About Ireland

Hi! My name is Matti and I’m a third year student in graphic design. This blog is for my exchange project from Finland to Ireland. It starts on February tenth and ends on March fourteenth, so it’s about four weeks long. My accommodation will be organized by the local school and the town where aim staying is Galway. The exchange will consist of working instead of studies. My workplace is going to be iSupply printing house.

 

 Ireland is an island in North Atlantic right next to Great Britain. It is the second largest island of all British isles after Great Britain, the third largest in Europe and twentieth largest on earth. Ireland is divided into two parts, the Republic of Ireland (usually called Ireland) that covers five sixths of the whole isle. The remaining area of the isle is called Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom and its location is the northern part of the Ireland. Ireland has plentiful vegetation which is due to its mild but varied climate that is classified as oceanic but still it is moderate. As a results of this winters are milder and summers  cooler.  Rain and a cloudy cover is typical for Irish weather.

 

 Irish culture is very rich and it has taken a lot of influences from other cultures such as western culture (European civilization), americanization, anglicization (Englishing). The focus of Irish culture is Gaelic culture. Personally, I see these influences in sport, literature, language and art. For example: in sport, rugby is popular and which reminds American football basically except the ball must pass backward or laterally and only the player with the ball can be tackled or rucked. Also, another popular game with a long history in Ireland is called Gaelic football in which you have a spherical leather ball that you carry in your hands over the field through the opponents. A point is scored when the ball goes over the crossbar by kicking or throwing it. A white flag arises signaling your team having scored. Another way of scoring  a goal is to kick the ball under the crossbar into the net, in which case green signal flag arises.

 

 Irish literature and language (Gaeltacht)  has been written and spoken in several languages, most prominently Latin, English and Ulster Scots. The ancient Irish mythological writings are the largest surviving body of old Irish texts and language, including tales such as Fionn mac Cumhaill, Míl Espáine and The Tain. In Ireland, the term Gaeltacht refers individually to any districts where the government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant language of the home. The language has remain an language as it is commonly spoken in isolated country villages mainly in the western part of the Ireland.

 

 Irish art is generally measured to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artefacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period. About in 19th and 20th centuries was a beginning a strong indigenous traditions of painting, such figures as John Butler Yeats, William Orpen and Jack Yeats.

 

 My work  dictionary.pen, eraser, computer, design, layout, spread, page, poster, banner, illustrate, draw, paint, photo, margins, column, file, advertisement, magazine, camera, object, image processing, typography, initial, small caps, sans serif, pharagph (chapter)