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The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.
Irish settlers were brought in small numbers over the years, as from other parts of the United Kingdom.
Henry Nourse, a shipowner at the Cape, brought out a small party of Irish settlers in 1818.
The Minister for the Environment was criticised for allegedly changing the law to suit one company and other agencies protested the law change as damaging to small businesses while the government defended their decision stating that the move was a positive one for Irish consumers.
Although there is no strict size definition, a small loch is often known as a lochan ( so spelled also in Scottish Gaelic ; in Irish it is spelled lochán ).
After a series of high-profile guerrilla actions, including the hijacking of an aircraft, the attack on several small towns and cities, the arrest of the Irish Colombia Three ( see below ) and the alleged training of FARC-EP militants in bomb making by them, and the kidnapping of several political figures, Pastrana ended the peace talks on 21 February 2002 and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone, beginning at midnight.
SMPP was originally designed by Aldiscon, a small Irish company that was later acquired by Logica ( now split off and known as Acision ).
Historically, the counties of Meath, Westmeath and small parts of surrounding counties constituted the province of Mide, which was one of the " Five Fifths " of Ireland ( in the Irish language the word for province, Cuige, from Cuig, five means " a fifth "); however, these have long since become the three northernmost counties of Leinster province.
The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1790, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens.
Her mother's maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant ; her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.
They combined, however, absorbing the Irish and Scots, and no small part of the White English bloodline, to be described as a single demographic group a century later, with the Bermuda's population being divided into White and Black Bermudians.
A small but significant minority of Irish people, usually attached to parties like Sinn Féin and the smaller Republican Sinn Féin, denied the right of the twenty-six county state to use the name Republic and continued to refer to the state as the Free State.
As an aside in reference to the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Peel did make some moves to subsidise the purchase of food for the Irish, but this attempt was small and had little tangible effect.
According to Paul Devereux, the names of various creatures from Celtic folklore, including the Irish, " púca ," Welsh, " pwca " or " pwca ," could be from the same Celtic family as the term " pixies " ( in Cornwall, " Piskies "), however " piskie " could be related to the Swedish word " pyske " meaning " small fairy.
The Semi-uncial generated the Irish Semi-uncial, the small Anglo-Saxon.
In 2008, Irish MEP Eoin Ryan called for tighter regulation over tokens and medals that are being increasingly used for small purchases mainly in vending machines across Europe.
They did gain power in Western Scotland, originated new small kingdoms, and reinforced the idea of a common origin and that Scotland was somehow populated ( or re-populated ) by Gaelic Irish.
Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.
IRA attacks on Catholics who joined the RUC, and the perception that the police force was " a Protestant force for a Protestant people " meant that Catholic participation in the Royal Ulster Constabulary always remained disproportionally small in terms of the Catholic percentage of the overall Northern Irish population.
The 12th-century scholar Ari Þorgilsson wrote in his book, Íslendingabók, that small bells, corresponding to those used by Irish monks, were found by the settlers.
In around 635 AD, the Irish missionary Aidan founded the Lindisfarne monastery on “ a small outcrop of land ” on Lindisfarne.
The object of the game is for players to use a wooden stick called a hurley ( in Irish a camán, pronounced ) to hit a small ball called a sliotar () between the opponents ' goalposts either over the crossbar for one point, or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a goalkeeper for one goal, which is equivalent to three points.
For example, small Scottish and Irish harps can be held on the lap, while some ancient Sumerian lyres appear to have been as tall as a seated man ( see Kinsky ; also Sachs, History ..., under " References ").

small and nationalist
The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.
However the left-wing bloc in the Knesset only won an overall narrow majority, facilitated by the disqualification of small nationalist parties that did not manage to pass the electoral threshold.
Muslim intellectuals and politicians from throughout the Levant formed al-Fatat (" the Young Arab Society "), a small Arab nationalist club in Paris.
The crew were captured by military nationalist forces, but two Republican submarines ( a B2 and B3 ) sent by order of Pedro Marqués Barber ( an old officer and former military Minorca governor ) came immediately and the small Cabreran force surrendered.
After independence, Nol's nationalist Khmer Renovation party ( along with small right-wing parties headed by Sam Sary and Dap Chhuon ) became the core of the Sangkum, the organisation set up by Sihanouk to fight the 1955 elections.
He mobilized the old Tungmenghui at the core with the merger of a number of new small parties to form a new political party called the Guomindang ( Chinese nationalist party ) on 25 August 1912 at Huguang Guild Hall Beijing.
The war's geopolitical context was the nationalist struggle to unify Italy, long divided between France, Austria, Spain and numerous small Italian principalities.
Those who supported the miners included Monsignor Charbonneau, Bishop of Montreal, the Québécois nationalist newspaper, Le Devoir, and a small group of intellectual individuals.
On 22 June, the Islamic and nationalist elements of BPUPKI created a small committee of nine, which formulated Sukarno's ideas into the five-point Pancasila, in a document known as the Jakarta Charter:
In Navarre, Basque nationalism has failed to gain control of the Autonomous Community's government, ruled by UPN often with the support of PSN, but Basque nationalist parties run many small and medium size councils.
A number of other small nationalist parties also took part.
In 1911, Muslim intellectuals and politicians from throughout the Levant formed al-Fatat (" the Young Arab Society "), a small Arab nationalist club, in Paris.
The name " Garda de Fier " is also used by a small, Romanian nationalist group, active in the post-communist era.
Furthermore the Münchener Beobachter ( Munich Observer ), owned by Sebottendorff, was the press organ of another small nationalist party and later became the Völkischer Beobachter ( People's Observer ).
The New Zealand National Front is a small white nationalist political party in New Zealand.
With the addition of the Unionist Lords Mayor, of Londonderry Corporation and Belfast Corporation ; together with boycotts of the Commons at various times by nationalist parties and fragmentation of the opposition into some parties too small to elect a Senator alone, the upper house proved to be even more heavily unionist than the lower house.
There are those, a small minority among Galician nationalist groups, who demand their reunification, as well as Portuguese and Galician philologists who argue that both are dialects of a common language rather than two separate ones, but such views are widely considered eclectic.
A Nigeria specific small Kanuri nationalist movement emerged in 1950s, centred around Bornu.
A small elite of merchants, lawyers, physicians and pharmacists emerged and turned Langenthal into a center of the liberal and nationalist thought during the early modern era.
In December 2001, a small nationalist party led by a veteran Russian nationalist politician Sergey Baburin was created under the name Party of National Revival " Narodnaya Volya ".
Initially widely condemned in view of the heavy Irish war losses on the Western Front and in the disastrous Gallipoli V beach landing at Cape Helles ( the main nationalist newspaper, the Irish Independent, demanded the execution of the rebels ), the British government's mishandling of the aftermath of the Rising, including the protracted executions of the Rising's leaders by General Maxwell, led to the rise of an Irish republican movement in Sinn Féin, a small previously separatist monarchist party taken over by the rebellion's survivors, after it had been wrongly blamed for the rebellion by the British.
Peter's Hill is adjacent to the Unity Flats / Carrick Hill, a small nationalist area to the north of the city centre.
The Communist Party split along nationalist lines in 1939, and Jabra Nicola refused to join either wing, and, after being imprisoned by the British occupation from 1940 – 1942, was recruited to a small Trotskyist movement by Yigael Gluckstein, later better known as Tony Cliff.

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