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Ireland's Call

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"Ireland's Call" is a song used as a national anthem by some sports competitors representing the island of Ireland, originally and most notably the men's rugby union team. [1]

90 relations: A1 Team Ireland, Amhrán na bhFiann, Andrew Strong, Athletic Park, Wellington, BBC Online, Bloody Sunday (1920), Cahir Healy, Celtic Thunder, Celtic Woman, Coleraine, Counties of Ireland, County Galway, Cricket Ireland, Croke Park, David Irwin (rugby union), Des Fitzgerald, Donal Lenihan, Dublin Bay, England national rugby union team, Field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, Gaelscoil, Gerry Kelly (broadcaster), Glens of Antrim, God Save the Queen, Golfing Union of Ireland, Honors music, Housing estate, International Korfball Federation, Ireland, Ireland men's national field hockey team, Ireland men's national rugby league team, Ireland national korfball team, Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland Wolfhounds, Ireland women's national field hockey team, Irish Athletic Boxing Association, Irish Free State, Irish Hockey Association, Irish Independent, Irish language, Irish nationalism, Irish Rugby Football Union, James Last, John Murray (Irish broadcaster), Kilkenny, Kingspan Stadium, L'Équipe, Lansdowne Road, Limerick, Londonderry Air, ..., Maurice Gibson, Men's chorus, Modulation (music), National anthem, Nigel Carr, Northern Ireland, Ogg, Olympic Council of Ireland, Partition of Ireland, Phil Coulter, Philip Orr, Philip Rainey, PNG Football Stadium, Portadown, Provinces of Ireland, R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium, Regional accents of English, Republic of Ireland, RTÉ Radio 1, Rugby League Ireland, Rule 42, Scotland national rugby union team, Sports governing body, Sunday Independent (Ireland), The Irish Times, The Late Late Show (Irish TV series), The News Letter, The Rose of Tralee (song), TheGuardian.com, Ulster loyalism, Unionism in Ireland, Westport, County Mayo, 1954 Five Nations Championship, 1987 Rugby World Cup, 1991 Rugby World Cup, 1995 Rugby World Cup, 2000 Rugby League World Cup, 2007 Six Nations Championship, 2008 Rugby League World Cup, 2017 Rugby League World Cup. Expand index (40 more) »

A1 Team Ireland

A1 Team Ireland is the Irish team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series.

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Amhrán na bhFiann

"Amhrán na bhFiann", called "The Soldier's Song" in English, is the Irish national anthem.

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Andrew Strong

Andrew Strong (born 14 November 1973) is an Irish singer and the son of Irish musician and singing coach Robert (Rob) Strong.

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Athletic Park, Wellington

Athletic Park was a sports ground used mostly for rugby matches in Wellington, New Zealand.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Bloody Sunday (1920)

Bloody Sunday (Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence.

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Cahir Healy

Cahir Healy (2 December 1877 – 8 February 1970) was an Irish politician.

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Celtic Thunder

Celtic Thunder is an Irish singing group and stage show known for its eclectic, theatrical style show.

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Celtic Woman

Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish musical ensemble conceived and created by David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show Riverdance. In 2004, he recruited five Irish female musicians who had not previously performed together: vocalists Chloë Agnew, Órla Fallon, Lisa Kelly and Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt, and shaped them into the first lineup of the group that he named "Celtic Woman", a specialty group.

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Coleraine

Coleraine (Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; Irish Place Names, page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002.) is a large town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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Counties of Ireland

The counties of Ireland (contaetha na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: coonties o Airlann) are sub-national divisions that have been, and in some cases continue to be, used to geographically demarcate areas of local government.

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County Galway

County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.

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Cricket Ireland

Cricket Ireland, officially the Irish Cricket Union, is the governing body for cricket in Ireland (both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), and oversees the Ireland cricket team and Ireland women's cricket team.

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Croke Park

Croke Park (Páirc an Chrócaigh) is a GAA stadium located in Dublin, Ireland.

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David Irwin (rugby union)

David George Irwin (born 1 February 1959) is a former rugby union player who played for and the British Lions.

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Des Fitzgerald

Desmond Fitzgerald (born 20 December 1957 in Dublin) is a former Irish rugby union international player who played for the Irish national rugby union team.

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Donal Lenihan

Donal Gerard Lenihan (born 12 September 1959 in Cork) is a retired Irish rugby union player with 52 international caps.

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Dublin Bay

Dublin Bay (Cuan Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a C-shaped inlet of the Irish Sea on the east coast of Ireland.

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England national rugby union team

The England national rugby union team competes in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales.

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Field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's field hockey tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the 23rd edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics.

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Gaelscoil

A Gaelscoil (plural: Gaelscoileanna) is an Irish-medium school in Ireland: the term refers especially to Irish-medium schools outside the Irish-speaking regions or Gaeltacht.

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Gerry Kelly (broadcaster)

Gerald "Gerry" Kelly (born 20 September 1948) is a Northern Irish broadcaster and journalist, best known for his presenting career at UTV where he presented the Friday night talk and variety show Kelly.

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Glens of Antrim

The Glens of Antrim, (Placenames Database of Ireland) known locally as simply The Glens, is a region of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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God Save the Queen

"God Save the Queen" (alternatively "God Save the King", depending on the gender of the reigning monarch) is the national or royal anthem in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown dependencies.

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Golfing Union of Ireland

The Golfing Union of Ireland (GUI) is the governing body for men's and boy's amateur golf in Ireland.

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Honors music

The honors music for a person, office or rank is music played on formal or ceremonial occasions in the presence of the person, office-holder, or rank-holder, especially by a military band.

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Housing estate

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development.

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International Korfball Federation

The International Korfball Federation (IKF) is the governing body of korfball.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Ireland men's national field hockey team

Ireland national field hockey team represents Ireland at men's international field hockey.

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Ireland men's national rugby league team

The Ireland men's national rugby league team, known as the Wolfhounds, represents Ireland in international rugby league competitions.

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Ireland national korfball team

The Ireland national korfball team is managed by the Irish Korfball Association (IKA), representing Ireland in korfball international competitions.

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Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union.

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Ireland Wolfhounds

The Ireland Wolfhounds (formerly Ireland A) are the second national rugby union team of Ireland, behind the Ireland national team.

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Ireland women's national field hockey team

The Ireland women's national field hockey team represents Ireland in international field hockey competitions.

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Irish Athletic Boxing Association

The Irish Athletic Boxing Association Ltd. (IABA) is the national governing body for amateur boxing in Ireland.

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Irish Free State

The Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was a state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

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Irish Hockey Association

The Irish Hockey Association (IHA; Cumann Haca na hÉireann) is the governing body for the game of (field) hockey throughout the island of Ireland.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper, published by Independent News & Media (INM).

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Irish nationalism

Irish nationalism is an ideology which asserts that the Irish people are a nation.

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Irish Rugby Football Union

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) (Cumann Rugbaí na hÉireann) is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).

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James Last

James Last (born Hans Last; 17 April 1929 – 9 June 2015), also known as Hansi, was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra.

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John Murray (Irish broadcaster)

John Murray is an Irish journalist and broadcaster.

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Kilkenny

Kilkenny.

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Kingspan Stadium

The Kingspan Stadium (formerly known as Ravenhill) is a rugby stadium located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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L'Équipe

L'Équipe (French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury.

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Lansdowne Road

The Lansdowne Road Stadium (Bóthar Lansdúin) was a stadium in Dublin owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) that was primarily for used rugby union and association football matches.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in County Limerick, Ireland.

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Londonderry Air

The Londonderry Air is an air that originated in County Londonderry, Ireland.

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Maurice Gibson

The Rt Hon. Sir Maurice Gibson, P.C. (1 May 1913 – 27 April 1987), was a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland.

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Men's chorus

A men's chorus or male voice choir (MVC) (German: Männerchor), is a choir consisting of men who sing with either a tenor or bass voice, and whose music is typically arranged into high and low tenors (1st and 2nd tenor), and high and low basses (1st and 2nd bass; or baritone and bass)—and shortened to the letters TTBB.

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Modulation (music)

In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key (tonic, or tonal center) to another.

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National anthem

A national anthem (also state anthem, national hymn, national song, etc.) is generally a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.

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Nigel Carr

Nigel Carr (born 27 July 1959) was an Ireland rugby union international whose promising career was cut short due to injuries sustained in an IRA bomb explosion.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Olympic Council of Ireland

The Olympic Council of Ireland or OCI (Comhairle Oilimpeach na hÉireann) (called the Irish Olympic Council until 1952) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the island of Ireland.

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Partition of Ireland

The partition of Ireland (críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the division of the island of Ireland into two distinct jurisdictions, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

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Phil Coulter

Phil Coulter (born 19 February 1942) is an Irish musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Philip Orr

Philip Andrew "Phil" Orr (born 14 December 1950) is a former Irish international and British and Irish Lions Rugby Union loosehead prop.

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Philip Rainey

Philip Rainey (born 12 July 1959, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a former Irish rugby union international player who played for the Irish national rugby union team.

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PNG Football Stadium

PNG Football Stadium (known as Lloyd Robson Oval until 2015) is a sporting ground in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

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Portadown

Portadown is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Provinces of Ireland

Since the early 17th-century there have been four Provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

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R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium

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Regional accents of English

Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ Radio 1 (RTÉ Raidió 1) is the principal radio channel of Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926.

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Rugby League Ireland

Rugby League Ireland (RLI) is the internationally recognised governing body for the development of rugby league football in Ireland, having secured official recognition from the RLIF in 2000.

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Rule 42

Rule 42 (now Rule 5.1 and Rule 44 in the 2008 guide) is a rule of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) which in practice prohibits the playing of non-Gaelic games in GAA stadiums.

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Scotland national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union.

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Sports governing body

A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.

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Sunday Independent (Ireland)

The Sunday Independent is an Irish populist Sunday newspaper broadsheet published by Independent News & Media plc, under the control of Denis O'Brien. It is the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent, and maintains an editorial position midway between magazine and tabloid. The Sunday Independent is available on the Irish Newspaper Archives website up to 2004 you will only find "Black-And-White" microfilm pages but since 2005 the pages of the Sunday Independent online in colour.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.

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The Late Late Show (Irish TV series)

The Late Late Show, with its title often shortened to The Late Late, is an Irish chat show.

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The News Letter

The News Letter is one of Northern Ireland's main daily newspapers, published Monday to Saturday.

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The Rose of Tralee (song)

"The Rose of Tralee" is a nineteenth-century Irish ballad about a woman called Mary, who because of her beauty was called The Rose of Tralee.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Ulster loyalism

Ulster loyalism is a political ideology found primarily among working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland, whose status as a part of the United Kingdom has remained controversial.

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Unionism in Ireland

Unionism in Ireland is a political ideology that favours the continuation of some form of political union between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

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Westport, County Mayo

Westport (historically anglicised as Cahernamart) is a town in County Mayo in Ireland.

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1954 Five Nations Championship

The 1954 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-fifth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship.

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1987 Rugby World Cup

The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby Union World Cup.

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1991 Rugby World Cup

The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France; at that time, the five European countries that participated in the Five Nations Championship making it the first Rugby World Cup to be staged in the northern hemisphere, with England as the host of the championship game.

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1995 Rugby World Cup

The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup.

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2000 Rugby League World Cup

The 2000 Rugby League World Cup was held during October and November of that year in Great Britain, Ireland and France.

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2007 Six Nations Championship

The 2007 RBS 6 Nations Championship was the eighth series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship.

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2008 Rugby League World Cup

The 2008 Rugby League World Cup was the thirteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup since its inauguration in 1954, and the first since the 2000 tournament.

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2017 Rugby League World Cup

The 2017 Rugby League World Cup was the fifteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup tournament and took place in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea between 27 October and 2 December 2017.

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Glaoch na hÉireann, Irelands Call.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland's_Call

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