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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.
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.
Although Bruce was killed in 1318, the English authority in Ireland was weakening, becoming limited to a small district around Dublin known as the Pale; the rest of the country fell into a struggle for power among the ruling Anglo-Irish families and Irish chieftains.
www.bartleby.com /65/ir/Ireland.html   (2130 words)

  
 1985 in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1984 in Ireland, other events of 1985, 1986 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.
March 28 - Gaisce is created by a trust deed under the patronage of the President of Ireland.
May 29 - The Deadsider is born to Limerick, Ireland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985_in_Ireland   (484 words)

  
 Northern Ireland - MSN Encarta
In 1985 British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish prime minister Garret FitzGerald signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, under which the two governments agreed to consult regularly on major aspects of Northern Irish policy.
In Northern Ireland, 71 percent of voters approved of the agreement, and in Ireland, 96 percent approved.
The agreement effectively retained the partition of Ireland for the foreseeable future and required the government of the Republic of Ireland to remove from its constitution territorial claims to the north.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571415_8/Northern_Ireland.html   (1492 words)

  
 David Ireland: The Way Things Are -- Exhibitions -- Oakland Museum of California
Included is a wide range of work demonstrating Ireland's adventuresome sense of creativity, from drawings made of cement and dirt to a motorized sculpture and a wooden chair 18 feet high.
Ireland has been directly involved in the exhibition's installation, "activating the space" and creating relationships among his works of the past 30 years.
Ireland was born in Bellingham, Washington, in 1930.
www.museumca.org /exhibit/exhi_ireland.html   (1090 words)

  
 1984 in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1983 in Ireland, other events of 1984, 1985 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.
May 2 - The New Ireland Forum publishes its report presenting three possibilities for discussion: a unitary Irish state, a federal/confederal state and joint sovereignty.
June 18 - European Parliament elections are held in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1984_in_Ireland   (483 words)

  
 Ireland
Ireland’s legal system is based on common law, and international agreements to which Ireland is a party are not automatically incorporated into domestic law.
Ireland’s initial report (E/1990/5/Add.34) has been submitted and is scheduled for consideration at the Committee’s April/May 1999 session; the second periodic report was due 29 June 1997.
Ireland’s initial report (CRC/C/11/Add.12) has been submitted and is pending for consideration by the Committee at its January 1998 session; the second periodic report is due 27 October 1999.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1997/vol6/ireland.htm   (577 words)

  
 » Irish Mountain Running Association - Athletics Association of Ireland
Ireland first competed in the 2nd World Mountain Running Trophy in 1986 in Italy.
Ireland next competed in 1988 in Keswick in England with a full complement of four teams.
Zermatt in 1991 is the only occasion that Ireland has won medals with John winning the up and down race, and combining with Robin (4th), Tommy Payne (26th), and Eamonn (36th) for the team bronze medals.
www.athleticsireland.ie /content/?p=1335   (417 words)

  
 Ireland on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
IRELAND [Ireland] Irish Eire [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia ], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles.
Although Bruce was killed in 1318, the English authority in Ireland was weakening, becoming limited to a small district around Dublin known as the Pale ; the rest of the country fell into a struggle for power among the ruling Anglo-Irish families and Irish chieftains.
Another Irish rebellion, begun in 1641 in reaction to the hated rule of Charles I's deputy, Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, was crushed (1649-50) by Oliver Cromwell with the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/Ireland.asp   (2329 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Ireland, 1912-1985. Politics and Society: English Books: Joseph J. Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ireland, 1912 1985 is the first study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century.
Scholarly guff on the subject of Ireland's breach birth and subsequent delinquency are rarely the stuff of bedtime reading but this is easy on the brain, partly due to Lee's strictly logical approach to his theme and partly because of his enormous skill as a writer.
If you want a book on Ireland that doesn't read as though it were written by some OAP in a tweed G-string who hasn't seen sunlight since 1965, this is the one for you.
www.amazon.de /Ireland-1912-1985-Politics-Society-Joseph/dp/0521377412   (553 words)

  
 IT drives Ireland's diversity | InfoWorld | News | 2006-04-25 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
But in Ireland, where poor economic conditions for hundreds of years drove scores of Irish away and deterred others from moving to its shores, ethnicity is only recently relevant.
Microsoft has been operating in Ireland since 1985 and she said that 10 or 15 years ago people would visit the Microsoft Ireland offices and comment on how diverse the workforce was there compared to the general population in Ireland.
The hope is that groups fighting racial discrimination in Ireland will be able to use the new census statistics to continue efforts to prevent racism in a more diverse Ireland.
www.infoworld.com /article/06/04/25/77714_HNirelanddiversity_1.html   (1475 words)

  
 Varenne: Bibliography of anthropological works on Ireland (to 1995)
1985 Ireland: A social and cultural history, 1922 to the present.
Connell, Kenneth H. The population of Ireland, 1750-1845.
1985 "The priest and the agent: Social drama and class consciousness in the West of Irelands" Comparative Studies in Society and History 27: 696-712.
varenne.tc.columbia.edu /hv/irel/ireland_bib.html   (1330 words)

  
 Dance Magazine: Ireland is modern
Yurick and Connor began the Dance Theatre of Ireland in 1989, and in the same year, the pair joined other dancers in developing the Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland.
Furthermore, Ireland's history of staunch Catholicism has traditionally seen the body as suspect, and this has long had a repressive effect on the way people felt about the body and how they displayed it.
The fact that multiple networks and overlapping tracks exist in Ireland now is evidence of the incredible work a handful of choreographers have done since the funding cuts some fifteen years ago.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_3_78/ai_n6143318   (1340 words)

  
 Northern Ireland maps from Omni Resources.
Please see the Republic of Ireland for maps covering the combined Irish countries, and for coverage of the rest of the island.
The sheet numbers not listed here cover the Republic of Ireland and are listed in the "Ireland" section of our web site.
This set of five sheets includes an index map of Northern Ireland at 1:250,000; a northern sheet at 1:150,000; a western sheet at 1:150,000; an eastern sheet at 1:150,000; and a sheet for Belfast at 1:100,000.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/nireland.htm   (428 words)

  
 Global Exchange : Glossary
International treaty signed November 15, 1985 by Ireland (the Republic) and Britain proclaiming that the status of Northern Ireland (which neighboring nation it would integrate with) would be determined by the consent of the majority and could be altered if this consent changed.
The term in Northern Ireland context is used by many to imply that the person gives tacit or actual support the use of force by paramilitary groups to 'defend the union' with Britain.
This was the Northern Ireland police force from 1922 to 2001, responsible for dealing with politically motivated crime as well as ordinary law enforcement.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/europe/ireland/glossary.html   (1530 words)

  
 X-Project: Eerieland - A Tour of the Paranormal and Folklore of Ireland
Fairy folklore is widespread in Ireland generating some strange eyewitness accounts and even more bizarre superstitions.
However, the most fascinating accounts of statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ occurred in the summer and fall of 1985 throughout Ireland.
On 16 August 1985, startled church-goers in Melleray, Cappoquin, received messages from a statue of the Virgin Mary that miraculously came to life.
www.xprojectmagazine.com /archives/paranormal/eerieland.html   (773 words)

  
 Esso History in Ireland
As the Anglo-American Oil Company grew, Ireland was experiencing radical change and the Irish Free State was established in 1922.
Throughout the years Esso has introduced a wide range of distinctive products to Ireland such as "Esso Blue" which was in fact paraffin, but the success of the advertising campaign was such that people no longer asked for paraffin, they asked for "Esso Blue".
Esso Ireland has come a long way from humble beginnings and is now looking ahead to the new challenges of the 21st century.
www.esso.com /Ireland-English/PA/About/IE_About_history.asp   (579 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)

  
 Ireland - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is bound by Northern Ireland to the northeast, the Irish Sea to the east, the St. Georges Channel to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
In 1973 Ireland became a member of the European Community (EC) and in July 1976 a State of Emergency was declared when the British ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs was murdered.
In 1985 Ireland's Premier Garret Fitzgerald and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, signed an agreement known as the Hillsborough Accord that established an advisory council for Northern Ireland.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/ireland.htm   (1388 words)

  
 Strong economy reverses history of Irish emigration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After centuries of emigration, Ireland now boasts a booming economy and is importing thousands of workers a year.
O'Neill is thinking of returning to Ireland with his American-born girlfriend, school counselor Lisa Swenson, who is confident she could find work in Ireland, even though Irish schools don't employ counselors.
The job fair is a project of Jobs Ireland, which is part of Ireland's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20010320/LI_002.htm   (545 words)

  
 Home - Microsoft in Ireland - Microsoft Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Microsoft, operating in Ireland since 1985, has three distinct operations based at its campus in Sandyford in Dublin.
Microsoft Ireland (Sales, Marketing and Services Group) was established in 1991 and has since grown to have a team of 60 people servicing customers throughout the island of Ireland.
Microsoft is an integral part of the significant ICT sector in Ireland and Microsoft executives take an active role across a broad range of industry bodies including; ICT Ireland, the Irish Software Association; FIT (Fast-Track to IT) and the American Chamber of Commerce.
www.microsoft.com /ireland/about   (362 words)

  
 GENUKI: Ireland
Ireland is well adapted to trade, on account of its numerous secure and commodious bays and harbours.
The fact that in 1922 the Republic of Ireland was created and six of the nine counties forming the province of Ulster (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone) voted to remain part of the United Kingdom, effects the location of various records.
Records from 1864 to 1922, for all Ireland, and from 1922 for the Republic are held at the Office of the Registrar General, Joyce House, 8-11 Lombard Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/irl   (2848 words)

  
 Golf Vacations Ireland, Courses, Enniscrone Golf Club
Another of Ireland's great west coast links where the sound of the Atlantic surf in Killala Bay is a constant accompaniment to the golf round.
The drive is not for the faint hearted and must be hit true to make the long carry to the fairway but the reward is relatively short second shot to the green.
A championship links that was venue for the 1992 Irish Amateur Close Championship and the West of Ireland from 1997 to 1999.
www.golf-irl.com /courses/enniscrone.htm   (125 words)

  
 The 20th century (from Ireland) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Northern Ireland, however, which occupies the rest of the...
The northeastern part of the island of Ireland is occupied by Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom.
The rest of the island is occupied by the Republic of Ireland.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-214211   (995 words)

  
 Revised Statutes of Northern Ireland
The revised Northern Ireland Statutes are now held and maintained on the UK Statute Law Database (SLD).
The effects on the Northern Ireland Statutes of legislation made from 1 January 2006 onwards will be applied on SLD as soon as possible.
The Northern Ireland Statutory Publications Office in Belfast will continue to be responsible for maintaining the Northern Ireland Statutes on SLD, but all enquiries should be directed to spohelpdesk@dca.gsi.gov.uk.
www.opsi.gov.uk /legislation/northernireland/nisr/ni-welcome.htm   (173 words)

  
 Updated Statutes of Northern Ireland 1921 to 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This Order may be cited as the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 and shall come into operation on such day as the Head of the Department may by order appoint
Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1959; or
www.hmso.gov.uk /legislation/northernireland/nisr/yeargroups/1980-1989/1985/1985oic/no171_000.htm   (9329 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.
Former Moderator of Northern Ireland’s Presbyterian Church; now serves at Rosemary Presbyterian Church in Belfast, where his work as co-convenor of the Church and Government Committee has brought his name into the wider public arena as a Presbyterian spokesman on political and social issues.
www.re-imagining-ireland.org /guests/bios.asp   (1642 words)

  
 Northern Ireland legislation
The Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 provides the Department of Environment for Northern Ireland with the power to acquire land for the purpose of managing it as a nature reserve.
The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 provides the Department of Environment for Northern Ireland with the power to declare areas of land as Areas of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) where the land is of special interest by reason of its flora, fauna, geological, physiographical or other features and needs to be protected.
The Order contains measures for preventing the establishment of species not native to Northern Ireland which may be detrimental to native wildlife, and prohibits the release of animals and the planting of plants listed on Schedule 9.
www.jncc.gov.uk /page-3175   (560 words)

  
 TCS Daily - The Celtic Tiger: Secret of Success Unveiled
In 1985, the Irish economy was in a shambles.
The result was that Ireland entered a period of explosive GNP growth, averaging 5.6% from 1985 to 2002.
Because Ireland belongs to the Anglo-Saxon world with English as its main language and its shared values, such as (economic) freedom.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=032805E   (594 words)

  
 Science Fiction and Fantasy set in Ireland: a checklist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
"the separation of Ireland from the ruling UK is prevented in large part by the narrator, in a balloon; and the landlords return.
Ireland very much in the background here, as the framing context for a retelling of the story of Marco Polo with a slightly magical twist.
There was a mention of Ireland which stuck with me: a Sinn Fein government was elected in the South, and they invited Cuban troops into the country for "training exercises" around the border.
explorers.whyte.com /sf/irsf.htm   (6839 words)

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