" Book Of Days " was featured prominently in the movie Far and Away, with an English-lyric version created for the film then replacing the old Irish language version on all pressings of the Shepherd Moons album from 1993 onwards.

A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

An Irish newspaper, The Evening Herald, based in Dublin, said in February 2010 that Britannica offers a " farcically inaccurate version " of the country's history.

For instance, the Irish drink Guinness uses a harp, facing right and less detailed than the version used on the state arms.

The Irish language version of the name Michael is usually spelt Mícheál but is also sometimes spelt Micheál or simply Micheal.

* Merugud Uilix maicc Leirtis (" On the Wandering of Ulysses, son of Laertes ") is an eccentric Old Irish version of the material ; the work exists in a 12th-century AD manuscript that linguists believe is based on an 8th-century original.

This text is a version of the Irish Longes mac n-Uislenn and offers a tale which bears some comparison to Macpherson's " Darthula ", although it is radically different in many respects.

The Irish version states that these powers are exercised as a chomhairle féin which is usually translated as " under his own counsel.

At present, however, the Irish version of the subsection prevails in accordance with the rule stated in Article 25. 5. 4 °.

* " Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess " ( 1839 ), an early version of his later novel Uncle Silas.

A version of this song can be found on the album " Turas " of the Irish / Scottish trad band Shantalla.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries.

The version of the Irish language spoken in County Donegal is Ulster Irish.

In the Irish version, Cuhullin is so awed by the power of the baby's teeth that, at Oona's prompting, he puts his fingers in Finn's mouth to feel how sharp the teeth are.

In the 1999 Irish dance show " Dancing on Dangerous Ground ", conceived and choreographed by former Riverdance leads, Jean Butler and Colin Dunne, Tony Kemp portrayed Fionn in a modernised version of " The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne.

An Irish version of the competition called Challenging Times ran between 1991 and 2002.

An Irish language version of the New Testament was published in 1602 but was rare in Boyle's adult life.

* 1983: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day

The tale survives in two recensions: a short version written mainly in Old Irish and a later, expanded version of the Middle Irish period.

The two Gaeltachtaí of Baile Ghib and Ráth Cairn are resettled communities, where the Irish government of the 1930s redistributed the vast estates of absentee landlords as small farm holdings to poor farmers from the Gaeltacht areas of Connemara, Mayo and Kerry.

The name Rathdown is an anglicisation of the Irish " Ráth an Dúin ", meaning " ringfort of the fort ".

Iarnród Éireann ceased to use the name Ráth Luirc as the sole official name of the station in the 1980s ; although it is still retained ( as at all Irish railway stations ) in the bilingual station signs.

Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ráth Maonais, meaning " ringfort of Maonas "/" fort of Maonas ".

He lives in Dún Lethglaise, also known as the Mound of Down ( Irish Dún ), or Rathkeltair ( Irish Ráth Celtchair or Celtchar's Fort ) in Downpatrick, County Down.

The Synod of Ráth Breasail ( also known as Rathbreasail ) ( Irish: Sionad Ráth Bhreasail ) took place in Ireland in 1111.

Ráth is the Irish for a ringfort.

The Ráth Cairn Gaeltacht was founded in 1935 when 41 families from Conamara were settled on land previously acquired by the Irish Land Commission.

Several facilities in Ráth Cairn host children and adults wishing to learn Irish, and residential Irish language courses are run for teenagers in the summer months.

Raphoe, historically Raffoe, comes from the Irish Ráth Bhoth, which is made up of the words ráth ( fort ) and both ( hut ).

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.

Betty Lou Ham, age 16, Holyoke, Mass., showing an Irish Setter, was chosen as International Champion of the year.

He had a round, frank Irish face, creased in a jovial grin that stayed bleakly in place even when he was pumping bullets into someone's body.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

And when the singing began, it was the Gouldings who sang the old Irish songs the best.

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.

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.

James Joyce was a prominent Irish author of the 20th century.

One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:

The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.

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.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

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

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.