Irish War News, produced during the Rising

* Irish Science News from Discover Science & Engineering

It is notable that Newport News, Virginia, was settled by the Irish in 1621 and the Monroes were quite probably of the same Virginia family tree as James Monroe, the 5th U. S. president.

The paper has been very successful in the Irish Student Media Awards winning each of the " Newspaper of the Year " and " Journalist of the Year " in the past and more recently Kate Palmer won " Editor of the Year " for Trinity News while Alex Towers won " Design & Layout of the Year " for TN2 Magazine.

Limited archives of the Freeman's Journal are available online at the Irish News Archive, a subscription-based website.

* Irish News Archive-The full archives of The Nation will be available by August 2008

Other newspapers in the Independent News & Media group include the Daily Star ( Irish edition ), the Sunday World, many local Irish newspapers, as well as newspapers in Australia and South Africa.

The Independent News & Media Group has been accused of holding an " unhealthy dominance " of the Irish newspaper market, all the more so since the demise of the Irish Press, Evening Press and Sunday Press newspapers published by the Irish Press Group in 1995.

The Independent News and Media Group also owns online business directory site Your Local that provides local business information on approximately 100, 000 Irish businesses.

In Ireland Independent News & Media ( CEO: Tony O ' Reilly ) owns many national newspapers: the Evening Herald, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Sunday World and Irish Daily Star.

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* " Irish Reality Show gets too real " CBS News coverage

Charles Gerald Mitchel ( 8 November 1920 – 18 August 1996 ) was an Irish actor and broadcaster best known as a newsreader for the RTÉ News from 1961 until 1984.

A committee ( the Nenagh Rail Steering Committee ) working in conjunction with Irish Railway News, had a meeting with the national railway company Iarnród Éireann ( IÉ ) on 1 September 2005 to present the results of a traffic study funded by Nenagh Town Council and North Tipperary County Council, and to seek a morning and evening service between Nenagh and Limerick which would increase commuter traffic.

The editor of the Dublin Motor News, Richard Mecredy, suggested an area in County Kildare, and letters were sent to 102 Irish MPs, 90 Irish peers, 300 newspapers, 34 chairmen of county and local councils, 34 County secretaries, 26 mayors, 41 railway companies, 460 hoteliers, 13 PPs, plus the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Patrick Foley, who pronounced himself in favour.

News from outside the town also circulated widely: Freeth's Coffeehouse in 1772 maintained an archive of all the London newspapers going back 37 years and received direct personal reports of proceedings in Parliament, while Overton's Coffeehouse in New Street in 1777 had the London papers delivered by express messenger the day after their publication, also having available all of the main country, Irish and European papers, and Parliamentary division lists.

The editor of the Dublin Motor News, Richard Mecredy, suggested an area in County Kildare and letters were sent to 102 Irish MPs, 90 Irish peers, 300 newspapers, 34 chairmen of county and local councils, 34 County secretaries, 26 mayors, 41 railway companies, 460 hoteliers, 13 PPs, plus the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Patrick Foley, who pronounced himself in favour.

Estimates of the number of people there vary: The Irish Times claimed 35, 000 people were present ; the News of the World, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Express claimed 100, 000 ; the lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster, Arthur Aughey, claimed over 200, 000 people were there ; and the organisers of the meeting said 500, 000 attended.

* The News at One – a round-up of all Irish news and sports, from 13: 00 to 13: 45.

Beckett's appearance is rough-hewn Irish.

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.

Irish Catholicism is not attractive, but it is deeper.

Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.

Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; ;

There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.

* 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

It attracts competitors from all of the main show jumping nations and is carried live on Irish national television.

The visit of the three pilgrim " Scots " ( i. e. Irish ) to Alfred in 891 is undoubtedly authentic.

It is possible that the majority of Irish convicts either did not speak English, or spoke English " indifferently ".

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

" Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song.

*" Poor Paddy Works on the Railway " is a popular Irish and American folk song.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Irish through his mother, Abbadie was an English-speaker but his relationship with Irish culture or his Irish family is not documented.

* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

Since the Irish War of Independence, the name ' Boxing Day ' is used only by the authorities in Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK.

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

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

In many navies, the rank of commodore was merely viewed as a senior captain position, whereas other naval services bestowed upon the rank of commodore the prestige of flag officer status ; commodore is the highest rank in the Irish Naval Service, for example, and is held by only one person.

* Single-style competitions, such as ; highland dance, dance team, and Irish dance, that only permit a single dance style.

The only substantial combat of the first day of the Rising took place at the South Dublin Union where a piquet from the Royal Irish Regiment, encountered an outpost of Éamonn Ceannt's force at the north-western corner of the South Dublin Union.

* The Third Policeman and The Dalkey Archive by Flann O ' Brien contains not only quotes from the works of a fictitious Irish philosopher named de Selby, but also has numerous footnotes and references to other fictitious authors writing about de Selby and his books.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

In contrast, the only contact the Irish president has with the Irish government is through a formal briefing session given by the Taoiseach ( prime minister ) to the President.

( Great-grandchildren and even more distant descendants of Irish immigrants may also register as Irish citizens, but only if the parent through whom they claim descent was registered as a citizen before the descendant in question was born.

It is not clear whether the Irish-born are considered " Irish Australians " or if the term only refers to their Australian-born descendants.

As of November 2007, according to ComReg the Irish Communications Regulator DSL is available to c. 88 % of homes and businesses, however this figure is disputed my many pressure groups in Ireland as it only reflects the number of telephone lines connected to a broadband enabled exchange, not whether those lines are of a high enough quality to receive a DSL connection.

Whereas MacNeill intended to use force only to resist the imposition of conscription on Ireland, or to prevent the use of force to disarm of the Volunteers, the IRB men intended to launch an armed rebellion in pursuit of Irish independence.

A small Irish nationalist party, Sinn Féin, was widely, but wrongly, credited with orchestrating the Easter Rising even though its leader Arthur Griffith advocated only Irish self-government under a dual monarchy.

Usually, only five such " king of over-kings " existed contemporaneously and so are described in the Irish annals as fifths ( cúigí in Irish ).