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| Aidan of Lindisfarne |
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Known as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, St Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to...
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| Bloody Sunday |
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Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola)—sometimes called the Bogside Massacre—was an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972. Twenty-seven civil rights protesters were shot by members of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute...
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| County Mayo |
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Contae Mhaigh Eo |
County Mayo (Irish: Contae Mhaigh Eo) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Connacht. It was named after the village of Mayo (Irish: Maigh Eo). Mayo is the second largest of Ireland’s 32 counties in area...
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| County Fermanagh |
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County Fermanagh (pronounced fur-man-ah) – from the Irish: Fear Manach meaning "men of Manach") is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. As Fermanagh is situated...
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| County Dublin |
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Dublin Region |
County Dublin (Irish: Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath), or more correctly today the Dublin Region (Réigiúin Átha Cliath), is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland as well as the largest city on the island of Ireland; and the...
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Dublin (pronounced /ˈdʌblɨn/, /ˈdʊblɨn/ or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/) is the largest city (being a primate city ) and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath [bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh] or Áth Cliath [aːh cliə(ɸ)]; the English name comes...
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| Easter Rising |
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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic. It was...
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| Glasnevin |
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Glasnevin (Glas Naíon, Glas Na’on - Stream of the Infants; also known as Glas Naedhe - O'Naeidhe’s Stream (after an ancient Chieftain) - in Irish) is a largely residential neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland.
A mainly residential neighbourhood, it is...
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| Henry II of England |
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Henry II, called Curtmantle (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189) ruled as King of England (1154–1189), Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled...
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| Republic of Ireland |
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Éire |
Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɪrlənd/ ( listen), locally [ˈaɾlənd]; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen)) is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on...
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Irish Potato Famine |
The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór meaning "the great hunger" or an Drochshaol meaning "the bad life") was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 during which the island's population dropped by 20–25...
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| Irish Republican Army |
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IRA |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) (Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in...
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Gaeilge |
Irish (Gaeilge) is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now only spoken natively by a small minority of the Irish population but also plays an...
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| Irish Civil War |
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The Irish Civil War (Irish: Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independent from the United Kingdom within the British Empire.
The conflict...
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| Northern Ireland |
Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a country that is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with...
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| The Troubles |
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The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) was a period of ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland which spilled over at various times into England, the Republic of Ireland, and mainland Europe. The duration of the Troubles is conventionally dated...
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Province of Ulster |
Ulster (Irish: Ulaidh / Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr) is one of the four Provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island.
Ulster is composed of nine counties: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone are part of...
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| County Wicklow |
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Contae Chill Mhantain |
County Wicklow (Irish: Contae Chill Mhantáin) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Leinster. It was named after the town of Wicklow (which derives from the Old Norse name Víkingalág or Wykynlo).
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| Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis |
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 – 5 October, 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the...
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| Finglas |
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Finglas (Irish: Fionnghlas) is a residential suburb, with a village core. It is on the Northside of Dublin City, Ireland, and mainly lies in the postal district Dublin 11. A couple of kilometres from Dublin Airport, it is situated at Junction 5 of...
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| Donnybrook, Dublin |
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Donnybrook (Irish Domhnach Broc, meaning The Church of [Saint] Broc) is a district of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on the southside of the city, in the Dublin 4 postal district, and is home to the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ. It was once part of...
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| Ballsbridge |
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Ballsbridge (Droichead na Dothra in Irish) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, named for the bridge spanning the River Dodder on the south side of the city. The sign on the bridge still proclaims it as "Ball's Bridge" in recognition of the fact that the...
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| County Donegal |
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Donegal |
County Donegal (pronounced /ˈdɒnɨɡɔːl, ˌdɒnɨˈɡɔːl/ – Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the Province of Ulster and is part of the Republic of Ireland. It was named after the town of...
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Cork, Ireland |
Cork (Irish: Corcaigh, pronounced ['kˠorkˠɪɟ] — from corcach meaning "swamp") is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County...
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Corcaigh |
County Cork (Irish: Contae Chorcaí) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Munster, and was named after the city of Cork (Irish: Corcaigh). The southernmost of the Irish counties, it is also the largest,...
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| County Antrim |
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County Antrim (Irish: Contae Aontroma) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Antrim (Irish: Aontroim).
Covering an area of 2,844 km²...
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William of Orange |
William III (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was a sovereign Prince of Orange by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned...
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| Robert Boyle |
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Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and gentleman scientist, also noted for his writings in theology. He is best known for the formulation of Boyle's law. Although his research...
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| County Leitrim |
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Contae Liatroma |
County Leitrim (Irish: Contae Liatroma) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Connacht. It was named after the town of Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim).
Leitrim is the 26th largest of Ireland’s 32 counties in...
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| County Londonderry |
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County Derry |
County Londonderry or County Derry (from the Irish: Doire meaning "oak wood/oak grove") is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after its main town –...
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| County Tyrone |
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County Tyrone (Irish: Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulster Scots: Coontie Owenslann) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland.
With an area of 3,155 square kilometres (1,218...
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| Drogheda |
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Droichead Átha |
Drogheda (pronounced /ˈdrɒhədə, ˈdrɔːdə/) (from the Irish: Droichead Átha meaning "bridge of the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, 56 km (35 mi) north of Dublin. Including suburbs and environs,...
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| Munster |
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Munster (Irish: an Mhumhain / Cúige Mumhan — pronounced [ənˈvuːnʲ]) is a province of Ireland, located in the south-west of the island. The province is not used as an administration division as such, with the counties filling that role. Much of the...
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| County Kilkenny |
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Cill Chainnigh |
County Kilkenny (Irish: Contae Chill Chainnigh) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Leinster. It was named after the town of Kilkenny (Irish: Cill Chainnigh) and has a population of 87,558.
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| Battle of the Boyne |
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The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish and Irish thrones - the Catholic King James and the Protestant King William, who had deposed James in 1688. The battle, won by...
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| Oola |
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Oola (Irish: Úlla, or Uibhle [pronounced "Ubh-le"], from the egg-shaped hills/Drumlins) is a village in County Limerick, and the province of Munster, Ireland, near Limerick in the midwest of the country. The main N24 road from Limerick to Waterford...
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| County Waterford |
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Contae Phort Láirge |
County Waterford (Irish: Contae Phort Láirge) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Munster. It was named after the city of Waterford (which derives from the Old Norse name Veðrafjǫrðr or Vedrarfjord)....
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Province of Connacht |
Connacht (pronounced /ˈkɒnəxt/ or /ˈkɒnɔːt/ — Irish: Connachta / Cúige Chonnacht — pronounced [ˈkɔnəxtə]), formerly Anglicised as Connaught, is the western province of Ireland, comprising counties Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo. Its main...
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Province of Leinster |
Leinster (pronounced /ˈlɛnstər/ — Irish: Laighin / Cúige Laighean — pronounced [lainʲ]) is one of the Provinces of Ireland. It lies in the east of Ireland and comprises the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath...
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| County Armagh |
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County Armagh (Irish: Contae Ard Mhacha) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Armagh.
County Armagh is known as the "Orchard County...
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Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig |
Brian mac Cennétig, called Brian Bóruma, Brian Boru, Emperor of the Irish (c. 941–23 April 1014), (English: Brian Boru, Irish: Brian Bórumha or Brian Bóru), was an Irish king who ended the centuries-long domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by...
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| Glendalough |
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Glendalough (Irish: Gleann Dá Loch, meaning "Glen of Two Lakes") is a glacial valley located in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, a hermit priest, and destroyed in...
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| Conn of the Hundred Battles |
Conn Cétchathach ("of the Hundred Battles", pron. /kɒn 'keːdxəθax), son of Fedlimid Rechtmar, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland, and the ancestor of the Connachta, and, through his descendant...
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| Cormac mac Airt |
Cormac mac Airt (son of Art), 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. He is probably the most famous of the ancient...
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| Art mac Cuinn |
Art mac Cuinn ("son of Conn"), also known as Art Óenfer (literally "one man", used in the sense of "lone", "solitary", or "only son"), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.
According to legend, he...
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Slane (Irish: Baile Shláine, meaning "homestead of fullness") is a village in County Meath, in Ireland. The village stands on a steep hillside on the left bank of the River Boyne at the intersection of the N2 (Dublin to Monaghan road) and the N51 ...
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| County Clare |
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Contae An Chlair |
County Clare (Irish: Contae an Chláir) commonly referred to as simply Clare, is a county of Ireland and part of the wider province of Munster. Clare is one of the 26 counties within the Republic of Ireland and it provides a basis for local...
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| County Kerry |
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Kerry |
County Kerry (Irish: Contae Chiarraí) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Munster. Kerry is the fifth largest of Ireland’s 32 counties in area and 14th largest in terms of population. It is the second...
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| County Galway |
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Galway |
County Galway (Irish: Contae na Gaillimhe) is one of the traditional Counties of Ireland. It is located in the province of Connacht. It was named after the city of Galway (Irish: Gaillimh). There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west...
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| County Roscommon |
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Contae Ros Comáin |
County Roscommon (Irish: Contae Ros Comáin) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Connacht. It was named after the town of Roscommon. The county covers an area of 2,547 square kilometres (983 sq mi)....
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| Port Laoise |
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Portlaoise (historically spelt Port Laoighise meaning "fort of Laois") is the county town of County Laois in the midlands of Ireland. The name is properly pronounced /pɔrtˈliːʃə/ although a more anglicised pronunciation of /pɔrtˈliːʃ/ is common. The...
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| County Kildare |
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Contae Chill Dara |
County Kildare (Irish: Contae Chill Dara) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Leinster and was named after the town of Kildare (Irish: Cill Dara). Kildare is the 25th largest of Ireland’s 32 counties...
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| Dissolution of the Monasteries |
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, denotes the administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, nunneries and friaries in England, Wales...
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Contae Luimnigh |
County Limerick (Irish: Contae Luimnigh) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Munster. It was named after the city of Limerick (Irish: Luimneach).
Limerick is the tenth largest of Ireland’s 32 counties...
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| Kilmichael |
Kilmichael (Irish: Cill Mhíchil) is a village in County Cork, Ireland. The village is located on the R587 regional road between Macroom and Dunmanway. Is also the home of well known soccer team the Kilmichael Rovers.
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County Down (Irish: Contae an Dúin or simply an Dún) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland.
The county forms an area of 2,448 km (945 sq mi). The estimated...
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| County Laois |
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Laoighise |
County Laois (pronounced /ˈliːʃ/ "leash" – Irish: Contae Laoise) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Leinster. Its name was formerly spelt as Laoighis and Leix.
Laois is the 24th largest of Ireland’s...
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| County Tipperary |
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Contae Thiobraid Árann |
County Tipperary (Irish: Contae Thiobraid Árann) is one of the traditional Counties of Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster. It was named after the town of Tipperary (Irish: Tiobraid Árann).
Tipperary is the sixth largest of Ireland’s...
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| County Sligo |
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Contae Shligigh |
County Sligo (Irish: Contae Shligigh) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is located within the province of Connacht. It was named after the town of Sligo (Irish: Sligeach).
Sligo is the 22nd largest of Ireland’s 32 counties in area...
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| Ireland |
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Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɪrlənd/ ( listen), locally [ˈaɾlənd]; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann, Latin: Hibernia) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the...
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