IrelandFood, Music and Poetry

Soups and Stews Soups and stews are popular Irish

dishes. A traditional Irish stew is very hearty and filling, with ingredients like potatoes, onions, carrots, diced lamb chops and Canadian bacon.

Potatoes Potatoes a major part of the Irish

diet.

Breakfast A traditional Irish breakfast includes

black pudding, also known as blood sausage; bacon; and white pudding, which is a pork and oatmeal sausage.

Music Traditional Irish music typically

includes instruments such as guitars, banjos, mandolins, tin whistles, fiddles, and a drum called a bodhran.

Music and Dance Irish stepdance is a traditional

Irish dance. It can be performed solo or by troupes. The waltz, the reel, the jig, the hornpipe, and the polka are the five basic kinds of tunes they dance to.

Poetry

Leprechaun, LeprechaunLeprechaun, leprechaun, fly across the sea

And fetch an emerald shamrock for you and me.

Do not bring a nettle or a thistle for a joke, 

But bring an Irish shamrock, for we are Irish folk. 

And you and I, my leprechaun,

will wear the shamrock gay,

And match it with an Irish smile upon St. Patrick's Day! 

LeprechaunLeprechauns peeking,Around a willow tree,Pussy willows waking,

Longing to be free.Colleens and shamrocksAnd castles old and gray,

Put them all togetherTo make St. Patrick's Day.