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Irish and titles
The Battle, which was apparently inspired by an unidentified skirmish in Elizabeth's Irish wars, is a sequence of movements bearing titles such as ' The marche to fight ', ' The battells be joyned ' and ' The Galliarde for the victorie '.
The early Irish tale-lists refer to such titles as Aided Chon Roí, Echtra Chon Roí ( List A ), Orgain Chathrach Chon Roí and Cathbúada Con Roí ( List B ), but only the first of these tales can be shown to have survived in some form.
During the first two decades of his compositional career, Cowell continued often to reference Irish mythology in the titles of his piano pieces.
Two of his most sought-after titles include promotional booklets for Jameson Irish Whiskey: A History of a Great House ( 1924, and subsequent reprints ) and Elixir of Life ( 1925 ), which was written by Geofrey Warren.
Thence, he acquired control of the Irish customs farm ( 1618 ), dominated Irish patronage at court, particularly with the sale of Irish titles and honours, and ( from 1618 ) began to build substantial Irish estates for himself, his family and clients — with the aid of a plantation lobby, composed of official clients in Dublin.
Moira's toponym is derived from the Irish earldom of Moira, one of the titles of the Hastings family, which held castle.
In an address to the Irish Senate in December 2006 John O ' Donoghue, the then Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism also expressed the opinion that it was a matter for those who bore these titles to decide on the system they used for succession, but that he found it strange that an English system had been used for the succession of titles originally created under a native Irish system.
In Elizabethan times, the position of Chief of the Name was more important to some Irish leaders than English titles.
In Irish and English law a title is a possession, classed as an " incorporeal hereditament ", but the 1937 Irish Constitution forbids the conferring of titles of nobility by the state, as well as the acceptance of titles of nobility or honour without the prior permission of the government.
In 1943 the Taoiseach ( Irish Prime Minister ) therefore agreed with Edward McLysaght, then Chief Herald of Ireland, that the titles would be known as " designations " made by the Herald's Office to avoid the constitutional ban.
Irish peers possessed of titles in any of the other Peerages ( except Scotland, which only got the right to an automatic seat in 1963, with the Peerage Act 1963 ) had automatic seats in the House of Lords until 1999.
Subsequently he was a Member of the British House of Commons representing Armagh to 1807, when he succeeded to his father's Irish titles as Earl of Gosford.
George I's five guinea coins were only struck in 1716, 1717, 1720, and 1726, and they bear his abbreviated Hanoverian titles in addition to the usual British, French, and Irish title.
George I's two guinea coins were only struck in 1717, 1720, and 1726, and they bear his abbreviated Hanoverian titles in addition to the usual British, French, and Irish title.
No provision was made by the Act for titles in the Peerage of Ireland to be disclaimed, as the entitlement of new Irish representative peers to be elected to sit in the House of Lords was considered to have lapsed after most of Ireland had become independent in 1922 ( and the last surviving Irish representative peer had died in 1961 ).

Irish and were
This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.
The Irish were gay but made trouble in the house ; the English were of all kinds " She proposes this, after the fact, knowing the chosen Charlotte lasts decades.
For a while there were two different dialects of Irish being spoken on Achill.
A large part of the convict body were the Irish, 25 % of the total convict population.
While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.
These were followed by significant numbers of freed Africans in the War of 1812, Irish immigrants in the mid 19th century and Dutch immigrants after World War II.
There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.
On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.
The Lions were captained by Irish lock Paul O ' Connell.
In June 2009 the British media reported that Argentina were lobbying for the 2013 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia to incorporate a series of games in Argentina.
Count Horn directed the Prince of Holstein-Beck to take the village, but his two Dutch brigades were cut down by the French and Irish troops, capturing and badly wounding the Prince during the action.
Regarding Ireland the major Liberal achievements were land reform, where he ended centuries of landlord oppression ), the disestablishment of the ( Anglican ) Church of Ireland through the Irish Church Act 1869.
Banshees were said to appear for particular Irish families, though which families made it onto this list varied depending on who was telling the story.
While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.
Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.
A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).
It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.
The Black and Tans () were one of two ad hoc paramilitary units employed by the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) as Temporary Constables from 1920 to 1921 to suppress revolution in Ireland, the other body being the Auxiliaries.
The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland were dominated by Irish nationalists ' pursuit of Home Rule ( or even independence ) from the United Kingdom.
However, many of the atrocities popularly attributed to the Black and Tans may have been committed by the Auxiliary Division ; and some were committed by Irish RIC men.
A total of 404 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary died in the conflict and more than 600 were wounded but it is not clear how many of these were pre-war RIC men and how many were Black and Tans or Auxiliaries.

Irish and inherited
Rockfleet CastleBy 1566 Ní Mháille had married a second time, this time to Risdeárd an Iarainn Bourke, called " Iron Richard ", an appropriate corruption of his Irish name as he is reputed to have always worn a coat of mail inherited from his Anglo-Norman ancestors.
Parnell's grandfather William Parnell ( 1780 – 1821 ), who inherited the Avondale Estate in 1795, was a liberal Irish MP for Wicklow from 1817 – 1820.
It had been assumed that the prerogatives of the British Crown, including the power to grant arms, had been inherited after Irish independence in 1922, but a series of legal judgments have undermined this view, and doubts over the status of the Office of the Chief Herald are not entirely resolved.
The Irish Civil Service was largely inherited intact from the British and senior civil servants such as C. J.
Cases of dominantly inherited α and β thalassemias have been reported, the first of which was in an Irish family with two deletions of 4 and 11 bp in exon 3 interrupted by an insertion of 5 bp in the β-globin gene.
The Irish Free State, established in 1922, continued largely with the courts and court system inherited from the United Kingdom, albeit pared down and shorn of some of its imperial grandeur.
In the South after the Irish Civil War, the political estate of the Irish Party inherited by Sinn Féin evolved into the two nationalist parties of the post-1922 state.
This in turn paved the way for the creation of the Irish Free State, in which its parliament, Dáil Éireann, had scarcely started to function before, almost unconsciously, it began to utilise and to build upon the constitutional tradition it had inherited.
Unlike the WRP, whose politics it inherited, it covered Irish politics, women's struggles and broke with the homophobia characteristic of Gerry Healy.
He had already been created Viscount Enniskillen in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776 and had inherited the title Baron Mount Florence, of Florence Court in the County of Fermanagh, which had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1760 for his father John Cole, who had earlier represented Enniskillen in the Irish House of Commons.
Standish Vereker was the brother of Field Marshal The Lord Gort, who had been the sixth Viscount of the Irish peerage and the first and last Viscount of the United Kingdom peerage ; Standish inherited the Irish viscountcy and barony in 1946.
He was born at Romans-sur-Isère, Dauphiné, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French lady of noble family, from whom the son inherited his titles.
The Irish Free State inherited the local authorities created by the United Kingdom legislation of 1898 and 1919, and elections were held on 23 June 1925.
His father was a silk salesman ; his mother a Roman Catholic homemaker of Irish descent from whom her son inherited his red hair.
Later in life, he inherited the earldom of Darnley and was elected an Irish representative peer.
Both his home, Ballinterry House and his collection were inherited by his long-time close friend and colleague Maggie Williams, who maintained the historic Irish country home exactly as it was at the time of Hatfield's death.
Southern Unionist landowners had inherited large estates that were being sold off to tenant farmers under the recent Irish Land Acts.
His wife ( d. 1824 ) had in 1790 been created an Irish peeress, as Baroness Oriel, and in 1797 Viscountess Ferrard ; and their younger son, Thomas Henry ( 1772 – 1843 ), who married Viscountess Massereene ( in her own right ) and took the name of Skeffington, inherited all these titles ; the later Viscounts Massereene being their descendants.
The earldom became extinct on the death of the fourth earl without male issue in 1816, the viscounty and barony of Lough Neagh descending to his daughter Harriet, whose husband, Thomas Foster, took the name of Skeffington, and inherited from his mother in 1824 the titles of Viscount Ferrard and Baron Oriel of Collon in the Irish peerage, and from his father in 1828 that of Baron Oriel of Ferrard in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
As the heir of his father's massive Irish estates at Cork and Kerry ( inherited 1676, age 8 ) MacCarthy's upbringing was a matter of high policy.
Her grandfather, Edward Riggs, had been a member of the Irish House of Commons, a commissioner of revenue, and a Privy Councillor in Ireland, and Anna inherited much of his wealth.
His father inherited a large number of western classical records and a gramophone from a departing Irish doctor.

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