Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

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.

Two characters called Lugaid, a popular medieval Irish name thought to derive from Lugh, have three fathers: Lugaid Riab nDerg ( Lugaid of the Red Stripes ) was the son of the three Findemna or fair triplets, and Lugaid mac Con Roí was also known as mac Trí Con, " son of three hounds ".

: Two groups of Irish and Italian-Americans are arrested by police after a half hour of hurling bricks and shooting at each other resulting from a barroom brawl when visiting Italian patrons refused to pay for their drinks at a local saloon.

Two examples of this are the signing of a treaty between the Irish Free State and the Portuguese Republic in 1931, and the act recognising the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 separately from the recognition by the British parliament.

Phase Two of the development, which will shortly commence construction, will extend further down along the river front, on the site of the former Irish Oil Cake works.

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.

Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.

Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into include language-or culture-specific Nickelodeon channels for various other territories in different parts of the world including Europe, the Middle-East, Russia, Asia, and recently Canada, and has licensed some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to TV and cable stations such as KiKA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two ( English speaking ) and TG4 ( Irish speaking ) in Ireland, YTV ( in English ) and VRAK. TV ( in French ) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece and CNBC-e in Turkey.

File: Irish Stamp 2 Two Pence Overprint. jpg | Ireland, 1922: British stamp overprinted for Provisional Government of Southern Ireland.

Between August 2008 and February 2009, two new members joined Moya's band, the first changes since her Two Horizons Tour, including Irish singer Daithí Rua.

Two years later he held the archdeaconry of Glendalough, and on 17 September 1597 he was made judge of the Irish marshal court.

Two types of hare — the Irish ( or mountain ) hare and the less common brown ( or European ) hare — are found.

RTÉ Two () is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann.

RTÉ Two is available throughout Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite ( DVB-S ) to Irish subscribers of Sky.

RTÉ Two spent in total € 88, 673, 000 on Indigenous programming, of that a total € 70, 226, 000 was produced by RTÉ internally ( In-house productions ), and € 18, 447, 000 was produced by independent producers of which 50 % is a requirement under Irish law.

RTÉ spends a total of € 11 million on International productions and a further € 48, 000 on non-RTÉ Irish produced shows for RTÉ Two.

* Two Irish Folk Songs ( 1926, 1927 )

Two Irish pilgrims who visited Albania on their way to Jerusalem in 1322, report that Durres is “ inhabited by Latins, Greeks, perfidious Jews and barbaric Albanians ”.< ref > Itinerarium Symonis Simeonis et Hugonis Illuminatoris ad Terram Sanctam, edited by J. Nasmith, 1778, cited in:

Two phrases associated with him, No problem and On mature recollection, entered the Irish political lexicon.

Two years after Nell Gwynn, she followed up with another true-life figure, portraying Irish actress Peg Woffington in Peg of Old Drury ( 1936 ).

Two years later, he left Irish Labour and joined with Harry Diamond, the sole Socialist Republican Party Stormont MP, to form the Republican Labour Party.

Two years later, the rebellious Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O ' Donnell offered Albert the Irish crown in the hope of obtaining Spanish support for their cause.

Two further versions have since reached the Irish top ten: the Cox Crew getting to number five in 1999, while Dance to Tipperary peaked at number six in 2001.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

Two languages are genetically related if they descended from the same ancestor language.

Two other groups contributed to the design of the language and developed implementations: Harlequin released a commercial IDE for Microsoft Windows and Carnegie Mellon University released an open source compiler for Unix systems.

Two principal competing etymologies have been proposed for the name " Eskimo ", both from the Innu-aimun ( Montagnais ) language.

Two important principles of constraint-induced aphasia therapy are that treatment is very intense, with sessions lasting for up to 6 hours over the course of 10 days and that language is used in a communication context in which it is closely linked to ( nonverbal ) actions.

Two of the letters from a " kingdom of Kheta "— apparently located in the same general region as the Mesopotamian references to " land of Hatti "— were written in standard Akkadian cuneiform script, but in an unknown language ; although scholars could read it, no one could understand it.

Two important aspects of a concise language are as follows: First, the most common words ( e. g., " a ", " the ", " I ") should be shorter than less common words ( e. g., " roundabout ", " generation ", " mediocre ",) so that sentences will not be too long.

Two implementations of KRC were written: David Turner's original one in BCPL running on EMAS, and Simon Croft's later one in C under Unix, and KRC was the main language used for teaching functional programming at the University of Kent at Canterbury ( UK ) from 1982 to 1985.

* Two other words for love in the Greek language, eros ( sexual love ) and storge ( child-to-parent love ), were never used in the New Testament.

Two examples of these characteristic means of expression are the use of proverbs and the use of Greek language in the plays of Plautus.

Two separate studies by Melissa Bowerman and Dan I. Slobin treated the role of language in cognitive processes.

Two important authors of short stories in the German language were Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

Two contrasting language families were thereby formed, but the similarities between them led to their retention in a common grouping, named Ural – Altaic.

Two long-running series began around this time, Steptoe and Son ( 1962 – 65, 1970 – 74 ) and Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 68, 1972 – 75 ), the latter criticised by Clean-Up TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse for its bad language.

Two years later, the Finnish language University of Turku was founded alongside it.

* Two British isles, in poetic language ( from their Latin name ):

In The Two Towers, chapter 6, the Riders of Rohan are introduced before they are seen, by Aragorn, who chants in the language of the Rohirrim words " in a slow tongue unknown to the Elf and the Dwarf ", a lai that Legolas senses " is laden with the sadness of Mortal Men.

Two foreign language newspapers enjoy a relatively high circulation: the Argentinisches Tageblatt in German and the Buenos Aires Herald, published since 1876.

Two commonly-used CMS tools are the editor XEDIT and the REXX programming language.

Two other major subfields of psycholinguistics investigate first language acquisition, the process by which infants acquire language, and second language acquisition.

Two main varieties of speech recognition are used in IVR: that based upon predefined grammars ( used in " directed " dialogues ), and that based on statistically trained language models ( used in " natural language " dialogues ).