In the 18th Independent Monitoring Commission's report, the RIRA, the CIRA and the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) were deemed a potential future threat.

Dublin is also the headquarters of important national newspapers such as The Irish Times and Irish Independent, as well as local newspapers such as The Evening Herald.

There were calls for the execution of the " ringleaders " in the major Irish nationalist daily newspaper, the Irish Independent, and local authorities also sought the ringleaders.

In the last Irish elections to the UK Parliament in 1919, STV was used in the University of Dublin constituency ; two Independent Unionists were elected.

The Irish Independent called Rickman's performance breathtaking.

Fisk was educated at Yardley Court preparatory school, Sutton Valence School and at Lancaster University His opposition to the war brought criticism from both Irish Sunday Independent columnist and senator, Eoghan Harris, and The Guardian columnist, Simon Hoggart.

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* The Irish Independent

Independent and sturdy Scottish, English, and Irish settlers of the Carolina frontier had crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and settled the Toe River Valley by the mid-18th century.

The City of Shamrock is served by the Shamrock Independent School District and home to the Shamrock High School Irish.

He was a frequent contributor to The Irish Times and the Sunday Independent, and a columnist in Magill magazine, as well as appearing on radio and television prior to his appointment to Kenny's office, but has ceased all media work since that date.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Duffy worked as a researcher and as a political commentator for most major Irish publications, including The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Tribune, the The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Examiner.

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Since Myer's move to the rival Irish Independent, " An Irishman's Diary " is now usually the work of Frank McNally.

The paper along with the Irish Independent and various regional papers called for the execution of the leaders of the failed 1916 Easter Rising.

In the last days of the campaign the tape was released and according to the Irish Independent Newspaper, Ms. Burke " said yesterday she found the tape recently but only released it in the last days of the campaign for “ impact .” She said “ it would give people something to think about when they went to the polls.

* When finished with a head of Guinness stout, the result is called an Irish Russian or a Smooth Black Russian.

The report in the Irish Bulletin noted that the content of the speech proved too much for many of the RIC men who refused to carry out the order and one officer, Constable Jeremiah Mee, put his gun on the table and called Smyth a murderer.

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

In 1971, the Irish band Skara Brae recorded its first and only LP ( simply called Skara Brae ), all songs in Irish.

:* Irish uses acute accents, called fadas.

A street called Beattytown was built in Galway, Ireland in the 1920s by the Irish Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Land Trust and named after Admiral Beatty, following their policy of naming streets after notable commanders of the British Empire.

* 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Enya recorded two solo instrumental pieces called " An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian " ( Irish for " The Solar Wind ") and " Miss Clare Remembers " that were released on the 1984 album Touch Travel.

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

Best-selling Irish investigative author, Don Mullan, published a boyhood memoir in 2006 called GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly in which he wrote about the influence of the England goalkeeper on his life.

In the United Kingdom, this is known as British Summer Time ( BST ); in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Standard Time ( IST )— officially changing to GMT in winter.

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.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

British Mixed martial arts fighter Dan Hardy has called American fighter Marcus Davis a " Plastic Paddy " due to Marcus ' enthusiasm for his Irish ancestry.

An unexpected olive branch came from King George V, who, in a speech in Belfast called for reconciliation on all sides, changed the mood and enabled the British and Irish Republican governments to agree to a truce.

The most contentious areas of the Treaty for the IRA were abolition of the Irish Republic declared in 1919, the status of the Irish Free State as a dominion in the British Commonwealth and the British retention of the so called Treaty Ports on Ireland's south coast.

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 ".

* The first Monday in June is one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland ; in the Irish Calendar the month is called Meitheamh and is the middle month of the summer season.

* 1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence ; see Irish calendar.

* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".

Two characters called Lugaid, a popular medieval Irish name thought to derive from Lugh, have three fathers: Lugaid Riab nDerg ( Lugaid of the Red Stripes ) was the son of the three Findemna or fair triplets, and Lugaid mac Con Roí was also known as mac Trí Con, " son of three hounds ".

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

James Connolly — head of the Irish Citizen Army ( ICA ), a group of armed socialist trade union men and women — was unaware of the IRB's plans, and threatened to start a rebellion on his own if other parties failed to act.

It also shows the extent to which an Irish man was interrogated by British Police and how he failed to be able to answer their questions due to a language barrier.

John infamously offended the local Irish rulers by making fun of their unfashionable long beards, failed to make allies amongst the Anglo-Norman settlers, began to lose ground militarily against the Irish and finally returned to England later in the year, blaming the viceroy, Hugh de Lacy, for the fiasco.

They slew 7, 000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.

An Irish source, the Annals of Tigernach, records that the Anglo-Saxons banded together against Oswald early in his reign ; this may indicate an attempt to put an end to Oswald's overlordship south of the Humber, which presumably failed.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

* 1798: The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.

To meet the threat of Irish support for France, he engineered the Acts of Union 1800 and tried ( but failed ) to get Catholic Emancipation as part of the Union.

As a result, when the potato crop failed in 1845, Kerry was very hard hit by the Great Irish Famine of 1845 – 49.

* Thomas Russell the United Irishman co-founder who took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and Robert Emmet's failed rebellion of 1803 was gaoled and executed at Down County Gaol by hanging on October 21, 1803.

Irish castles proved less popular, partially because contemporary tourists regarded the country as being somewhat backward and the ruins therefore failed to provide the necessary romantic contrast with modern life.

In September 1994 Reynolds was infamously stood up by Russian president Boris Yeltsin whose plane landed at Shannon Airport but who failed to emerge to meet the waiting Irish dignatories.

Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.

However, the apparent entry of the popular Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alfie Byrne, into the presidential race ( in fact he eventually failed to get nominated ) and the belief that neither O ' Kelly nor any other politician could beat Byrne ( ironically a close friend of O ' Kelly ) led to all party agreement, on the opposition Fine Gael's suggestion, that the office go to Douglas Hyde, a Protestant Irish man, as a thank you for his contribution to Irish society.

He founded his third American newspaper, the Irish Citizen in New York City, but the paper failed to attract readers and folded in 1872.

Despite these translations, the Church of Ireland largely served The Pale and the plantations and failed to win support from the old Hiberno-Norman aristocracy, still less the native Irish, who saw it as an instrument of English occupation.

The devolved administration was suspended several times ( especially between 15 October 2002 and 8 May 2007 ) because the Ulster Unionist Party and Democratic Unionist Party were uncomfortable being in government with Sinn Féin when the Provisional Irish Republican Army had failed to decommission its arms fully and continued its criminal activities.

Butt had failed to win substantial concessions at Westminster on the things that mattered to most Irish people: an amnesty for the Fenians of ' 67, fixity of tenure for tenant-farmers and Home Rule.

The new constabulary first demonstrated its efficiency against civil agitation and Irish separatism during Daniel O ' Connell's 1843 “ monster meetings ” to urge repeal of the Act of Parliamentary Union, and the Young Ireland campaign led by William Smith O ' Brien in 1848, although it failed to contain violence at the so-called " Battle of Dolly's Brae " in 1849 ( which provoked a Party Processions Act to regulate sectarian demonstrations ).