LOCAL IRELAND ALMANAC 2000/E (Local Ireland Almanac & Yearbook)

Welcome to the millennium edition of the Local Ireland Almanac, the best-selling reference book on Ireland, North and South. No other book provides, as this one does, detailed information that accurately reflects the essence of Ireland today. This year, the Almanac has joined forces with Local Ireland, a state-of-the-art Internet leader that is creating a worldwide online community for Ireland, simultaneously launching the book and the web site, making the Almanac one of the first reference books available on the World Wide Web: WWW.LOCALALMANAC.IE

New to this edition is a detailed chronology of Ireland over the past millennium, as well as synopses of the main events that defined Ireland's past ten centuries. The book chronicles the events of the year from October 1998 to September 1999, and includes the most important news stories of that time period. Other new features have been developed to make the Almanac more user friendly, including an "at a glance" statistics table at the beginning of each chapter. This provides a handy summary of the detailed facts and figures from each field of Irish life, from arts to agriculture.