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  Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Of the 32 counties of Ireland, 26 lie in the Republic, and of the four historic provinces, three and part of the fourth are in the Republic.
Ireland lies west of the island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the narrow North Channel, the Irish Sea (which attains a width of 130 mi/209 km), and St. George’s Channel.
The English conquest of Ireland was begun by Richard de Clare, 2d earl of Pembroke, known as Strongbow, who intervened in behalf of a claimant to the throne of Leinster; in 1171, Henry himself went to Ireland, temporarily establishing his overlordship there.
www.bartleby.com /65/ir/Ireland.html   (2130 words)

  
 Timelines - Northern Ireland - The Troubles
She seized land in central Ireland, gave it to English settlers and renamed the land 'Queens County' and 'Kings County'.
In 1845 the potato crop in Ireland was struck by a disease and half the crop failed.
The Northern Ireland Government was dominated by the Unionist party and as a part of the United Kingdom anti-Catholic laws that had been passed in the nineteenth century were still in force.
www.historyonthenet.com /Chronology/timelinenorthernireland.htm   (2802 words)

  
 1911 in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1910 in Ireland, other events of 1911, 1912 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.
February 11 - Ireland beats England by one try to nil at the first rugby international of the season at Lansdowne Road.
May 31 - The RMS Titanic's hull is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1911_in_Ireland   (290 words)

  
 Churchill and Ireland - The Churchill Centre
ALTHOUGH it is three decades old, Mary Bromage's Churchill and Ireland is useful for anyone who wants to know where Churchill stood on Ireland and its social and political convolutions‹or who simply cannot understand the internecine "troubles" which have beset Ireland in the 20th century‹this volume is ideal.
When in 1912 his son, in Belfast, quoted his father's words, he was referring rather to the partition of Ireland into a Catholic South and a Protestant North.
In particular he believed the Loyalists of Northern Ireland should not be coerced into unwanted reunion with their former compatriots in the South, although he also believed that unification would come by free will one day.
www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=704   (1222 words)

  
 David L. & Diane R. (Cockcroft) Morris - pafg04 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Walter Hampton Cockcroft was born on 5 Mar 1912 in,, Ireland.
Stanley Harvey Firth was born in 1904 in Dublin,, Ireland.
She died on 27 Dec 1999 in Ireland and was buried on 30 Dec 1999 in Omagh, Tyrone, Ireland.
users2.ev1.net /~ddmorris/roots/pafg04.htm   (500 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Patrick
Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 493.
The demons that made Ireland their battlefield mustered all their strength to tempt the saint and disturb him in his solitude, and turn him away, if possible, from his pious purpose.
It is sometimes supposed that St. Patrick's apostolate in Ireland was an unbroken series of peaceful triumphs, and yet it was quite the reverse.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11554a.htm   (5250 words)

  
 Re-Imagining Ireland :: Bios
Joe Cleary Professor, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; author of “Domestic Troubles: Tragedy and the Northern Ireland Conflict” (1998); specialist in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Theory, English Renaissance Drama and Modern Irish Literature; author of Colonial Partitions: Literature and Nation-State in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
Director of the Cultural Diversity Programme of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and Honorary Fellow of the Department of Social Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast; Trustee of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland; member of the Advisory Committee for British Cultural Studies at the British Council.
Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Virginia; author of Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia (2001) and The Vatican and the American Hierarchy from 1870 to 1965 (1982); editor of Patterns of Episcopal Leadership (1989); former Gasson Chair for Distinguished Jesuit Scholar for History at Boston College.
www.re-imagining-ireland.org /guests/bios.asp   (1642 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Conditions in Ireland were against the founding of a new nationalist youth group; the 26 county government are doing its best to suppress the original.
The Fianna had helped Ireland gain her 'independence' and it was the supreme betrayal of that achievement that Bayden Powell scouts were allowed to use public grounds to drill in, as well as being allowed revolver and musketry practice, while the Fianna were not.
In Catholic Ireland the working class are rebels in spirit and democratic in feeling because for hundreds of years they have found no class as lowly paid or as hardly treated as themselves'.
irelandsown.net /nafianna.htm   (12829 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ireland, 1912-1985 is the first study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century.
Lee's account focuses on Ireland's political history, though it is also sensitive to the wider social and economic context in which these events took place.
The first is the relative absence of any discussion of Ireland's foreign policy, even though this dimension became relatively important from the mid-1950s with Ireland's admission into the UN, and especially after 1973 with its admission into the European Economic Community.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521377412   (713 words)

  
 Ireland Reading List
Impressive, impressionistic first novel from one of Ireland's most lyrical prose writers, about angst-ridden adolescence in the 1970s, before Ireland was hip.
Many apparently unrelated threads are woven together in the novel's conclusion to solve the mystery, revealing the narrator's true identity, the role of his grandfather, the fate of his missing mother, and the final interlocking pieces that comprise the story.
A woman turns her back on Ireland for Spain and returns thirty years later to resolve her life, and to die.
www.uni-mannheim.de /users/bibsplit/anglistik/ire_bks.html   (4264 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Brigid of Ireland
Thus, for centuries, Kildare was ruled by a double line of abbot-bishops and of abbesses, the Abbess of Kildare being regarded as superioress general of the convents in Ireland.
She is lovingly called the "Queen of the South: the Mary of the Gael" by a writer in the "Leabhar Breac".
In Ireland to-day, after 1500 years, the memory of "the Mary of the Gael" is as dear as ever to the Irish heart, and, as is well known, Brigid preponderates as a female Christian name.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02784b.htm   (1196 words)

  
 Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ireland sells for $17.95 or save about $60 when ordering as part of the complete The World’s Political Hotspots series.
Each set in the series provides an overview of the areas who over the years have experienced major political turmoil.
1912--“Government of Ireland Bill” proposes Irish parliament; Catholic vs. Protestant conflict leads to discussion that Ireland be partitioned.
www.knowledgeproducts.net /ireland1.html   (324 words)

  
 Knowledge Products Audiotapes - Ireland
This presentation follows Ireland's tragic course from St. Patrick to Britain's imposition of direct rule in 1974.
Two million people leave Ireland (one-fourth of population).
conflict leads to discussion that Ireland be partitioned.
www.audioclassics.net /html/hot_files/ireland.cfm   (328 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"Ireland 1912-1985 is a perceptive and at times brilliant analysis of Ireland's performance as an independent nation.
It teems with insights on everything from popular mentalities to the rise of the historical profession in Ireland.
This is the first major study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521377412   (316 words)

  
 South Africa in England, 1912   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kent v South Africa at Maidstone, 18-20 Jul 1912
Ireland v South Africa at Bray, 25-27 Jul 1912
Lord Londesbrough's XI v South Africa at Scarborough, 9-11 Sep 1912
www.cricinfo.com /db/ARCHIVE/1910S/1912/RSA_IN_ENG   (321 words)

  
 Titanic and Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast in Northern Ireland in 1912.
Some 63 males and 60 females boarded the giant ship at Cobh at the very South of Ireland.
The monument features the Rice family, all six of whom perished, along with 70 other passengers who boarded at the Cork port.
www.ireland-information.com /articles/titanicandireland.htm   (302 words)

  
 Matthew Yglesias: Ireland: Complicated
I mean, the Church in Ireland acted like the decline in extreme poverty was a bad thing.
There were Vikings in Ireland before there were Englishmen, so your horn-helmeted ancestor would have predated the predations of the English.
Most of the various Fitzes were settled in Ireland long before the Reformation and would have been part of the group called 'old English'.
yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2005/04/ireland_complic.html   (1428 words)

  
 BIC, The Park Hotel, Ireland
This 100-acre, 18th century country estate and sporting lodge was owned and occupied by the Marquis of Headfort from 1750 to 1939 when it was converted into Ireland's premier country resort hotel.
The hotel is bordered by hundreds of acres of maintained wooded trails and lakeland including flower gardens, picnic areas, walking trails and a golf course.
He served as the president of the royal Horticultural Society of Ireland from 1912 - 1918.
www.bic.edu /parkhotel.asp   (512 words)

  
 Antiques Ireland - Postcards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One real-photographic card: Princes Street, Dunedin FGR5720 (view taken looking down steep hill; very good details of three- and four-storey buildings ; hairdresser's, oyster-bars; groups of pedestrians; three trams in middle ground and one in background; telephone poles; card sent, presumably in envelope or parcel, from Mattie at 30 MacLaggan Street, Dunedin, 2 May 1921).
One hand-coloured, real-photographic card: Railway Street, Hastings, NZ (good, animated streetscape: water-tower and rails on left; good detail of six buildings including the Trocadero and McCorkindale's the Jewellers, above which is LC Whitehead; five small groups of people: and horse and gig}.
One coloured, very sharp card: Napier NZ Showing Sea Front (No F 70?; very good details of buildings in very compact section of townscape; "I got nine of these postcards from Willie this morning"; slight wear to corners).
www.antiquesireland.com /stocklists/postcards.shtml   (1599 words)

  
 Ireland-biblio
The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition.
BREWER, John D. Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland: The Mote and the Beam.
Women and Politics in Contemporary Ireland: From the Margins to the Mainstream.
www.univ-nancy2.fr /CEAA/CRESAB/Ireland-biblio.htm   (593 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The poetic economies of England and Ireland, 1912-2000 by Dillon Johnston
The poetic economies of England and Ireland, 1912-2000
Although modern English and Irish poetry arises from the different cultures, the poets themselves have shared, throughout this century, the same editors and publishers, competed for the same prizes and been judged, ostensibly, by the same standards.
This book examines contexts for these exchanges over four decades, tracing the lineage of Yeats and Hardy from their meeting in 1912 through WWI, the 30s, the 60s, and the 90s, to see what influences and ideas are exchanged and how poetic value accrues.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0333790464-3   (136 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Stoker, Bram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born in 1847, the third of seven children, into a Protestant middle-class family living in Clontarf, a seaside suburb of Dublin.
Meanwhile Stoker moved on from dramatic criticism to writing fiction, and a four-part serial was published in the Shamrock.
As a clerk himself travelling round the country to different petty sessions he felt acutely the lack of a handbook to guide the clerks through their duties.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4242   (1184 words)

  
 No. 14/1933: FOREIGN HAY AND STRAW (IRELAND) ORDER OF 1912 AMENDMENT ORDER OF 1933.
The Minister for Agriculture by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the joint operation of the Agriculture Act, 1931.
Prohibition of Landing of Hay and Straw from the Union of South Africa.
The Foreign Hay and Straw (Ireland) Order of 1912 shall be read and have effect as if the Union of South Africa were excluded from the Schedule (Countries from which importation is not prohibited) to that Order.
www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI14Y1933.html   (245 words)

  
 mayp
James and Mary were born in Knocknaskreagh (Thornhill), a small town near Kiltimagh in County Mayo, Ireland.
John Henry's parents were married in Ireland shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1873.
For the rest of his life, he worked for the Grand Trunk, in later years in the Elsdon Yards on the South Side as a switchman and finally, at the time of his death, as assistant yardmaster.
faculty.prairiestate.edu /jflannigan/htdocs/jahenry.html   (1085 words)

  
 Descendants of James Loftus of
Mary Reede 1820 - 1866 b: 1820 in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland.
1912 in Ireland 1st wife of James Loftus d: 1948.
Jamsie Loftus 1912 - 2000 b: December 8, 1912 in 19 Herbert St, Ardoyne, Belfast, 1reland d: January 22, 2000 in Glasgow, Scotland
www.esatclear.ie /~brib/descenda.htm   (749 words)

  
 Ireland - KISSING THE BLARNEY STONE -Cork, Ireland 1954   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tamneymullan Rd Maghera VRare RP c1910 Ireland Postcard
Crescent, Dundalk, RP c 1910 Rare (Ireland Postcards)
Waterville Kerry RP V Rare c1910 Ireland Postcard
www.saeta.org /ireland,c20257,4,ur.html   (370 words)

  
 Debbie's "My Irish Roots" - O'Shea Page
MAR 1901, Reycastle, Kells, Cahirciveen, Ireland, buried: BEF.
Timothy died 1957, Dooneen, Cahirciveen, Co Kerry, Ireland, buried: 1957, Suelgrena, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
NOV 1911, Dooneen, Cahirciveen, Co Kerry, Ireland, m.
www.myirishroots.com /oshea.htm   (802 words)

  
 OTHER FIRST-CLASS MATCHES, 1912   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marylebone Cricket Club v Nottinghamshire at Lord's, 1-3 May 1912
MCC Australian Touring Team v Rest of England at Lord's, 23-25 May 1912
Ireland v Scotland at Dublin, 30-31 Aug 1912
www.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1910S/1912/ENG_LOCAL/OTHER   (113 words)

  
 Glucksman Ireland House at New York University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ireland, New York and the Irish Image in American Popular Culture, 1890-1960 (Ph.D. New York University, 1998)
Ed., Ireland and Irish Cultural Studies, a special issue of SAQ, 96(1): Winter 1996.
Ireland and the Disciplines of Enlightenment-- a study of the emergence of intellectual disciplines in relation to Irish cultural, political, and social history from 1770 to 1820, (Fall, 2000).
www.nyu.edu /pages/irelandhouse/faculty.html   (764 words)

  
 Ireland
1852 Augusta Gregory, born in Ireland, playwright and poet, Yates mistress
1685 George Berkeley, born in Ireland, philosopher and bishop of Cloyne
Patrick, patron St. of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
www.brainyhistory.com /topics/i/ireland.html   (2238 words)

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