According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology.

According to this, the first settlers in the Faroe Islands were Irish monks, who introduced sheep and oats to the Faroe Isles.

According to Eoin O ' Duffy, an Irish national corporatist, " before everything we must give a national lead to our people ... The first essential is national unity.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

According to the 2001 census, around 850, 000 people in Britain were born in Ireland and much of the working class has some Irish heritage.

" According to Bronwen Walter, professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, " the adoption of a hyphenated identity has been much more problematic for the second generation Irish in Britain.

According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, in 1790 there were 400, 000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a total white population of 3, 100, 000.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004, Irish Australians are, by religion, 46. 2 % Roman Catholic, 15. 3 % Anglican, 13. 5 % other Christian denomination, 3. 6 % other religions, and 21. 5 % as " No Religion ".

According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word puck is derived from the Scottish Gaelic word " puc " or the Irish word " poc ," meaning to poke, punch or deliver a blow.

According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:

According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events he described, the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness.

According to Irish lore, the Mooney family comes from one of the largest and most noble Irish lines.

According to the 2001 Canadian Census, the largest ethnic group consists of people of Scottish descent ( 38. 0 %), followed by English ( 28. 7 %), Irish ( 27. 9 %), French ( 21. 3 %), German ( 4. 0 %), and Dutch ( 3. 1 %) descent.

According to the English text, an eligible candidate " has reached his thirty-fifth year of age ", whereas the Irish text has this as " ag a bhfuil cúig bliana tríochad slán " (" has completed his thirty-five years ").

According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy.

According to one report, in 1924, shortly after the Irish Free State's establishment, the new dominion had the " lowest birth-rate in the world ".

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

According to the 2011 Census, 17, 132 say they can speak Irish in the County Donegal Gaeltacht.

According to the 2006 Census, there are also 7, 218 people who identify as being daily Irish speakers outside the Gaeltacht in the rest of the county.

According to John Lichfield in a 14 July 2009 interview published in the Independent, she was working on an autobiography and had hoped to have a first draft by September 2009.

According to the UK Independent Media Centre, " round 150 different events included critical mass bike rides, occupations, and mass demonstrations in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow and London and many other places.

According to the Complete University Guide published by The Independent, Bath has 23 out of 26 subjects placed within the top 10 in the UK.

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ireland, the average daily circulation, of the Irish Independent was down to 125, 986 for the period January to June 2012 ..

According to a critical analysis in The Independent, the genre rose to prominence in the 1990s not as a continuance of the celebration of " sex and shopping reflected the materialism of the 1980s ", but as a signal of " disillusionment with those values ".

According to Gaiman, the studio " may still be New Line, but Warner Independent is keen on it too.

According to Peter Popham of The Independent: " Everybody here has long believed that Prodi's Ouija board tale was no more than an ill-advised and bizarre way to conceal the identity of his true source, probably a person from Bologna's seething far-left underground whom he was pledged to protect.

According to his obituary in The Independent, " in recent years Estelle cut a slightly sorry figure, dressed in his ' Lofty ' outfit, setting out a stall of his tapes and singing to passers-by in shopping centres.

According to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the establishment of the Philippine Independent Church or the Aglipayan Church was his major turning point but Manalo remained uninterested since its doctrines were mainly Catholic.

According to historian Paul Kleppner, the origin of the Greenback Party is to be found in the state of Indiana, where early in 1873 a group of reform-minded farmers and political activists declared themselves free of the established parties and established themselves as the Independent Party.

According to Independent Charities, of the 1, 000, 000 charities operating in the United States today, it is estimated that fewer than 50, 000, or 5 percent, meet or exceed these standards, and, of those, fewer than 2, 000 have been awarded this Seal.

According to Association of Independent Music ( AIM ) "(...) An " major " is defined in AIM's constitution as a multinational company which ( together with the companies in its group ) has more than 5 % of the world market ( s ) for the sale of records and / or music videos.

According to a 1998 report issued by the US State Department, the Independent State of Croatia treasury was illicitly transferred to the IOR and several banks after the end of World War II.

According to The Independent, support for free speech was far higher than expected.

According to The Independent journalist Patrick Cockburn, " cooperation between Mr Basayev and the Russian army is not so surprising as it sounds.

According to Thomas Young, chairman of the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team, the program " was under funded by at least 30 %.

According to the Irish Independent, eight subsidiaries of Quinn Insurance provided guarantees of € 1. 2bn to cover Quinn Group ’ s debts, prompting the regulator to seek the appointment of provisional administrators in the High Court.

According to author Craig Werner, as quoted in the British newspaper The Independent, the " anti-disco movement represented an unholy alliance of funkateers and feminists, progressives and puritans, rockers and reactionaries.

According to The Independent on 13 November 2010, in his role as Agriculture minister James Paice scrapped improvements to laws on animal welfare made by the previous Labour government, delaying by five years a ban on millions of hens having parts of their beaks sliced off.

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

According to the Pennsic Independent, a privately-published newspaper published on-site, the final count for 2009 was 10, 947.

According to the findings of the Independent Investigator that was appointed by the government following the 2008 Liserosis outbreak, there were 75 confirmed cases of listeriosis and was also the underlying or contributing cause of death for 22 of these individuals.

According to the Irish Independent, eight subsidiaries of Quinn Insurance provided guarantees of € 1. 2bn to cover Quinn Group's debts, prompting the regulator to seek the appointment of provisional administrators in the High Court.

According to the President of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia Yuri Savenko, Nekipelov's book is a highly dramatic humane document, a fair story about the nest of Soviet punitive psychiatry, a mirror that psychiatrists always need to look into.