The local GAA team is known as Lisnaskea Emmetts and have won a range of honours in the sport including the All Ireland intermediate championship in 2011. and the All Ireland ladies final in 2011 They wear red and green.

The Southern Railway of Northern Ireland that Porter works for is fictitious, in reality from the route chosen on the map the line would have belonged to the Great Northern Railway ( Ireland ), with Buggleskelly being close to the real town of Lisnaskea.

Lisnaskea () is the second-biggest settlement in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Throughout the history of the Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA ) in Fermanagh, Lisnaskea has consistently been a major force in Gaelic football, ladies football and hurling.

In 1876 he was created Baron Fermanagh, of Lisnaskea in the County of Fermanagh, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Basil Stanlake Brooke was born on 9 June 1888 at Colebrooke Park, his family's neo-Classical ancestral seat on ( what was then ) the several-thousand acre Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough, a village near Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh, Ireland.

The opening match was Lisnaskea vs. West Ulster selection, refereed by Johnny Monaghan, Ederney, followed by Roscommon ( All-Ireland finalists 1946 ) and Antrim ( All-Ireland semi finalists 1946 ) refereed by Jim Vallely, Armagh.

He succeeded his father as the Ulster Unionist Stormont MP for Lisnaskea in a by-election on 22 March 1968.

Lisnaskea was once the seat of the Maguire Clan.

Lisnaskea is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) ( i. e. with population between 2, 250 and 4, 500 people ).

On Census day ( 29 April 2001 ) there were 2, 739 people living in Lisnaskea.

Lisnaskea railway station opened on 26 August 1858 and was shut on 1 October 1957.

Smaller towns in the area include Lisnaskea, Irvinestown, Belleek, Belcoo and Derrylin.

On 14 December, an IRA column under Seán Garland detonated four bombs ( one of which blew in the front wall ) outside Lisnaskea RUC station before raking it with gunfire.

The Jacobite dragoons under Anthony Hamilton stumbled into an ambush laid by Berry's men near Lisnaskea and were routed, taking 230 casualties.

; The Starlights Trail: Nattai Road Park Entrance to Emmetts Flat ( a good camp site on the river without facilities ) on the Nattai River.

Two of Kent's places of interest are near Ide Hill: Bough Beech Reservoir and Emmetts Garden.

Emmetts Garden is in the care of the National Trust.

Smith first played senior for the Ottawa Emmetts from 1903 until 1905.

Eskra is home to Eskra Emmetts Gaelic football club.

He sought out another possible 4 in a row winner in Robert Emmetts.

Darby was introduced in the latter stages of the final between Emmetts and Gabriels as a substitute.

This was his stage, He danced around the Emmetts defence in the 22nd minute of the 2nd half and rattled the net once again as spectacularly as the first.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

For over a hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.

Looking back from the spring of 1629 over the four years of Milton's undergraduate days, certain phases of his college career stand out as of permanent consequence to him and hence to us.

In fact, over the years, the American farmer's capacity to over-produce has cost the taxpayers a large dollar.

The article also said that a person had to be 18 years old or over, and must not be going to high school to attend these classes.

The effect of radiation is cumulative over the years -- and on to succeeding generations.

The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

We all seek the same thing through different ways -- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion ''.

To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

The whole program must be conceived of as an effort, stretching over a considerable number of years, to alter the basic social and economic conditions in the less developed world.

The practice of state-owned vehicles for use of employees on business dates back over forty years.

But it does show that automobiles have increased steadily over the years and in almost the same proportion to the increase of state employees.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

that the tremendous volume of General Motors stock hanging over the market for ten years would hamper the efforts of General Motors and other automobile manufacturers to raise equity capital ; ;

Furthermore, roads that give access to National Forest timber are investments which pay their own way over a period of years.

It was recognized years ago that the transition from daytime to nighttime propagation conditions, and vice versa, is not an instantaneous process, but takes place over periods of time from roughly 2 hours before sunset until about 2 hours after sunset, and again from roughly 2 hours before sunrise until some 2 hours after sunrise.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.