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Lough Erne

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Lough Erne is the name of two connected lakes in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. [1]

76 relations: Administration (law), Angling, Annals of Ulster, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Éire, Ériu, Ballycassidy, Battle of the Atlantic, BBC News Online, Belleek, County Fermanagh, Belturbet, Boa Island, Cath Maige Tuired, Clones, County Monaghan, County Fermanagh, Derrylin, Devenish Island, Enniskillen, Fíachu Labrainne, Fermanagh, Fir Bolg, Garden warbler, Great Famine (Ireland), High King of Ireland, Inis Rath, Ireland, Irish mythology, Irish Open (golf), Island, John T. Koch, Kesh, County Fermanagh, Killadeas, Lady-in-waiting, Lake, Leinster, List of loughs of Ireland, Lough Erne Challenge, Lough Neagh, Lusty Beg Island, Lustymore Island, Manannán mac Lir, Medb, Monaghan, Mongán mac Fiachnai, Mother goddess, Northern Ireland, Partholón, Patricia Monaghan, Peninsula, Percy Shepherd, ..., Pettigo, Poolbeg Lighthouse, Proto-Indo-European language, Ptolemy, RAF Castle Archdale, Ramsar Convention, Rathcroghan, Republic of Ireland, River Erne, River Shannon, Rivers Agency, Rowing (sport), Shannon–Erne Waterway, Solar deity, T. F. O'Rahilly, Trory, U-boat, Ulster, Ulster Canal, W. B. Yeats bibliography, Wakeboarding, Water skiing, Waterways Ireland, White Island, County Fermanagh, Word stem, 39th G8 summit. Expand index (26 more) »

Administration (law)

As a legal concept, administration is a procedure under the insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions, similar to bankruptcy in the United States.

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Angling

Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle" (fish hook).

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Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.

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Augusta, Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.

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Éire

Éire is Irish for "Ireland", the name of an island and a sovereign state.

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Ériu

In Irish mythology, Ériu (modern Irish Éire), daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland.

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Ballycassidy

Ballycassidy is a small village and townland (of 83 acres) in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 6.5km north of Enniskillen on the eastern shore of Lower Lough Erne.

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Battle of the Atlantic

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Belleek, County Fermanagh

Belleek (Flanagan, Deirdre & Laurence; Irish Place Names, page 182. Gill & Macmillan, 2002.) is a village and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Belturbet

Belturbet is a town in County Cavan, Ireland.

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Boa Island

Boa Island is an island near the north shore of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Cath Maige Tuired

Cath Maige Tuired (modern spelling: Cath Maighe Tuireadh), meaning "The Battle of Magh Tuireadh", is the name of two saga texts of the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Clones, County Monaghan

Clones is a small town in western County Monaghan, Ireland.

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County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

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Derrylin

Derrylin is a village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Devenish Island

Devenish or Devinish is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Enniskillen

Enniskillen is a town and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Fíachu Labrainne

Fíachu Labhrainne, son of Smirgoll, son of Enboth, son of Tigernmas, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

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Fermanagh

Fermanagh (Fear Manach) was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh.

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Fir Bolg

In medieval Irish myth, the Fir Bolg (also spelt Firbolg and Fir Bholg) are the fourth group of people to settle in Ireland.

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Garden warbler

The garden warbler (Sylvia borin) is a common and widespread small bird that breeds in most of Europe and in western Asia.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.

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High King of Ireland

The High Kings of Ireland (Ard-Rí na hÉireann) were sometimes historical and sometimes legendary figures who had, or who are claimed to have had, lordship over the whole of Ireland.

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Inis Rath

Inis Rath is an island located in Loch Erne, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Ireland

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

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Irish mythology

The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity.

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Irish Open (golf)

The Irish Open is a professional golf tournament on the European Tour.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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John T. Koch

John T. Koch is an American academic, historian and linguist who specializes in Celtic studies, especially prehistory and the early Middle Ages.

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Kesh, County Fermanagh

Kesh is a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Killadeas

Killadeas is a small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Lady-in-waiting

A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, royal or feudal, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Leinster

Leinster (— Laighin / Cúige Laighean — /) is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland.

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List of loughs of Ireland

This article is an alphabetical list of loughs on the island of Ireland.

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Lough Erne Challenge

The Lough Erne Challenge is an annual invitational golf event played on The Faldo Course at the Lough Erne Resort, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Lough Neagh

Lough Neagh is a large freshwater lake in Northern Ireland.

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Lusty Beg Island

Lusty Beg Island is an island located in Lower Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Lustymore Island

Lustymore Island is an island located in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Manannán mac Lir

Manannán (Irish), “Manannan” (Manx) or Manann, also known as Manannán mac Lir (Irish) or “Manannan Mac y Lir” (Manx) (Mac Lir meaning "son of the sea"), is a sea deity in Manx and Irish mythology.

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Medb

Medb (pronounced)—later forms Meadhbh and Méabh—is queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Monaghan

Monaghan (pronounced) is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Mongán mac Fiachnai

Mongán mac Fiachnai (died ca. 625) was an Irish prince of the Cruthin, a son of Fiachnae mac Báetáin.

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Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction or who embodies the bounty of the Earth.

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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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Partholón

Partholón (Modern spelling: 'Parthalán') is a character in medieval Irish Christian pseudo-history.

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Patricia Monaghan

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Peninsula

A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.

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Percy Shepherd

Percy Shepherd, OBE (8 August 1878 – March 1948) was an eminent British military and civil engineer specialising in docks, waterways, harbour works, and drainage.

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Pettigo

Pettigo (also spelt Pettigoe) is a small village on the border of County Donegal, Republic of Ireland and County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Poolbeg Lighthouse

Poolbeg Lighthouse in Dublin Bay was built in 1768 and initially operated on candlepower (reputedly the first in the world to do so) but changed to oil in 1786.

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Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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RAF Castle Archdale

RAF Castle Archdale, also known for a while as RAF Lough Erne was a Royal Air Force station used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force station in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

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Rathcroghan

Rathcroghan is a complex of archaeological sites near Tulsk in County Roscommon, Ireland.

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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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River Erne

The River Erne (Abhainn na hÉirne or An Éirne) in the northwest of Ireland, is the second-longest river in Ulster.

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River Shannon

The River Shannon (Abha na Sionainne, an tSionainn, an tSionna) is the longest river in Ireland at.

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Rivers Agency

The Rivers Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), in the Northern Ireland Executive.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often referred to as crew in the United States, is a sport whose origins reach back to Ancient Egyptian times.

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Shannon–Erne Waterway

The Shannon–Erne Waterway (Uiscebhealach na Sionainne is na hÉirne; Ulster-Scots: Shannon–Erne Wattèrgate) is a canal linking the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland with the River Erne in Northern Ireland.

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Solar deity

A solar deity (also sun god or sun goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.

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T. F. O'Rahilly

Thomas Francis O'Rahilly (Tomás Ó Rathile; 1883–1953) was an Irish scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly in the fields of historical linguistics and Irish dialects.

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Trory

Trory is a townland (of 335 acres), small village and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 3 miles (5km) north of Enniskillen.

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U-boat

U-boat is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat".

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Ulster

Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland.

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Ulster Canal

The Ulster Canal is a disused canal running through part of County Armagh, County Tyrone and County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland and County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.

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W. B. Yeats bibliography

This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a foremost figure in 20th-century literature.

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Wakeboarding

Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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Waterways Ireland

Waterways Ireland (Uiscebhealaí Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Watterweys Airlann) is one of the six all-Ireland North/South implementation bodies established under the Belfast Agreement in 1999.

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White Island, County Fermanagh

White Island is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Word stem

In linguistics, a stem is a part of a word.

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39th G8 summit

The 39th G8 summit was held on 17–18 June 2013, at the Lough Erne Resort, a five-star hotel and golf resort on the shore of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Erne

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