Reverse Phone Call Directory

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.