Ireland is one of the largest islands of Europe, located in the north west of the European continent and is surrounded by hundreds of little islands. The Republic of Ireland covers most of the island’s territory (about eighty percent of the island) and the rest is part of the Northern Ireland which is included in the United Kingdom.

This island used to be one hundred percent covered in thick forest in the 16th century, but people start cutting it down and now Ireland became the most deforested area from the European continent. The fauna had to suffer from this, and some of the species of animals that were specific to this area vanished or are in great danger of extinction (for example the Irish hare, the red deer and the pine marten).


In the ancient time the island was inhabited by the Celts, which is supposed to have come here somewhere between the 8th and 1st century BC, and their offspring, the Gaels, appear in the earliest recorded history of Ireland, in the writing of the earliest Greek and Roman writers, like Claudius Ptolemaeus.

The Irish dialect and the Irish phone directory are still marked with the names and the idioms that come from the Gaels. For a period of about 400 years, the Gaels lived here and made their own administrative and economic divisions and elected their own kings. This situation was shattered in 1160s when a Norman expedition of 600 men landed on the territory of Ireland led by Richard the Strong bow, whose nickname came from the fact that he was very good at shooting arrows.

The king of England then persuaded many of the kings of the provinces of Ireland to recognize his authority as their overlord. The Normans and the Irish lived here together for a few hundred years, so the customs and language of the Irish combined with that of the Norman’s and names that have their origin in the French language still appear in the Irish phone directory.

The Irish Church begun the integration into the Roman Church system and this helped the British king, Henry, to gain authority over the Irish in the name of the church and the pope. This was a smart move, because at that time it was easier to lead people by religion than by military constrains.


Just when the situation seemed to become stable and when the Irish were granted by the British king with their own ruler, the Lord of Ireland, half of the Irish population was killed by the Black Death and the Norman settlements entered a period of decline. The Norman government representatives and the Gaelic noble families started intermarrying and formed the base of the today Irish nation.

Phone directories are one of the most extended products of telecommunications area and they have been spread all over the world and some companies who manage phone directories have even become a world wide network of phone directories and there have been located in many parts and countries of the world .

There is the Yell Group which is one of the most popular businesses of phone directories all over the world . They have two main directories the Yellow Pages directory which is found in a wide range of countries and states and it is used mainly for searching businesses and they are searched with the help of some searching fields, like the name or category of the business, government institutions or other financial institutions .

The other phone directory is the White pages which is also spread all over the world and it has two different directories one for the search of businesses with similar searching fields and also for the look up of people and for them you also have searching fields like the first name, last name, address, city and zip code and with their help there can be found the person you look for .

Also in North America, in countries like US or Canada you have a wide range of directories not only for fixed phone lines but also for the cell phone directories . If you look for a phone directory for Canada, on the internet, you will find a wide range of web sites which contain phone directories for that area : phonenumber.com , goldbook.com , ontarioca.areconnect.com , ontariofindlinks.com and also a web site like Telus .

There are many non official web sites which contain cell phone directories with many numbers who belong to many companies . Because of the apparition of reverse phone directories for fixed phone lines, there has appeared also the reverse cell phone directory in Canada . Meaning that in this type of directory you can also track down a cell phone number of Canada by entering the cell phone number in a blank space and after you have filled that space, the system will find you the result meaning that the person under whose name appears the cell phone number that you have entered in that field .

The reverse cell phone directory Canada is similar to the reverse phone directory for the fixed phone lines with the only difference that in the case of the cell phone directory the results are not so many and they are not so accurate because cell phone numbers are hardly to be gathered in cell phone directories and they are not official, because the rules regarding the privacy of the people who own cell phone numbers is much more restrictive than in the case of the people who own simple, fixed phone lines .

But in time and with the expansion of cell phone numbers, there has been a big demand for this kind of directories so more and more have started to appear .

Qwest Communications is one of the largest companies in the domain of telecommunications and it  is one of the most important companies of the  American market of telephone services . They managed to extend very much and to obtain huge networks of different types meaning telephone networks and internet networks as well and they have spread to all the corners of the  United States of America because they realized a large fiber network which was spread through out the whole territory of the country ;  there have been built a multitude of cyber centers on both coasts of the United States and there are many centers in the largest cities of the US  as New York, Detroit, Miami,  Washington, Los Angeles San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and many others such cities ; there are many services which are established in many of the US territories , circa 14 states from the north and central part of the country have appeal to such local services.

The company has a large variety of products which have different services and they depend on the type of customers and what needs they have. For example the services are different for the people who are private and for companies and this is obvious because the people want Internet services based on fiber optic, digital home phone  services but also digital television. It is said that 95% of the 500 top fortune companies have many services of the Qwest companies because the company knows what packages to offer to the companies and they also offer very good quality services.

Because of the large number of people who decided to choose the services offered by the companies a large number of them have chosen packages because they obtained them at a better price the fixed phone line at home which can be traditional or digital, television which can be digital or analogical and also the Internet and data services clients . So there were very many phone numbers which belonged to the Qwest so there was created the Qwest phone directory which was for anyone who needed  to find a person a business or whatever had such a phone number .

And the phone directory was extremely used but in time with the development of technology and the apparition of different phone directories it also appeared Qwest reverse phone directory meaning that you do not only find a person and its phone number but you can also enter on a web site in a special section named the reverse phone directory where you have a field where you can enter the phone number that you have and if it belongs to Qwest and the system will offer you the name and contact details for the person who owns that number . The two phone directories are  usually found together and in this way you can choose what kind of information you need and you will have both of the options there ready to be used .

Web phone directories have started to win the battle with the means of information because they are much more accessible in aspects linked with time, with the fact that we almost all have personal computers and also because of the fact that in a free way you can find all the things, all the information that you need in connection to various things, problems and other stuff of this kind . And on the internet, there appeared many phone directories some more official others rather unofficial but it has been proved that many of them really offer accurate real information which is correct although the biggest part, the majority of the web phone directories are free and there was the belief that the free ones do not offer real information and that they are a scam .

One such type of directory is the one of the type which is hosted by the web site 411.com and the directory is the 411 phone directory . This web site is really spread on the internet and you will find it in a very easy way and it will also provide you with assistance for a better quality of the service and it is also free.

The main page of this directory will show you that there are several categories of the same directory and they  all depend on the type of information that you want to obtain from their phone directory. So on the top of the page, the main home page of the site, you will see the general categories to which you can appeal : you have people search and this is correlated with the white pages directory, then the business search is linked with the yellow pages, then you have also the reverse phone directory and also some smaller directories that provide you information for addresses search, areas and even lists of zip codes.

So if you choose to search business information you will enter the section of yellow pages, business search and there you have blank spaces or fields where you fill in what you are interested in such as the name of the business or at least the category, the domain in which it activates and of course the city, region area and then the system will do the searching by using your key words . For the person search you choose the white pages section where you fill in the first name, last name, city, state, zip code and address if you know them and then the system will find all the persons that match your description . You can also lose the reverse phone directory for entering a phone number and to find out under whose name it is listed and the information about that person.

The 411 phone directory is one of the most often used phone directories which are found on the internet and they are extremely used because they offer very good information and they are very easy to be used .

Phone directories are very common all over the world and there is no country, area, region or city that does not have a phone directory if there are phone lines in the area . Due to the increasing number of networks of phone lines, there have also appeared many companies which have realized phone directories which were more and more advanced and the business of phone directories started to develop very much . In countries were phone directories are very extended due to the fact that there  are multiple phone lines there are also multiple phone directories .

In North America especially in the United States and Canada the phone directory business has increased very much and the technology has well and there have been presented various types of phone directories in the last periods of time . So there is of course the Yellow pages that has the majority of businesses classified in categories  and also many institutions like financial and insurance institutions ,hospitals, education institutions, government institutions . White Pages is also one of the oldest and used directories  and they can also be helpful  in finding with the help of a section with searching fields  also for business and also for people where you can enter the name, category, number of registration of the company and even address and you will  find what you need by filling in the blank spaces of the searching fields the name, first and last, the address, if you know it and the town, city or area of the province.

If you search for the phone directory of the province on the internet the searching engine you will also find web sites like  phonenumber.com , goldbook.com , ontarioca.areconnect.com , ontariofindlinks.com  which also are phone directories for Canada . But one of the used phone directories and which has also been one of the most improved ones and in the last few years the most used website for Canada is Telus presenting a phone book available online . On this kind of web site you can be able to search a information that you want and the procedure it is very simple because it works on the help of searching fields like  : address  , category , phone number , province , proximity.

On the website , you can find so many types of information : about weather, news and other types of information that a person may want to find out . And the improved thing of this directory is the fact that it has a section meaning like a Canada reverse phone directory because there you can find out the contact details of a number that you do not know  whom it belongs to so you just have to fill in the number in a blank space and the system will do the work for you .

The Canada reverse phone directory has been a great invention and one of the most successful product of the phone directories businesses because it has the highest numbers of users and it is extremely popular on the web site .