He had a round, frank Irish face, creased in a jovial grin that stayed bleakly in place even when he was pumping bullets into someone's body.

Architects practicing in Ireland included Sir Edwin Lutyens ( Heywood House in Co. Laois, Lambay Island and the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Dublin ) and Frederick ' Pa ' Hicks ( Malahide Castle estate buildings and round tower ).

A Irish round tower | round tower at St. Brigid's Cathedral in Kildare.

The earliest 8th or 9th century Irish crosses had only ornament, including interlace and round bosses, but from the 9th and 10th century, figurative images appear, sometimes just a figure of Christ crucified in the centre, but in the largest 10th century examples large numbers of figures over much of the surface.

The Irish word for round tower, cloigtheach, literally meaning bellhouse indicates this, as noted by George Petrie in 1845.

At Saint Mary's Cemetery in Milford, Massachusetts a round tower was built of Milford granite in the late 19th century as a memorial to central Massachusetts ' Irish immigrants, of whom thousands are buried there.

The tower is in the traditional design of an Irish round tower and is partially built with stone from a former army barracks in Tipperary.

The following is a list of surviving Irish round towers, excluding modern reconstructions.

Jean Giraud drew the first of the two-part last volume of the XIII series titled La Version Irlandaise ( The Irish Version ) from a script by Jean Van Hamme, to accompany the second part by the regular team Jean Van Hamme – William Vance, Le dernier round ( The Last Round ).

Saul, County Down | Saul church, a modern replica of an early church with a Irish round tower | round tower, is built on the reputed spot of Saint Patrick | St Patrick's first church in Ireland.

The guild aims to link its programmes with the Irish language initiatives which have been centred round Christ Church Cathedral.

Isolated in Dublin, with the king desiring to minimize his Irish troops, Ormonde therefore agreed to a " cessation " or ceasefire with the Catholics, which began in September 1643, by which the greater part of Ireland was given up into the hands of the Catholic Confederation ( leaving only districts in the north, the Dublin Pale, round Cork City, and certain smallish garrisons in the possession of Protestant commanders ).

He then split two ten round decisions with " Irish " Micky Ward, losing their first bout, but winning their second.

Foliage of Irish Yew ; note the leaves spreading all round the erect shoots

In 1842 he returned to Dublin to edit the Dublin University Magazine, and gathered round him a typical coterie of Irish wits ( including one or two hornets ) such as the O ' Suilivans, Archer Butler, W Carleton, Sir William Wilde, Canon Hayman, DF McCarthy, McGlashan, Dr Kencaly and many others.

* St. Mary's Cemetery holds the only Irish round tower in the United States, built from local granite.

Wilson thought that Irish conscription would gain an extra 150, 000 men, as well as helping to round up political malcontents.

The meeting, over a seven-hour period, took place over a round of golf and a subsequent dinner with Fitzpatrick and two other directors of Anglo Irish Bank.

This includes both a strong contingent of British, Irish, Germans and Scandinavians, many of whom live there all the year round, and Spanish people who have a second home in the city.

An Old Irish Life of Columcille reports that every funeral procession " halted at a mound called Eala, whereupon the corpse was laid, and the mourners marched thrice solemnly round the spot.

* Ancient Christian monastic site at Clonmacnoise along with ancient examples of the Irish High cross such as the ' Cross of the Scriptures ', the round tower and visitors center.

The church itself has a highly unusual Irish style round tower, which itself is extremely rare in Scotland, and is unique in Orkney ( though other examples are known to have existed in the past ).

During the first half of the 19th century, the British government embarked on a large-scale programme of building Martello towers to guard the British and Irish coastlines.

The British built about fifty Martello towers around the Irish coastline, especially along the east coast, from Millmount ( Drogheda ), to Bray, around Dublin Bay but also around Cork Harbour on the south coast.

The other Cork Harbour towers are at Ringaskiddy, Haulbowline Island ( now part of the Irish Naval Service HQ ) and at Belvelly and Rossleague on the Great Island ( near Cobh ).

The Irish round towers are thought to have functioned in part as bell towers.

On Shenick Island can be found a Martello tower, one of a number of defensive towers erected during the Napoleonic era along the Irish coast by the British.

Contemporary examples of general absolution are the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, where general absolution was granted to all Catholics endangered by the incident and the FDNY firefighters, many of whom were Italian and Irish, who were granted general absolution by local priests before heading into the burning World Trade towers on September 11, 2001

The original packaging included Irish iconography with shamrocks, castle towers and an arm holding a mace.

Twin towers in the Irish Hills

The Bere Island towers were reported as ready on 2 February 1805 and were therefore probably the earliest Irish towers to be completed.

At the same time as they were building Martello towers and establishing Sea Fencibles on the British coasts, the British were doing the same on the Irish coasts.

As part of the terms of their surrender to the Milesians the Tuatha Dé Danann agreed to retreat and dwell underground in the sídhe ( modern Irish: sí ; Scottish Gaelic: sìth ; Old Irish síde, singular síd ), the hills or earthen mounds that dot the Irish landscape.

* The Church of St. James, also called Schottenkirche, a Romanesque basilica of the 12th century, derives its name from the monastery of Irish Benedictines ( Scoti ) to which it was attached ; the principal doorway is covered with very singular grotesque carvings.

For example, in Irish, an adjective undergoes lenition after a feminine singular noun:

Fianna ( singular fian ) were small, semi-independent warrior bands in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology, most notably in the stories of the Fenian Cycle, where they are led by Fionn mac Cumhaill.

Tu is the 2nd-person singular subject pronoun in Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, French, Irish, Latvian, Romanian, Latin, and Hindustani.

Following the formation of the independent Irish Free State in 1922, members of the lower house of the Oireachtas ( parliament ), Dáil Éireann ( or " the Dáil ") are termed Teachtaí Dála ( Teachta Dála singular ) or TDs.

Irish has imperative forms in all three persons and both numbers, although the first person singular is most commonly found in the negative ( e. g. ná cloisim sin arís " let me not hear that again ").

The term is derived from the Old Irish céle ( singular ) meaning " companion ".

The layout further includes several tree lined streets, addressed by the narrow fronted commercial buildings typical of Irish towns, though with many here remaining of a singular refinement and charm.

The name may be related to personal names such as Welsh Gwrgi, Breton Gurki, and Irish Ferchu, meaning " Man-hound " or " Werewolf ", which in ancient Common Celtic would have had a nominative singular * Wiro-kū ( oblique * Wiro-kon -); Viroconium could thus be derived from such a personal name and mean "( the place belonging to ) * Wirokū ".

Allied Irish Banks is usually referred to, both inside and outside the company, simply as AIB and often by its trade name of " Allied Irish Bank " ( singular ).

In Northern Ireland, however, the bank trades as First Trust Bank, while in Great Britain, it is called " Allied Irish Bank ( GB )"— the only part of the operation where the full name, in the singular, is still in day-to-day use.

Crozier ( 1984 ) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tu, as well as a plural form, sibh.

Not a great creative statesman, Taaffe had singular capacity for managing men ; a very poor orator, he had in private intercourse an urbanity and quickness of humour which showed his Irish ancestry.

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 ".