The Irish Wolfhound (, ) is a breed of domestic dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ), specifically a sighthound.

The standard of The American Kennel Club describes the breed as " Of great size and commanding appearance, the Irish Wolfhound is remarkable in combining power and swiftness with keen sight.

An Irish Wolfhound in Kerry Bog Village Museum

The Irish Wolfhound is relatively easy to train.

Although at some points in history they have been used as watchdogs, unlike some breeds, the Irish Wolfhound is usually unreliable in this role as they are often friendly toward strangers, although their size can be a natural deterrent.

Author and Irish Wolfhound breeder Linda Glover believes the dogs ' close affinity with humans makes them acutely aware and sensitive to ill will or malicious intentions leading to them excelling as a guardian rather than guard dog.

In a privately funded study conducted under the auspices of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and based on an owner survey, Irish Wolfhounds in the United States from 1966 to 1986 lived to a mean age of 6. 47 and died most frequently of bone cancer.

In 1885 Captain Graham with other breeders founded the Irish Wolfhound Club, and the Breed Standard of Points to establish and agree the ideal to which breeders should aspire.

The Irish Wolfhound is sometimes regarded as the national dog breed of Ireland but in fact no breed has ever been officially adopted as such.

The domestic dogs in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are modeled after the Irish Wolfhound.

* Irish Wolfhound Club of Ireland

The Deerhound is closely related to the Irish Wolfhound and was the main contributor to the recovery of that breed when it was re-created at the end of the 19th century.

* Ireland – Irish Wolfhound, Irish Setter, Irish Elk

* Comerford, R. V. The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society, 1848-82 ( Wolfhound Press, 1985 )

According to Barbara Stein, " The breed originated in Germany, probably from a cross between the English mastiff and the Irish Wolfhound.

* The Fenians in Context Irish Politics & Society 1848-82, R. V. Comerford, Wolfhound Press 1998

* The Fenians in Context Irish Politics & Society 1848-82, R. V. Comerford, Wolfhound Press 1998

* The Fenians in Context Irish Politics & Society 1848-82, R. V. Comerford, Wolfhound Press 1998

Her Irish Wolfhound and 60 cats were put to death.

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* Mickey Rooney as Sparky, an Irish Wolfhound who used to know Tramp, and tells a colorful but untrue tale of how Tramp came to leave the Junkyard Dogs.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

It happened at the St. Patrick's Day party, a big affair for a regiment which had gone into battle for over three-quarters of a century to the strains of an Irish march.

The Mayor spoke yesterday at the United Irish Counties Feis on the Hunter College Campus in the Bronx.

There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish.

The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O ’ Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment.

In Irish mythology, the beginning of the summer season for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians started at Bealtaine.

The Irish Home Rule bill gave all owners of Irish land a chance to sell to the state at a price equal to 20 years ' purchase of the rents and allowing tenants to purchase the land.

This intrigue finally led Harcourt and Morley to resign their positions in 1898 as they continued to be at loggerheads with Rosebery over Irish home rule and issues relating to imperialism.

In 1437, King James I of Scotland was approached by an Irish seer who was later identified as a banshee who foretold his murder at the instigation of the Earl of Atholl.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

All eyewitnesses ( apart from the soldiers ), including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists present, maintain that soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded, whereas the soldiers themselves were not fired upon.

Lennon, who was of Irish descent, also spoke at a protest in New York in support of the victims and families of Bloody Sunday.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

The Irish words " Cluan Innish ", which mean " meadow and island ", have been contracted to " Cleenish ", where the remains of the monastery can be seen at Bellanaleck, County Fermanagh.

The whole, however, may be judged from this fragment: " We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul ... we are bound to the Chair of Peter, and although Rome is great and renowned, through that Chair alone is she looked on as great and illustrious among us ... On account of the two Apostles of Christ, you pope are almost celestial, and Rome is the head of the whole world, and of the Churches ".

During the sixth century, some of the most significant names in the history of Irish Christianity studied at the Clonard monastery.

One lone Welsh example at Llangorse Lake exists, likely a product of Irish influence across the Irish Sea

Reconstructed Irish crannógs are located in Craggaunowen, Ireland ; the Irish National Heritage Park, in Wexford, Ireland ; and in Scotland at the " Scottish Crannog Centre " at Loch Tay, Perthshire.