The name encouraged him, because he always felt that he could handle the Irish.

The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").

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.

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

The CIRA is an illegal organisation under UK ( section 11 ( 1 ) of the Terrorism Act 2000 ) and Irish law due to the use of ' IRA ' in the group's name in a situation analogous to that of the Real Irish Republican Army ( RIRA ).

Although the Garda Síochána had suspicions that the organisation existed, they were unsure of its name, labelling it the " Irish National Republican Army ".

The name of the city in Irish is Doire Colmcille and is derived from the native oak trees in the area and the city's association with Columba.

The kingdom ruled by Kenneth's descendants — older works used the name House of Alpin to describe them but descent from Kenneth was the defining factor, Irish sources referring to Clann Cináeda meic Ailpín (" the Clan of Kenneth MacAlpin ") — lay to the south of the previously dominant kingdom of Fortriu, centred in the lands around the River Tay.

There have been attempts to find the cern root in the name of Conall Cernach, the foster brother of the Irish hero Cuchulainn in the Ulster Cycle.

The English name for the city is derived from the Irish name Dubhlinn, meaning " black pool ".

The name Dublin comes from the Irish name Dubhlinn or Duibhlinn, meaning " black pool ".

Those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin.

, meaning " town of the hurdled ford ", is the common name for the city in modern Irish.

The town's name comes from the Irish: Inis Ceithleann.

The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).

The name, which can also mean " hard cleft " in Irish, appears in the plural, caladbuilc, as a generic term for " great swords " in the 10th century Irish translation of the classical tale The Destruction of Troy, Togail Troi )

On September 2, 2000, Jeremy Irish emailed the gpsstash mailing list that he had registered the domain name geocaching. com and had set up his own Web site.

Ardagh ( Ard Áth, meaning " high field " in Irish ) may refer to several villages in Ireland:

The Viking settlement of about 841 was known as Dyflin, from the Irish Duiblinn ( or " Black Pool ", referring to a dark tidal pool where the River Poddle entered the Liffey on the site of the Castle Gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle ), and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath (" ford of hurdles ") was further up river, at the present day Father Mathew Bridge at the bottom of Church Street.

Dublin for example, referred to in the text as either Áth Cliath or Duiblinn, is described in the Annals of Ulster with entries ranging from the settlement of Dublin by Vikings (“ The heathens still at Duiblinn ” in 842. 2 and “ An encampment of the foreigners of Áth Cliath at Cluain Andobuir ” in 845. 12 ) to deaths of notable names (“ Carlus son of Conn son of Donnchad was killed in Áth Cliath ” in 960. 2 ) to Dublin being ruled by the Irish (“ The foreigners returned to Áth Cliath and gave hostages to Brian ” in 1000. 4 ).

The millennium coin was the first decimal to feature words on it, the word " Dublin " in Roman script and " Áth Cliath " in Gaelic script, its equivalent in the Irish language.

* Annanough ( Áth na nEac in Irish ) is the local Gaelic football team.

The " Cogadh na Saoirse " medal, awarded since 1941 by the Irish government to IRA veterans of the War of Independence, bears a ribbon with two vertical stripes in black and tan.

In October 2010, T with the Maggies released the song Domhnach na Fola ( Irish for Bloody Sunday ), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album.

The Continuity Irish Republican Army, otherwise known as the Continuity IRA ( CIRA ) and styling itself as Óglaigh na hÉireann, is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that aims to bring about a united Ireland.

Thus, similar to the claim put forward by the Provisional IRA after its split from the Official IRA in 1969, the Continuity IRA claims to be the legitimate continuation of the ' Irish Republican Army ' or Óglaigh na hÉireann.

Two Irish language radio stations Raidió na Life and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta both have studios in the city, and the online and DAB station Raidió Rí-Rá broadcasts from studios in the city.

Members of the Irish Volunteers — led by schoolteacher and barrister Pádraig ( Patrick ) Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBan — seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Britain.

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

Perhaps the most outstanding example of this genre is Leabhar na nGenealach / The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ( d. 1671 ), published in 2004.

A grammar of Irish originated in the 7th century with the Auraicept na n-Éces.

The Bridge of Tears ( Droichead na nDeor in Irish language | Irish ) in County Donegal | West Donegal, Ireland.

Since Imbolc is immediately followed ( on 2 February ) by Candlemas ( Irish Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal " feast day of Mary of the Candles ", Welsh Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau ), Irish imbolc is sometimes rendered as " Candlemas " in English translation ; e. g. iar n-imbulc, ba garb a ngeilt translated as " after Candlemas, rough was their herding ".

The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th / early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 ( Rawl.

Two of the greatest of the Irish tales, Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne ( The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne ) and Oisín in Tír na nÓg form part of the cycle.

* 1978 – John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician ( b. 1891 )

* November 1 is called November Day ( Lá Samhna ) in Celtic tradition and is thus named in the Irish Calendar, where the month is called Mí na Samhna.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army is also referred to as PIRA, the Provos, or by its supporters as the Army or the ' RA ; its constitution establishes it as Óglaigh na hÉireann (" The Irish Volunteers ") in the Irish language.