This practice has been broken only once when, in 1999, the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree near Portadown.

A type of damson once widely grown in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was never definitely identified but generally known as the " Armagh Damson "; its fruit were particularly well regarded for canning.

Other books such as the Book of Kells, Book of Armagh and Book of Durrow are known to have once had either cumdachs or treasure bindings, or both, but with their valuable precious metals they were a natural target for looters and thieves.

The Free State expected to gain much territory in heavily Catholic and republican parts of counties Londonderry, Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Armagh, as the British government had indicated during the treaty negotiations that the wishes of the nationalist inhabitants along the border would be taken into account.

The man who killed McGoldrick said that he had planned, along with Billy Wright and Mark Fulton, to kidnap three priests from a parochial house in County Armagh and shoot them unless the march was allowed to continue.

It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls.

The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh, Ireland, when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline ; the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled.

Armagh Sunday school had organized a day trip to the seaside resort of Warrenpoint, a distance of about 24 miles.

The required 20 minute interval before letting a fast train follow a slow one having elapsed, the following scheduled passenger train had left Armagh.

As part of his investigations, the Board of Trade inspector carried out calculations which established that a train similar to the excursion train could be hauled over the Armagh bank at about 15 mph by the excursion train engine, and supported this by a practical trial ; however he did criticize the allocation of an engine with only just enough power for such a duty, especially with a driver who had little knowledge of the route.

Two witnesses had seen the brake working properly before the train left Armagh, and the brake apparatus had been found in the wreckage and appeared to be in good working order.

In the present instance, the train, owing to its length, had to be loaded on the main line partly at the up platform and partly at the down platform, and afterwards by a series of shunts to be moved on to the Newry and Armagh Line ..

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?

Nonetheless, within 2 months of the Armagh disaster Parliament had enacted the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, which authorised the Board of Trade to require the use of continuous automatic brakes on passenger railways, along with the block system of signalling and the interlocking of all points and signals.

The automatic vacuum brake had been developed: it was designed to apply fully if the train becomes divided or if a hose becomes displaced, but opposition on the grounds of cost ( particularly by the LNWR and its chairman Richard Moon ) to the fitting of the automatic type of brake meant that it took a serious accident at Armagh in 1889 before legislation compelled the automatic system.

According to the 2001 Census, 167, 487 people ( 10. 4 % of the population ) had " some knowledge of Irish " with the highest concentrations of Irish speakers found in Belfast, Derry, Newry and south Armagh, central Tyrone ( between Dungannon and Omagh ), and southern County Londonderry ( near Maghera ).

Philips had been made justice of the peace for Westminster, and in 1717 a commissioner for the lottery, and when Boulter was made Archbishop of Armagh, Philips accompanied him as secretary.

In 1189, John de Courcy, a Norman knight who had invaded Ulster in 1177, plundered Armagh.

The brutal disarming of Ulster in 1797, where the United Irish had successfully radicalised both Protestants and Catholics, saw thousands of Catholics driven from counties Antrim, Down and Armagh, and the murder, torture and imprisonment of hundreds of Protestants suspected of United Irish sympathies.

The Conyngham family had come from Ayrshire in Scotland in about 1611 and were granted lands under James I's Plantation of Ulster in County Armagh.

It is alleged that Tomás O ' Fiaich, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, had been told about the allegations, as had the Holy See.

The late Tomas Cardinal O ’ Fiaich, Archbishop of Armagh, gave a lecture at Rathmullan in September 1988 and recounted that the Earl of Tyrone allegedly “ had a gold cross which contained a relic of the True Cross, and this he trailed in the water behind the ship, and according to O ’ Ciainain, it gave some relief from the storm ” during the crossing to Quillebeuf-sur-Seine in Normandy, France ; they finally reached the Continent on 4 October 1607.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

* The Synod of Kells-Mellifont established the present diocesan system of Ireland ( with later modifications ) and recognized the primacy of Armagh.

The highly successful 5th-century mission of Saint Patrick established churches in conjunction with civitates like his own in Armagh ; small enclosures in which groups of Christians, often of both sexes and including the married, lived together, served in various roles and ministered to the local population.

In 2012 a further competition was held, as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, with Armagh receiving the distinction.

Despite lying in the east of Ireland, Armagh enjoys an Oceanic climate strongly influenced by the Gulf Stream with damp mild winters, and temperate, wet summers.

South Armagh is predominantly nationalist, with most of the population being opposed to any form of British presence, especially that of a military nature.

* Armagh Observatory, founded in 1790 & Armagh Planetarium, a modern working astronomical research institute with a rich heritage

* Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

Therefore, it was in the interest of Armagh to support Brian with all their wealth and power.

Macha () is a goddess of ancient Ireland, associated with war, horses, sovereignty, and the sites of Armagh and Eamhain Mhacha in County Armagh, which are named after her.

The Ulstermen wanted to have them killed, but Macha instead enslaved them and forced them to build the stronghold of Emain Macha ( Navan Fort near Armagh ), to be the capital of the Ulaid, marking out its boundaries with her brooch ( explaining the name Emain Macha as eó-muin Macha or " Macha's neck-brooch ").

In 1969, he was jailed along with Ronald Bunting for organising an illegal counter-demonstration against a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh.

The O ' Mellan land was held to be the property of the Established ( Anglican ) Church and was thus presented to the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh who was charged with overseeing the settlement of the area with English and Scots " planters ".

The council area covers the southern part of County Tyrone ( along with a small area of County Armagh ) and has a population of nearly 48, 000.

In 1994, at the request of the Queen, St Davids was again granted city status along with the Irish town of Armagh, " In recognition of their important Christian heritage and their status as cities in the last century ".

Three other large towns and cities are on its border: Newry lies on the western border with County Armagh, while Lisburn and Belfast lie on the northern border with County Antrim.

King Edward VI made an important contribution to grammar schools, founding a series of schools during his reign ( see King Edward's School ), and King James I founded a series of " Royal Schools " in Ulster, beginning with the Royal School, Armagh.

The chief authority for the bishop's life is William de Chambre, printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, 1691, and in Historiae conelmensis scriptores tres, Surtees Soc., 1839, who describes him as an amiable and excellent man, charitable in his diocese, and the liberal patron of many learned men, among these being Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the enemy of the mendicant orders, Walter Burley, who translated Aristotle, John Mauduit the astronomer, Robert Holkot and Richard de Kilvington.

Leaks to the press generated shock among some nationalists: instead of ceding large areas of the North to the Free State, the latter would receive only a small part of south Armagh and Fermanagh, and would actually lose part of eastern Donegal.

However, in rural districts to the south and south-east of the town-particularly Lisdoonan and the barony of Farney as well as parts of neighbouring south Armagh, the language was quite widely spoken among country people and written by local scribes until the mid-19th century.