Ireland has five main international airports: Dublin Airport, Belfast International Airport ( Aldergrove ), Cork Airport, Shannon Airport and Ireland West Airport ( Knock ).

In Munster, the IRA carried out a significant number of successful actions against British troops, for instance the ambushing and killing of 17 of 18 Auxiliaries by Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal in West Cork in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13 British soldiers near Millstreet early in the next year.

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.

* August 22 – General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.

This extra emphasis on R is also seen in varying measures through parts of West Limerick and West Cork in closer proximity to Kerry.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is divided into five constituencies — Cork East, Cork North – Central, Cork North – West, Cork South – Central and Cork South – West.

There are many islands off the coast of the county in particular off West Cork.

After the Norman Invasion in the 12th century, the McCarthy clan were pushed westward into what is now West Cork and County Kerry.

West Cork is a popular destination for British, German, French and Dutch tourists, who visit the small villages and islands at Carbery's Hundred Isles including Sherkin Island, Oileán Chléire or Cape Clear Island and Dursey Island.

Mizen Head, the " southwesternmost point in Ireland " is also in West Cork, as is Sheep's Head.

West Cork is noted for its rugged natural beauty, fine beaches and distinct social atmosphere.

By 1636 Cork had opted to live in the West country to see out the rest of his days.

* Passage West, a town in County Cork, Ireland

* The inclusion of a part of West Muskerry, in County Cork ( although the Irish-speaking population had seriously decreased from what it had been before the 1950s ); and

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

Churnsike Lodge () was an early Victorian hunting lodge situated in the parish of Greystead, West Northumberland, England.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

French Guinea () was a French colonial possession in West Africa.

Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.

Kołobrzeg () is a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with some 50, 000 inhabitants ( as of 2000 ).

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The Love Parade () was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.

From a point on the West coast of Norway in Latitude 61 ° 00 ' North along this parallel to Longitude 0 ° 53 ' West thence a line to the NE extreme of Fuglö () and on to the East extreme of Gerpir () in Iceland.

Samba () is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil ( Rio De Janeiro ) and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions.

* West Virginia Mountain Party ()

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

* West: at the intersection of the Viale Vaticano and the Via Aurelia ()

The Kingdom of Wessex () or Kingdom of the West Saxons () was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in south-west England, from the 6th century until the emergence of a unified English state in the 10th century.

West Timor () is the western and Indonesian portion of the island of Timor and part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara, ().

The Berlin Wall was officially called the Anti-Fascist Security Wall () by the East German government, and was ostensibly built to protect East German society from the activities of Nazis in West Berlin.

Inayat Khan () ( July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927 ) was the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 ( London ) and teacher of Universal Sufism.

The Reclamation Act ( also known as the Lowlands Reclamation Act or National Reclamation Act ) of 1902 () is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.

Sarbinowo () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dębno, within Myślibórz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

Swindon () is a large town within the Borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England.

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany () was approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the basic law of those states of West Germany that were initially included in the Republic.

The literal translation of " Im Westen nichts Neues " is " Nothing New in the West ," with " West " being the Western Front ; the phrase refers to the content of an official communiqué at the end of the novel.

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

Holy Qurbana or Qurbana Qadisha, the " Holy Offering " or " Holy Sacrifice ", refers to the Eucharist as celebrated according to the East Syrian and West Syrian traditions of Syriac Christianity.

In some instances the term Old Norse refers specifically to Old West Norse.

The economy of Togo is refers to the economic activity of the West African nation of Togo.

West Pakistan ( Urdu: مغر بى پاکستان,: Məghrābī Pākistān ), refers to the state of region on which the modern and current state of Pakistan is based.

It called for a Palestinian national authority over every part of liberated Palestinian territory, which refers to areas captured by Arab forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ( present-day West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip ).

" Orientalism " refers to the Orient or East, in contrast to the Occident or West, and often, as seen by the West.

Proposals for a Palestinian state currently refers to the proposed establishment of an independent state for the Palestinian people in Palestine on land that was occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 and earlier to that year for 18 years ( 1949 ) by Egypt ( Gaza ) and by Jordan ( West Bank ).

Netherlands New Guinea ( Dutch: Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea ) refers to the West Papua region while it was an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962.

Neue Ostpolitik ( German for " new eastern policy "), or Ostpolitik for short, refers to the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG, or West Germany ) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic ( GDR, or East Germany ) beginning in 1969.

In West Sussex Horsham Forum's sundial history of local events and people refers to Cicely Mary ( May ) Barker

Simek says that the West Germanic term Idisi ( Old Saxon idis, Old High German itis, Old English ides ) refers to a " dignified, well respected woman ( married or unmarried ), possibly a term for any woman, and therefore glosses exactly Latin matrona " and that a link to the North Germanic term dísir is reasonable to assume, yet not undisputed.

Severus Sebokht refers in the introduction of his treatise to the astrolabe as being made of brass, indicating that metal astrolabes were known in the Christian East well before they were developed in the Islamic world or the Latin West.

The branding of most trains, stations, and signs has been changed to match the name of the new company, but City Thameslink and West Hampstead Thameslink stations keep the word Thameslink as it refers to the route.

His tomb in the cemetery of St. Nicholas parish church, Chiswick, in West London has recently been restored, it refers to him as the " wearied citizen poet " and incorrectly states his age as 50.

Two of note are A West Country Ballad which refers to a bounty hunter who unsuccessfully tried to capture Gardiner in the Weddin mountains and Robbery Under Arms where Weddin mountains gets a mention as a hideout.

In The West Wing first season episode " He Shall, from Time to Time ...", White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry refers to Sam Seaborn and Josh Lyman as Abbott and Costello.

* As applied to West Frisian, it refers to one of two verb forms frequently referred to as infinitives, this one ending in-n. It shows up in nominalizations and is selected by perception verbs.

In local usage, " West Hattiesburg " also refers to a portion of the city of Hattiesburg located to the west of the rest of the city and extending into the CDP.

Scio refers to itself as the " Covered Bridge Capital of the West.

The letter refers to " disputes and discords " that had arisen " between the king of the West Saxons and the rulers of our country ".

The rulers that Wealdhere refers to are Sigeheard and Swaefred of the East Saxons, and the cause of the discord was the East Saxons ' sheltering of exiles from the West Saxons.