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Forked River, New Jersey

"Irish" Teddy Mann (born 1951), former middleweight noxing contender and author of Fighting For Redemption: The "Irish" Teddy Mann Story.

Scotch-Irish

Scotch-Irish Americans, descendents of Ulster Scots who first migrated to North America in large numbers in the early 18th century


Aidan Coffey

He recorded with Irish traditional fiddle players Seamus Creagh and Frankie Gavin and with guitar players Mick Daly and Arty McGlynn.

Andrew Byrne

Andrew Byrne (December 5, 1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-American Catholic priest, who became the first Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A..

Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird

The Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, William Reeves, writing on Mac an Bhaird and his fellow-labourers, paid tribute to the Irish Franciscans for their services to Irish archaeology.

Carmel Gunning

The book was launched at The Coleman Music Centre, Gurteen, County Sligo after a comprehensive lecture entitled A World Stage For Irish Music.

Carson McCullers

In a discussion with the Irish critic and writer Terence de Vere White she said: "Writing, for me, is a search for God".

Charm and Arrogance

Charm and Arrogance was the second album from Irish alternative band Toasted Heretic.

Child of the Prophecy

Publishers Weekly said that "Marillier's strong voice and rolling, lucid prose seem appropriate for a 10th-century Irish tale, and her command of a fantasy story's

Clare Gerada

It was presented by Ritula Shah and the others guests were; Tom Newton Dunn, the political editor of The Sun newspaper, Lord Trimble (Irish Politician) and Angela Eagle (Labour Party MP).

Cúla 4

Cúla 4 has also dubbed some children's films into Irish including Harry Potter, Jungledyret Hugo, Free Willy.

Culmore

The Hollywood feature film, "L.A. Story", starring Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker is, according to Martin in "Born Standing Up", partly based on an Irish traditional song, The Maid Of Culmore.

Des Bishop

He began hosting shows at the International Comedy Cellar - a venue set up by Irish comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea and Barry Murphy.

Digital Rights Ireland

DRI expressed concern, noting that there is no Irish equivalent of the Wilson Doctrine in Irish law.

Dunner

Duvet The "J. McCarthy Irish Special" version of a "Doona", Australian Slang for "Duvet".

Earl of Courtown

His youngest son Sir Lionel Stopford was a Colonel and Honorary Major-General in the Derby Regiment and Irish Guards.

Ferrall

Ferrall is a surname of Irish origin, from the Irish Farrell clan (Irish: Uí Fhearghail) meaning "descendant of Fearghal".

Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair

On their 1976 debut studio album Scottish Folk, the Scottish traditional music group Battlefield Band recorded a song about Irish immigration entitled "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" that shares a melody with this song.

Glen Velez

Among the many instruments Velez favors in his work are the Irish bodhrán, the Brazilian pandeiro, the Arabic riq, the North African bendir, and the Azerbaijani ghaval.

Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light

Filmmaker John J Doherty traces the life and work of the Irish artist, book illustrator and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889–1931) with major contributions from his biographer Nicola Gordon Bowe as well as many stained glass artists, poets and historians.

Hemant Divate

It is also published in Spanish as Alarma De Virus, and its Irish translation is forthcoming.

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Hollywood Trials

The series followed ten Irish actors trying to break into Hollywood.

Horse goddess

Étaín, identified as a horse goddess in some versions of Irish Mythology

Ian Madigan

Ian Madigan (born 21 March 1989) is an Irish professional rugby union player for Blackrock College RFC, Leinster Rugby and Ireland.

Jessie Barr

Jessie Barr (born 24 July 1989 in Waterford, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish athlete who will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.

John Farrelly

John V. Farrelly (born 1954), Irish Fine Gael party politician, former TD and senator

John Lambert

John Lambert of Creg Clare (fl. c. 1645 – c. 1669), Irish soldier and Royalist

John Treacy

Treacy overtook Spedding with 150m to go, during which the Irish television commentary of Jimmy Magee listed the previous Irish Olympic medal winners up to that time, before culminating: "And for the 13th time, an Olympic medal goes to John Treacy from Villierstown in Waterford, the little man with the big heart."

Johnson baronets

A descendant of the O'Neill dynasty, his family name was originally MacShane (Irish: Mac Seáin), of which Johnson is a translation.

Lincluden Collegiate Church

Uchtred's focus of power was in eastern Galloway, while his brother's was in the west, their reigns were marked by turbulent relationships between themselves, the Irish Kings of Ailech, the King of Scots, William the Lyon, and the King of England, Henry II.

Lucien Millevoye

Lucien Millevoye (1 August 1850 – 25 March 1918) was a French journalist and right-wing politician, now best known for his relationship with the Irish revolutionary and muse of W.B. Yeats, Maud Gonne.

Máel Muire

Máel Muire mac Céilechair (died 1106), Irish cleric and scribe at the monastery of Clonmacnoise

Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

However, that same summer of 1777, the dowager countess was seduced by a charming and wily Anglo-Irish adventurer, Andrew Robinson Stoney, who manipulated his way into her household and her bed.

McKearney

Pádraig McKearney (1954–1987), Marxist-oriented Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer

Monkstown, County Dublin

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly Irish traditional music), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does BirdWatch Ireland.

Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa

He graduated from University College Dublin in 1970 with a BA in Irish, history and philosophy and obtained a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1971.

Patrick McCartan

They persuaded Éamon de Valera to support the Philadelphia branch of Clan na Gael against the New York branch led by John Devoy and Judge Daniel Cohalan in their struggle to focus the resources of the Friends of Irish Freedom to Irish independence rather than domestic American politics.

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Rafflesia kerrii

The species is named after the Irish botanist A.F.G. Kerr (1877–1942), the first botanist to collect plants extensively in Thailand.

Saint-Gildas

The first book by the Irish writer Julia Kavanagh, Saint-Gildas, or, The Three Paths (1847) is largely set in the village in the eighteenth century.

Scotch-Irish

The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England

Scotch-Irish American

In reaction to the proposal by Charles I and Thomas Wentworth to raise an army manned by Irish Catholics to put down the Covenanter movement in Scotland, the Parliament of Scotland had threatened to invade Ireland in order to achieve "the extirpation of Popery out of Ireland" (according to the interpretation of Richard Bellings, a leading Irish politician of the time).

Sheep on the Road

It is a life-size bronzes of six sheep and a shepherd, sculpted in 1991 by acclaimed Northern Irish sculptor, Deborah Brown.

Soleirolia

It has also been called Irish moss; however, it is not a moss, nor should it be confused with Sagina subulata or Chondrus crispus, which are also known as "Irish moss".

Spider Murphy Gang

"Spider Murphy" is also referred to in a song written by Larry Kirwan of the Irish fusion Band Black 47's song, "Forty Deuce." The song appears referential to both the Spider Murphy Gang and to "Jailhouse Rock", for the live version from 2006's "Bittersweet 16" includes a saxophone solo which the singer recalls having heard in Sing Sing prison.

St Munchin's College

Tim O'Connor, formerly Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, former Secretary General to the Irish President, former Consul General of Ireland in New York, Chairman of 'The Gathering'

The Peeler and the Goat

The Penal Laws had been passed with the intent of persecuting the Irish Catholic population and Sir Robert Peel had been appointed Secretary of Ireland by the British Government in 1812.

The Troubles in Crossmaglen

4 March 1978 - Nicholas Smith (20), 7 Platoon, B Company, 2 RGJ, Royal Green Jackets, British Army was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby trap bomb while removing an Irish flag from a telegraph pole in Crossmaglen.

Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1820–1885) Anglo-Irish surgeon, explorer, and writer

Treaty of Nice

The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.


see also

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751 – 12 August 1817) was an Irish suo jure peeress.

Anthony Blake

Anthony Richard Blake (died 1849), Irish lawyer, administrator and 'backstairs Viceroy of Ireland'

Bandon, Oregon

It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown.

Charles O'Malley

Charles J. O'Malley (1866–after 1939), Irish financier and newspaper reporter in the United States

Charlie Landsborough

However, in 1994 his song "What Colour is the Wind", which tells the story of a young blind child’s attempts to envision the world, began to be played in Ireland, eventually reaching No. 1 in the Irish charts after a TV appearance on RTE's Kenny Live Show.

Clement of Ireland

Though St. Clement is no longer claimed as founder of the University of Paris, the fact remains that this remarkable Scots-Irish scholar planted the seeds of learning at Paris.

Cronyism

Bertie Ahern, former Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach, was mentioned on several occasions to have taken sums of money and kickbacks from property developers during the Celtic Tiger.

Donna Haraway

Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when she was 16 years old.

Dorothy Stowe

In 2005, when Irish rock band U2 played a concert in Vancouver, they invited Stowe, and Bono dedicated the song "Original of the Species" to her.

Dungal MacDouall

King Robert I of Scotland's invasion of Galloway in 1307, led by his brother Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, Malcolm McQuillan, Lord of Kintyre, two Irish sub kings and Reginald de Crawford, and composing of eighteen galleys, landed at Loch Ryan.

Harry Boland

In the 1996 biographical film Michael Collins, Harry Boland was portrayed by Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn.

Henry George Hughes

Henry George Hughes (10 August 1810 – 22 July 1872) was an Irish judge, politician, and third Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

Hermit Songs

Written in 1953 on a grant from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, it takes as its basis a collection of anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in translations by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Howard Mumford Jones, Kenneth Jackson and Sean O'Faolain.

Irish Steam Preservation Society

The Irish Steam Preservation Society was formed in 1965 in Stradbally, in Ireland.

John McGuinness

John J. McGuinness (born 1955), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD for Carlow-Kilkenny 1997–

John O'Sullivan

John M. O'Sullivan (1881–1948), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, TD, cabinet minister and academic

No Rain, No Rainbow

The opening track "Seven Hours" features, frontman Ryan Zimmerman's wife, Michelle along with many other guest vocalists throughout the album such as Craig Mabbitt of Escape the Fate, Beau Bokan and Jared Warth of Blessthefall and Cameron Martin of The Irish Front.

Ruairí McKiernan

He is a recipient of a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award, an Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers Ireland award.

Somersett's Case

These lawyers included Francis Hargrave, a young lawyer who made his reputation with this, his first case, and the famous Irish lawyer and orator John Philpott Curran whose lines in defence of Somersett were often quoted by American abolitionists (such as Frederick Douglass).

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.

St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule

It was named after Saint Kilian (using the German language version of his name), the Irish saint who spread Christianity throughout Europe.

Stephen Martin

Stephen J. Martin (born 1971), Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction

Svipdagsmál

Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (1975) suggests that the substance of the poem comes from the Irish legend of Art mac Cuinn.

Tadhg Ó Cellaigh

Rudhri was defeated, and Fedlim "plundered the officers of Ruaidri O Conchobair and seized the kingship of Connacht from Assaroe (Assaroe Falls) to Slieve Aughty himself .. and took hostages of the Clann Cellaig." Forced to submit, Tadhg now accompanied Fedlim, who switched sides and proceeded to wage war against his former allies, the Anglo-Irish of Connacht.

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

Tom French Cup

Carl Hayman was awarded the Tom French Cup in both 2004 and 2006, and was instrumental in helping New Zealand Māori defeat the British and Irish Lions for the first time in 2005.