European harmonica player Philip Achille, who performs Irish, Classical, Jazz, Qawali and sufi music, has won jazz competitions and his classical performances have led to appearances on the BBC as well as ITV and Channel 4.

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.

Crom Cruach or Cromm Crúaich ( Classical Irish / Gaelic pronunciation / ˈkɾˠɔmˠ ˈkɾˠuəç /), also known as Cenn Cruach / ˈkʲɛnˠ: ˈkɾˠuəxˠ / or Cenncroithi / ˈkʲɛnˠ: ˈkɾˠoθʲɨ /, was a deity in pre-Christian Ireland, reputedly propitiated with human sacrifice, whose worship is said to have been ended by St. Patrick.

*** The Irish Classical Theatre in Buffalo

* Photos of the Irish Classical Theatre Company's 2009 production of Hedda Gabler

The literary language ( known in English as Classical Irish ), was a sophisticated medium with elaborate verse forms, and was taught in bardic schools ( i. e. academies of higher learning ) both in Ireland and Scotland.

In the beginning the revivalists preferred the style used in Early Modern ( Classical ) Irish, notably by Geoffrey Keating ( Seathrún Céitinn ) in Foras Feasa ar Éirinn ( History of Ireland ), a much-read 17th century work.

They have also been nominated for a Classical Brit Award in the UK and were invited to give the first ever Irish Prom at the BBC Proms series in the Royal Albert Hall in 1999.

Aldfrith ( died 14 December 704 or 705 ) sometimes Aldfrid, Aldfridus ( Latin ), or Flann Fína mac Ossu ( Classical Irish ), was king of Northumbria from 685 until his death.

* Classical Gaelic ( language of the 13th to 18th c. Scottish and Irish Gaelic literature )

After spells living in Zambia and London, he attended the same school as Irish television presenter Hector Ó hEochagáin and Dylan Moran, in St. Patrick's Classical School, Navan, County Meath, a former Roman Catholic junior seminary.

Events include a major art exhibition of works by contemporary Irish Artists, Classical and Traditional Music, Poetry, Drama, Lectures and Children's events.

Transcribed ogham inscriptions, which lack a letter for the / p / phoneme, show Primitive Irish to be similar in morphology and inflections to Gaulish, Latin, Classical Greek and Sanskrit.

"; Series 5000, " Hill Billy "; Series 10000, " Mexican "; Series 12000, " Irish "; Series 14000, " Scotch "; Series 15000, " 12-inch Popular "; Series 18000, " International Repertoire " – Album Sets ; Series 20000, " Classical "; Series 23000, " Personality "; Series 25000, " Classical " ( 12-inch ), and Series 29000, " Personality " ( 12-inch ).

Ramsey has also worked as a performer and music director for the Irish Classical Theater in Buffalo, New York.

They sang the opening choral section entitled " Cloudsong " with a solo by soprano Katie McMahon Anúna won an Irish National Entertainment Award for Classical music in 1994.

The use of sibh as ' polite ' you is a retention from the Classical Irish usage of the plural personal pronouns to refer to the singular in polite communcation, thus sinn " we " for mé " I, me " and sibh " you ( plural )" for tú " you / thou ".

The Classical Irish digraph éu is still used in Scottish Gaelic spelling but is now obsolete in Irish, except in southern dialect writing, as a means to distinguish the vowel é when followed by a broad consonant from the regular dialect development é to i in the same environment, thus éan " bird " in comparison to d ' éug " died ; passed on ").

Both éa and éu existed in Classical Irish, to a large extent showing nominal case differences ( with éu varying with éo in the dative of " éa "- words ), however in both Scotland and Ireland, spelling reforms and standardisation ( which took place in Ireland under the auspices of the Irish government during the 20th century, and much earlier in Scotland ) independently went for different versions.

Irish uses " cht " where Scottish Gaelic uses " chd ", although " chd " itself was once common in written Irish, as was " cht " in Scottish Gaelic-both being possible in Classical Gaelic.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Regarding Ireland the major Liberal achievements were land reform, where he ended centuries of landlord oppression ), the disestablishment of the ( Anglican ) Church of Ireland through the Irish Church Act 1869.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

* Bloody Sunday ( 1920 ), a day of violence in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence

* Bloody Sunday ( 1921 ), a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Irish War of Independence

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne ( née Quinlan ), of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.

All eyewitnesses ( apart from the soldiers ), including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists present, maintain that soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded, whereas the soldiers themselves were not fired upon.

With rival paramilitary organisations appearing in both the nationalist / republican and Irish unionist / Ulster loyalist communities ( the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), etc.

In October 2010, T with the Maggies released the song Domhnach na Fola ( Irish for Bloody Sunday ), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album.

Musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic ( Irish / Scottish / Manx ) and the Brythonic ( Breton / Welsh / Cornish ) branches, which differentiate " mostly by the extended range ( sometimes more than two octaves ) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies ( often reduced to a half-octave ), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music.

In 1971, the Irish band Skara Brae recorded its first and only LP ( simply called Skara Brae ), all songs in Irish.

The island's residents can be grouped into five main cultures ; Scottish, Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, Irish, and English, with respective languages Gaelic ( Scottish and Irish ), Mi ' kmaq, French, and English.

The initial Lions selection consisted of fourteen Irish players, thirteen Welsh, eight English and two Scots in the 37-man squad.

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 Q-Celtic nationalities are the Irish, Scottish and Manx peoples, while the P-Celtic groups are the Cornish, Bretons and Welsh peoples.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.

), as well as in the Celtic languages ( Welsh eglwys, Irish eaglais, Breton iliz, etc.

" The words for “ sea ” and “ dead ” were mori and * maruo-in Gaulish ( muir and marbh in Modern Irish, môr and marw in Modern Welsh and mor and marv in Modern Breton ).

One lone Welsh example at Llangorse Lake exists, likely a product of Irish influence across the Irish Sea

Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.

Dolmens are known by a variety of names in other languages including dolmain ( Irish ), cromlech ( Welsh ), anta ( Portuguese and Galician ), Hünengrab / Hünenbett ( German ), Adamra ( Abkhazian ), Ispun ( Circassian ), Hunebed ( Dutch ), dysse ( Danish and Norwegian ), dös ( Swedish ), and goindol ( Korean ).

The United Kingdom has ratified the Charter in respect of ( among other languages ) Welsh in Wales and Irish in Northern Ireland.

By the end of her life Elizabeth was also reputed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to English.

The names used in the languages themselves ( Gaeilge / Gaolainn / Gaelic in Irish, Gaelg / Gailck in Manx, and Gàidhlig in Scottish Gaelic ) are derived from Old Irish Goídelc, which comes from Old Welsh Guoidel meaning " pirate, raider ".

* Goddesses of Insular ( Welsh, Irish ) mythology: Mórrígan-Nemain-Macha-Badb, Brigid, Ériu, Danu