The two official languages are Irish and English. English is the language spoken most prevalently (widespread) in present day Ireland, although there are a few places in Ireland called Gaeltacht areas where the majority of people speak Irish.
I should mention that the people here call their language 'Irish' and not 'Gaelic' when they're speaking in English. The word for the Irish language in the Irish language is "Gaeilge", but they never use the term "Gaelic". Confused yet? For a comparison, we would say people in Mexico speak Spanish, but when speaking in Spanish we would say Español. Maybe that helped or just confused you further. Really what I want you to take away from this is that you should use the term 'Irish' and not 'Gaelic'. Capeesh?
Ireland, or as it is officially called, the 'Republic of Ireland' is a member of the European Union (E.U.), and also chose to adopt the euro as its currency. The symbol for the euro is €.
The E.U. is a political and economic union of 27 European countries. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to Brussels, Belgium and to Luxembourg, Luxembourg to learn all about the E.U. and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization - we'll leave that for another time...). The history of how the E.U.
