* 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006.

* 1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.

Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.

Night Train with Reaper by London Irish artist Brian Whelan from the book Myth of Return, 2007

London once more holds an official public St Patrick's Day celebration, which although having been cancelled in the 1970s because of Irish Republican violence, is now a national celebration, with over 60 percent of the population regularly celebrating the day regardless of their ethnic origins.

The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.

Likewise the Irish community in London formed the London Irish rugby union club.

19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.

The Irish Diaspora ( London: Pearson, 2000 )

* Reassessing what we collect website – Irish London History of Irish London with objects and images

Together with Mellitus, the Bishop of London, Justus signed a letter written by Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury to the Irish bishops urging the native church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.

The units that still survive are A Company 231 KRRC ( Paddington ) Rifles ACF, B Company 232 KRRC ( Westminster ) Rifles ACF, C Company 233 KRRC ( Camden ) Rifles ACF and up until recent years D Company 234 KRRC ( Putney ) RGJ ACF, which formed the London Oratory School RGJ ACF unit ( now CCF ) although they were rebadged as Irish Guards in 2010 ( making them the last remaining RGJ unit and also the first Irish Guards CCF unit ).

The first machine specifically designed to perforate postage stamps was invented in London by Henry Archer, an Irish landowner and railroad man from Dublin, Ireland.

The Pogues were founded in Kings Cross, a district of North London, in 1982 as Pogue Mahone — pogue mahone being the Anglicisation of the Irish póg mo thóin, meaning " kiss my arse ".

** Irish writer Flann O ' Brien's comic metafiction At Swim-Two-Birds is published in London but attracts little attention at this time.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

After a disastrous opening gig at the London Roundhouse, they reverted to a configuration presenting Bowie as a solo artist.

Howard Carter was born in London, England, the son of Samuel Carter, an artist and Martha Joyce ( Sands ) Carter.

She worked as a guest artist with Roland Petit's Le Ballet National de Marseilles, the Bolshoi Ballet, the London Festival Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, and the Eliot Feld Ballet.

In 1823, he performed an extremely successful series of concerts in London that earned him great fame, both as a performing artist and as a teacher.

Unknown artist after lost original, 1575 ; National Portrait Gallery, London.

< div class =" center "> Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist after François Clouet ( c. 1559 ) London, Victoria and Albert Museum </ div > The Queen is shown wearing her rope of famous black pearls.

His second marriage, in 1995, was to artist and sculptor Rhonda Roland Shearer, who is the mother of two children, Jade and London Allen, stepchildren of Gould.

A few months later, as artist for The Illustrated London News, he joined Garibaldi in Italy.

The main werewolf of this film is a dapper London scientist who retains some of his style and most of his human features after his transformation, as lead actor Henry Hull was unwilling to spend long hours being made up by makeup artist Jack Pierce.

* December – The world's first Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London from the artist John Callcott Horsley, are sent.

Bill Viola's exhibition profile, which includes the National Gallery, London, Guggenheim Berlin, Guggenheim New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty Los Angeles, California, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York marks him as a major contemporary artist.

Furthermore, Ray Davies as a solo artist refers to the river Thames in his " London Song ".

A reconstruction of the missing panels-which show Duke William accepting the surrender of London and his coronation as King of England-was made by artist Jan Messent.

* The " Bruno Hat " art hoax arranged in London in July 1929 involved staging a convincing public exhibition of paintings by an imaginary reclusive artist, Bruno Hat.

At the age of seventeen he briefly attended the Tenby School of Art, then left Wales for London, studying at the Slade School of Art UCL in London ( his sister, Gwen, was with him at the Slade and became an important artist in her own right ), where he became the star pupil of drawing teacher Henry Tonks, and even before his graduation was recognized as the most talented draughtsman of his generation.

Other members included theorist Raoul Vaneigem, the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, the Italo-Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the English artist Ralph Rumney ( sole member of the London Psychogeographical Association, Rumney suffered expulsion relatively soon after the formation ), the Danish artist Asger Jorn ( who after parting with the SI also founded the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ), the architect and veteran of the Hungarian Uprising Attila Kotanyi, and the French writer Michele Bernstein.

Thus, to mark the gratitude of the Mauritian people to those honourable martyrs, in 1916, even before the Remembrance Day was recognized, Governor Hesketh Bell announced that he had met in London with an eminent artist, J. A.

Moving to London around 1765, for fear of being " drawn into dissipation ", he set himself up informally as a doctor, befriended the Royal Academician artist Angelika Kauffmann, and began to mix with Italian artists and architects in the coffee houses around Soho.

The film The Rebel ( US: Call Me Genius ), 1961 ) featuring British comedian Tony Hancock's tells of a London office clerk who moves to Paris to pursue his vocation as an artist of the Beat Generation ; the film satirizes pseudointellectuals.

Later that year at Sotheby's in London, Peinture ( Etoile Bleue ) ( 1927 ) brought nearly 23. 6 million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction.

The tracks were recorded at Berry Street studios in London with engineer Brian Pugsley.

In 1953, Brian Pippard, motivated by penetration experiments, proposed that this would modify the London equations via a new scale parameter called the coherence length.

He was found guilty of dishonesty in his research and banned from medicine by the UK General Medical Council following an investigation by Brian Deer of the London Sunday Times.

Richards, Taylor, and Jagger found Brian Jones as he sat in playing slide guitar with Alexis Korner's seminal London R & B band, Blues Incorporated, at the Ealing Jazz Club.

* " Brian Deer investigates VSO ", London Sunday Times, April 26, 1998

In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies.

In 1981 the British microscopist Brian J. Ford found that Van Leeuwenhoek's original specimens had survived in the collections of the Royal Society of London.

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

In October 2003 a successful stage show called Round the Horne ... Revisited opened in London, compiled by Series Four co-writer Brian Cooke from original scripts, and ran until April 2005 – also siring three nationwide tours and a BBC television film.

He was found guilty of dishonesty in his research and banned from medicine by the UK General Medical Council following an investigation by Brian Deer of the London Sunday Times.

* Longhurst, Brian, Smith, Greg, Bagnall, Gaynor, Crawford, Garry and Michael Ogborn, Introducing Cultural Studies, Second Edition, Pearson, London, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4058-5843-4

* Brian Paddick, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2008 London Mayoral Election.

* Meller, Hugh & Brian Parsons, London Cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer, The History Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7509-4622-3.

He beat Conservative politician Brian Coleman at the 2012 London Assembly election overturning a 20, 000 vote deficit and turning this in to a 21, 000 vote majority.

They had two children ; the second, a daughter, suffered from spina bifida and died in 1942 aged three, by which time O ' Brian had left the family in their remote country cottage and returned to London, where he worked throughout the war.

* Brian Klug, BA, MA ( London ), PhD ( Chicago ): Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy ( 2000 —)

* Masters, Brian, Georgiana, ( London: Allison & Busby Ltd, 1997 )

Monte Carlo was even a location for the late 1960s British London based series Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) where in the eleventh episode of the series, " The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo ", Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre went to Monte Carlo to accompany a highly talented elderly woman to gamble inside the casino and waylay a group of thugs ( amongst them Brian Blessed ).

In attendance that night were John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein, Lulu, The Hollies, Small Faces, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Donovan, Georgie Fame, Denny Laine, Terry Reid, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton who rarely missed any of Jimi's London gigs.

Brian fled to London and, although Robinson deeply disapproved of the incident, he continued to provide Brian with money until his own death, though most of the allowance went to Brian's estranged wife.

In London, Brian began composing copiously, to alleviate the fact of living in conditions of the most basic poverty.

The first show included performances by The New Christy Minstrels, comedian Woody Allen, actress Joey Heatherton and a segment from London in which Brian Epstein introduces The Zombies and Gerry & the Pacemakers.