In Irish mythology, the beginning of the summer season for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians started at Bealtaine.

The Irish Rebellion which started in October 1641 brought the control of the army back into the discussions between King and Parliament.

Christian scholars, mostly Irish monks, preached Christianity to the populace and started a wave of conversion ( Saint Servatius, Saint Remacle, Saint Hadelin ).

Here another tragic advance was made by the Tyneside Irish Brigade of the 34th Division, which started nearly one mile from the German front line, in full view of German machine-guns.

Known as " Van the Man " to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day.

St. Mary's originally started with primarily Irish and Italian immigrants.

However, when they did return with the Irish immigrants, the Welsh started to migrate elsewhere and the population changed to dominantly Irish.

In the 7th century Irish monks started using blank spaces, and introduced their script to France.

Several Young Turks on both sides started realizing that if the war did not stop soon, the Italian crime families could be left on the fringe of New York's criminal underworld while the Jewish and Irish crime bosses became dominant.

His father was a police officer of Irish descent ; Curtin attended school until the age of 14 when he started working for a newspaper in Creswick.

* In 1874, Joseph Gillis Biggar started making long speeches in the House of Commons to delay the passage of Irish coercion acts.

Napoleon Bonaparte, with whom Tone had several interviews about this time, was much less disposed than Hoche had been to undertake in earnest an Irish expedition ; and when the rebellion broke out in Ireland in 1798 he had started for Egypt.

When the Irish War of Independence started with some haphazard shootings on the same day at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, it was treated by the British as a police matter.

He started singing in local churches in the Bogside at the age of seven, and as a teenager added two years to his age to enlist in the Irish Guards, later serving abroad with the Palestine Police Force, before returning in the late 1930s to join the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

" Some criticised the film as an attempt to blacken the legacy of the 1916 Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish War of Independence in relation to the eruption of " the Troubles " in Northern Ireland at the time of the film's release, but approval of the project had started years before the Troubles.

Alarmed by the rising Catholic population, Protestant Irish and native-born Americans started organizing anti-Catholic and nativist groups.

The PA started featuring the league's results at the start of the 1996 – 97 season, which was also when the PA began providing the results for the Northern Irish league.

During the UEFA Euro 2012 group stage game against Spain, the Irish fans started singing the song roughly 83 minutes into the game and sang for the last six minutes of regulation, as well as past the full time whistle, knowing that they were going to be eliminated from the group as they were down by four goals and had failed to accrue the points necessary to remain in the tournament.

According to the BBC, it " started life as a jig with Irish roots, whose first appearance seems to be in a collection published in London in 1661 entitled ' An Antidote Against Melancholy ', where it is set to the words ' There was an old man of Waltham Cross '.

The band started their career performing traditional Irish songs and, gradually, introduced more and more of their own material ( lyrics mostly written by the band's frontman Aleksandar " Aca Celtic " Petrović, music mostly written by band's violinist Ana Đokić ).

This in turn paved the way for the creation of the Irish Free State, in which its parliament, Dáil Éireann, had scarcely started to function before, almost unconsciously, it began to utilise and to build upon the constitutional tradition it had inherited.

The EMS started on 13 March 1979, and towards the end of the month Sterling started to gain in value against the EMS currencies because of rising oil prices, and by 30 March Sterling breached the upper fluctuation band limit of the Belgian franc and the Irish currency could no longer track Sterling.

During this time he also started to experiment with ink and wash painting seen in work like Portrait of a Woman ( 1955 ) as well as creating portraits to illustrate the music surrounding him in Harlem.

During the 1960s civil rights movement, Bearden started to experiment again, this time with forms of collage.

Manufacturers started to experiment with more exotic composites and metals, like fiberglass and aluminium, but the common skateboards were made of maple plywood.

The band decided that they would try a radical experiment by asking their fans if they would help fund the recording of the next album by pre-ordering it before recording even started.

In the late 1960s, a pioneer of modern electronic music Jean Michel Jarre started to experiment with synthesizers and other electronic devices.

Taking his core team to new offices nearby the original CDC headquarters, they started to experiment with higher quality versions of the " cheap " transistors Cray had used in the 1604.

Some of the best historians, genealogists, scientists and artists in the kingdom participated in this educational experiment, which started around 1689.

When we threw out all science, started from experiment and experience, then we invented the airplane.

In the early 30's, companies started to experiment with housings of thermoset polymer plastics.

Lantz also started to experiment with color cartoons, and the first one, called Jolly Little Elves, was released in 1934.

In his initial experiment, Pavlov used a bell to call the dogs to their food and, after a few repetitions, the dogs started to salivate in response to the bell.

A small number of large scale nuclear fusion systems also exist including the National Ignition Facility in the USA, JET in the UK, and soon the recently started ITER experiment in France.

The Swedish Navy started to experiment with missiles, based on a recovered German V-2 missile, as early as 1944.

After the early Quadra machines, Apple started a short-lived experiment including AT & T 3210 digital signal processors ( DSP ) in the " AV " series machines ( the 840AV and 660AV ).

Around this period, King Tubby had started to experiment with his studio equipment in an attempt to create new effects and sounds, which would eventually lead to a new style of reggae called dub music.

The most famous version of the experiment was started in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, to demonstrate to students that some substances that appear to be solid are in fact very-high-viscosity fluids.

" In another interview he said " the mobs started as a kind of playful social experiment meant to encourage spontaneity and big gatherings to temporarily take over commercial and public areas simply to show that they could ".

Then we started to branch out .” They began to experiment first with cold-frames and later with greenhouse culture ; those years being distinctly different from the present time, there was virtually no personal experience with greenhouses in their area and little accessible literature on the subject.

Founded in 1976 as the Alfred North Whitehead College for Lifelong Learning, the School of Business started as an experiment in providing educational services to working adults in locations throughout Southern California.

When Steuben's success at producing blanks for Hawkes became assured, Carder began to experiment with colored glass and continued experiments that were started in England.

Postmodern art sees the blurring between the high and fine arts with low-end and commercial art ; modern art started to experiment with this blurring.

With aviation developments, several countries started to experiment with flights, and postal authorities considered flying the mails.

In 1845 Johan Edvard started to experiment with these new type of matches in a small workshop he had rented.