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County Dublin was one of the first parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the Norman invasion of Ireland.
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County Dublin ( or Contae Átha Cliath ) is a county in Ireland.
" At that time, and in response to a European Council report highlighting Ireland as the most centralised country in the European Union, it was decided that a single County Dublin was unmanageable and undemocratic from a local government perspective.
In discussing the legislation to dissolve Dublin County Council, Avril Doyle TD said, " The Bill before us today effectively abolishes County Dublin, and as one born and bred in these parts of Ireland I find it rather strange that we in this House are abolishing County Dublin.
Despite the legal status of the Dublin Region, the term " County Dublin " is still in common usage.
Many organisations and sporting teams continue to organise on a " County Dublin " or " Dublin Region " basis.
The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.
There are 10, 469 Irish speakers in County Dublin attending the 31 Gaelscoils ( Irish language primary schools ) and 8 Gaelcholáiste ( Irish language secondary schools ).
Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.
Operated by Iarnród Éireann, the Dublin Suburban Rail network consists of five railway lines serving the Greater Dublin Area and commuter towns such as Drogheda and Dundalk in County Louth.
One of these lines is the electrified Dublin Area Rapid Transit ( DART ) line, which runs primarily along the coast of Dublin, from Malahide and Howth southwards as far as Greystones in County Wicklow.
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He was finally found in the Bates Hole region of Natrona County, two counties away.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching.
Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.
Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.
This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.
The matter got into the courts this way: One of the early strikes called by the AWOC was at the DiGiorgio pear orchards in Yuba County.
Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.
`` In 1951 she was a prostitute in New York County.
Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.
The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.
Of Scotch-Irish-Scandinavian descent, Greer Garson was born in County Down, Ireland.
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).
Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.
Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.
The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.
Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738.
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Finally he learned through the grapevine that the culprit might be one James W. Robinson in Pope County.
In 1872 there were known to be twenty-two in Norton County, and one had been in the family for 200 years.
`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton County general assistance program '', the jury said, but the State Welfare Department `` has seen fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives none of this money.
We'll not talk out of one side of our mouth in Morris County and out of the other side in Hudson.
In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.
Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.
There are three Beltanys in County Donegal – one near Raphoe – another near Killybegs Bridge and the third in the parish of Tulloghobegly.
Two others are located in County Tyrone, one near Clogher and the other in the parish of Cappagh.
In 1137, Aragon and the County of Barcelona merged in dynastic union by the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV and Petronilla of Aragon, their titles finally borne by only one person when their son Alfonso II of Aragon ascended to the throne in 1162.
He starred in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. a boisterous science fiction comedy western created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse that ran for one season.
Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County ( Lowell is the other ).
This development is one of the factors which led to large-scale industrial development in the Sydney Coal Field of eastern Cape Breton County.
County Fermanagh () ( or " men of the monks ") is the only one of six counties that form Northern Ireland to not adjoin Lough Neagh.
* Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, one of Nova Scotia's geographic counties
Most districts cover multiple counties ; District 12 ( Orange County ) is the only district with one county.
Trap Pond State Park in Sussex County, for example, supports what may be one of the northernmost stands of bald cypress.
At the upper tier of local government Dartmouth and Kingswear Electoral Division elects one member to Devon County Council.
" Everyone should have a problem " was the way one Bronx County Bird Club member recalled Mayr's refrain.
Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.
Although Gerry does not seem to have been directly involved in the drafting of the district, the shape of one of the districts ( not far from his home in Essex County ) resembled a salamander, leading a local Federalist newspaper to print a political cartoon calling it a " Gerry-mander ".
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