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National name Eire
Area 70,282 sq km/27,146 sq mi
Capital Dublin
Major ports Cork, Dun Laoghaire, Limerick, Waterford, Galway
Physical features central plateau surrounded by hills; rivers Shannon, Liffey, Boyne; Bog of Allen, source of domestic and national power; Macgillicuddy's Reeks, Wicklow Mountains; Lough Corrib, lakes of Killarney; Galway Bay and Aran Islands		   Political system liberal democracy
Administrative divisions 26 counties within four provinces
Population 3,956,000 (2003 est)
Language Irish Gaelic, English (both official)
Ethnic distribution most of the population has Celtic origins
Religions Roman Catholic 92%, Church of Ireland, other Protestant denominations 3%
In the EU since 1973

Chronology

3rd century BC The Gaels, a Celtic people, invaded Ireland and formed about 150 small kingdoms.
AD c. 432 St Patrick introduced Christianity.
5th–9th centuries Irish Church was a centre of culture and scholarship.
9th–11th centuries The Vikings raided Ireland until defeated by High King Brian Bóruma at Clontarf in 1014.
12th–13th centuries Anglo-Norman adventurers conquered much of Ireland, but no central government was formed and many became assimilated.
14th–15th centuries Irish chieftains recovered their lands, restricting English rule to the Pale around Dublin.
1536 Henry VIII of England made ineffectual efforts to impose the Protestant Reformation on Ireland.
1541 Irish parliament recognized Henry VIII as king of Ireland; Henry gave peerages to Irish chieftains.
1579 English suppressed Desmond rebellion, confiscated rebel lands, and tried to ‘plant’ them with English settlers.
1610 James I established plantation of Ulster with Protestant settlers from England and Scotland.
1641 Catholic Irish rebelled against English rule; Oliver Cromwell brutally reasserted English control (1649–50); Irish landowners evicted and replaced with English landowners.
1689–91 Williamite War: following the ‘Glorious Revolution’, the Catholic Irish unsuccessfully supported James II against Protestant William III in civil war. Penal laws barred Catholics from obtaining wealth and power.
1720 Act passed declaring British Parliament's right to legislate for Ireland.
1739–41 Famine killed one-third of population of 1.5 million.
1782 Protestant landlords led by Henry Grattan secured end of restrictions on Irish trade and parliament.
1798 British suppressed revolt by Society of United Irishmen (with French support) led by Wolfe Tone.
1800 Act of Union abolished Irish parliament and created United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, effective 1801.
1829 Daniel O'Connell secured Catholic Emancipation Act, which permitted Catholics to enter parliament.


1846–52 Potato famine reduced population by 20% through starvation and emigration.
1870 Land Act increased security for tenants but failed to halt agrarian disorder; Isaac Butt formed political party to campaign for Irish home rule (devolution).
1885 Home-rulers, led by Charles Stewart Parnell, held balance of power in Parliament; first Home Rule Bill rejected in 1886; second Home Rule Bill defeated in 1893.
1905 Arthur Griffith founded the nationalist movement Sinn Fein (‘Ourselves Alone’).
1914 Ireland came close to civil war as Ulster prepared to resist implementation of Home Rule Act (postponed because of World War I).
1916 Easter Rising: nationalists proclaimed a republic in Dublin; British crushed revolt and executed 15 leaders.
1919 Sinn Fein MPs formed Irish parliament in Dublin in defiance of British government.
1919–21 Irish Republican Army (IRA) waged guerrilla war against British forces.
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty partitioned Ireland; northern Ireland (Ulster) remained part of the United Kingdom; southern Ireland won full internal self-government with dominion status.

1922 Irish Free State proclaimed; IRA split over Anglo-Irish Treaty led to civil war (1922–23).
1932 Anti-Treaty party, Fianna Fáil, came to power under Éamon de Valera.
1937 New constitution established Eire (Gaelic name for Ireland) as a sovereign state and refused to acknowledge partition.
1949 After remaining neutral in World War II, Eire left the Commonwealth and became the Republic of Ireland.
1973 Ireland joined European Economic Community.
1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement gave the Republic of Ireland a consultative role, but no powers, in the government of Northern Ireland.
1990 Mary Robinson was elected as the first female president.
1993 The Downing Street Declaration, a joint Anglo-Irish peace proposal for Northern Ireland, was issued.
1997 Mary McAleese was elected president; she appointed Bertie Ahern as her prime minister.

1998 A multiparty agreement (the Good Friday Agreement) was reached on the future of Northern Ireland. The subsequent referendum showed a large majority in favour of dropping Ireland's claim to Northern Ireland. Strict legislation was passed against terrorism.
1999 The IRA agreed to begin decommissioning discussions and a coalition government was established, with David Trimble as first minister. Powers were devolved to the province by the British government in December.
2000 After it was revealed that there had been no arms handover, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland suspended the Northern Ireland Assembly and reintroduced direct rule. Within hours of the suspension of the Assembly, the British government announced a new IRA initiative on arms decommissioning.
2001 Michael Noonan replaced former prime minister John Bruton as leader of the Fine Gael party.
2002 In a second referendum voters reverse their earlier rejection in 2001 of the Treaty of Nice, a European Union (EU) measure to prepare for EU enlargement, and approve ratification of the treaty.
 
Dental Education

Admission Exam Leaving certificate Examination.Students must achieve a minimum of 565 points out of a total of 600
Official language English
Problem Based Learning
Lenght of studies 5 years
Fee for national students Free College for all Irish Citizens. Registration fee of around €800
Fee for international students €28,000 per year
Work with patients from the 2nd year
Title upon graduation Bachelor of Dental Science / Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)
Specialty training
        Orthodontics Oral Surgery

Number of dental schools 3
 
Dublin Dental School & Hospital, Trinity College

Address Lincoln Place, Dublin 2    www.tcd.ie/dentalschool

Year of foundation 1882
Number of dental students 200
Divisions
        Public and Child Dental Health Oral Maxillofacial Surgery
        Restorative & Periodontology Oral Biosciences
        Library & Information Services Support Services Units
        Staff Directory
Fees for treatment in the university clinic Patients pay 1/3 of the price compared to Private practice. Some patients get treatment for free if they have a Government Health Card
 
Cork University Dental School and Hospital

Address Wilton Cork    www.ucc.ie/en/dentalschool

Year of foundation 1913
Number of dental students 200
Divisions
        Dental Surgery Restorative Dentistry
        Oral Health and Development  



School of Dentistry Queen’s University Belfast

Address Grosvenor Road Belfast BT12 6BP  www.qub.ac.uk/cd

Year of foundation 1965
Number of dental students 200
 
National dental students association
  Irish dental school association (IDSA)
  Number of students involved    600



Dental Organizations  
        Irish Dental Association (IDA) www.dentist.ie


 Number of dentists in the country 2,400



Postgraduate Medical & Dental Board
        Postgraduate education www.pgmdb.ie

 
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