Much of the county is seen as being a bastion of Gaelic culture and the Irish language, the county holding the second-largest Gaeltacht area in the country with a population of 24, 744 16 % of the county's population lives in the Gaeltacht.

Much of it was dug up and dismantled by the Irish government from the 1950s — 1970s after being deemed uneconomic, however there remains local advocacy groups who wish to conserve and restore parts of it.

Much has been written about Loftus during this time but between 1584 and 1591 ; he had a series of clashes with Sir John Perrot on the location of an Irish University.

Much of the public ceremonial in the Irish Houses of Parliament mirrored that of the British Houses of Parliament.

Much of the Irish economy and public finances had also depended on the property market and its collapse at roughly the same time as the banking crisis impacted all parts of the Irish economy.

Among other notable mentions of Big Sur in music are Buckethead's song " Big Sur Moon " on the album Colma, and the song Big Sur by Irish indie band The Thrills from their album So Much for the City.

Much of this music first came to the attention of the band through the work of seminal Irish composer Seán Ó Riada and his group Ceoltóirí Chualann.

Much like the Irish flat-backed bouzouki, the low whistle can be seen as a product of a period when experiments in instrumentation were commonplace in traditional music, and musicians sought diverse and innovative means of expression.

Much of the N8 / R639 route was built to connect the midlands to southern Tipperary and north County Cork as part of the Irish turnpike road-building drive of the mid-18th century.

During the 1880s, houses were built on small plots for Irish and Scottish immigrant labourers coming to Toronto ; Much of the housing is in the style of Victorian architecture row houses, which are moderate in size and exemplify true Victorian architecture.

Much of the Liverpool Irish embarked aboard the Ulster Monarch, a passenger ship that had served on the Belfast-Liverpool line before the war.

Much of the old feudal domains of the earlier Anglo-Irish and Gaelic-Irish magnates had been broken up and given to Irish loyalists soldiers, and English and Scottish Protestant colonial settlers.

Much of the public ceremonial in the Irish parliament mirrored that of the British Parliament.

Much prominence is given to English based sport, and some general features / columns are shared with the Independent and Irish Independent.

Much earlier, in 1634, during the Thirty Years ' War, Irish officers led by Walter Deveraux assassinated general Albrecht von Wallenstein on the orders of the Emperor.

Much of the Irish calendar still today reflects the old pagan customs, with later Christian traditions also having significant influence.

Much of the violence against blacks in Chicago was led by members of ethnic Irish athletic clubs, who had much political power in the city and defended their " territory " against African Americans.

Much of this was used for Ware's final work, De Praesulibus Hiberniae, a history of Irish bishops published in 1665.

Much more serious were the Fenian raids made by Irish Americans across the border in 1866, which spurred a wave of patriotic feeling that helped the cause of Confederation.

Much was made of Barry ’ s age by the Irish newspapers, but the British military were to point out that the three soldiers who had been killed were “ much the same age as Barry .” On 20 October, Major Reginald Ingram Marians OBE, Head of the Press Section of the General Staff, informed Basil Clarke, Head of Publicity, that Washington was “ only 19 and that the other soldiers were of similar ages .” General Macready, was well aware of the “ propaganda value of the soldier ’ s ages .” General Macready informed General Sir Henry Wilson on the day that sentence was pronounced “ of the three men who were killed by him ( Barry ) and his friends two were 19 and one 20 — official age so probably they were younger ... so if you want propaganda there you are .” It was later reported that one of the infantrymen was as young as 15 years old.

Their big break came with their debut album, So Much for the City, which became an Irish number one and charted at number 3 in the UK.

So Much for the City was released in 2003, debuting at No. 1 in Ireland, No. 3 in the UK and going platinum in both the UK and Irish Album Charts.

Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry focused on Chicago.

Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.

Much modern poetry avoids traditional rhyme schemes.

Much narrative poetry — such as Scottish and English ballads, and Baltic and Slavic heroic poems — is performance poetry with roots in a preliterate oral tradition.

Much of Bacchylides's poetry was commissioned by proud and ambitious aristocrats, a dominant force in Greek political and cultural life in the 6th and early part of the 5th centuries, yet such patrons were gradually losing influence in an increasingly democratic Greek world.

Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress.

Much more than his poetry, Froissart's fame is due to his Chronicles.

Much of the French poetry produced during the fin de siècle was characterized as " decadent " for its lurid content or moral vision.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

Much of Theodore's childhood was spent in this greenhouse, as reflected by the use of natural images in his poetry.

Called the Poet of the Sierras and the Byron of the Rockies, he may have been more of a celebrity in England than in his native U. S. Much of his reputation, however, came not from his poetry but from the image he created for himself by capitalizing on the stereotypical image of Western frontiersmen.

Much of the poetry of the period is difficult to date, or even to arrange chronologically ; for example, estimates for the date of the great epic Beowulf range from AD 608 right through to AD 1000, and there has never been anything even approaching a consensus.

Much of Davie's poetry has been compared to that of the traditionalist Philip Larkin, but other works are more influenced by Ezra Pound.

Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, a famous English Romantic poet of the 19th century, Norse Mythology, and the monk Ummon ; a large number of technological elements are acknowledged by Simmons to be inspired by elements of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

Much of the Carmina Burana collection of Latin poetry belongs to this school.

Much of his childhood in Abbotsford is pseudonymously recounted in his 2005 poetry volume Back to the War and in the first person in his 2011 memoir When TISH Happens.

Much of early modernist poetry took the form of short, compact lyrics.

Much of her poetry is written in syllabic verse, repeating the number of syllables rather than stresses or beats, per line.

Much historical knowledge can be gained from the reading of Davies ' poetry.

Much of Rexroth's work can be classified as " erotic " or " love poetry ," given his deep fascination with transcendent love.

Much of the writing produced in this period was conventional in character, in praise of patrons and their families, but the best of it was of exceptionally high quality and included poetry of a personal nature.

Much wider publication for Revival poetry was arranged via the USA.

Much of poetry has its source in an oral tradition: the Scots and English ballads, the tales of Robin Hood, of Iskandar, and various Baltic and Slavic heroic poems all were originally intended for recitation, rather than reading.