He had a round, frank Irish face, creased in a jovial grin that stayed bleakly in place even when he was pumping bullets into someone's body.

Architects practicing in Ireland included Sir Edwin Lutyens ( Heywood House in Co. Laois, Lambay Island and the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Dublin ) and Frederick ' Pa ' Hicks ( Malahide Castle estate buildings and round tower ).

The earliest 8th or 9th century Irish crosses had only ornament, including interlace and round bosses, but from the 9th and 10th century, figurative images appear, sometimes just a figure of Christ crucified in the centre, but in the largest 10th century examples large numbers of figures over much of the surface.

Irish round towers ( ( singular ), Cloigthithe ( plural ) – literally " bell house ") are early medieval stone towers of a type found mainly in Ireland, with two in Scotland and one on the Isle of Man.

The Irish word for round tower, cloigtheach, literally meaning bellhouse indicates this, as noted by George Petrie in 1845.

At Saint Mary's Cemetery in Milford, Massachusetts a round tower was built of Milford granite in the late 19th century as a memorial to central Massachusetts ' Irish immigrants, of whom thousands are buried there.

The tower is in the traditional design of an Irish round tower and is partially built with stone from a former army barracks in Tipperary.

The following is a list of surviving Irish round towers, excluding modern reconstructions.

Jean Giraud drew the first of the two-part last volume of the XIII series titled La Version Irlandaise ( The Irish Version ) from a script by Jean Van Hamme, to accompany the second part by the regular team Jean Van Hamme – William Vance, Le dernier round ( The Last Round ).

Saul, County Down | Saul church, a modern replica of an early church with a Irish round tower | round tower, is built on the reputed spot of Saint Patrick | St Patrick's first church in Ireland.

The guild aims to link its programmes with the Irish language initiatives which have been centred round Christ Church Cathedral.

Isolated in Dublin, with the king desiring to minimize his Irish troops, Ormonde therefore agreed to a " cessation " or ceasefire with the Catholics, which began in September 1643, by which the greater part of Ireland was given up into the hands of the Catholic Confederation ( leaving only districts in the north, the Dublin Pale, round Cork City, and certain smallish garrisons in the possession of Protestant commanders ).

He then split two ten round decisions with " Irish " Micky Ward, losing their first bout, but winning their second.

Foliage of Irish Yew ; note the leaves spreading all round the erect shoots

In 1842 he returned to Dublin to edit the Dublin University Magazine, and gathered round him a typical coterie of Irish wits ( including one or two hornets ) such as the O ' Suilivans, Archer Butler, W Carleton, Sir William Wilde, Canon Hayman, DF McCarthy, McGlashan, Dr Kencaly and many others.

* St. Mary's Cemetery holds the only Irish round tower in the United States, built from local granite.

Wilson thought that Irish conscription would gain an extra 150, 000 men, as well as helping to round up political malcontents.

The meeting, over a seven-hour period, took place over a round of golf and a subsequent dinner with Fitzpatrick and two other directors of Anglo Irish Bank.

This includes both a strong contingent of British, Irish, Germans and Scandinavians, many of whom live there all the year round, and Spanish people who have a second home in the city.

An Old Irish Life of Columcille reports that every funeral procession " halted at a mound called Eala, whereupon the corpse was laid, and the mourners marched thrice solemnly round the spot.

* Ancient Christian monastic site at Clonmacnoise along with ancient examples of the Irish High cross such as the ' Cross of the Scriptures ', the round tower and visitors center.

The church itself has a highly unusual Irish style round tower, which itself is extremely rare in Scotland, and is unique in Orkney ( though other examples are known to have existed in the past ).

It was originally argued that Irish tower houses were based on the Scottish design, but the pattern of development of such castles in Ireland does not support this hypothesis.

Unlike Scotland, Irish tower houses were only defended with relatively light handguns and frequently reused older arrowloops, rather than more modern designs, to save money.

Irish tower houses were built from the end of the 14th century onward as the countryside disintegrated into the unstable control of a large number of small lordships and Henry VI promoted their construction with financial rewards in a bid to improve security.

By the late 1930s, air traffic from Liverpool was beginning to take off with increasing demand for Irish Sea crossings, and a distinctive passenger terminal, control tower and two large aircraft hangars were built.

Irish High Cross at the Rock of CashelThe Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle.

The Irish Aviation Authority completed a new control tower 1 km from the old terminal to the west of the main runway.

The Irish Confederate troops abandoned the tower house during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, and Hamlet Obins ( who had survived its capture ) repossessed it in 1652.

Joyce shared the tower with Oliver St. John Gogarty, then a medical student but later to become famous in Irish history as a surgeon, politician and writer.

On 20 July 1990 the Provisional Irish Republican Army exploded a bomb inside the tower, causing its evacuation.

Abbey of Kells | Kells Irish round tower | round tower dates from the 10th century

O ' Dea Castle is an Irish fortified tower house, loosely described as a castle at Dysert O ' Dea (), the former O ' Dea clan stronghold, 5 km from Corofin, County Clare just off the R476 road.

The seven tower blocks sited on the former Victoria Barracks, which dominate the skyline of the area, have been given names in Irish as some locals disliked the British connotations of the original names like " Churchill House ", although these remain in common use.

Millions of Irish diaspora | Irish left Ireland for Canada and U. S. following the Great Famine ( Ireland ) | Great Famine in the 1840s.

Satellite image showing the River Liffey entering the Irish Sea as it divides Dublin into the Northside ( Dublin ) | Northside and the Southside ( Dublin ) | Southside.

Tom Clarke ( Irish republican ) | Tom Clarke

A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script

Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins, founding father of the pro-Treaty movement that would become Fine Gael.

File: Irish harp-Maedoc. jpg | Maedoc book-cover, Ireland, c. 1000 CE

The Bridge of Tears ( Droichead na nDeor in Irish language | Irish ) in County Donegal | West Donegal, Ireland.

Maureen O ' Hara, Irish Actress and famous beauty in the trailer for The Black Swan ( film ) | The Black Swan ( 1942 )

The Proclamation of the Irish Republic | Proclamation of the Republic read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO in 1916.

Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme ( 1916 ) | Battle of the Somme in World War I.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe anarchist writer and bohemian Oscar Wilde wrote in his famous essay The Soul of Man under Socialism that " Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Cosgrave ( President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State | Irish Free State ).

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer who published the libertarian socialist work titled The Soul of Man under SocialismThe anarchist writer and bohemian Oscar Wilde wrote in his famous essay The Soul of Man under Socialism that " Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

An Irish republicanism | Irish republican mural by the Bogside Artists in Derry's Bogside, depicting Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.