" Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song.

The banjo is usually associated with country, folk, Irish traditional, and bluegrass music.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

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.

In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it is traditional for the Premier League, Scottish Premier League and Irish Premier League respectively, as well as the lower divisions and rugby leagues, to hold a full programme of football and Rugby League matches on Boxing Day.

The traditional music of Atlantic Canada is heavily influenced by the Irish, Scottish and Acadian ethnic makeup of much of the region's communities.

Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

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.

It is one of the distinct fiddle traditions within Irish traditional music.

In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article.

* Dual ( album ), an album of traditional Scottish and Irish music recorded by Éamonn Doorley, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Julie Fowlis and Ross Martin, released 2008

It is prominent in Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures within traditional or folk music and as a social and political symbol.

For example, Delhi 2 Dublin, a band based in Canada, is known for fusing Indian and Irish music, and Bhangraton is a fusion of Bhangra music with reggaeton, which itself is a fusion of hip hop, reggae, and traditional Latin American music.

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Irish traditional music sessions are mostly informal gatherings at which people play Irish traditional music.

... a gathering of Irish traditional musicians for the purpose of celebrating their common interest in the music by playing it together in a relaxed, informal setting, while in the process generally beefing up the mystical cultural mantra that hums along uninterruptedly beneath all manifestations of Irishness worldwide.

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As 26 of these traditional counties are located in the Republic of Ireland, many people, particularly Irish nationalists, refer to that state as " the 26 Counties " and to Northern Ireland as " the Six Counties ".

They base their Imbolc celebrations on traditional lore and customs derived from medieval Irish texts, and research into the older beliefs of the polytheistic Celts.

* The kilts worn by Irish pipe bands are based on the traditional Scottish garment but now in a single ( solid ) colour

In addition, Lyon & Healy makes smaller versions of the harp, which are known as folk harps ( based on traditional Irish instruments ) or lever harps ( which use levers to change the pitch of the string rather than pedals ).

The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band, wrote a song also called " Sunday Bloody Sunday " about the event.

The definition is further complicated by the fact that Irish independence has allowed Ireland to promote ' Celtic ' music as a specifically Irish product.

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.

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.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

" His mother was another significant musical influence, encouraging him to listen to a variety of genres, including Irish folk music and Māori music.

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As a musical group Enya represents a partnership between three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music ; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums ; and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya will render the lyrics herself.

" My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music ," she said in a 1997 interview.

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Irish band Clannad featured the harp heavily in their music during the 1970s and 1980s.

The most productive areas include Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Dogger Bank of the North Sea, and the Falkland Banks.

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

As well as slogans, Northern Irish political graffiti include large wall paintings, referred to as murals.

Goddesses or demi-goddesses appear in sets of three in a number of ancient European pagan mythologies ; these include the Greek Erinyes ( Furies ) and Moirai ( Fates ); the Norse Norns ; Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, from Irish or Keltoi mythology.

Other Latin American countries that have Irish settlement include Puerto Rico and Colombia.

Other similarities include the fact that some Accompong Maroons formation bear the passing resemblance to the Irish reel ; and the Jamaican Constabulary is patterned after the Royal Iris Constabulary, complete with the red stripe on the pants leg.

Places in South Africa named after Irish people include Upington, Porterville, Caledon, Cradock, Sir Lowry's Pass, the Biggarsberg Mountains, Donnybrook, Himeville and Belfast.

Ferry connections between Britain and Ireland via the Irish Sea include the routes from Fishguard and Pembroke to Rosslare, Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire, Stranraer to Belfast and Larne, and Cairnryan to Larne ; the Swansea to Cork route has closed.

Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he called immaterialism, later referred to as " subjective idealism ", contending that individuals can only know sensations and ideas of objects directly, not abstractions such as " matter ", and that ideas also depend upon being perceived for their very existence-esse est percipi ; " to be is to be perceived ".

Other organized enterprises include the Russian mafia, Albanian Mafia, Irish mob, Chinese Triads, and the Japanese Yakuza.

Examples of theme pubs include sports bars, rock pubs, biker pubs, Goth pubs, strip pubs, gay bars, karaoke bars and Irish pubs ( see below ).

Other transnational competitions include the Pro 12, involving Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh teams ; The Rugby Championship, involving South African, Australian, New Zealand and Argentinian Teams ; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European teams from their respective domestic competitions.

Examples of this would include the Goon Defective Agency stories, written starting in 1956 by Irish fan John Berry and published in his and Arthur Thomson's fanzine Retribution.

Examples include the " masculinized genitalia in female hyenas, exaptive use of an umbilicus as a brooding chamber by snails, the shoulder hump of the giant Irish deer, and several key features of human mentality.

The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State was based on the borders of existing counties and did not include all of historic Ulster.

Except in exceptional circumstances, subjects taken must include Irish ( L1 ), English ( L2 ), a foreign language ( L3 ) and Mathematics.

Other translations include the standard critical edition by Ralph Manheim and John Willett ( 1976 ), one by noted Irish playwright and translator Frank McGuinness ( 1992 ), and another by Jeremy Sams for a production at London's Donmar Warehouse in 1994.

The top 5 largest ancestries include German ( 23. 4 %), Irish ( 10. 8 %), Polish ( 10. 1 %), English ( 6. 0 %), and French ( 4. 6 %).

Irish units include those at prisons in Portlaise, Castelrea and Cork.

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

These include publications from Thomas Crosbie Holdings, most notably the Irish Examiner ( formerly the Cork Examiner ) and its sister publication, the Evening Echo.

Attractions include the Blarney Stone and Cobh, the port where many Irish emigrants boarded for their voyage to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa or the United States and also the last stop of the Titanic, before departing on its fated journey.

* 1915-British passenger liner RMS Lusitania torpedoed off Irish coast by German submarine ; 1, 200 dead include 128 Americans ; Theodore Roosevelt demands war ; Woodrow Wilson issues strong protest

Other teams include Irish League Division One side Coagh United F. C.