And when the singing began, it was the Gouldings who sang the old Irish songs the best.

In the same month the Irish Republican Army began the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla campaign against British rule ; in 1919 this consisted of attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).

With the Official IRA and Official Sinn Féin having moved away from mainstream Irish republicanism towards Marxism, the Provisional IRA began to win the support of newly radicalised, disaffected young people.

There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish.

It was during the Rising that the Volunteers began to refer to themselves as the Irish Republican Army.

Hence they began to refer to themselves as the Irish Republican Army.

John infamously offended the local Irish rulers by making fun of their unfashionable long beards, failed to make allies amongst the Anglo-Norman settlers, began to lose ground militarily against the Irish and finally returned to England later in the year, blaming the viceroy, Hugh de Lacy, for the fiasco.

Philip Embury began the work in New York at the instigation of fellow Irish Methodist Barbara Heck.

Drawing on Classical sources and upon their own internal interactions — for example, the hostility between the English and Irish was a powerful influence on early European thinking about the differences between people — Europeans began to sort themselves and others into groups based on physical appearance, and to attribute to individuals belonging to these groups behaviors and capacities which were claimed to be deeply ingrained.

White mobs, many of them organized around Irish athletic clubs, began pulling black people off trolley cars, attacking black businesses, and beating victims with baseball bats and iron bars.

The Zionist movement revived Hebrew, and began immigration to Eretz Yisrael, and Welsh and Irish tongues also experienced a poetic revival.

Executives from Yorkshire Television visited the on location filming of The Riordans in the early 1970s and in 1972 began broadcasting Emmerdale Farm based on the successful format of the Irish soap opera.

When Éamon de Valera led Fianna Fáil to victory in the Irish Free State election of 1932, he began removing the monarchical elements of the constitution, beginning with the Oath of Allegiance.

In the early 17th century, large-scale settlement by Protestant settlers from both Scotland and England began, especially in the province of Ulster, seeing the displacement of many of the native Roman Catholic Irish inhabitants of this part of Ireland.

The Great Irish Famine, which began in the 1840s, caused the deaths of one million Irish people, and caused over a million to emigrate.

* Early 6th century – Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia ( later known as Scotland ).

In 2009, Glasnevin Trust in cooperation with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ( CWGC ) began identifying the 208 graves of Irish service personnel who died while serving in the Commonwealth forces during the two World Wars.

Distilling probably arrived in what would later become known as Kentucky when Scottish, Scots-Irish, and other settlers ( including, English, Irish, Welsh, German and French ) began to farm the area in earnest in the late 18th century.

" In a colourful aside, from 1655 runaway slaves, both Irish Redlegs and African Maroons began attacking local militia forces, killing plantation-owners and destroying crops in Barbados.

Irish, German, Greek, Spanish Canary Islanders, and Italian colonists began to settle in Louisiana before and after the Louisiana Purchase, particularly on the German Coast along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans.

This became outright hostility in 1207 when John began to move against several major Irish magnates, including William.

Irish bankruptcy law has been the subject of significant recent comment, from both government sources and the media, as being in need of reform.

Prior to its tabling in Dáil Éireann and presentation to the Irish electorate in a plebiscite, an obfuscatory comment on the final amended draft by Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the future Holy Father Pius XII responded " We do not approve, neither do we disapprove ; We shall maintain silence.

An early use of the phrase appears in a comment Davy Crockett made about another notorious Irish slum in Manhattan, Five Points.

De Valera did suggest that it would have been better to reserve the declaration of the republic until Irish unity had been achieved, a comment hard to reconcile with his 1945 claim that the Irish state was already a republic.

His period in Foreign Affairs was overshadowed by a comment made after an Anglo-Irish summit between Haughey and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when he spoke of Britain and Ireland being able to bring about Irish unity within ten years, a comment which infuriated the British and Northern Ireland unionists and which undid much of the goodwill achieved by the summit.

The song is a witty comment on Protect And Survive from an Irish perspective.

In 1992 Kilroy made a comment regarding Ireland and the Irish in his Daily Express column under the guise of attacking Ray MacSharry, a former Irish government minister and EU commissioner at that time.

There was comment within the Irish media when, despite electing to target a middle-aged audience, the radio station opted in September 2009 not to playlist David Gray, an English singer-songwriter who is popular with that age group in Ireland.

On the other hand Irish secondary school history students are expected to have a knowledge of the topic and be able to comment on its significance.

AIB's then subsidiary Goodbody Stockbrokers continually issued " Buy " recommendations for its then parent, notwithstanding its worsening financial position, and used Client Discretionary mandates to invest their monies in Allied Irish Banks at the start of the 2008-2011 Irish banking crisis in November 2008, which generated adverse comment.

It is broadcast at 22: 30, although one edition which was broadcast at 21: 30 drew comment from Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent who wondered if it was " a gesture to the poor ould fellas who might have some chance of staying awake past the first question ".

However, many Irish MEPs saw this as self-serving and felt that there would be no Eurosceptic support for Irish opinion had the treaty been accepted ; and Doyle was both lauded and criticised for the following comment, which is a reference to the forceful occupation of Ireland by Britain ; " How the history books could have been written differently, if respect for the Irish vote from some of our British colleagues was always there.

Founding Secretary of the Irish Association of Suicidology Dr John Connolly described Mitchell's comment as " unfortunate ".

The phrase was paraphrased from a comment by then Taoiseach ( prime minister ) of Ireland, Charles Haughey, while describing a strange series of incidents in the summer of 1982 that led to a double-murderer being apprehended in the house of the Irish Attorney General.

The comment appeared in a letter from the British Ambassador to Dublin, Sir Andrew Gilchrist, to Kelvin White, head of the Irish Section of the British Foreign Office and is dated 2 October 1969.

He received a national media award for comment and analysis in 1992 for Sunday Independent articles on the fall of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach and was awarded the 1998 Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year for articles in The Irish Times on Drumcree, the papal visit to Cuba that year, and articles criticisng the Irish Churches for failing to practise what they preached on reconciliation.

" The Russian embassy in Dublin reportedly declined to comment on the allegations that its officials had used a counterfeit Irish passport.

John Redmond, the leader of the nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party, was prepared to accept British promises to deliver Home Rule, and publicly backed the British war effort.

Costello, for the first time, declared publicly that the Irish government was indeed going to repeal the Act and declare a republic.

He awaited the development of events while saying little about the topic publicly, but Chamberlain privately damned Gladstone and the concept of Home Rule to colleagues, believing that maintaining the Conservatives in power for a further year would make the Irish question easier to settle.

A political conservative and self-described " right-winger ", who has publicly protested against what he perceives as immorality and " anti-Catholicism ", Morrissey's long-term collaboration with the low-keyed, apparently apolitical Warhol was viewed by many as " a successful mismatch ", although both men did share some traits, i. e. both were practising Catholics from " ethnic " backgrounds ( Warhol was of Rusyn descent and Morrissey is of Irish descent ).

In the fall of 2005, it was publicly revealed that Irish windmill company Airtricity was planning to build several windmills in Hartsville, and had signed contracts with several landowners for the use of land on which to put these windmills.

O ' Kelly earned a controversial reputation over his key role in attempts to publicly humiliate the then Governor-General of the Irish Free State, James McNeill.

However McNeill's tact was not reciprocated by de Valera's government, some of whose ministers sought to humiliate McNeill as the King's representative, by withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at functions he attended, demanded he withdraw invitations to visitors to meet him and in one notorious incident, two ministers, Seán T. O ' Kelly and Frank Aiken publicly stormed out of a diplomatic function when McNeill, there as the guest of the French ambassador, arrived.

For these among other reasons, Ireland — resolutely and irrevocably determined at the dawn of the promised era of self-determination and liberty that she will suffer foreign dominion no longer — calls upon every free nation to uphold her national claim to complete independence as an Irish Republic against the arrogant pretensions of England founded in fraud and sustained only by an overwhelming military occupation, and demands to be confronted publicly with England at the Congress of the Nations, that the civilised world having judged between English wrong and Irish right may guarantee to Ireland its permanent support for the maintenance of her national independence.

Butt considered this discussion too important to the British Empire to be interrupted by obstructionism and publicly warned the Irish members to refrain from this tactic.

In addition, McWhirter offered a £ 50, 000 reward for information leading to a conviction for several recent high-profile bombings in England that were publicly claimed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).

Aiken became a source of controversy in mid-1932 when he, along with Vice President of the Executive Council Seán T. O ' Kelly publicly snubbed the Governor-General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, by staging a public walkout at a function in the French legation in Dublin.

Though the governor-generalship of the Irish Free State was controversial, the media and even anti-governor-generalship politicians in the opposition Labour Party publicly, and even members of de Valera's cabinet privately, criticised Aiken and O ' Kelly for their treatment of McNeill, who all sides saw as a decent and honourable man.

He also publicly defended the Romanian Jews and spoke up in defence of the Irish Catholics against Britain, supporting William O ’ Brien, one of the leaders of the Irish revolt.

In January 2004 he publicly stated he was opposed to women singing on state television, and in April Associated Press reporter Todd Pitman reported that Manawi said that any Muslim caught drinking in the Irish Pub in Kabul would be punished.

Irish and Ulster Scots enjoy limited use alongside English in Northern Ireland, mainly in publicly commissioned translations.

Though the proposed route of the motorway at Tara has been the subject of an international outcry from academics, historians, environmentalists and others, the Irish government under the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his successor Brian Cowan, publicly supports the plans, and condemned those who criticise them.

It was the first Irish station which was not publicly funded.

James ' brother, Roger Sweetman, was elected to the First Dáil representing Wexford North, and was one of the first TDs to publicly call for a negotiated settlement to the Irish War of Independence.

Throughout the Northern Ireland troubles it was closely allied with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, publicly arguing for the validity of its armed campaign.

The remaining publicly traded shares of AIB are now listed on the Enterprise Securities Market of the Irish Stock Exchange.

In 1865 the recently formed Irish republican Fenian Brotherhood came out publicly and rented Dr. John Moffat's brownstone rowhouse at 32 East 17th Street, next to the Everett House hotel facing the north side of the square, for the capitol of the government-in-exile they declared.

Yates in 2011 described the Irish bankruptcy regime as " purgatory " and publicly announced that he was contemplating moving to the UK to avail of its bankruptcy regime.