The three most famous symbols of Ireland are the green Shamrock, the harp, and the Celtic cross.

88% of Irish citizens are nominally Roman Catholic. The Republic of Ireland has one of the highest rates of church attendance in the Western World  (around 45% of regular Mass attendance)

The ancestral language of Irish people is Irish Gaelic. Nowdays 1.6 million people claiming a self-reported competence in Irish, but only 380.000 fluent speakers remain. Ireland is one of the world leader for pop music, with singers and bands like Horslips, U2, Thin Lizzy, Boomtown Rats, The Corrs, Clannad,, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, The Cranberries, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Westlife and Enya. Add to this artists of Irish descent like Paul McCartney, John  Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles, Liam Gallacher and Noel Gallacher of Oasis, Bruce Springsteen, or Johnny Rotten (lead singer of the Sex Pistols).

Notable Hollywood actors from the Republic of Ireland include Barry Fitzgerald, Maureen O'Sullivan, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne, Daniel Day Lewis (by citizenship), Colm Meaney, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy.

Other actors or actresses of Irish descent include: Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Macaulay Culkin, Harrison Ford Mel Gibson, Heather Graham, and Billy Murray.

Many Irish family names start with «Mac» or «O'...», which means respectively «son of...» and «grandson of...» in Gaelic.

The Irish consume in average 131.1 liters of beer per year.

Famous Irish breweries include Guinness, Smithwicks (Kilkenny), and Harp Lager.

In cheerful two-stored «Mick O'Neills» pub always a great atmosphere. Here you will find a big choice of beer on draught, translations of actual sport events on big screens, live-sound on Friday and Saturday, billiard and a lot of other interesting stuff.