The United Kingdom consists of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland:
UK map & facts
Ireland (minus Northern Ireland) has been independent of the UK since 1921.
I think this message board is under control of Cork [img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img] which you can see in the southwest of Ireland. The capital, Dublin, is to the east, and artsy Galway is the next bay over from Boston!
A "busker" is a street musician. I don't think that word is used in the US [img]smileys/smiley1.gif[/img] To come back to the topic at hand, Damien started out as a busker.
I feel like a teacher now. [img]smileys/smiley23.gif[/img] Wait...I *am* a teacher. Quick, someone hand me a tangent!