The name is taken from County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

Antrim was originally named Meegisee ( meaning " eagle "), which was the name of a Chippewa chief who signed the 1821 Treaty of Chicago and the 1826 Treaty of Mississinwas.

The town was named either after a small town in County Donegal, Ireland, a suburb of Belfast of the same name in County Antrim, or Greencastle, County Down or possible in consideration of all as the local area has place names of both County Antrim and County Donegal and was settled by Scotch-Irish settlers.

McCarty, who stole from local soldiers, became known by the name of " Kid Antrim ".

Glengormley or Glengormly () is the name of a townland and electoral ward in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

To ensure contests in each constituency, Wesley Robert Williamson changed his name by deed poll to Peter Barry and stood in the four constituencies of North Antrim, South Antrim, East Londonderry and Strangford under the label " For the Anglo-Irish Agreement ".

Larne (, the name of a Gaelic territory ) is a substantial seaport and industrial market town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a population of 18, 228 people in the 2001 Census.

Dunseverick () is the name of a hamlet near the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Carnmoney () is the name of a townland and electoral ward in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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" In the mid 19th century, the name was found to be the most popular in Ballymena, Antrim.

Others of the name in Antrim and nearby counties descend from people who did not migrate to Dalriada in the 5th century.

In 1997, he obtained 12 % of the vote in the general election in South Antrim, and in 1998 was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the constituency of the same name.

The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland derives its name and its liberal and tolerant identity from early 18th century Presbyterian ministers who refused to subscribe at their ordination to the Westminster Confession, a standard Reformed ( Calvinist ) statement of faith ; and who formed, in 1725, the Presbytery of Antrim.

In addition to these transferred wards, which include Glenwhirry, Ballee, Ballykeel, Castle Demesne and Dunclug amongst others, the Commission suggest a name change from " East Antrim " to " Mid Antrim "..

The Straits of Moyle ( Sruth na Maoile in Irish and Scottish Gaelic ) or Sea of Moyle is the name given to the narrowest expanse of sea in the North Channel between northeastern Ireland ( County Antrim ) and southwestern Scotland ( Mull of Kintyre ).

Donegore ( historically Dunogcurra, ) is the name of a hill, a townland, a small cluster of residences, and a civil parish in the barony of Upper Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The highway is completely within Antrim County and is known by the street name of " Scenic Highway " outside of the various communities along its routing.

Glenarm takes it name from the glen in which it lies, the southernmost of the nine Glens of Antrim.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

L. M. Birkhead challenged him to name one and he was silent.

They crowded the small room and peered over one another's shoulders to watch the handless man write his name in the book.

She concluded by asking him to name another hour should this one be inconvenient.

What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

This indicates that this drug is being marketed under one trade name only or state regulatory organizations have approved its use on the feed tag.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

They never called him by name, although he had one.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.