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  2. Culture of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Ireland includes the art, music, dance, folklore, traditional clothing, language, literature, cuisine and sport associated with Ireland and the Irish people. For most of its recorded history, the country’s culture has been primarily Gaelic (see Gaelic Ireland). Strong family values, wit and an appreciation for tradition are ...

  3. Religion in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Christianity is the largest religion in the Republic of Ireland based on baptisms. Irish Christianity is dominated by the Catholic Church, and Christianity as a whole accounts for 82.3% of the Irish population. Most churches are organised on an all-Ireland basis which includes both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

  4. Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world - Wikipedia

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    The Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world is a scatter plot created by political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel based on the World Values Survey and European Values Survey. [1] It depicts closely linked cultural values that vary between societies in two predominant dimensions: traditional versus secular-rational values ...

  5. Irish nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Irish nationalism. The national flag of the Republic of Ireland, which was created to represent all of Ireland. Government Buildings in Dublin. Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. [1][2][3][4] Since the mid-19th century ...

  6. Christianity in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Christianity (Irish: Críostaíocht) has been the largest religion in Ireland since the 5th century. After a pagan past of Antiquity, missionaries (most famously including Saint Patrick) converted the Irish tribes to Christianity in quick order. This produced a great number of saints in the Early Middle Ages, as well as a faith interwoven with ...

  7. World Values Survey - Wikipedia

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    The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global research project that explores people's values and beliefs, how they change over time, and what social and political impact they have. Since 1981 a worldwide network of social scientists have conducted representative national surveys as part of WVS in almost 100 countries.

  8. Secularism in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Roman Catholicism as a religion values particular older practices and has impacted on Ireland's society and culture. The Church had extreme control of Irish society, through forms including its prohibition of followers to read from a list of banned literature, and through its influence on the constitution.

  9. History of Christianity in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Saint Patrick in Aughagower, County Mayo. The introduction of Christianity to Ireland dates to sometime before the 5th century, presumably in interactions with Roman Britain. Christian worship had reached pagan Ireland around 400 CE. It is often misstated that Saint Patrick brought the faith to Ireland, but it was already present on ...