At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

One of the largest and most complete collections of 17th century harp music is the work of Turlough O ' Carolan, a blind, itinerant Irish harper and composer.

The Irish still represent the largest contingent of foreign volunteers to the British military, with more Irishmen serving in British uniforms than Irish ones.

The largest ethnic group among the Catholic priesthood of Britain remains Irish ( in the United States, the upper ranks of the Church's hierarchy are of predominantly Irish descent.

The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4, 354, 155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14 % of the nation's total population.

Irish Americans number over 45 million, making them the second largest reported ethnic group in the country, after German Americans.

Irish Australians form the second largest ancestry group in Australia, numbering 1, 919, 727 or 9. 0 per cent of respondents in the 2001 Census.

The world's largest car ferry, Ulysses, is operated by Irish Ferries on the Dublin – Holyhead route.

Other Irish airlines are Ryanair, one of the largest in the world, Aer Arann, CityJet, Air Contractors and the newly launched Aer Lingus subsidiary Aer Lingus Regional.

According to Irish lore, the Mooney family comes from one of the largest and most noble Irish lines.

According to the 2001 Canadian Census, the largest ethnic group consists of people of Scottish descent ( 38. 0 %), followed by English ( 28. 7 %), Irish ( 27. 9 %), French ( 21. 3 %), German ( 4. 0 %), and Dutch ( 3. 1 %) descent.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

Ros na Rún is the single largest independent production commissioned in the history of Irish broadcasting.

The top 5 largest ancestries include German ( 23. 4 %), Irish ( 10. 8 %), Polish ( 10. 1 %), English ( 6. 0 %), and French ( 4. 6 %).

It has been obvious to the assessors, particularly those in shore communities, that boats comprise the largest category of tangible personal property which they have been unable to reach.

The three largest communities above the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia: Murmansk ( population 325, 100 ), Norilsk ( 135, 000 ), and Vorkuta ( 85, 000 ).

Quinte is also a region comprising several communities situated along the Bay of Quinte, including Belleville which is the largest city in the Quinte Region, and represents a midpoint between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto.

Bethlehem has a Muslim majority, but is also home to one of the largest Palestinian Christian communities.

Today, Balsall Heath has one of the largest Muslim communities in Birmingham.

This community consists of about 650 private homes built in 1920-1949, Blackridge Estates was and remains one of the area's largest residential communities.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The railroad fostered the growth of the community into one of the largest communities in Indiana, and three more railroads reached the city by 1850.

The largest population of Guatemalans is in Los Angeles, but there are also established Guatemalan communities in Dallas, Houston, Miami, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco area, and Washington, DC.

The largest remaining communities of the Brethren were located in Lissa ( Leszno ) in Poland, which had historically strong ties with the Czechs, and in small, isolated groups in Moravia.

Japanese emigrant communities ( the largest of which are to be found in Brazil, with 1. 4 million to 1. 5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than the 1. 2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language.

A large number of Macedonians live outside the traditional Balkan Macedonian region, with Australia, Canada and the United States having the largest emigrant communities.

Pittsburgh has one of the largest Italian communities in the nation, and also has the nation's fifth largest Ukrainian community and the largest Croatian community in the USA.

Although both provinces admitted it will take years to plan, work with Aboriginal and local communities and ultimately map out precise boundaries of the areas off-limits to development, the measures are expected to create some of the largest protected areas networks in the world once completed.

The largest group settled in Upper Canada ( called Canada West from 1841, and today Southern Ontario ), where numerous Black Canadian communities developed.

The incorporation of neighbouring rural communities over the past 60 years has made Dresden the fourth largest urban district by area in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne.

First developed in the late 19th century, it is one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

The world's largest UPS, the 46-megawatt, Battery Electric Storage System ( BESS ), in Fairbanks, AK, powers the entire city and nearby rural communities during outages.

In addition to North Potomac, MD with a 27. 59 % Asian population and Potomac, MD with close to 15 %, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, Rockville is home to one of the largest Chinese communities in Maryland.

There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

The largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds.

The largest South Atlantic basins are the Angola, Cape, Argentina, and Brazil basins.

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25, 000 species, and the Campanulaceae (" Bellflowers "), with about 2, 000 species.

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

The largest applications for metallic antimony are as alloying material for lead and tin and for lead antimony plates in lead-acid batteries.

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The largest genera are Allium ( 260-690 species ), Nothoscordum ( 25 ), and Tulbaghia ( 22 ).

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

The North Kuril Ainu of Zaporozhye are currently the largest Ainu subgroup in Russia.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.