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  World Almanac for Kids
The E coast of Ireland is comparatively regular and has few deep indentations; the W coast is fringed by drowned or submerged valleys, steep cliffs, and hundreds of small islands torn from the mainland mass by the powerful forces of the Atlantic.
The counties in Ireland are: Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois (Laoighis), Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow, in Leinster Province; Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary North Riding, Tipperary South Riding, and Waterford, in Munster Province; Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo, in Connaught (Connacht) Province; and Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, in Ulster Province.
Nearly the entire Celtic population of Ireland and the majority of the inhabitants of the Pale remained Roman Catholic, and the Anglican church served as a political instrument for the English rulers in Dublin Castle.
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 Henry VIII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1493, the young Henry was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Lord Rochford was beheaded soon after the trial ended; the four others implicated had their sentences commuted from hanging, drawing and quartering to decapitation.
The Lords Spiritual, as members of the clergy with seats in the House of Lords were known, were for the first time outnumbered by the Lords Temporal.
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 A Compendium of Irish Biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, eminent persons connected with Ireland ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
O'Brien, Henry, author of The Round Towers of Ireland, or the Mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism (1834), was born in Kerry in 1808, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and died in London, 28th June, 1835, aged 27.
Lord Eldon afterwards said the King at one time half believed himself to be sincere, and that his departure was thereupon hastened by the Ministry.
Turlough conquered the princes of Ireland in the south and west, and, according to Keating, held the nominal sovereignty of Ireland from 1126 to 1156; but the Irish princes were engaged in continual hostilities among themselves and with the Northmen during his reign.
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 SUNDAY OR THE LORD'S DAY - LoveToKnow Article on SUNDAY OR THE LORD'S DAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Under the act of 1579 the House of Lords in 1837 held that it was illegal for barbers to shave their customers on Sundays, although the deprivation of a shave might prevent decently disposed men from attending religious worship, or associating in a becoming manner with their families and friends through want of personal cleanliness.
Permission is given for absolutely necessary work, provided the employer submits to the authorities a list giving the names of the persons employed, and the place, duration and nature of their employment.
In August 1715 he joined the cabinet as lord keeper of the privy seal, and after a visit to George I. in Hanover he secured in April 1717 the position of secretary of state for the northern department.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SU/SUNDAY_OR_THE_LORD_S_DAY.htm   (2853 words)

  
 List of Presidents of Ireland Information - TextSheet.com
List of Presidents of Ireland Information - TextSheet.com
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List of Governors-General of the Irish Free State
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 special:allpaglist of indi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
List of List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers
List of Lords Justices of Appeal of England and Wales
List of Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland
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 John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At the time of his birth, Lord John Russell (as he then was) was not expected to succeed to the title - unless his elder brother Francis Russell, Lord Howland died in infancy or at some point later without legitimate heirs.
Lord John Russell married relatively young, to the Honourable Georgiana Byng, a daughter of the 4th Viscount Torrington.
The 6th Duke's second son Lord John Russell, later the 1st Earl Russell, a 19th century prime minister, is probably his most distinguished descendant, along with the latters' grandson the philosopher Bertrand Russell (the 3rd Earl Russell).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ireland
Ireland lies in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain, from which it is separated in the north-east by the North Channel, in the east by the Irish Sea, and in the south-east by St. George's Channel.
In Ireland as elsewhere they attacked the monasteries and churches, desecrated the altars, carried away the gold and silver vessels, and smoking ruins and murdered monks attested the fury of their assaults.
Michael Davitt, the son of a Mayo peasant, and favoured by the prevailing distress and by the heartlessness of the landlords, it rapidly spread.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lord President of the Council of the North.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Earl Marshal of England.
514 (inv 1704) Sidney, Lord Godolphin of Rialton.
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 KING JAMES ARMY LIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The list is a compilation of the lineage, honors and achievements of the "Wild Geese" of Ireland - some 30,000 or more of them.
The list of Attainders of 1691, those whose land was forfeited to the English, usually meaning they left with Sarsfield for France, included an Edward Donnelan of Killemane, Co.
He had married Mary, daughter of Robert Dillon, (ancestor of the Lords Clonbrock), and died at his house in Dublin in 1726, leaving issue, through which this family has since been represented, and is now by another Malachy, a minor.
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Lord Egmont's freedom from Parliamentary attendance gave him the opportunity, of which he copiously availed himself, of recording the proceedings of the Trustees and Common Council of the Society to which was entrusted, with the aid of a grant from Parliament, the administration of the province of Georgia in America.
The only method to prevent it is to let Ireland into some small share of the trade, for their poor must be subsisted, and he knew nothing so capable to prevent their running as to take off the duty on their yarn.
Lord Grantham told me that the King is positive to have the marriage of the Prince of Orange performed in the manner first intended by a procession through the wooden gallery, notwith standing Sir Robert Walpole, Duke of Grafton, Harry Pelham and others were warmly against it as a thing that will disoblige his subjects.
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 M. Wolff's Quicklist of Cartoons
Herewith a list of drawings, caricatures, and photographs of over Victorian worthies, almost all of them accompanied by several paragraphs (sometimes pages) of intriguing, often revealing, commentary.
Lord Chief Baron of the the Court of Exchequer.
Chairman of Committes of the House of Lords.
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 Anglo-Irish (DBA 144)
This list starts with Henry II's acquisition of the title of Lord of Ireland and ends with the Tudor period, when pike and shot were first introduced into Ireland.
The nominal administrator of Ireland in the king's stead was the Justiciar, later called the Lord Lieutenant, and then the Viceroy.
The Justiciar or Lord Lieutenant, or else a promenent Anglo-Irish nobleman, with Norman, English, or Anglo-Irish knights in attendance.
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 Voyages In Time ~ Family, Friends & Places
In 1695, it was purchased of a son of Sir Edward Smith, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, by the family of Reynolds, from whom it soon afterwards passed to the Russells.
In 1840 the 1st Lord Tollemache, on his succession, found the house in a deplorable condition, and a great deal of restoration, particularly on the garden front, had to be done; the courtyard overhang was bricked in at this time.
John Carrington Smith of St. Margaret's in the county of Gloucester, was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire and was a Lieutenant Colonel in the army.
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 Brenner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
More to the point, it is seems curious to bracket out discussion of the conquest of Ireland when discussing the rapid growth of England and its well-fed urban population at the very time hunger and depopulation were occurring in Ireland.
When you consider that a revolutionary struggle was ongoing in Ireland from about 1968-1994, the number of articles in NLR on Ireland during that whole period could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and probably still leave a few digits free.
Thomas Alfred Jackson, author of "Ireland Her Own", was born in London in 1879 and was one of the founders of the British Communist Party.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/origins/brenner_ireland_spain.htm   (4122 words)

  
 House of Lords Journal Volume 8: 6 February 1647 | British History Online
Citation: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 8: 6 February 1647', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 8: 1645-1647 (1802), pp.
Upon reading the Petition of Edward Lord Viscount Loftus, of Ely: It is Ordered, That Sir George Wentworth and Sir Phillip Manwaring shall, within One Week after this Order be served upon them, appear before this House, to shew Cause why he hath not obeyed the Orders of this House mentioned in the Petition.
And these Lords following were appointed to consider of these Papers, and report the same to the House; and that the House of Commons be desired to nominate a Committee of their House, of a proportionable Number, to join with the said Lords herein:
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=34209   (1083 words)

  
 norman.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Agar's ecclesiastical career began with his appointment in 1763 as first chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, the 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and as rector and vicar of Ballymagarvey and Skryne, diocese of Meath.
For the quarter of a century and more between c.1770 and 1800, he was very prominent in the Cabinets of successive lords lieutenant of Ireland and a formidable speaker, intellect, man of business and tactician in the House of Lords.
Among them are the lords lieutenant and chief secretaries of the day, four of whom, the 4th Viscount Townshend, Sir George Macartney, later Earl Macartney, William Eden, 1st Lord Auckland, and the 10th Earl of Westmorland, became friends of Agar's.
www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/norman.htm   (3540 words)

  
 Articles - Michael Collins (Irish leader)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Although most biographies list his date of birth as October 16, 1890, his tombstone lists his date of birth as October 12, 1890.
To be so installed, he had to formally meet the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Viscount Fitzalan (the head of the British administration in Ireland).
Despite opposition, he had supported and supplied the IRA in Northern Ireland throughout the civil war, a policy which was quickly discontinued after his death, and it is doubtful he would have regarded the findings of the Irish Boundary Commission with the same equanimity as his successors.
www.gaple.com /articles/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)   (3331 words)

  
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RECORDS CONCERNING THE MILITIA (1539-77) (A) Commission of a Lord Lieutenant (1576)[1] Elizabeth, by the grace of God of England, France, and Ireland queen...
Thomson, Lords Lieutenants in the Sixteenth Century, pp.
(D) Instructions for Training Men in Lancashire (1577) To our very good lords, the earl of Derby and Lord Mounteagle, and to the rest of the commissioners appointed in the fifteenth year of her majesty's reign for the taking of the general musters in the county of Lancashire: after our hearty commendations.
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 Henry Danvers - Biography
Henry was, soon after his return, employed in Ireland under the Earl of Essex, and Charles, eighth baron Mountjoy, successive lords-lieutenant of Ireland.
In September 1599 he was appointed lieutenant-general of the horse, in July 1601 governor of Armagh, and in July 1602 sergeant-major-general of the army in Ireland.
On 14 Nov. 1607, Danvers was appointed lord president of Munster, a post which he retained until 1615, when he sold it to the Earl of Thomond for 3,200l.
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 ARMED CITIZENS, CITIZEN ARMIES: TOWARD A JURISPRUDENCE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He even wrote Catholic magnates, disarmed by his lieutenants in earlier years, to explain that he had not really meant for their firearms to be taken permanently, but only held in temporary custody; if they would arm now, he would guarantee their later possession, or reimburse them should they be disarmed at any later date.
He issued instructions commanding the Lords Lieutenant of the militia to exercise their troops: "well-affected officers chosen, the volunteers who offer assistance formed in troops apart and trained; the officers to be numerous, disaffected persons watched and not allowed to assemble, and their arms seized...."
by purchasing a pamphlet that conveniently listed the amendments proposed by the state ratifying conventions, and his list of amendments was chosen from that pamphlet.
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 Senate Report #2807
Instead, he obtained a pamphlet listing the State proposals for a bill of rights and sought to produce a briefer version incorporating all the vital proposals of these.
His purpose was to incorporate, not distinguish by technical changes, proposals such as that of the Pennsylvania minority, Sam Adams, or the New Hampshire delegates.
It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.
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 Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Biographies: G   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At various times, he upset the lords and barons and was banished as the Lieutenant of Ireland in 1308.
Shortly before Edward's death, in 1553, she married Lord Guildford Dudley, son of the Duke of Northumberland, who persuaded Edward VI to set aside the claims to the throne of his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, in favour of Jane.
Mary, although a Roman Catholic, raised an army with the support of the populace, and, on 19 July, the Lord Mayor of London announced that she was queen, and Jane and her husband were imprisoned and executed for treason – see Wyatt's Rebellion.
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 The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Charles in turn opened his reign with a variety of repressive legislation, expanding the definition of treason, establishing press censorship and ordering his supporters to form their own troops, "the officers to be numerous, disaffected persons watched and not allowed to assemble, and their arms seized".
[18] In 1662, a Militia Act was enacted empowering officials "to search fro and seize all arms in the custody or possession of any person or persons whom the said lieutenants or any two or more of their deputies shall judge dangerous to the peace of the kingdom".
Following the Bill of Rights, Parliament reenacted that statute, leaving its operative parts unchanged with one exception--which removed the word "guns" from the list of items forbidden to the poorer citizens [25] The right to keep and bear arms would henceforth belong to all English subjects, rich and poor alike.
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 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1761 he was again sent to Germany, this time for duty with the 12th foot, and was promoted to brevet Lieutenant Colonel.
He led his unit in the Battle of Vellinghusen on July 15th-16th, and was noted for his gallantry.
A few years after his term ended in 1793 he once again re-located, and became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
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 Barry, Sir Charles --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It is located on the left bank of the River Thames in the borough of Westminster, London.
The Dominion's first secretary of state, Archibald was born in Truro, N.S. A lawyer, he sat in the provincial Assembly in 1851–67.
He was lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 1873–83.
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 Robert of Belleme, 3rd Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Norman lord and supporter of William I the Conqueror of England.
A British diplomat and art collector, Lord Elgin was famous for his acquisition of the Greek sculptures now known as the Elgin Marbles.
Includes a biographical sketch along with a list of his songs.
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 The Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alphabetical listing of names on the map added only to this IGF 2003 limited edition printing.
The task was to compile all the existing known history of Ireland for future generations.
The history included was drawn from many sources throughout Ireland, including the Annals of Tigernach; The Annals of Innisfallen; The Book of Clonmacnois; The Annals of Ulster; The Book of Conquests; The Book of MacBruadins; The Book of MacFirbis; The Book of O’Conry; The Book of O’Duigenean; the Book of Loughree; and more.
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