page_title: Irish Sea
hierarchical_section_title: Irish Sea
caption_attribution_description: English: Satellite image of the Irish Sea from the NASA Blue Marble project. Español: Mapa del Mar de Irlanda en el proyecto Blue Marble de la NASA.
context_page_description: The Irish Sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel, also known as the Straits of Moyle.
  Anglesey, Wales, is the largest island in the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man. The term Manx Sea may occasionally be used..
  The countries that are on its shoreline are Scotland on the north, England on the east, Wales on the southeast, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on the west. The Irish Sea is of significant economic importance to regional trade, shipping and transport, as well as fishing and power generation in the form of wind power and nuclear power plants. Annual traffic between Great Britain and Ireland amounts to over 12 million passengers and 17 million tonnes of traded goods.
context_section_description: The Irish Sea (Irish: Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Manx: Y Keayn Yernagh, Scots: Erse Sie, Scottish Gaelic: Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Welsh: Môr Iwerddon, Cornish: Mor Iwerdhon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland  in the north by the North Channel, also known as the Straits of Moyle.
  Anglesey, Wales, is the largest island in the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man. The term Manx Sea may occasionally be used.(Irish: Muir Meann, Manx: Mooir Vannin, Scottish Gaelic: Muir Mhanainn).
  The countries that are on its shoreline are Scotland on the north, England on the east, Wales on the southeast, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on the west. The Irish Sea is of significant economic importance to regional trade, shipping and transport, as well as fishing and power generation in the form of wind power and nuclear power plants. Annual traffic between Great Britain and Ireland amounts to over 12 million passengers and 17 million tonnes (17,000,000 long tons; 19,000,000 short tons) of traded goods.
caption: Satellite image
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