The name ' Rocabarraigh ' is also used in Scottish Gaelic folklore for a mythical rock which is supposed to appear three times, the last being at the end of the world: " Nuair a thig Rocabarra ris, is dual gun tèid an Saoghal a sgrios " ( When Rocabarra returns, the world will likely come to be destroyed ).

When Prince Alexander died on 28 January 1284, leaving only the king's granddaughter Margaret living out of his descendants, Alexander III summoned all thirteen Earls of Scotland, twenty-four barons and the heads of the three main Gaelic kindreds of the West, Alexander of Argyll, Aonghas Mór of Islay and Alan MacRuari of Garmoran.

When the Kingdom of Ireland was created in 1541, the Dublin administration wanted to involve the Gaelic chiefs into the new entity, creating new titles for them such as the Earl of Tyrone, or the Barons Inchiquin.

Scottish Gaelic: When comparing one entity to another in the present or the future tense, the adjective is changed by adding an e to the end and i before the final consonant ( s ) if the final vowel is broad.

When referring to Irish Gaelic or Manx Gaelic, it is usually pronounced.

When Scottish Gaelic became the main language, it is possible that the Gaelic form An t-Sròn (" the nose ") was used for the name Troon.

When news arrived of his allies ' defeat at Corcomruadh, Richard de Clare decided to attack the Gaelic stronghold at Dysert O ' Dea.

When it became apparent to him that football was the lesser of the two Gaelic games in Kilkenny, Carey soon made the switch to hurling.

Other Gaelic games such as Gaelic athletics have nearly or completely died out, When founded the GAA organised a number of Gaelic athletics competitions but passed the responsibility to the National Athletic and Cycling Association in 1922.

When the expulsion from England took place ( 1290 ), Jews living in the Pale of English Settlement may have had to leave English jurisdiction, but there is no evidence for this ; and it would certainly have not been difficult for Jews to remain in Ireland in defiance of the 1290 Edict, simply by moving beyond the area of English settlement ( the Pale ) into the native Gaelic areas that England did not control.

When the Gaelic Highlanders broke away from the Lowland monarchy in the 14th century, the MacLeans allied with the Highlanders-receiving lands from John, Lord of the Isles, in exchange for their support.

When the arms were restored as the arms of the independent Irish state in 1922, a late-medieval Gaelic harp ( a cláirseach ), the Trinity College Harp, was used as a model.

When the name originates from Ireland and Scotland it is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Phàil ( Scottish ) Mac Phóil ( Irish ) meaning " son of Phàil / Phóil ".

When the Kingdom of Ireland was created in 1541, the Dublin administration wanted to involve the Gaelic chiefs into the new entity, creating new titles for them such as the Earl of Tyrone, or Baron Inchiquin.

When the two teams met in that year's Cup final ( 1 – 0 for Athletic ), the match ended with several players fighting in the field.

When the International Amateur Athletic Federation decided in 1976 to recognize only world records for metric distances, it made an exception for the mile and records are kept to this day.

When Ralph Hay returned to Canton, he unloaded the Bulldogs on a group of local businessmen who formed the Canton Athletic Company to run the team.

When Minneapolis Lakers owner Bob Short was permitted to move the Lakers to Los Angeles, Saperstein reacted by convincing National Alliance of Basketball Leagues ( NABL ) team owner Paul Cohen ( Tuck Tapers ) and Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) National Champion Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner to take the top NABL and AAU teams and players and form a rival league.

When Ingber came along, the gym was actually named the Marshall Stillman Athletic Club.

When he went to New York to accept the Heisman Trophy, Amon Carter and other Fort Worth boosters hired a stagecoach to carry him to the Downtown Athletic Club.

When the conference began in 1969, its name was the Pacific Coast Athletic Association ( PCAA ).

When the Clemson Athletic Council met to name a successor to Neely, Prof. Sam Rhodes, a council member, nominated Howard to be the new head coach.

When the original Brentwood Town folded in 1970, Manor Athletic changed its name to Brentwood Athletic in recognition that it was now the most senior club in the district.

When order was restored, Minnesota Athletic Director Paul Giel announced the game was over and the Buckeyes were a 50-44 victor, prompting Minnesota fans to boo and throw objects as Witte was carried from the floor.

When USC President Rufus B. von KleinSmid began training with Uyttenhove at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, he was not the only VIP to learn from the maestro.

When the country club and course opened in 1926, it was known as the Los Angeles Athletic Club Golf Course.

When Michigan State Normal joined the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1892, Green was selected as the school's first representative to the athletic conference.

When he returned to the track he set a personal best in the 3000 metres at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix, running 7: 32. 46 for fourth place.

When the Helms Foundation dissolved, its historical holdings were absorbed into the collection of the Amateur Athletic Foundation, renamed the LA84 Foundation in 2007.

When Whitten became the director in 1921, he reached out to the Illinois League of High School Girls ' Athletic Associations ( ILHSGAA ) and together they forged an agreement that barred girls ’ teams from interscholastic competition in most sports for decades thereafter.

When the Springboks arrived in New Zealand later that year nobody expected them to win the series, as no other South African team had ever achieved the feat, and when the New Zealand leg of the tour kicked off on 14 August with a 13-7 loss to New Zealand at Athletic Park in Wellington, it seemed business as usual.

When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice Baptism by Immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for the purpose of fellowship.

When the Country Music Association was founded in 1958, the term hillbilly music gradually fell out of use.

When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.

When the American Association revived as a minor league in 1902, the Mud Hens joined as a charter member.

Putnam ’ s activities with the American Library Association led him to join with Justin Winsor and Melvil Dewey as official delegates to the International Conference of Librarians in London in 1897 When Winsor died shortly thereafter, Putnam served the remainder of his term as President of the ALA.

When it emerged that psychologists as part of the Behavioral Science Consultation Team were advising interrogators in Guantánamo and other U. S. facilities on improving the effectiveness of the " Enhanced interrogation techniques ", the Association called on the U. S. government to prohibit the use of unethical interrogation techniques and labeled specific techniques as torture.

When the Congo gained independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and the Congo Crisis began, Kabila was a " deputy commander " in the Jeunesses Balubakat, the youth wing of the Patrice Lumumba-aligned General Association of the Baluba People of Katanga ( Balubakat ), actively fighting the secessionist forces of Moise Tshombe.

When the American Medical Association was founded they in 1947 produced a work called the first edition of the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics.

When World War II was imminent he returned from excavating a site in Normandy during August 1939 to join the Middlesex Territorial Association at Enfield.

When the film was first released, Walter Francis White, the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) telegraphed major newspapers around the country with the following statement:

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

When actors were losing jobs due to 1950s McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist, Actors ' Equity Association refused to participate.

When the English Football Association declared that Eriksson was to be " released " at the end of the 2006 World Cup tournament, the official England Fan organisation undertook an unprecedented " Save Our Sven " campaign ; that was also engaged in by several British newspapers.

When the Motion Picture Association of America gave Bakshi's film an X rating as well, Cinemation exploited it for promotional purposes, advertising Fritz the Cat as " 90 minutes of violence, excitement, and SEX ... he's X-rated and animated!

When Chingford was a municipal borough, before 1965, its politics were dominated by the Chingford Ratepayers ' Association, which was nominally independent, but against whom the Conservative Party did not field candidates.

When, however, the People's Charter was drawn up ... clearly defining the urgent demands of the working class, we felt we had a real bond of union ; and so transformed our Radical Association into local Chartist centres ..."

When Henry Clay Frick, manager for Andrew Carnegie, owner of the local Homestead Steel Works, announced in the spring of 1892 that skilled workers would receive a reduction in wages, the advisory committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers refused to sign a new contract.

When Smith died in 1953, Helms returned to Raleigh and, from 1953 to 1960, was executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association.

When he initially refused to face Sharkey in a rematch, the NYSAC officially stripped him of their recognition as world champion, but he remained recognized by both the National Boxing Association ( NBA ) and The Ring magazine.

When the Federal Reserve Board increased the limit to 25 % in December 1996, the Board noted the Securities Industry Association ( SIA ) had complained this would mean even the largest Wall Street securities firms could affiliate with commercial banks.

When the Country Music Association ( CMA ) asked George Jones to trim his act to 90 seconds for the 1999 CMA awards, Jones decided to boycott the event.

When the film was released in the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America gave it an R rating due to language.

When a congregation of members of MTV 1879 decided on 27 February 1900 that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the German Football Association ( DFB ), eleven members of the football division left the congregation and on the same evening founded Fußball-Club Bayern München.