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Rathfriland

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Rathfriland is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. [1]

74 relations: Alpha Newspaper Group, Annaclone, Association football, Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, Ballyroney railway station, Banbridge, Banbridge (district), Barony (Ireland), Bishop, Brontë family, Bushranger, Call to the bar, Cambridge, Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, Captain Moonlite, Castlewellan, Catholic Church, Church of Ireland, County Down, Covenanter, Dolly's Brae conflict, Drumballyroney, Drumgath, Elim Pentecostal Church, Emeritus, Evangelicalism, Francis Gerard Brooks, Great Northern Railway (Ireland), High Court judge (England and Wales), Ireland, Irish Rebellion of 1641, Iveagh Lower, Lower Half, Iveagh Upper, Upper Half, Magennis, Mourne Mountains, Newry, Northern Amateur Football League, Northern Ireland, Oliver Cromwell, Orange Order, Order of the British Empire, Partition of Ireland, Patrick Brontë, Patrick Shea (civil servant), Plantation of Ulster, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Protestantism, Queen's University Belfast, Rathfriland Castle, ..., Rathfriland Rangers F.C., Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, Ribbonism, Ringfort, River Bann, Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore, Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Royal Irish Constabulary, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Ulster Architects, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Slieve Croob, South Down (Assembly constituency), South Down (UK Parliament constituency), Theodosia Meade, Countess of Clanwilliam, Tollymore Forest Park, Town, Trinity College Dublin, Ulster Transport Authority, United Kingdom census, 2001, University of Cambridge, War memorial, William Huston Dodd, Women's suffrage. Expand index (24 more) »

Alpha Newspaper Group

Alpha Newspaper Group is a media group, primarily involved in local newspaper publishing and radio broadcasting, in Northern Ireland.

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Annaclone

Annaclone is a village and civil parish between Rathfriland and Banbridge in south County Down, Northern Ireland, about 7 km south-east of Banbridge.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland

The Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland (ABC,ABCi and ABCI) is a Baptist Christian denomination based in Ireland.

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Ballyroney railway station

Ballyroney railway station was on the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) which ran from Banbridge to Castlewellan in Northern Ireland.

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Banbridge

Banbridge is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Banbridge (district)

Banbridge was a local government district in Northern Ireland.

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Barony (Ireland)

In Ireland, a barony (barúntacht, plural barúntachtaí) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided.

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Bishop

A bishop (English derivation from the New Testament of the Christian Bible Greek επίσκοπος, epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

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Brontë family

The Brontës (commonly) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Bushranger

Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.

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Call to the bar

The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received a "call to the bar".

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881.

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Captain Moonlite

Andrew George Scott (baptised 5 July 1842 – 20 January 1880), also known as Captain Moonlite, was an Irish-born Australian bushranger and folk figure.

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Castlewellan

Castlewellan is a village in County Down, Northern 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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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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County Down

County Down is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland.

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Covenanter

The Covenanters were a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland, and to a lesser extent that of England and Ireland, during the 17th century.

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Dolly's Brae conflict

The Dolly’s Brae conflict occurred in County Down in Ulster on 12 July 1849.

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Drumballyroney

Drumballyroney is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Drumgath

Drumgath is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland, southwest of Rathfriland.

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Elim Pentecostal Church

The Elim Pentecostal Church is a UK-based Pentecostal Christian denomination.

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Emeritus

Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Francis Gerard Brooks

Francis Gerard Brooks (14 January 1924 – 4 September 2010) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Dromore, Northern Ireland.

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Great Northern Railway (Ireland)

The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I) or GNRI) was an Irish gauge railway company in Ireland.

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High Court judge (England and Wales)

A Justice of the High Court, commonly known as a ‘High Court judge’, is a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, and represents the third highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales.

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Ireland

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

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Irish Rebellion of 1641

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 (Éirí Amach 1641) began as an attempted coup d'état by Irish Catholic gentry, who tried to seize control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions for Catholics.

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Iveagh Lower, Lower Half

Iveagh Lower, Lower Half is the name of a barony in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Iveagh Upper, Upper Half

Iveagh Upper, Upper Half is the name of a barony in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Magennis

Magennis (Mac Aonghusa) also spelled Maguiness, Maginnis, McGinnis, or McGuinness, is an Irish surname, meaning the "son of Angus", which in eastern Ulster was commonly pronounced in Irish as Mac Aonghusa.

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Mourne Mountains

The Mourne Mountains (na Beanna Boirche), also called the Mournes or Mountains of Mourne, are a granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland.

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Newry

Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, from Belfast and from Dublin.

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Northern Amateur Football League

The Northern Amateur Football League, also known as the Northern Amateur League and often simply as the Amateur League, is an association football league in Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland

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

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Orange Order

The Loyal Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order, is a Protestant fraternal order based primarily in Northern Ireland.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Partition of Ireland

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

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Patrick Brontë

Patrick Brontë (commonly; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish priest and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years by which time all of their children had died as well.

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Patrick Shea (civil servant)

Patrick Shea CB, OBE, FRSA (27 April 1908 – 1986) was a Northern Irish civil servant and the first Roman Catholic since A. N. Bonaparte-Wyse in the 1920s to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary of a Government Department in Northern Ireland.

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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 James VI and I. Most of the colonists came from Scotland and England, although there was a small number of Welsh settlers.

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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 Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Rathfriland Castle

Rathfriland Castle (Caislean Ráth Fraoileann) is a ruined castle at Rathfriland, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Rathfriland Rangers F.C.

Rathfriland Rangers Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League.

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Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland

The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland is a Presbyterian denomination in Ireland.

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Ribbonism

Ribbonism, whose supporters were usually called Ribbonmen, was a 19th-century popular movement of poor Catholics in Ireland.

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Ringfort

Ringforts, ring forts or ring fortresses are circular fortified settlements that were mostly built during the Bronze age up to about the year 1000.

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River Bann

The River Bann (an Bhanna, from ban-dea, meaning "goddess"; Ulster-Scots: Bann Wattèr) is the longest river in Northern Ireland, its length, Upper and Lower Bann combined, being 129 km (80 mi).

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore

The Diocese of Dromore is a Roman Catholic diocese in Northern Ireland.

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Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, is a grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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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 Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

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Royal Society of Ulster Architects

The Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) is the professional body for registered architects in Northern Ireland.

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Royal Ulster Constabulary

The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001.

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Slieve Croob

Slieve Croob is a mountain with a height of in the middle of County Down, Northern Ireland.

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South Down (Assembly constituency)

South Down (Ulster Scots: Sooth Doon) is an electoral constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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South Down (UK Parliament constituency)

South Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

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Theodosia Meade, Countess of Clanwilliam

Theodosia Hawkins-Magill (5 September 1743 in Brighton – 2 March 1817 in Brighton), later Countess of Clanwilliam, was a great heiress and landowner in County Down, Ireland.

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Tollymore Forest Park

Tollymore Forest Park was the first state forest park in Northern Ireland, established on 2 June 1955.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland.

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Ulster Transport Authority

The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

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William Huston Dodd

William Huston Dodd (1844-17 March 1930) was an Irish politician, barrister and judge.

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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage (colloquial: female suffrage, woman suffrage or women's right to vote) --> is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist.

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References

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

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