There is an optional year in many secondary schools in Ireland known as Transition Year, which some students choose to take after completing the Junior Certificate, and before starting the Leaving Certificate.

He produced nearly all of The Beatles ' recordings ( later songs " Real Love " and " Free as a Bird " were produced by Jeff Lynne ) and wrote the instrumental score for the Yellow Submarine film and soundtrack album, and the string and horn ( and even some vocal ) arrangements for almost all of their songs ( with the famous exception of the Phil Spector re-production on the Let It Be album, and " She's Leaving Home ", which was arranged by Mike Leander ).

With his foot-in-the-door of having authored " Leaving on a Jet Plane ", he was often successful in gaining some valuable promotional airtime, usually featuring one or two songs performed live.

Leaving some men to continue the siege, Turenne advanced to meet the Spanish army.

Leaving some currency on a restaurant table is a common way of giving a tip to the serving staff.

Leaving its east-west main line at Woodhouse Junction, some 5½ miles southeast of Sheffield, the line headed towards Nottingham, a golden opportunity to tap into the collieries in the north of the county before reaching that city.

Leaving aside the issue that, in some states, this is a strict liability offense excluding drunkenness as a defense, there is usually a requirement that the person who " spiked " the drinks be prosecuted in place of the driver.

Leaving some of his children with relatives, the couple sailed for North America with four of their children, arriving at Perth Amboy on 14 June.

Leaving some 30 – 45, 000 non-Jewish citizens.

Leaving Cadet around the end of 1974 with the parent company in financial difficulties, the group would continue recording under the Mercury, ABC, 20th Century Fox and Virgin labels finding some hits including 1980's " I Touched a Dream ", which returned the group to the Top 40 on the R & B charts.

Leaving for America, he came down with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease.

The college currently offers two foreign languages, French and German, at Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate levels, but Irish is also compulsory, subject to some exemptions, as in all other secondary schools in Ireland.

* after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the < A > greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant ( they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects ) And therevpon committed both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, ( by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin ( as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp ( the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast ) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the beginning of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy < A > or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yield about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat.

The common points scale came into operation the next year, with the best six results from one sitting of the Leaving Certificate becoming the standard ; previous to that there had been some allowance to accumulate points by sitting the Leaving Certificate more than once.

Leaving his Island III anchorage at dawn, Columbus sent Niña SSE and Santa Maria SE, while Pinta was sent " east and southeast " ( contrary to the ESE mentioned in some sources ).

Leaving Martinique in 1946 to pursue ethnology and drama studies in Paris, Joseph Zobel spent some years in Paris and Fontainebleau, before relocating in Senegal by 1957.

Close by is a small Village called Merrygoen which was used to shoot some of a popular ABC Minnie series-" Leaving Of Liverpool " which starred Aussie Actor John Hargreaves, Who actually was a school teacher at Mendooran Central School, in the late 50's.

Leaving, he finds a prisoner in the freezer, and after some thought, he gives him a box cutter to free himself.

Students doing exams ( Junior Cert and Leaving Cert ) have to come in some days during June to sit their exams but otherwise have the same break as those not doing exams.

Leaving these unfamiliar lands behind, a traveller will enter the nation of the Ingaevones in Germania, where, according to Pliny, " we begin to have some information upon which more implicit reliance can be placed ".

Leaving aside the gentry on horseback, there were certainly two groups of players on each side, some who grappled for the cnapan ( ball ) and others who were the fastest and most elusive runners.

Leaving for Italy in 1959, Sergio Franchi scored some early successes.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Leaving them there, he went on build the nation, while the Republic of Genoa was left to ponder prospects and solutions.

Love was briefly married to James Moreland ( vocalist of The Leaving Trains ) in 1989 for several months, but has said that Moreland was a transvestite and that their marriage was " a joke ", ending in an annulment filed by Love.

Leaving Fox on sour terms didn't help his reputation, but Hawks was one of the few people in Hollywood who never backed down from fights with studio heads.

Leaving aside the shadowy kings before Áedán son of Gabrán, the genealogy is certainly flawed insofar as Áed Find, who died c. 778, could not reasonably be the son of Domangart, who was killed c. 673.

Leaving the country in the hands of various officials he designated ( including his mother, at times ), Richard was far more concerned with his more extensive French lands.

Leaving the Royal College, he became prostitute of the " Boats ' n Hoes " department at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1854, and in 1855 was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Chester Diocesan Training College.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

Double album " Bath "/" Leaving Your Body Map " by avant-garde metal band maudlin of the Well was constructed based upon a parallel qabalistic Tree of Life structure.

Leaving wood sculpture unpainted was a new taste at the time, and " perhaps the tastes of the city council were somewhat provincial.

Marcy Playground's fourth album, Leaving Wonderland ... in a fit of rage, was released on July 7, 2009.

Leaving Wonderland was produced, recorded and mixed by producer Jeff Dawson.

Leaving General Tang Shengzhi in charge of the city for the Battle of Nanking, Chiang and many of his advisors flew to Wuhan, where they stayed until it was attacked in 1938.

The first English-language collection of SI writings, although poorly and freely translated, was Leaving The 20th century edited by Christopher Gray.

Leaving his son Louis of Anjou in English-held Calais as a replacement hostage, John was allowed to return to France to raise the funds.

On a visit to Los Angeles in April, Paul McCartney played Wilson a song from the album, " She's Leaving Home "; later Wilson was said to be " deeply affected " by hearing a tape of another song, " A Day in the Life ".

Leaving the square was accounted cowardice.

Leaving the seat vacant for so long, he said, would not hurt Louisiana ; " with Ransdell as Senator, the seat was vacant anyway.

Collins was the home of Dale Houston, a rock and roll singer whose I'm Leaving It Up To You reached No. 1 in 1963.