Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite the fact that Argentina was never the main destination for Irish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora.

Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century ( and the first to sell for over £ 1m ), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

Despite the political climate in which the band had lived, the vast majority ( though not all ) of the material the band released focused not upon the Northern Irish Troubles, but upon issues such as adolescence, teenage angst and heartbreak.

Despite assistance from France the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was put down by British forces.

Despite several references listing different combinations of Picti, Scotti, Hiberni, Attecotti and Saxons together as later Roman Britain's archetypal enemies, it is worth noting that ' Scotti ' and ' Hiberni ' are never listed together, perhaps suggesting that they were then, as they were later, alternative names for the Irish or confederations of the Irish.

Despite this the force's character had been fixed according to Irish nationalist activist and author Michael Farrell.

Despite the use of petitions and public meetings that attracted vast popular support, the government thought the Union was more important than Irish public opinion.

Despite the appeal of a prominent Irish merchant, James Malo, to the Lord Mayor, Brackley Kennett, no additional protection was offered to the area.

Despite the Irish ancestry of Dublin's first non-indigenous settlers, the town, like most of Middle Georgia, by the late 19th century had evolved from mixture of ethnicities.

Despite the accounts of the Irish annals, English and Scandinavian writers appear to see Mac Bethad as the rightful king of Moray: this is clear from their descriptions of the meeting with Cnut in 1027, before the death of Máel Coluim mac Máil Brigti.

Despite its proximity to the Irish Sea, the temperature regime is similar to areas further inland, owing to the shelter provided by the Pennines to the northeast and the Welsh Mountains to the southwest.

Despite these translations, the Church of Ireland largely served The Pale and the plantations and failed to win support from the old Hiberno-Norman aristocracy, still less the native Irish, who saw it as an instrument of English occupation.

Despite his desire to emancipate his fellow countrymen, Tone had very little respect for the Catholic faith ( a view shared by many subsequent Irish republicans ).

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

Despite his opposition to communism and socialism, he sometimes worked with James Connolly, who also supported Irish nationalism.

Despite its status as an official language, Irish has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of English rule, as is the case in North and South America where various indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

Despite their defeat in open warfare, the IRA regrouped and took up a guerrilla campaign, as they saw it, to restore the Irish Republic.

Despite the large Irish diaspora, Gaelic games remain fairly low-profile outside the Irish expatriate community.

" Despite its status as an official language, the Irish language has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of centuries of English rule, as is the case in North America where their indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

Despite the loss of records caused by the fire in the Dublin Records Office in 1922 which was an irreparable disaster to Irish historians, sufficient evidence is still available to produce a thumb nail sketch of the Moriarty history.

Despite such humble origins, he was accepted into the hugely wealthy court of Charlemagne around 791 or 792.

Despite their origins & horrific appearance, the Ulkmen are a largely peaceful people.

Despite becoming one of the largest polities in Europe at one time, strangely the origins of the Khazars are unclear.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Another view is that Robin Hood's origins must be sought in folklore or mythology ; Despite the frequent Christian references in the early ballads, Robin Hood has been claimed for the pagan witch-cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe.

Despite this, origins such as Syracuse or the Iranian city of Shiraz have been proposed.

Despite their common origins, the two technologies diverged, with each technology retaining a subset of the features of the original Objective-C code base, while adding some new features.

Despite its origins, the Charleston is most frequently associated with white flappers and the speakeasy.

Despite the controversial philosophical origins of the concept, particularly its close association with logical positivism, operational definitions have undisputed practical applications.

Despite its mixed origins, this aircraft had excellent performance and formed the basis for a number of future fighters.

Despite his humble origins, he showed great ability in running the affairs of state, leading a revival of Imperial power and to a renaissance of Byzantine art.

Despite this success, Zeno continued to be unpopular with the people and Senate because of his barbarian origins ; his right to the throne was limited to his marriage with Ariadne and his relationship to Verina, the dowager Empress.

Despite his father's origins there is little to suggest that Stilicho considered himself anything other than a Roman, and his high rank within the Empire suggests that he was probably not Arian like many Germanic Christians but rather a Nicene Christian like his patron Theodosius I, who declared Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Empire.

Despite her Etruscan origins, she later became identified with Venus.

Despite the criticism, The Origins of the Second World War is regarded as a watershed in the historiography of the origins of the Second World War.

Despite the various theories of the work's origins, Rodríguez de Montalvo's Spanish version, as the only complete edition known, is considered definitive, and it was the one who made the character widely known on a European scale.

Despite their San Francisco Bay Area origins, they positioned themselves as Southern rock stylists, singing about bayous, the Mississippi River, catfish, and other popular elements of Southern iconography.

Despite the anti-German hysteria of the time, there seems to have been no adverse comment on his German origins.

Despite its Wellington origins, the West Coast town of Blackball is often regarded as the birthplace of the party, as it was the location of the founding of one of the main political organisations which became part of the nascent Labour Party.

Despite the Congressional origins of, and President Roosevelt ’ s lack of support for, the 1933 Banking Act, many descriptions of the New Deal or of the 1933 Banking Act refer to the Act as New Deal legislation.

Despite the modern pasty's strong association with Cornwall, its exact origins are unclear.

Despite Joanna's deep spirituality and friendships with Catherine of Siena and Saint Bridget of Sweden, her court was notable for its extravagance with her collection of exotic animals and servants of various origins including Turkish, Saracen, and African.

Benjamin Madley wrote: " Despite over 170 years of debate over who or what was responsible for this near-extinction, no consensus exists on its origins, process, or whether or not it was genocide " however, using the " U. N. definition, sufficient evidence exists to designate the Tasmanian catastrophe genocide.

Despite Ludendorff's maternal noble origins, however, he married outside them, to Margarete née Schmidt ( 1875 – 1936 ).