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68 relations: Aidan MacCarthy, Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Armistice of 11 November 1918, Bantry, Bantry Bay, Beara Peninsula, Bere Island, Black and Tan, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Caha Mountains, Catholic Church, Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Church of Ireland, Cork County Council, Counties of Ireland, County Cork, Daphne du Maurier, Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, Dunboy Castle, Earl of Bantry, Electoral district, Elizabeth I of England, Erskine Hamilton Childers, Fishing industry, Gaelic Athletic Association, Golf course, Guerrilla Days in Ireland, Hungry Hill, Hungry Hill (novel), Irish Civil War, Irish Free State, Irish National League, Irish Republican Army, Kealkill, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Kite balloon, List of RNLI stations, List of sovereign states, List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Lough Swilly, MacCarthy Reagh, Neil Jordan, North Holland, Patrick O'Brian, Pete McCarthy, President of Ireland, Provinces of Ireland, Republic of Ireland, ..., Robert Erskine Childers, Royal Irish Constabulary, Royal Navy, Siege of Dunboy, Smuggling, Spanish Armada, Standish James O'Grady, The Commodore (novel), Timothy Harrington, Tom Barry (soldier), Treaty Ports (Ireland), U.S. Naval Air Station Berehaven Ireland, United States Navy, Western Approaches, Wild Atlantic Way, Wolfe Tone, World War I, World War II. Expand index (18 more) »
Aidan MacCarthy
Air Commodore Joseph Aidan MacCarthy, (1914 – 11 October 1995) was an Irish doctor of the Royal Air Force and a prisoner of war to the Japanese during the Second World War.
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Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement
The Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement was signed on 25 April 1938 by Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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Anglo-Irish Treaty
The Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known 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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Armistice of 11 November 1918
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany.
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Bantry
Bantry is a town in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge in the barony of Bantry on the coast of West Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
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Bantry Bay
Bantry Bay (Cuan Baoi / Inbhear na mBárc / Bádh Bheanntraighe) is a bay located in County Cork, Ireland.
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Beara Peninsula
Beara (Béarra) or the Beara Peninsula is a peninsula on the south-west coast of Ireland, bounded between the Kenmare "river" (actually a bay) to the north side and Bantry Bay to the south.
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Bere Island
Bere Island, although officially called An tOileán Mór meaning "the big island") is an island off the Beara Peninsula in County Cork Ireland. It is roughly 10 km x 3 km in dimension, with an area of 17.68 km², and, as of 2012, had a population of between 210 and 220 people. Legend says that the island was named by a 2nd-century king of Munster, Mogh Nuadat, in honour of his wife, Beara, the daughter of Heber Mór, King of Castile.
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Black and Tan
Black and Tan is a beer cocktail made by layering a pale beer (usually pale ale) and a dark beer (usually stout).
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Bord Iascaigh Mhara
Bord Iascaigh Mhara (meaning "Sea Fish Board"; or BIM "Irish Sea Fisheries Board") is the agency of the Irish state with responsibility for developing the Irish marine fishing and aquaculture industries.
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Caha Mountains
The Caha Mountains (An Ceachach in Irish) are a range of low sandstone mountains situated on the Beara peninsula in south-west County Cork, in the Ireland.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Central Statistics Office (Ireland)
The Central Statistics Office (CSO; An Phríomh-Oifig Staidrimh) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in Ireland, in particular the National Census which is held every five years.
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Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
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Cork County Council
Cork County Council (Comhairle Contae Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Cork, Ireland.
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Counties of Ireland
The counties of Ireland (contaetha na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: coonties o Airlann) are sub-national divisions that have been, and in some cases continue to be, used to geographically demarcate areas of local government.
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County Cork
County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is a county in Ireland.
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Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
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Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven (Domhnall Cam Ó Súileabháin Bhéara) (1561–1618) was the last independent ruler of the O'Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O'Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, on the Beara Peninsula in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island.
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Dunboy Castle
Dunboy Castle is a ruined castle on the Beara Peninsula in south-west Ireland near the town of Castletownbere.
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Earl of Bantry
Earl of Bantry, of Bantry in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
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Electoral district
An electoral district, (election) precinct, election district, or legislative district, called a voting district by the US Census (also known as a constituency, riding, ward, division, electoral area, or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.
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Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.
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Erskine Hamilton Childers
Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the 4th President of Ireland from June 1973 to November 1974.
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Fishing industry
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products.
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Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, (CLG)) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders.
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Golf course
A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.
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Guerrilla Days in Ireland
Guerrilla Days in Ireland is a book published by Irish Republican Army leader Tom Barry in 1949.
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Hungry Hill
Hungry Hill (Cnoc Daod) is a mountain on the Beara Peninsula, County Cork, in the Republic of Ireland.
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Hungry Hill (novel)
Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943.
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Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War (Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.
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Irish Free State
The Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was a state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.
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Irish National League
The Irish National League (INL) was a nationalist political party in Ireland.
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Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several paramilitary movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.
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Kealkill
Kealkill is a small village in West Cork, Ireland, located 10.3 kilometers from Bantry and 75.8 kilometers from Cork City.
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King's Own Scottish Borderers
The King's Own Scottish Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division.
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Kite balloon
A kite balloon is a tethered balloon which is aerodynamically optimised for windy conditions by making it directionally stable and by minimising aerodynamic resistance to the wind, or drag.
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List of RNLI stations
Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stations are the bases for the RNLI's fleet of search and rescue lifeboats that cover the coastal waters around the entire British Isles, as well as major inland waterways.
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List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland
This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin and other major urban areas.
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Lord Mayor of Dublin
The Lord Mayor of Dublin (Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the honorific title of the chairman (Cathaoirleach) of Dublin City Council which is the local government body for the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
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Lough Swilly
Lough Swilly in Ireland is a glacial fjord or sea inlet lying between the western side of the Inishowen Peninsula and the Fanad Peninsula, in County Donegal.
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MacCarthy Reagh
The MacCarthy Reagh (Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach) dynasty are a branch of the great MacCarthy dynasty, Kings of Desmond, deriving from the ancient Eóganachta, of the central Eóganacht Chaisil sept.
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Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer.
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North Holland
North Holland (Noord-Holland, West Frisian Dutch: Noard-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands located in the northwestern part of the country.
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Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.
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Pete McCarthy
Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson (9 November 1951 – 6 October 2004), known as Pete McCarthy, was an English comedian, radio and television presenter and travel writer.
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President of Ireland
The President of Ireland (Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland and the Supreme Commander of the Irish Defence Forces.
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Provinces of Ireland
Since the early 17th-century there have been four Provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Robert Erskine Childers
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was an Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands, and a Fenian revolutionary who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard.
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Royal Irish Constabulary
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, Irish: Constáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann; simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the police force in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Siege of Dunboy
The Siege of Dunboy took place at Dunboy Castle on 5–18 June 1602, during the Nine Years' War in Ireland.
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Smuggling
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
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Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (Grande y Felicísima Armada, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in late May 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
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Standish James O'Grady
Standish James O'Grady (Anéislis Séamus Ó Grádaigh; 18 September 1846 – 18 May 1928) was an Irish author, journalist, and historian.
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The Commodore (novel)
The Commodore is the seventeenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1995.
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Timothy Harrington
Timothy Charles Harrington (1851 – 12 March 1910), born in Castletownbere, County Cork, was an Irish journalist, barrister, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Tom Barry (soldier)
Thomas (Tom) Barry (1 July 1897 – 2 July 1980) was a prominent guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence, when he was commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column.
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Treaty Ports (Ireland)
Following the establishment of the Irish Free State, three deep water Treaty Ports at Berehaven, Queenstown (modern Cóbh) and Lough Swilly were retained by the United Kingdom in accordance with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921.
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U.S. Naval Air Station Berehaven Ireland
U.S. Naval Air Station Berehaven was a Lighter-than-Air (LTA) Kite balloon station located at Berehaven County Cork, Ireland which was operated by the United States Navy (USN).
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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Western Approaches
The Western Approaches is an approximately rectangular area of the Atlantic ocean lying immediately to the west of Ireland and parts of Great Britain.
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Wild Atlantic Way
The Wild Atlantic Way (Slí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin) is a tourism trail on the west coast, and on parts of the north and south coasts, of the Republic of Ireland.
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Wolfe Tone
Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism and leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castletownbere
