Lord Chesterfield's great-great-grandson, the fourth Earl, was a politician and man of letters and notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and as Secretary of State for the Northern Department.

* John Leslie ( bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh ) ( 1772 – 1854 ), Church of Ireland bishop, great-great-grandson of the above

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

* Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster is murdered and the Burke Civil War begins in Ireland.

* June 9 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland ( b. 1525 )

His eldest son Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1861 to 1865.

The patron saints for surgeons are Saint Luke the Evangelist the physician and disciple of Christ, Saints Cosmas and Damian ( 3rd century physicians from Syria ), Saint Quentin ( 3rd century saint from France ), Saint Foillan ( 7th century saint from Ireland ), and Saint Roch ( 14th century saint from France ).

* 1983 3rd place as a Flyweight at Commonwealth Titles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Loftus accompanied Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex to Ireland as his chaplain in 1560.

In 1898, Allenby joined the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, then serving in Ireland as the Brigade-Major.

His successor, the 2nd Duke, continued the family tradition by being awarded the Garter in 1892 ; the 3rd Duke served as MP for Derry and as Governor of Northern Ireland, along with being created a Knight of St Patrick and given the Garter.

In roughly the 3rd to 1st centuries BC some very elaborately worked torcs with relief decoration in a late form of La Tène style have been found in Britain and Ireland.

Upon Elizabeth's accession in 1559 Sorley Boy had submitted to her authority under Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and in return was confirmed in his Irish possessions.

The arms used in England were: Quarterly, I and IV, quarterly 1st and 4th Azure three fleurs de lys Or ( for France ), 2nd and 3rd Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or ( for England ); II Or a lion rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory Gules ( for Scotland ); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent ( for Ireland, this was the first time that Ireland was included in the royal arms ).

In Dublin for a race meeting in 1939, she met and soon married Irish fertiliser manufacturer and art collector Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet and moved to Ireland.

: 3rd, Azure a Harp Or stringed Argent ( Ireland ).

He was succeeded as 3rd Earl by his younger brother, who was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1766 to 1767.

Thomas Radclyffe ( or Ratclyffe ) 3rd Earl of Sussex ( c. 1525 – 9 June 1583 ) was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Born on 13 September 1734 Thomas Thynne succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Weymouth in January 1751 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a short time during 1765, although he never visited that country.

The British English expression " Bob's your uncle " is thought to have originated when Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, promoted his nephew, Arthur Balfour, to the esteemed post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in what was widely seen as an act of nepotism.

The robes of Luke Gerald Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock, the 122nd Knight of the Order are on display in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin ; the robe belonging to Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey is held by the Newry Museum ; the National Gallery and Genealogical Museum in Dublin both have Stars of the Order ; and the National Museum and Galleries of Northern Ireland Ulster Museum has a large collection on display and two mantles in storage.

Following the arrival of William of Orange in England King James removed to Ireland where he called a parliament in 1689, which passed a general act of attainder against the Protestants, and confiscated their estates, among whom was the earl of Cork.

The rebel earl continued to concert measures with the Irish leaders in Munster, and issued a manifesto to the Catholics of Ireland, summoning them to join his standard as he protested that the interests of religion were his first care.

The fifth earl of this creation was made Marquess of Ormonde ( 1642 ) and Duke of Ormonde ( 1660 ) in the Peerage of Ireland, and Duke of Ormonde ( 1682 ) in the Peerage of England.

The eleventh earl was created the Marquess of Ormonde in the Peerage of Ireland in 1816, on his death that title became extinct and the earldoms passed to his brother, for whom the title Marquess of Ormonde was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1825.

This answer being told the king, and his lordship approaching nearer the throne, was required by his majesty to explain himself, which he did to this effect: " May it please your majesty, my name is Courcy, and I am Lord of Kingsale in your kingdom of Ireland: the reason of my appearing covered in your majesty's presence is, to assert the ancient privilege of my family, granted to sir John de Courcy, earl of Ulster, and his heirs, by John, king of England, for him and his successors for ever.

In 1315, when Sir Edmund Butler was created 1st earl of Carrick ( he later distinguished himself during the Bruce Invasion of Ireland ), he was granted the castle and manors of Carrick and Roscrea, along with the attached lands.

His grandson, Kenneth, the 4th earl, followed James VII to France and was with the dethroned king in Ireland.

Under the eighth earl, the FitzGerald family reached pre-eminence as the virtual rulers of Ireland between 1477 and 1513.

He crossed over in August 1529, but his power was so circumscribed by instructions from Henry that the head of the Fitzgeralds, Gerald, 9th earl of Kildare, and not Skeffington, was the real governor of Ireland.

As a member of the peerage of Ireland, the earl of Belmore had a seat in the Irish House of Lords until it was abolished in 1801 when the kingdom of Ireland was merged into the United Kingdom.

Having returned to Ireland he was sent to Dundalk to attempt to make peace with Hugh O ' Neill, earl of Tyrone, but this proved a vain errand.

He acted as one of the lords justices during the absence from Ireland of the lord deputy, the earl of Sussex, in 1557.

In September 1584 Norreys accompanied the lord deputy of Ireland, Sir John Perrot, and the earl of Ormond into Ulster.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

The information was passed to the Under-Secretary for Ireland, Sir Matthew Nathan, on 17 April, but without revealing its source, and Nathan was doubtful about its accuracy.

IONA ( Islands of the North Atlantic ) is an acronym suggested in 1980 by Sir John Biggs-Davison to refer to a loose linkage of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, similar to the present day British-Irish Council.

The then Attorney General for England and Wales ( Sir Thomas Inskip ) is reported to have warned the then Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ( Conor Maguire ) that Ireland had no right to abolish appeals to the Privy Council.

Lord Stafford had told the King, " Sir, you have done your duty, and your subjects have failed in theirs ; and therefore you are absolved from the rules of government, and may supply yourself by extraordinary ways ; you have an army in Ireland, with which you may reduce the kingdom.

His father's first cousin, Sir Richard Pepys, was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, and appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, on 25 September 1655.

* " The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh " ( 1838 ), an enigmatic story involving a Faustian pact and set in the gothic ambiance of a castle in rural Ireland.

* Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Sir James Ware of Ireland ( 1594 – 1666 ), historian and politician

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir James Craig, speaking in the Parliament in October 1922 said that “ when the 6th of December is passed the month begins in which we will have to make the choice either to vote out or remain within the Free State .”.

In 1577, she met with Sir Henry Sidney, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, who already knew of her since she had met his son, Sir Philip Sidney, in 1576.

His sponsor for the election ( besides his father ) was the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, with whom Peel's political career would be entwined for the next 25 years.

* Sir Bob Cooper-A former Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and formerly the long-serving head of the Fair Employment Commission for Northern Ireland.

Architects practicing in Ireland included Sir Edwin Lutyens ( Heywood House in Co. Laois, Lambay Island and the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Dublin ) and Frederick ' Pa ' Hicks ( Malahide Castle estate buildings and round tower ).

Through this and other works, Edgeworth is credited with serving the political, national interests of Ireland and the United Kingdom the way Sir Walter Scott did for Scotland.

It was also on this day that he married his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Jeffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State, and Privy Councillor, in Ireland.

He appears to have been in Ireland living on the estates of Sir Walter Raleigh, making maps of land for Raleigh's tenants, and reflecting upon the " evils and unfortunate events " which had ruined his hopes in the New World, though never giving up hope that his daughter and granddaughter were still alive.

Sir Thomas Gresham, the English financier who arranged Elizabeth I's borrowings, and whose agent in Antwerp was Clough, left London for Antwerp on August 23, only hearing about the Antwerp attacks en route ; he needed to roll-over 32, 000 Flemish pounds and borrow another 20, 000 to finance her expenses in Ireland.

The Premier Baronetcy of Ireland was created for Sir Dominic Sarsfield in 1619, and was held by his successors until the attainder of the 4th Viscount Sarsfield in 1691.

Since then the descendants of Sir Francis Annesley Bt., the Annesley baronets have been the Premier Baronets of Ireland.