By: Derry Koralek, Ray Collins. Play is the work of children  through play and interaction, children learn how to talk, listen, read, and write. Read about typical behaviors of emergent and beginning readers, and how each of these behaviors relate to reading and writing.
After years of civil war, Ireland became a republic in 1921. At this time, Britain negotiated with Ireland to keep the six counties in the north-east of Ireland. These six counties now make up what is known as Northern Ireland or Ulster. The southern part of the island is the Republic of Ireland, or Eire.
FAQ. This page is concerned with British counties as they were before the Local Government Act (England and Wales) 1972 and the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.Where the present tense is used in this page, it relates to years before 1972.hese are the 42 counties used for the 42 plates in Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas of 1850, which uses lithographic engravings by J. and C. Walker for a county atlas dated 1837. There have long been 32 counties in Ireland. The province of Connaught comprises five counties; Leinster, twelve; Munster, six; and Ulster, nine.