Many of the figures of Irish set dances, which developed from Continental quadrilles, are danced to polkas.

* The Sliabh Notes play a few Irish polkas

Indeed, most of the polkas and slides in Irish traditional music derive from this region.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

There are between 500-600 native Irish speakers in Achill parish.

* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

There are records of several prophets believed to be incarnate banshees attending the great houses of Ireland and the courts of local Irish kings.

In America a distinction is drawn between ballads that are versions of European, particularly British and Irish songs, and ' native American ballads ', developed without reference to earlier songs.

In reality, the terms ' Scots / Scottish ' and ' Irish ' are purely modern geographical references to a people who share a common Celtic ancestry and consequently, a common musical heritage.

These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.

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

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.

The whole, however, may be judged from this fragment: " We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul ... we are bound to the Chair of Peter, and although Rome is great and renowned, through that Chair alone is she looked on as great and illustrious among us ... On account of the two Apostles of Christ, you pope are almost celestial, and Rome is the head of the whole world, and of the Churches ".

This may possibly explain the traditional spot in St. Peter's, where St. Gregory and St. Columba are supposed to have met ( Moran, Irish SS.

There are 10, 469 Irish speakers in County Dublin attending the 31 Gaelscoils ( Irish language primary schools ) and 8 Gaelcholáiste ( Irish language secondary schools ).

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.

However, Irish citizens were still treated as subjects of the Crown, and they are still not regarded as foreign, even though Ireland is not a member of the Commonwealth.

Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

The team name is typically pronounced, but their longtime team owner / manager Connie Mack called them by the old-fashioned colloquial Irish pronunciation.

The Irish polka is dance music form in 2 / 4, typically 32 bars in length and subdivided into two parts, each 8 bars in length and played AABB.

The céilí dances are typically danced to Irish instruments such as the Irish hand drum or harp.

The Eldar naming-schemes are typically derived from Gaelic ( Irish ).

While North American players are typically two-handed, the Irish tradition finds the vast majority of bones players using only one hand, a distinction in method that has a strong impact on musical articulation.

Osteosarcoma is the most common bone tumor in dogs and typically afflicts middle-age large and giant breed dogs such as Irish Wolfhounds, Greyhounds, German Shepherds, Rottweilers, mountain breeds ( great Pyrenees, St. Bernard, Leonberger, Newfoundland ), Doberman Pinschers and Great Danes.

The rails were typically of flat bottom section fastened to the ties with dogspikes through a flat tieplate in North America and Australia, and typically of bullhead section carried in cast iron chairs in British and Irish practice.

The Irish musician Richard Poekrich is typically credited as the first to play an instrument composed of glass vessels by rubbing his fingers around the rims .< ref name = Bloch >

In the ILGWU, for example, the cutters – who were often primarily of English, Irish and German stock, were almost exclusively males, were better paid, and were typically more skilled – often looked down on the immigrant, largely female, unskilled " operators " who ran sewing machines in their shops or elsewhere.

Irish cream typically has between 15 to 20 % alcohol by volume ( ABV ).

The variations of the New York accent are a result of the layering of ethnic speech from the waves of immigrants that settled in the city, from the earliest settlement by the Dutch and English, followed in the 1800s by the Irish and Midwesterners ( typically of French, German, Irish, Scandinavian, and English descent ).

In Ulster the ballybetagh was the territorial unit controlled by an Irish sept, typically containing around 16 townlands.

He typically carried a shillelagh, a traditional Irish wooden fighting stick, which he used as a focus for his power.

* Augusta Heritage Center, at Davis & Elkins College -- A center dedicated to traditional arts and music, with 10 + themes ranging from Old Time, bluegrass, Cajun, Irish, dance, wood and metal working and more for five consecutive weeks every summer, typically in July and August.

According to the most current U. S. Census data estimates, the population in the neighborhoods typically lumped together as the North Shore is almost evenly split among Whites ( mostly Irish and Italians ), African-Americans and Hispanics, which each group comprising slightly more than 30 per cent of the total.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

There is, however, no pre-1858 Irish document that describes the way game was played, in particular there is no reference to the distinctive croquet stroke.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

Irish immigrants played an instrumental role in Puerto Rico's economy.

Their children, the first Irish Australians in the sense we understand the term, played a definitive role in shaping Australian history, society and culture.

By contrast, a number of Irish people abroad converted to Asian religions and played significant roles in anti-colonial revival movements, such as the Irish Buddhist monk U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll?

In Europe, these games included Irish sport of hurling, the closely related Scottish sport of shinty, and versions of field hockey, including " Bandie ball ," played in England.

Typhus played a major factor in the Irish Potato Famine.

At one time there was even a group on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, known as the " Shire of Curragh Mor " ( anglicized Irish for " Big Boat "), and the shire's arms played on the Nimitz's ship's badge.

The unsolved problems relating to Irish Home Rule played a great part in politics in the later Victorian era, particularly in view of Gladstone's determination to achieve a political settlement.

The men are of unspecified origin, though it is clear that they are not English by nationality ( and in English-language productions are traditionally played with Irish accents ).

The pair is often played with Irish accents, as in the Beckett on Film project.

Gaelic football ( Irish: Peil Ghaelach ; short name Peil or Caid ), commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is a sport played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch.

The sport, a form of football derived from traditional Irish ball games, is mainly played in the country of Ireland, although associations exist in other areas such as Great Britain and North America.

Outside of Ireland, football is mainly played amongst members of the Irish diaspora.

Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, who had replaced Haughey and who had played a key role in the Hume / Adams dialogue through his Special Advisor Martin Mansergh, regarded the ceasefire as permanent.

The prison and its inmates played a prominent role in recent Irish history, notably in the 1981 hunger strike.

The headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union Leinster Branch is located opposite Donnybrook Stadium, where the professional Leinster team played their home games until recently.

Introduced to Ireland in the late 19th century, there are today hundreds of Irish polka tunes, which are most frequently played on the fiddle or button accordion.

He also usually played Irishmen, leading many film fans to mistakenly assume he was Irish rather than English.