The British built two Martello towers on the Hook Peninsula to protect the fort near Duncannon, Co. Wexford and the entrance to Waterford Harbour.

Unlike nearby Waterford and Duncannon, Dungarvan surrendered without a siege in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland ( 1649 – 53 ).

The New Model Army then marched south to secure the ports of Wexford, Waterford and Duncannon.

Such towns as Waterford, Duncannon, Clonmel, Limerick and Galway only surrendered after determined resistance.

Cromwell was unable to take Waterford or Duncannon and the New Model Army had to retire to winter quarters, where many of its men died of disease — especially typhoid and dysentery.

( The port towns of Waterford and Duncannon eventually surrendered after prolonged sieges in 1650.

Bordered to the west by Waterford harbour and sitting on a rocky promontory jutting into the channel is the strategically prominent Duncannon Fort which dominates the village.

An English garrison of around 100 men under the command of Lord Esmonde was based at Duncannon Fort on Waterford Harbour.

Jones served in Cromwell's Irish campaign, besieging Waterford and Duncannon, but to Cromwell's great distress Jones died of fever in Dungarvan at the Siege of Waterford in December 1649.

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

There are also several smaller regional airports: George Best Belfast City Airport, City of Derry Airport, Galway Airport, Kerry Airport ( Farranfore ), Sligo Airport ( Strandhill ), Waterford Airport and Donegal Airport ( Carrickfinn ).

The Vikings also established longphorts in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Wexford.

* There is a Gladstone Street in Waterford City and also Clonmel in Ireland.

The County is also served by the trains connecting the Dublin to Munster, South Leinster, and South Connaught, with daily connections to Cork, Waterford, Limerick, and Galway.

Waterford may also refer to:

** East Lyme created from Lyme in 1839 ( also partly from Waterford )

* The Eugene O ' Neill Theater Center is also located in Waterford.

* Waterford 3 -- Owned by Entergy Nuclear, Waterford Nuclear Generating Station, also known as Waterford 3, produces roughly 12 % of power for the state of Louisiana.

Waterford also borders Atlantic County and Burlington County.

Tipperary also has a number or railway stations situated on the Dublin to Cork, Dublin to Limerick and Limerick to Waterford rail lines.

He blamed his self-diagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder for his claims, and also said that his condition led him to purchase a pair of Waterford Crystal grapefruit bowls on his parliamentary expenses.

O ' Connor was home schooled by his aunt before being educated at the Waterford Endowed School ( also known as Bishop Foy's School ).

The Real IRA also acquired Frangex ; in December 2000, 80 sticks were discovered near Waterford on a farm in Kilmacow.

The name of the town is derived from its principal village, also called Waterford.

A few students also live off-campus in New London or Waterford.

The Lord High Steward of Ireland in contrast is a hereditary title, also known as the Hereditary Great Seneschal, vested in the Earl of Shrewsbury, Waterford and Talbot, who is the Premier Earl of Ireland, Chetwynd-Talbot.

It also has offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Waterford.

The Workers ' Party also maintained elected representation on Dublin, Cork and Waterford corporations in the aftermath of the split.

On November 11, 2004, Douglas also presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene O ' Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, which is given for " distinguished careers exemplifying Eugene O ' Neill's standard of excellence and pioneering spirit.

The name Dixie Highway is also still commonly used in portions of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, such as in the Waterford MI area, where it is very much a major thoroughfare known as US 24.

A restricted-access junction ( junction 11 ) connects the M7 to the M9 motorway to Waterford, also allowing access from the M9 to eastbound carriageway of the M7.

Performers of popular music began appearing as early as the late 1940s ; Delia Murphy popularised Irish folk songs that she recorded for HMV in 1949 ; Margaret Barry is also credited with bringing traditional songs to the fore ; Donegal's Bridie Gallagher shot to fame in 1956 and is considered ' Ireland's first international pop star '; Belfast-born singer Ruby Murray achieved unprecedented chart success in the UK in the mid-1950s ; The Bachelors were an all-male harmony group from Dublin who had hits in the UK, Europe, US, Australia and Russia ; Mary O ' Hara was a soprano and harpist who was successful on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and early 1960s ; Waterford crooner Val Doonican had a string of UK hits and presented his own TV show on the BBC from 1965 to 1986.

Thomas Preston surrendered Waterford after a three month siege.

Essex met the Earl near Waterford in July, and Bourchier was surrendered, but Desmond refused the other demands made in the Queen's name.

Since the 1998 – 99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a trophy in the form of a larger replica of the urn in Waterford Crystal to award to the winning team of each series from 1998 – 99.

The famous murder of William Davis by strike breakers, and the seizing of the New Waterford power plant by striking miners led to a major union sentiment that persists to this day in some circles.

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

Browne was born in Waterford, Maine.

Other than UPC, the only other operator providing analogue and digital cable is Casey Cablevision, which operates in Dungarvan, County Waterford.

Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.

It is very similar to the language heard in the southeast of Ireland centuries ago, due to mass emigration from the counties Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, County Kerry and Cork.

Ireland has major ports in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Rosslare, Derry and Waterford.

Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford apparently date from this time, too, as remnants of Strongbow's palatine county in Leinster.

The 1898 Act changed the boundaries of Counties Galway, Clare, Mayo, Sligo, Waterford, Kilkenny, Meath and Louth, and others.

Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

The possibility of a similar action with regard to Waterford City has been raised in recent years, though opposition from Kilkenny has been strong.

Cities which, in the Republic, are currently administered outside the county system, but with the same legal status as administrative counties, are not shown separately: these are Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.

Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today ( as part of Waterford Wedgwood ; see Waterford Crystal ), and " Wedgwood China " is sometimes used as a term for his Jasperware, the coloured stoneware with applied relief decoration ( usually white ), still common throughout the world.

Many Newfoundland dialects are similar to the West Country dialects of West Country, England, particularly the city of Bristol and counties Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while others resemble dialects of Ireland's southeast, particularly Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork.

It is shorthand for " boy ", ( and is a turn of phrase particularly pronounced with the Waterford dialect of Hiberno-Irish ) but is used variably to address members of either sex.

Various other languages, which are not closely related, have been heavily influenced by Norse, particularly the Norman dialects, Scottish Gaelic and Waterford Irish.

The Vikings conducted extensive raids in Ireland and founded the cities of Waterford, Cork, Dublin and Limerick.

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