Table of Contents
428 relations: Abbey of Saint Gall, Afro-Caribbean people, Age of Discovery, Aidan of Lindisfarne, Airgíalla, Albion, Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer), Americas, Ancient Celtic religion, Ancient Greek, Ancient history, Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Saxons, Annals of Ulster, Anselm of Canterbury, Argentina, Art Mac Cumhaigh, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Atomism, Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir), Australia, Autosome, Ériu, Ó Dálaigh, Ballynahatty, County Down, Barack Obama, Barbados, Basques, Battle of Churubusco, BBC News, Beaufort scale, Berlin, Bernardo O'Higgins, Black people in Ireland, Blight, Bobbio Abbey, Boolean algebra, Boston, Boyle's law, Brady (surname), Bram Stoker, Brazil, Brehon, Brendan Behan, Brendan the Navigator, Bretons, Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig, ... Expand index (378 more) »
- Ethnic groups in Ireland
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Abbey of Saint Gall
The Abbey of Saint Gall (Abtei St.) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Afro-Caribbean people
Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.
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Age of Discovery
The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.
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Aidan of Lindisfarne
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Naomh Aodhán; died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria.
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Airgíalla
Airgíalla (Modern Irish: Oirialla, English: Oriel, Latin: Ergallia) was a medieval Irish over-kingdom and the collective name for the confederation of tribes that formed it. Irish people and Airgíalla are Gaels.
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Albion
Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain.
Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer)
Sir Alexander Armstrong (– 4 July 1899) was an Irish naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist and author.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Ancient Celtic religion
Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
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Anglo-Irish people
Anglo-Irish people denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Irish people and Anglo-Irish people are ethnic groups in Ireland and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.
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Anglo-Irish Treaty
The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.
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Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland
The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the late 12th century, when Anglo-Normans gradually conquered and acquired large swathes of land from the Irish, over which the kings of England then claimed sovereignty, all allegedly sanctioned by the papal bull Laudabiliter.
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Anglo-Normans
The Anglo-Normans (Anglo-Normaunds, Engel-Norðmandisca) were the medieval ruling class in the Kingdom of England following the Norman Conquest.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
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Annals of Ulster
The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.
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Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury OSB (1033/4–1109), also called (Anselme d'Aoste, Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and (Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was an Italian Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher, and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Art Mac Cumhaigh
Art Mac Cumhaigh (or Mac Cobhthaigh) (c. 1738–1773), or Art McCooey, was among the most celebrated of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the eighteenth century.
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as British prime minister.
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Atomism
Atomism (from Greek ἄτομον, atomon, i.e. "uncuttable, indivisible") is a natural philosophy proposing that the physical universe is composed of fundamental indivisible components known as atoms.
Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir)
Aud the Deep-Minded (Old Norse: Auðr djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir; Modern Icelandic: Auður djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir; Norwegian: Aud den djuptenkte), also known as Unn, Aud Ketilsdatter or Unnur Ketilsdottir, was a 9th-century settler during the age of Settlement of Iceland.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Autosome
An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
Ériu
In Irish mythology, Ériu (Éire), daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland.
Ó Dálaigh
The Ó Dálaigh were a learned Irish bardic family who first came to prominence early in the 12th century, when Cú Connacht Ó Dálaigh was described as "The first Ollamh of poetry in all Ireland" (ollamh is the title given to university professors in Modern Irish). Irish people and Ó Dálaigh are Gaels.
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Ballynahatty, County Down
Ballynahatty is a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
Basques
The Basques (or; euskaldunak; vascos; basques) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
Battle of Churubusco
The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, while Santa Anna's army was in retreat from the Battle of Contreras or Battle of Padierna during the Mexican–American War.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beaufort scale
The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (20 August 1778 – 24 October 1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence.
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Black people in Ireland
Black people in Ireland, also known as Black Irish, Black and Irish or in Daoine Goirme/Daoine Dubha, are a multi-ethnic group of Irish people of African descent. Irish people and Black people in Ireland are ethnic groups in Ireland.
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Blight
Blight is a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.
Bobbio Abbey
Bobbio Abbey (Italian: Abbazia di San Colombano) is a monastery founded by Irish Saint Columbanus in 614, around which later grew up the town of Bobbio, in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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Boolean algebra
In mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Boyle's law
Boyle's law, also referred to as the Boyle–Mariotte law or Mariotte's law (especially in France), is an empirical gas law that describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a confined gas.
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Brady (surname)
Brady is a surname derived from the Irish surname Ó Brádaigh or Mac Brádaigh, meaning "spirited; broad".
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Brehon
Brehon (breitheamh) is a term for a historical arbitration, mediative and judicial role in Gaelic culture.
Brendan Behan
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) (Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish.
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Brendan the Navigator
Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577) is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
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Bretons
The Bretons (Bretoned or) are an ethnic group native to Brittany, north-western France.
Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig
Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (c. 1580 – 1653) was an Irish poet and priest.
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British Legions
The British Legion or British Legions were foreign volunteer units which fought under Simón Bolívar against Spain for the independence of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, and under José de San Martín for the independence of Peru, in the Spanish American wars of independence.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Cappadocian Fathers
The Cappadocian Fathers, also traditionally known as the Three Cappadocians, were a trio of Byzantine Christian prelates, theologians and monks who helped shape both early Christianity and the monastic tradition.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
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Caribbean English
Caribbean English (CE, CarE) is a set of dialects of the English language which are spoken in the Caribbean and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America and South America.
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Carolingian Empire
The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
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Cassidy (surname)
Cassidy (Ó Caiside / Ó Casaide) is a common Irish surname and is sometimes used as a given name.
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Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa
Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (February 1439 – March 1498) was an Irish historian.
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Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna (c. 1680 – 1756) was an Irish poet.
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Catholic Church in Germany
The Catholic Church in Germany (Katholische Kirche in Deutschland) or Roman Catholic Church in Germany (Römisch-katholische Kirche in Deutschland) is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church in communion with the Pope, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the German bishops.
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Catholic Church in Ireland
The Catholic Church in Ireland (An Eaglais Chaitliceach in Éireann, Catholic Kirk in Airlann) or Irish Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See.
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Catholic Church in Scotland
The Catholic Church in Scotland (Catholic Kirk in Scotland) overseen by the Scottish Bishops' Conference, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church headed by the Pope.
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Catholic Church in the United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope.
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Celtic nations
The Celtic nations or Celtic countries are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Census in Australia
The Census in Australia, officially the Census of Population and Housing, is the national census in Australia that occurs every five years.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III, was an American politician, planter, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
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Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on was 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on 14 May of that year. Constenla alleges that she was told by Che's mother, Celia de la Serna, that she was already pregnant when she and Ernesto Guevara Lynch were married and that the date on the birth certificate of their son was forged to make it appear that he was born a month later than the actual date to avoid scandal.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann,; Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
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Clan Sweeney
Clan Sweeney is an Irish clan of Scottish origin.
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Coffin ship
A coffin ship is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Columba
Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.
Columbanus
Columbanus (Columbán; 543 – 23 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.
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Conmaicne
The Conmaicne (Modern Conmhaicne) were a people of early Ireland, perhaps related to the Laigin, who dispersed to various parts of Ireland.
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Cork (city)
Cork (from corcach, meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster.
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Cormac mac Airt
Cormac mac Airt, also known as Cormac ua Cuinn (grandson of Conn) or Cormac Ulfada (long beard), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.
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Cornish people
The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest. Irish people and Cornish people are ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.
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Cotter family
The Cotter family (Irish Mac Coitir or Mac Oitir) of Ireland was a Norse-Gaelic family associated with County Cork and ancient Cork city.
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Countries of the United Kingdom
Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province, jurisdiction or region).
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Country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.
County Cork
County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.
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County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region.
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County Wexford
County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.
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Cox (surname)
The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several places in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later.
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Cullen (surname)
Cullen is an Irish surname.
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Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Culture of Ireland
The culture of Ireland includes the art, music, dance, folklore, traditional clothing, language, literature, cuisine and sport associated with Ireland and the Irish people.
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D. P. Moran
David Patrick Moran (Dáithí Pádraig Ó Móráin; 22 March 1869 – 31 January 1936), better known as simply D. P. Moran, was an Irish journalist, activist and cultural-political theorist, known as the principal advocate of a specifically Gaelic Catholic Irish nationalism during the early 20th century.
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Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (1625 – January 1698) was a 17th-century Irish language poet.
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Dál Riata
Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel. Irish people and Dál Riata are Gaels.
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Delbhna
The Delbna or Delbhna were a Gaelic Irish tribe in Ireland, claiming kinship with the Dál gCais, through descent from Dealbhna son of Cas.
Diaspora
A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius (fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Dunbrody (1845)
The Dunbrody was a three-masted barque built in Quebec in 1845 by Thomas Hamilton Oliver for the Graves family, merchants from New Ross in Wexford.
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Early European Farmers
Early European Farmers (EEF) were a group of the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (ANF) who brought agriculture to Europe and Northwest Africa.
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Early Irish law
Early Irish law, also called Brehon law (from the old Irish word breithim meaning judge), comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland.
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Eastern Orthodox theology
Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Eavan Boland
Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor.
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Eóganachta
The Eóganachta (Modern Eoghanachta) were an Irish dynasty centred on Cashel which dominated southern Ireland (namely the Kingdom of Munster) from the 6/7th to the 10th centuries, and following that, in a restricted form, the Kingdom of Desmond, and its offshoot Carbery, to the late 16th century. Irish people and Eóganachta are Gaels.
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Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Edelmiro Julián Farrell
Edelmiro Julián Farrell Plaul (12 February 1887 – 21 October 1980) was an Argentine general.
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Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
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Emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country).
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English Canadians
English Canadians (Canadiens anglais), or Anglo-Canadians (Anglo-canadiens), refers to either Canadians of English ethnic origin and heritage or to English-speaking or Anglophone Canadians of any ethnic origin; it is used primarily in contrast with French Canadians.
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English Civil War
The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. Irish people and English people are ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.
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Enterprise of Ulster
The Enterprise of Ulster was a programme launched in the 1570s where Queen Elizabeth I tried to get English entrepreneurs settled in areas of Ireland troubled by the activities of Ulster.
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Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin
Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin (174829 June 1784), anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan ("Red Owen"), was an Irish poet.
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Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
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Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
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Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
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Eucharistic congress
In the Catholic Church, a Eucharistic congress is a gathering of clergy, religious, and laity to bear witness to the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, which is an important Catholic doctrine.
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European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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European Union citizenship
European Union citizenship is afforded to all nationals of member states of the European Union (EU).
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Ewan Campbell
Ewan Campbell is a Scottish archaeologist and author, who serves as the senior lecturer of archaeology at the University of Glasgow.
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Family
Family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).
Family Tree DNA
FamilyTreeDNA is a division of Gene by Gene, a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas.
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Fenian Cycle
The Fenian Cycle, Fianna Cycle or Finn Cycle (an Fhiannaíocht) is a body of early Irish literature focusing on the exploits of the mythical hero Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warrior band the Fianna.
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Fianna
Fianna (singular Fian; Fèinne) were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages.
Field marshal (United Kingdom)
Field marshal (FM) has been the highest rank in the British Army since 1736.
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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.
Fir Ol nEchmacht
Fir Ol nEchmacht was the name of a group or race of people living in pre-historic Ireland.
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FitzGerald dynasty
The FitzGerald dynasty is a Hiberno-Norman noble and aristocratic dynasty, originally of Cambro-Norman and Anglo-Norman origin.
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Fitzpatrick (surname)
Fitzpatrick is an Irish surname that most commonly arose as an anglicised version of the Irish patronymic surname Mac Giolla PhádraigKay Muhr, Liam Ó hAisibéil, in The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland, Oxford University Press, 2021 "Son of the Devotee of (St.) Patrick".
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Fitzsimons
Fitzsimons (also spelled FitzSimons, Fitzsimmons or FitzSimmons) is a surname of Norman origin common in both Ireland and England.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Flight of the Earls
The Flight of the Earls (Imeacht na nIarlaí) took place in September 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and about ninety followers, left Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe.
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Flight of the Wild Geese
The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.
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Folk memory
Folk memory, also known as folklore or myths, refers to past events that have been passed orally from generation to generation.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francis Beaufort
Sir Francis Beaufort (27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer, the creator of the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale, and a naval officer.
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French Canadians
French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
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Gaelic games
Gaelic games (Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated.
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Gaelic Ireland
Gaelic Ireland (Éire Ghaelach) or Ancient Ireland was the Gaelic political and social order, and associated culture, that existed in Ireland from the late prehistoric era until the 17th century. Irish people and Gaelic Ireland are Gaels.
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Gaels
The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Irish people and Gaels are ethnic groups in Ireland.
Gallowglass
The Gallowglass (also spelled galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from gallóglaigh meaning "foreign warriors") were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of Ireland and Scotland between the mid 13th century and late 16th century.
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Galway
Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
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George Boole
George Boole Jnr (2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland.
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George Francis FitzGerald
George Francis FitzGerald (3 August 1851 – 21 February 1901) was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 1881 to 1901.
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George Johnstone Stoney
George Johnstone Stoney (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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German Americans
German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. Irish people and Goidelic languages are Gaels.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.
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Hanrahan
Hanrahan is an Irish surname shared by many Irish people and descendants of Irish emigrants.
Haplogroup R-L21
R-L21 or R1b1a2a1a2c, also known as R-M529 or R-S145, is a Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.
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Haplogroup R1b
Haplogroup R1b (R-M343), previously known as Hg1 and Eu18, is a human Y-chromosome haplogroup.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Hiberno-Scottish mission
The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian France.
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High King of Ireland
High King of Ireland (Ardrí na hÉireann) was a royal title in Gaelic Ireland held by those who had, or who are claimed to have had, lordship over all of Ireland.
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History of Ireland (400–795)
The early medieval history of Ireland, often referred to as Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age.
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Huguenots
The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.
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Hydrography
Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activities, including economic development, security and defense, scientific research, and environmental protection.
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Icelanders
Icelanders (Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland.
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Indentured servitude
Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.
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Iona Abbey
Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Irish Americans
Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.
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Irish Argentines
Irish Argentines are Argentine citizens who are fully or partially of Irish descent.
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Irish Australians
Irish Australians (Gael-Astrálaigh) are residents of Australia who are fully or partially of Irish descent.
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Irish Brazilians
Irish Brazilians (Irlando-brasileiros or Hiberno-brasileiros; Gael-Bhrasaíligh) are Brazilian citizens of Irish ancestry, or Irish-born people residing in Brazil, and vice-versa.
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Irish Canadians
Irish Canadians (Gael-Cheanadaigh) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry to immigrants who originated in Ireland.
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Irish Caribbeans
Irish Caribbeans are people who live in the Caribbean, but were born in Ireland, or are descended from people who were born in Ireland.
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Irish clans
Irish clans are traditional kinship groups sharing a common surname and heritage and existing in a lineage-based society, originating prior to the 17th century.
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Irish Confederate Wars
The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653.
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Irish cuisine
Irish cuisine (Cócaireacht na héireann) encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with the island of Ireland.
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Irish dance
Irish dance refers to the traditional dance forms that originate in Ireland, including both solo and group dance forms, for social, competitive, and performance purposes.
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Irish diaspora
The Irish diaspora (Diaspóra na nGael) refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland.
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Irish Free State
The Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish name i, was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.
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Irish language
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.
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Irish literature
Irish literature is literature written in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots (Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland.
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Irish medical families
Irish medical families were hereditary practitioners of professional medicine in Gaelic Ireland, between 1100 and 1700.
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Irish Mexicans
Irish Mexicans are inhabitants of Mexico that are immigrants from or descendants of immigrants from Ireland.
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Irish military diaspora
The Irish military diaspora refers to the many people of either Irish birth or extraction (see Irish diaspora) who have served in overseas military forces, regardless of rank, duration of service, or success.
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Irish mythology
Irish mythology is the body of myths indigenous to the island of Ireland.
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Irish nationalism
Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state.
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Irish New Zealanders
The term Irish New Zealander (Irish: Gael-Nua-Shéalaigh) refers to New Zealanders of full or partial Irish ancestry.
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Irish people in Great Britain
Irish people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants.
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Irish prose fiction
The first Irish prose fiction, in the form of legendary stories, appeared in the Irish language as early as the seventh century, along with chronicles and lives of saints in Irish and Latin.
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Irish Sign Language
Irish Sign Language (ISL, Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland.
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Irish traditional music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
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Irish Travellers
Irish Travellers (an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. Irish people and Irish Travellers are ethnic groups in Ireland and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.
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Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC).
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.
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Iverni
The Iverni (Ἰούερνοι, Iouernoi) were a people of early Ireland first mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as living in the extreme south-west of the island.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
James Hoban
James Hoban (1755 – December 8, 1831) was an Irish-American architect, best known for designing the White House.
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.
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Jeanie Johnston
Jeanie Johnston is a replica of a three-masted barque that was originally built in Quebec, Canada, in 1847 by the Scottish-born shipbuilder John Munn.
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Joe Flood (policy analyst)
Joe Flood (born 28 July 1950) is a policy, data analyst and mathematician.
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John Barry (naval officer)
John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) was an Irish-born American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War.
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John Davies (poet, born 1569)
Sir John Davies (16 April 1569 (baptised)8 December 1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John Riley (soldier)
John Patrick Riley (also known as John Patrick O'Riley) (Irish: Seán Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh) (8 February 1817 – 10 October 1850) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who emigrated to the United States and subsequently enlisted in the United States Army.
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John Scotus Eriugena
John Scotus Eriugena, also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, John the Scot, or John the Irish-born (– c. 877) was an Irish Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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Kelly (surname)
Kelly is a surname of Irish origin.
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Kingdom of Alba
The Kingdom of Alba (Scotia; Alba) was the Kingdom of Scotland between the deaths of Donald II in 900 and of Alexander III in 1286.
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Kingdom of Dublin
The Kingdom of Dublin (Old Norse: Dyflin) was a Norse kingdom in Ireland that lasted from roughly 853 AD to 1170 AD.
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Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
Lanfranc
Lanfranc, OSB (1005 1010 – 24 May 1089) was a celebrated Italian jurist who renounced his career to become a Benedictine monk at Bec in Normandy.
Late Middle Ages
The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics.
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Laxdæla saga
Laxdæla saga, also Laxdœla saga (Old Norse pronunciation) or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalur, is one of the sagas of Icelanders.
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Leabhar na nGenealach
Leabhar na nGenealach ("Book of Genealogies") is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh.
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Limerick
Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.
List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
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List of expatriate Irish populations
An expatriate Irish population in any country other than Ireland or Northern Ireland is generally considered to be Irish emigrants and their descendants, at least to the extent that the people involved are aware of their Irish heritage and willing to acknowledge it.
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List of Ireland-related topics
This page aims to list articles related to the island of Ireland.
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List of Irish Americans
This is a list of notable Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants.
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List of Irish people
This is a list of notable Irish people who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there for most of their lives.
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List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.
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List of people with surname O'Brien
O'Brien is a surname of Irish origin.
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List of presidents of the United States
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
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Lord Protector
Lord Protector (plural: Lords Protector) was a title that has been used in British constitutional law for the head of state.
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Maastricht Treaty
The Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty, is the foundation treaty of the European Union (EU).
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Mac Aodhagáin
Mac Aodhagáin (English: Egan or Keegan), is an Irish Gaelic clan of Brehons who were hereditary lawyers - firstly to the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht, and later to the Burkes of Clanricarde.
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Mac Fhirbhisigh
MacFirbis (Mac Fhirbhisigh), also known as Forbes, was the surname of a family of Irish hereditary historians based for much of their known history at Lecan, Tireragh (now Lackan, Kilglass parish, County Sligo). Irish people and Mac Fhirbhisigh are Gaels.
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Mac Giolla Phádraig dynasty
Mac Giolla Phádraig (Mac Gilla Pátraic) is a native Irish dynastic surname which translates into English as "Son of the Devotee of (St.) Patrick".
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MacDonnell (surname)
MacDonnell, Macdonnell, or McDonnell is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin.
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MacNamara
Mac Conmara (anglicised as MacNamara or McNamara) is an Irish surname of a family of County Clare in Ireland.
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Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.
Maguire family
The Maguire family is an Irish clan based in County Fermanagh.
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Mairtine
The Mairtine (Martini, Marthene, Muirtine, Maidirdine, Mhairtine) were an important people of late prehistoric Munster, Ireland who by early historical times appear to have completely vanished from the Irish political landscape.
Manx people
The Manx (ny Manninee) are an ethnic group originating on the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea in Northern Europe. Irish people and Manx people are Gaels.
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Mario Testino
Mario Eduardo Testino Silva OBE HonFRPS (born 30 October 1954) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer.
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Marshal of France
Marshal of France (Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements.
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Mary Harney
Mary Harney (born 11 March 1953) is an Irish former politician and the former Chancellor of the University of Limerick.
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Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.
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Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (Máire Mhic Róibín;; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who served as the seventh president of Ireland, holding the office from December 1990 to September 1997.
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (20 January 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century.
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McCann (surname)
McCann or MacCan is an Irish surname.
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McCarthy (surname)
McCarthy is a surname originating from the Irish noble McCarthy Clan of Cork County, Ireland.
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McDermott
McDermott or MacDermott is an Irish surname from County Roscommon and is mostly found in the west of Ireland.
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McDonagh
The surname McDonagh, also spelled MacDonagh is from the Irish language Mac Dhonnchadha, and is now one of the rarer surnames of Ireland.
McGee (surname)
McGee or McKee (Mac Aodha, meaning "son of Aodh") is an English language surname of Irish origin.
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McGrath
McGrath or MacGrath derives from the Irish surname Mac Craith and is occasionally noted with a space: e.g. Izzy Mc Grath.
McGuinness
McGuinness (also MacGuinness, McGinnis, Guinness) is an Irish surname.
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McLaughlin (surname)
M(a)cLaughlin is the most common Anglicized form of Mac Lochlainn, a masculine surname of Irish origin.
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McMahon clans
McMahon, also spelt MacMahon (older Irish orthography: Mac Mathghamhna; reformed Irish orthography: Mac Mathúna), were different Middle Age era Irish clans.
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McNally (surname)
McNally is an Irish surname originating in County Tyrone, in the province of Ulster.
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Medieval philosophy
Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Mercenary
A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Methodist Church in Ireland
The Methodist Church in Ireland is a Wesleyan Methodist church that operates across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on an all-Ireland basis.
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Mexican Army
The Mexican Army (Ejército Mexicano) is the combined land and air branch and is the largest part of the Mexican Armed Forces; it is also known as the National Defense Army.
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Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
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Milesians (Irish)
The Milesians or sons of Míl are the final race to settle in Ireland, according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a medieval Irish Christian history.
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Military career of Simón Bolívar
The military and political career of Simón Bolívar (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830), which included both formal service in the armies of various revolutionary regimes and actions organized by himself or in collaboration with other exiled patriot leaders during the years from 1811 to 1830, was an important element in the success of the independence wars in South America.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Montserrat
Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist.
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Munster
Munster (an Mhumhain or Cúige Mumhan) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south of the island.
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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Nation
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Neil
Neil is a masculine name of Irish origin.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Niall of the Nine Hostages
Niall Noígíallach (Old Irish "having nine hostages"), or Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a legendary, semi-historical Irish king who was the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties that dominated Ireland from the 6th to the 10th centuries.
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Nine Years' War (Ireland)
The Nine Years' War, sometimes called Tyrone's Rebellion, took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603.
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Njáll Þorgeirsson
Njáll Þorgeirsson (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic) was a 10th and early-11th-century Icelandic lawyer who lived at Bergþórshvoll in Landeyjar, Iceland.
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Njáls saga
Njáls saga, also Njála, or Brennu-Njáls saga (Which can be translated as The Story of Burnt Njáll, or The Saga of Njáll the Burner), is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.
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Normandy
Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
Normans in Ireland
Hiberno-Normans, or Norman Irish (Normánach; Gall, 'foreigners'), refer to Irish families descended from Norman settlers who arrived during the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century, mainly from England and Wales. Irish people and Normans in Ireland are ethnic groups in Ireland.
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Norse–Gaels
The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. Irish people and Norse–Gaels are ethnic groups in Ireland.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
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Northern Ireland Sign Language
Northern Ireland Sign language (NISL) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Northern Ireland.
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O'Banion
O'Banion is a surname.
O'Connell (name)
O'Connell is a noble surname of Irish origin.
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O'Conor dynasty
The O'Conor dynasty (Middle Irish: Ó Conchobhair; Modern Ó Conchúir) are an Irish noble dynasty and formerly one of the most influential and distinguished royal dynasties in Ireland.
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O'Donnell dynasty
The O'Donnell dynasty (Ó Dónaill or Ó Domhnaill, Ó Doṁnaill or Ua Domaill; meaning "descendant of Dónal") were the dominant Irish clan of the kingdom of Tyrconnell in Ulster in the north of medieval and early modern Ireland.
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O'Driscoll (surname)
O'Driscoll (and its derivative Driscoll) is an Irish surname.
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O'Mahony
O'Mahony (Old Irish: Ó Mathghamhna; Modern Irish: Ó Mathúna) is the original name of the clan, with breakaway clans also spelled O'Mahoney, or simply Mahony, Mahaney and Mahoney, without the prefix.
O'Malley (surname)
O'Malley (Ó Máille) is an Irish surname.
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O'Neill (surname)
O'Neill is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó Néill meaning "descendant of Niall".
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O'Shea
O'Shea is a surname and, less often, a given name.
O'Sullivan (surname)
O'Sullivan is a surname of Irish origin.
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O'Toole (surname)
O'Toole is a surname of Irish origin.
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Ogham
Ogham (Modern Irish:; ogum, ogom, later ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works such as The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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Osprey Publishing
Osprey Publishing is a British publishing company specializing in military history based in Oxford.
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Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
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Patrice de MacMahon
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta (13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893), was a French general and politician, with the distinction of Marshal of France.
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Patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.
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Peadar Ó Doirnín
Peadar Ó Doirnín (c. 1700 – 1769), also known in English as Peter O'Dornin, was an Irish schoolteacher, Irish language poet and songwriter who spent much of his life in south-east Ulster.
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Penal laws (Ireland)
In Ireland, the penal laws (Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the kingdom's Roman Catholic majority and, to a lesser degree, on Protestant "Dissenters".
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People of Northern Ireland
The people in Northern Ireland are all people born in Northern Ireland and having, at the time of their birth, at least one parent who is a British citizen, an Irish citizen or is otherwise entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on their period of residence, under the Belfast Agreement.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard (Pierre Abélard; Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician.
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Picts
The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.
Plantation of Ulster
The Plantation of Ulster (Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulstera province of Irelandby people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI and I. Most of the settlers (or planters) came from southern Scotland and northern England; their culture differed from that of the native Irish.
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Plantations of Ireland
Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland (Plandálacha na hÉireann) involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Britain.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Pontic–Caspian steppe
The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Prehistoric Ireland
The prehistory of Ireland has been pieced together from archaeological evidence, which has grown at an increasing rate over the last decades.
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Presbyterian Church in Ireland
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI; Eaglais Phreispitéireach in Éirinn; Ulster-Scots: Prisbytairin Kirk in Airlann) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the Republic of Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland.
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President of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Protestant Irish nationalists
Protestant Irish Nationalists are adherents of Protestantism in Ireland who also support Irish nationalism.
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Protestantism in Ireland
Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland.
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Pytheas
Pytheas of Massalia (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης Pythéās ho Massaliōtēs; Latin: Pytheas Massiliensis; born 350 BC, 320–306 BC) was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France).
Rathlin Island
Rathlin Island (Reachlainn,; Local Irish dialect: Reachraidh,; Scots: Racherie) is an island and civil parish off the coast of County Antrim (of which it is part) in Northern Ireland.
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Rear admiral (Royal Navy)
Rear admiral (RAdm) is a flag officer rank of the Royal Navy.
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Recorded history
Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method.
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Recusancy
Recusancy (from translation) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
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Religion in Ireland
This is a list of articles about religion in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Reynolds (surname)
Reynolds is a surname in the English language.
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.
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Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet (3 June 1810 – 5 November 1881) was an Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself by research concerning earthquakes (and is sometimes known as the father of seismology).
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Robert McClure
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (28 January 1807 – 17 October 1873) was an Irish explorer who explored the Arctic.
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Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835).
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Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga of Erik the Red, in Eiríks saga rauða, is an Icelandic saga on the Norse exploration of North America.
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Saint Kilian
Kilian, also spelled Cillian or Killian (or alternatively Cillín; Kilianus), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (now the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours in the latter half of the 7th century.
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Saint Patrick's Battalion
The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Batallón de San Patricio), later reorganized as the Foreign Legion of Patricios, was a Mexican Army unit which fought against the United States in the Mexican–American War.
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Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (lit), is a religious and cultural holiday held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
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Salzburg
Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
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Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular.
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Sardinian people
The Sardinians, or Sards (Sardos or; Italian and Sassarese: Sardi; Gallurese: Saldi), are an Italic Romance language-speaking ethnic group native to Sardinia, from which the western Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy derives its name.
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Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta (c. 1647? – 1733) was an Irish poet.
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Scholasticism
Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories.
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Scoti
Scoti or Scotti is a Latin name for the Gaels,Duffy, Seán. Irish people and Scoti are Gaels.
Scots language
ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.
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Scottish Canadians
Scottish Canadians (Canèidianaich Albannach) are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada.
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Scottish Highlander
Scottish Highlander may refer to.
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Scottish Lowlands
The Lowlands (Lallans or Lawlands,; place of the foreigners) is a cultural and historical region of Scotland.
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Scottish people
The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Irish people and Scottish people are ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.
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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.
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Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill
Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill (1691–1754) was an Irish language poet in the first half of the 18th century.
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Seismology
Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or other planetary bodies.
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Settlement of Iceland
The settlement of Iceland (landnámsöld) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the ninth century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic.
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Seumas MacManus
Seumas MacManus (31 December 1867 – 23 October 1960) was an Irish author, dramatist, and poet known for his ability to reinterpret Irish folktales for modern audiences.
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Shane O'Neill (Irish chieftain)
Shane O'Neill (Séan mac Cuinn Ó Néill; 1530 – 2 June 1567) was an Irish chieftain of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster in the mid-16th century.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Slavery in Ireland
Slavery had already existed in Ireland for centuries by the time the Vikings began to establish their coastal settlements, but it was under the Norse-Gael Kingdom of Dublin that it reached its peak, in the 11th century.
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Soghain
The Soghain were a people of ancient Ireland.
Spanish Armada in Ireland
The Spanish Armada in Ireland refers to the landfall made upon the coast of Ireland in September 1588 of a large portion of the 130-strong fleet sent by Philip II to invade England.
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St. Austin Review
The St.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a freely available online philosophy resource published and maintained by Stanford University, encompassing both an online encyclopedia of philosophy and peer-reviewed original publication.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.
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Tandem Verlag
Tandem Verlag GmbH is a German publishing company and also wholesaler and distributor of print and electronic media products.
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Tanistry
Tanistry is a Gaelic system for passing on titles and lands.
Tánaiste
The Tánaiste is the second-ranking member of the government of Ireland and the holder of its second-most senior office.
The Fields of Athenry
"The Fields of Athenry" is a song written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Ireland Funds
The Ireland Funds are a global fundraising network for people of Irish ancestry and friends of Ireland, dedicated to raising funds to support programs of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development throughout the island of Ireland.
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The Pale
The Pale (Irish: An Pháil) or the English Pale (An Pháil Shasanach or An Ghalltacht) was the part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages.
The Sceptical Chymist
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Boyle, published in London in 1661.
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Thomas Croke
Thomas William Croke D.D. (28 May 1824 – 22 July 1902) was the second Catholic Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand (1870–74) and later Archbishop of Cashel and Emly in Ireland.
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Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)
Thomas Osborne Davis (14 October 1814 – 16 September 1845) was an Irish writer; with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, a founding editor of The Nation, the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tom Crean (explorer)
Thomas Crean (Tomás Ó Cuirín; 16 February 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving (AM).
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Tudor conquest of Ireland
The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place during the 16th century under the Tudor dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom of England.
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Ulaid
Ulaid (Old Irish) or Ulaidh (Modern Irish) was a Gaelic over-kingdom in north-eastern Ireland during the Middle Ages made up of a confederation of dynastic groups.
Ulster
Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh; Ulstèr or Ulster) is one of the four traditional or historic Irish provinces.
Ulster Protestants
Ulster Protestants are an ethnoreligious group in the Irish province of Ulster, where they make up about 43.5% of the population.
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Ulster Scots dialect
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal.
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Ulster Scots people
The Ulster Scots people are an ethnic group descended largely from Scottish and English settlers who moved to the north of Ireland during the 17th century. Irish people and Ulster Scots people are ethnic groups in Ireland.
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Unionism in Ireland
Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.
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University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Virgil of Salzburg
Virgil (– 27 November 784), also spelled Vergil, Vergilius, Virgilius, Feirgil or Fearghal, was an Irish priest and early astronomer.
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Visit by Pope John Paul II to Ireland
Pope John Paul II visited Ireland from Saturday, 29 September to Monday, 1 October 1979, the first trip to Ireland by a pope.
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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.
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War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714.
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Washington State University
Washington State University (WSU) (or colloquially and informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington.
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Waterford
Waterford is a city in County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland.
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Würzburg
Würzburg (Main-Franconian: Wörtzburch) is, after Nuremberg and Fürth, the third-largest city in Franconia located in the north of Bavaria.
Welsh people
The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales. Irish people and Welsh people are ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.
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West Country Men
The West Country Men were a group of influential individuals in Elizabethan England who advocated the English colonisation of Munster, attacks on the Spanish Empire, and the expansion of the English Empire.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
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William Brown (admiral)
William Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish sailor, merchant, and naval commander who served in the Argentine Navy during the wars of the early 19th century.
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Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms.
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Yamnaya culture
The Yamnaya culture or the Yamna culture, also known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture, is a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the Pontic–Caspian steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BCE.
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Young Ireland
Young Ireland (Éire Óg) was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform.
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Zenit News Agency
ZENIT is a non-profit news agency that reports on the Catholic Church and matters important to it from the perspective of Catholic doctrine.
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2016 Canadian census
The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688.
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See also
Ethnic groups in Ireland
- Americans in Ireland
- Anglo-Irish people
- Black people in Ireland
- Brazilians in Ireland
- Cálraighe
- Cambro-Normans
- Cenel Luacháin
- Chinese people in Ireland
- Ciarraige Óic Bethra
- Ciarraige Aí
- Ciarraige Airtig
- Ciarraige Locha na nÁirne
- Cluain Conmhaícne
- Conmaicne Cuile
- Conmhaícne Angaile
- Conmhaícne Ceara
- Conmhaícne Dúna Móir
- Conmhaícne Mara
- Corca Fhir Trí
- Delbhna Nuadat
- English diaspora
- Ethnic groups in the Republic of Ireland
- Filipinos in Ireland
- Gaels
- Irish Jews
- Irish Travellers
- Irish people
- Lithuanians in Ireland
- Luighne Connacht
- Masraige
- Nagnatae
- Nigerians in Ireland
- Normans in Ireland
- Norse–Gaels
- Norse-Gaels
- Official Ireland
- Polish minority in Ireland
- Scottish diaspora
- Senchineoil
- South Asians in Ireland
- Tuatha Taiden
- Turks in Ireland
- Ulster Scots people
- Yola people
Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom
- Anglo-Burmese people
- Anglo-Irish people
- Black British people
- British East and Southeast Asian
- British Gujaratis
- British Jews
- British Mirpuris
- British Overseas Territories citizens in the United Kingdom
- British people
- Chagossians
- Chinese community in the United Kingdom
- Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom
- Cornish people
- Demographics of England
- English diaspora
- English people
- Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom
- Global majority
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people (UK)
- Irish Travellers
- Irish people
- Kurds in the United Kingdom
- Languages of the United Kingdom
- Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
- Mixed White and Black African people in the United Kingdom
- Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
- Other Asian (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
- Other White
- Political blackness
- Romani in the United Kingdom
- Romani people in the United Kingdom
- Scottish Travellers
- Scottish diaspora
- Scottish people
- Ukrainian diaspora in the United Kingdom
- Welsh people
- White British
- White Irish
- White people in the United Kingdom
- White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller
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