The Church of Ireland Ecumenism The Presbyterian Church Methodists and Others The Religious Orders Irish Saints Pilgrimage Sites The Irish Language Mythology Irish Fairy Lore Chapter 04 Getting On With the Irish Home Life Chapter 05 CULTURAL LIFE Music, Song, and Dance Traditional Music Literature and the Bardic Tradition Irish Novelists Film Festivals Chapter 06 TIME OUT Food and Eating Out Drinking and Pubs The Sporting Life Chapter 07 The Economy Internationalism Business Etiquette Women in Business Management Style Meetings, Negotiations, and Communication Teams and Teamwork Business Entertaining Business, Shopping, and Banking Hours, and Public Holidays Chaater 08 COMMUNICATING A Love of the Language The Importance of Understatement Watch Out for Gossip! Accent and Idiom The Media Communicating and Getting Around Conclusion Appendices Places People Exercises