Mademoiselle Riego de la Blanchardiere is generally credited with the invention of Irish Crochet, publishing the first book of patterns in 1846.

Irish Crochet Lace artist and instructor Maire Treanor directs the workshops ; she and guest instructors guide students in the design of traditional and modern applications of Clones Lace: motifs such as the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle, as well as in the execution of the Clones Knot filling stitch.

Before Cermak, the Democratic party in Cook County was run by the " Lace Curtain " Irish.

They looked down on anyone who wasn't " Lace Curtain ," even the Irish from the Back of the Yards and Bridgeport neighborhoods ( referred to as " Pig Shit " Irish ), and also non-Irish ethnics.

* Kenmare Lace And other forms of Irish Lace

* Irish Lace ( 1996 )

In the late 1960s, two young Irish poets, Michael Smith ( b. 1942 ) and Trevor Joyce ( b. 1947 ) founded the New Writers Press publishing house and a journal called The Lace Curtain.

A group of seven Reavey poems were printed in the 1971 1930s special issue of The Lace Curtain and he was represented in John Montague's Faber Book of Irish Verse ( 1974 ).

< p > Pat Earnshaw has written two books, Youghal and other Irish Lace and Youghal Lace, the craft and the cream.

* Youghal lace at the Irish Lace Museum

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.

Paul McCartney ( also of Irish descent ) issued a single shortly after Bloody Sunday titled " Give Ireland Back to the Irish ", expressing his views on the matter.

The Irish words " Cluan Innish ", which mean " meadow and island ", have been contracted to " Cleenish ", where the remains of the monastery can be seen at Bellanaleck, County Fermanagh.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

The Irish word derives from Old Irish, which referred to a wooden structure or vessel, stemming from crann, which means " tree ", plus a diminutive ending — literally " young tree ".

William Forbes Skene and Alan Orr Anderson proposed that it should be read as " in conformity with the customs of the Gaels ", relating it to the claims in the king lists that Giric liberated the church from secular oppression and adopted Irish customs.

, meaning " town of the hurdled ford ", is the common name for the city in modern Irish.

The fourth album, Playin ' Favorites was a top-40 hit in the UK in 1973 and included the Irish folk classic, " Mountains of Mourne " and Buddy Holly ’ s " Everyday ", a live rendition of which returned McLean to the UK Singles Chart.

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

Elizabeth advised her commanders that the Irish, " that rude and barbarous nation ", be well treated ; but she showed no remorse when force and bloodshed were deemed necessary.

The Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) saw an opportunity to create an armed organisation to advance its own ends, and on 25 November 1913 the Irish Volunteers, whose stated object was " to secure and to maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland ", was formed.

She has changed it to make reference to " Jock Stewart ", one of her relatives, and there are no Irish references.

* 1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the " Molly Maguires ", to disband.

During this period, the band received highly positive UK music media support ( including more Singles Of The Week in Melody Maker, Sounds and Irish music paper, Hot Press ) and had 2 indie top 20 hits (" Days In The Trees " and " Ocean Song ") plus a Billboard Top 40 dance hit ( the US only single, " Taking It Like A Man ", at No. 34 ).

* " The Origins of the Clairsach or Irish Harp ", Musical Times, Vol.

Spurrell, J. C. In Search of Thomas Smyth, Mayor of Limerick, Irish Family History, Vol.

Irish Studies in International Affairs 1989, Vol.

* Moseley, Merritt, ' Margaret Forster ' in British and Irish Novelists since 1960 ( Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 271 ) ( Deroit: Gale, 2003 ), pp. 139 – 155

* Callanan, Frank: John Dillon in McGuire, James and Quinn, James ( eds ): Dictionary of Irish Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002 ; Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 3 pp. 296 – 302, Cambridge University Press ( 2009 ) ISBN 978-0-521-19976-6

Reactions to Irish Land Agitation and Legislation in the Highlands of Scotland, c. 1870-1910 ," English Historical Review, June 2005, Vol.

* Spanish Knights of Irish Origin, Vol.

* Neil Corcoran: “ Discovery of a Lack: History and Ellipsis in Elizabeth Bowen ’ s The Last September ” in Irish University Review Vol.

* Best of Irish Folk Festival Vol 2 ( 1989, compilation )

( Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy / C. Vol.

* News And Comments — Comets: Comet Humason 1961e ', Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol.

* Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies ( 1821 ), Vol.

* The Irish Narrow Gauge ( Vol.

Kenneth Jackson, Tradition in Early Irish Prophecy, Man, Vol.

* Bakerloo on the compilation Here's To The Irish, Vol.

* The Blackwater Boys on the album Irish Drinking Songs Vol.

* Richard Hayes, " General Charles Jennings Kilmaine 1751-1799 " Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol.

* Constance Rynder, Irish Studies Review, Vol.

" An Irish Regiment in Brazil, 1826 – 1828 " in The Irish Sword, Vol.

Davison, ‘ The Belfast Blitz ’, The Irish Sword, Vol.

Her poetry can also be found in The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol. 1.

Close, ' Remarks on a Cosmographical Tractate in the Irish Language ', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol vi, 1900 – 1902, p. 457-460.