Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Despite the historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.

Despite several historians ' accounts of what happened between 1865 and 1870, Solano López was not wholly responsible for the war.

Despite many popular folktales, historical accounts of the ninja are scarce.

" Despite its atypical nature, " Contendings " includes many of the oldest episodes in the divine conflict, and many events appear in the same order as in much later accounts, suggesting that a traditional sequence of events was forming at the time that the story was written.

Despite the legend citing Saint Fermin as the first bishop of Pamplona and his baptising of 40, 000 pagan inhabitants in just three days, first reliable accounts of a bishop date from 589, when bishop Liliolus attended the Third Council of Toledo.

Despite the heavy industrial component, services account for 74. 9 % of GDP, while agriculture accounts for only 1 % of GDP.

Despite the small area, the city's relative altitude accounts for more than 137 – m –: the highest mountain reaches 361, 8 metres above the sea, and the lowest point lies at an altitude of 224 metres above sea level.

Despite revealing more than previous accounts, the book is flawed in that it includes inaccuracies that the funding source for the heist was former SS officer Otto Skorzeny.

Despite this, several European authors of the fifteenth and 16th century who visited only Lower Egypt and published their travel accounts, such as Joos van Ghistele or André Thévet, put Thebes in or close to Memphis.

Despite what many later accounts would say, he was in good physical condition and could walk well ; for example, he climbed over 90 steps to his room.

Despite arguments about the actual population size, Las Casas's accounts of widespread slaughter are not widely disputed.

Despite criticisms that Gibson deliberately and severely departed from historical accounts of first century Judea and Biblical accounts of Christ's crucifixion, some scholars defend the film as not meaning to be historically accurate.

Despite its common perception as objective, mathematics is not immune to social constructionist accounts.

Despite these unromantic circumstances, the couple settled amicably in Hanover ( where the cost of living was much lower than in England ), and by all accounts were devoted to each other throughout their marriage.

Despite apparent opposition, prescription and description can inform each other, since comprehensive descriptive accounts must take into account speaker attitudes, while some understanding of how language is actually used is necessary for prescription to be effective.

Despite conflicting accounts of the manner of his death, the " most popular, and probably the most accurate " accounts maintain that he died in his bed after emptying his pistols into several Mexican soldiers.

Despite international pressure, the millions of dollars realized from the sale of Malawi's food reserves have never been turned over, and it is widely suspected that it wound up in foreign accounts belonging to Muluzi and his supporters.

Despite past accounts, the energy that Havok releases is not truly a concussive force.

Despite conflicting accounts, it is possible that Ryan may have in fact eventually ended up with McNab's LAW rocket, an item that Ryan later claimed to have used against an Iraqi ' Land-Rover type ' vehicle, though this event is discounted by Ratcliffe who states that, at the Regimental debrief, " made no mention at all of encountering enemy troops on his trek.

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 Irish origins of the genre, Celtic metal is not known to be popular in Ireland.

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 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.