Bridget was born in Ireland, one of fourteen children.

Of Scotch-Irish-Scandinavian descent, Greer Garson was born in County Down, Ireland.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was much migration to Achill from other parts of Ireland, particularly Ulster, due to the political and religious turmoil of the time.

At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

In Achill, as in many areas of Ireland, a system called ' Rundale ' was used for farming.

It was introduced to Europe at the close of the 17th century as a handsome greenhouse plant, and is hardy outdoors in the south of England and Ireland if protected from severe frosts.

Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738.

The story that he himself in his childhood was sent to Ireland to be healed by Saint Modwenna, though mythical, may show Alfred's interest in that island.

There was also formerly a Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

After being settled by people from Ireland in the first millennium, the Isle of Man was converted to Christianity and then suffered raids by Vikings from Norway.

When the Pictish elite converted to Christianity is uncertain, but traditions place Saint Palladius in Pictland after he left Ireland, and link Abernethy with Saint Brigid of Kildare.

The following dates are derived from Haddan and Stubbs: South Ireland, 626-8 ; North Ireland, 692 ; Northumbria ( converted by Celtic missions ), 664 ; East Devon and Somerset, the Celts under Wessex, 705 ; the Picts, 710 ; Iona, 716-8 ; Strathclyde, 721 ; North Wales, 768 ; South Wales, 777.

The family converted to Protestantism and, as Huguenots, fled persecution in 17th century France to settle in Ireland.

The earliest surviving examples seem to come from the territory of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, which had been converted to Christianity by Irish missionaries ; it remains unclear whether the form first developed in Ireland or Britain.

and that in his first landings to Ireland he visited the Mournes and even converted the local hill folk to Christianity.

From the English Reformation in the 16th century, most Irish people chose to remain Roman Catholic and had by now to pay tithes valued at about 10 % of an area's agricultural produce, to maintain and fund the established state church, the Anglican Church of Ireland, to which only a small minority of the population converted.

Born in 1866, Bloom is the only son of Rudolf Virág ( a Hungarian Jew from Szombathely who emigrated to Ireland, converted from Judaism to Protestantism, changed his name to Rudolph Bloom and later committed suicide ), and of Ellen Higgins, an Irish Protestant.

Those who converted to the Church of Ireland were usually able to keep or regain their lost property, as the issue was primarily one of allegiance.

The Church of Ireland parish clergy solicited donations, which they converted into free rations in the city parishes, distributing nearly 80 tons of coal and ten tons of meal just four weeks into the Frost.

Ireland retired in 1953, settling in the small hamlet of Rock in Sussex, where he lived in a converted windmill for the rest of his life.

At the end of 1945 O ' Neill and his family went to live in Northern Ireland in a converted Regency rectory near Ahoghill Co. Antrim.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland the NNA is the London Stock Exchange and the NSIN is the SEDOL, converted in a similar fashion.

Ireland were leading France in a Six Nations clash, but lost 17 – 20 after conceding a last minute ( converted ) try.

St Patrick, a Romano-British man, converted Ireland to Christianity, from where much of Western Scotland was converted.

Under the Penal Laws of the 18th century, the Knights converted to the Church of Ireland to preserve their property.

All gas equipment in Great Britain ( but not Northern Ireland ) was converted ( by the fitting of different-sized burner jets to give the correct gas / air mixture ) from burning town gas to burn natural gas ( mainly methane ) over the period from 1967 to 1977 at a cost of about £ 100 million including the writing off of redundant town gas manufacturing plants.

It was around this time that Markievicz, born into the Church of Ireland, converted to Catholicism.

On the outskirts of the Empire in the newly converted Ireland it became the Irish Eoin, later Seán.

Converted first to a mechanized battalion equipped with FV432 armoured personnel carriers in the late 1960s in West Germany ( the Federal Republic of Germany ), it converted back to a light battalion in UK and subsequently in Hong Kong and Northern Ireland, back to a mechanized battalion in 1980 and then again to a light battalion.

They decide to leave the mortal realm together sometime in the 5th century, after Ireland was converted to Christianity.

As a result, the flow of emigration from the west of Ireland was not converted into internal migration to the more developed east, as might have been hoped.

* John Ireland lived in a converted windmill in Washington for the final years of his life.

In Insular Gospel Books ( copies of the Gospels produced in Ireland and Britain under Celtic Christianity ), the first verse of Matthew's genealogy of Christ was often treated in a decorative manner, as it began not only a new book of the Bible, but was the first verse in the Gospels.

The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle.

Nothing is known about his teachings, and there is no unchallenged authority for information about his life, although it is accepted that Christianity originally reached Ireland from Scotland, from which Saint Columba hailed, making Ninian the grandfather of Christianity in Scotland and more important figure in Scottish ecclesiastical history-and arguably a far better candidate for Patron Saint than Saint Andrew.

Celtic Christianity was introduced into Northumbria and Mercia by monks from Ireland, but the Synod of Whitby settled the choice for Roman Christianity.

Others who influenced the development of Christianity in Ireland include Brigid and Moluag.

A self-identification with and use of " Celtic Christianity " is widespread in countries such as Ireland, both among participants in established churches and independent groups.

* Christianity in Ireland

The most dominant religion in County Clare is Christianity ; at least 92 % of the people in the area polled as part of the Ireland Census 2006 identified as Christians.

There are numerous abbeys and priories in Clare ; some of the ruins of these such as Scattery Island, Bishop's Island and Drumcliff Monasteries are ancient, dating back to the 6th century when Christianity was first introduced to Ireland.

The Celtic tonsure was worn in Ireland and Great Britain and was connected to the distinct set of practices known as Celtic Christianity.

Composed of three panels, the ceiling depicts the coronation of King George III, Saint Patrick introducing Christianity to Ireland, and King Henry II receiving the submission of the Irish Chieftains.

It is the contention of the Church of Ireland that in breaking with the Holy See, the reformed established church was reverting to a condition that had obtained in the church in Ireland prior to the 12th century-the independent character of Celtic Christianity.

It is the contention of the Church of Ireland that the church's continuation of the celebration of Irish saints ' days, including St Patrick ( 17 March ), St Bridget ( 1 February ) and St Columba ( 6 June ), is a continuation of the independant Celtic Christianity.

* Christianity in Ireland

Category: Christianity in Northern Ireland

Category: Christianity in the Republic of Ireland

Contemporary Celtic Christianity in countries such as Ireland is one formalised example.

Published in two volumes in 1862 and 1867, Cogan's The Diocese of Meath was an important history of Christianity in Ireland.