Northern Irish people are very gentil and helpful but they can get annoyed easily when speaking about their nationality. Some consider themselves Irish and others prefer to be called British. So if you meet a person from Northern Ireland, I suggest you to ask first.
Northern Ireland has always had problems in the religious sector as two main religions: Catholics and Protestants, have fight against each other to become the predominant one.
Armagh considered the religious capital as it is the only city in the whole island which has two cathedrals: one catholic and one protestant and both named St Patrick is one of the most affected cities on these conflicts. Still nowadays, it suffers the menace of bombs which don’t normally explode. 
Northern Ireland is a country placed in the north part of the Republic of Ireland and that belongs to the United Kingdom.
It is not very big in extension but neither in population having only 1.781.000 people according to the census done in 2009.
Its capital Belfast is one of the most populated together with Derry with one third of the total population.
There are three official languages in Northern Ireland: English, Irish and Ulster Scots though the most used is the English one.
Our trip begins in the city of Tarragona, where a young student called Rebecca has recently moved. She is from Northern Ireland but she has lived in many places and she has friends all over the planet.
This blog, though fictional, is to show a window of this marvellous world called Earth to the students of Compulsory Secondary Education in Tarragona.
In here, mainly the students will include their posts, photographs, feedbacks, videos, etc, related to a different country in each unit. So, we are going to have a look to The United Kingdom, The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada, among others.
I hope you enjoyed as much as I would do creating this model.
Riuka
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Posted: May 22, 2011 in Introduction
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