VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. March seventeenth is Saint Patrick's Day, a time to celebrate Irish culture. The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty...
I come from Ireland. It's a small country in the west of Europe. It's just next to the United Kingdom. The Irish flag has three colors: green, white and orange. You often see the Irish flag above important buildings like the government building, or t...
Todd: OK, Shane, you're from Ireland. Shane: I am, indeed, yeah. Todd: Where are you from in Ireland? Shane: I'm from a small town about 30 miles away from Dublin called Anfield, where there is plenty of cows and farmers and those type of things, so...
歌曲简介：18世纪,爱尔兰饥荒不断，Kilkelly镇男孩，John Hunt离家去美国谋生计，但一去30年就再也没有回到故乡。后来，他的后代发现了他父亲在这30年中写给他的信件。John Hunt的曾孙Peter Jones在感动之余，用信的内容作歌词，传下了令人感动的佳作Kilkelly， Irelan...
By Mandy Clark Dublin 08 January 2008 Ireland's economic miracle of the 1990s transformed one of Europe's poorer countries into one of its wealthiest. But, that transformation has brought with it change and the Irish are having to cope with an influx...
By Scott Stearns White House 07 December 2007 U.S. President George Bush met at the White House Friday with the First Minister of Northern Ireland Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns ha...
Transcript by the Prime Minister and Taoiseach for Internet broadcast on Northern Ireland, 20/04/00 Prime Minister I want to talk today about a subject on which I've probably spent almost as much time as anything else since I became Prime Minister -...
By Sonja Pace London 26 March 2007 Northern Ireland's bitter rivals, the protestant Democratic Union Party and the Irish Catholic Sinn Fein reached agreement in Belfast Monday that they'll begin sharing power as of May 8. VOA's Sonja Pace reports fro...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 22 January 2006 Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, left, sounds a clapper for his upcoming Hindi movie "Gangster" in Bombay, Dec. 20, 2005) An Irish trade delegation on a rece...
Nearly everyone knows that countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are primarily English-speaking countries; that is, English is the moth...
