When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

The Irish anti-war song " Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " and " When Johnny Comes Marching Home " share the same melodic material.

* When finished with a head of Guinness stout, the result is called an Irish Russian or a Smooth Black Russian.

When in December of 1852, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his budget to Parliament on behalf of the minority government, the Peelites, the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade were all alienated by the proposed budget.

When Cannon supporters proved difficult to find ( many of the staunchest were Irish and spent the day at various St. Patrick's Day celebrations ), the filibuster continued for 26 hours, with Cannon's present friends making repeated motions for recess and adjournment.

When Éamon de Valera led Fianna Fáil to victory in the Irish Free State election of 1932, he began removing the monarchical elements of the constitution, beginning with the Oath of Allegiance.

When, on 6 December 1922, the Irish Free State came into being, Cosgrave became its first prime minister, called President of the Executive Council.

When he and his position were challenged by the disgruntled Army officers of the Irish Republican Army Organisation ( IRAO ), other politicians and soldiers took the important decisions.

The Mulroneys with President and Mrs. Reagan in Quebec, Canada, March 18, 1985, the day after the famous " Shamrock Summit ", when the two leaders sang " When Irish Eyes are Smiling.

When the novel was being printed in 1753, Richardson discovered that Irish printers were trying to pirate the work.

When an organisation for women was set up in 1904, it was decided to Anglicise the Irish name camógaíocht to camogie.

When Spain revived the Royal Decree of Graces of 1815 with the intention of attracting non-Hispanics to settle in the island hundreds of French ( especially Corsicans ), Germans and Irish immigrants who were affected by Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s immigrated to Puerto Rico.

When the Irish dead are placed in it, they came to life and were able to fight as well as ever, though they cannot speak.

When her rival, the warrior woman Aífe ( Aoife is the Irish spelling ), threatens her territory, Cú Chulainn defeats her in battle and forces her to make peace.

When WW2 broke out, the old IRA and old Fianna organisations marched as a body to Griffith Barracks in Dublin and they joined the Irish Army there as a separate battalion.

When Gladstone stated his intention to give Ireland a separate Parliament with full powers to deal with Irish affairs, Chamberlain resolved to resign, writing to inform Gladstone of his decision two days later.

When using Simpson's Diversity Index on 10 aggregated ethnic groups, the 2001 census identified Newham as the most ethnically diverse district in England and Wales, with 9 wards in the top 15 .< ref >< cite > Simpson's diversity indices by ward 1991 and 2001-GLA Data Management and Analysis Group ( page 11, Table 3 ) Greater London Authority, January 2006 ), accessed 13 December 2006 </ ref > However, when using the 16 ethnic categories in the Census so that White Irish and White Other ethnic minorities are also included in the analysis, Newham becomes the 2nd most ethnically diverse borough < ref >< cite > Focus on Newham 2006-local people and local conditions-London Borough of Newham, Corporate Research Unit ( chapter 2, page 24 ) ( 2006 ) date accessed 31 March 2007 </ ref > with 6 out of the top 15 wards, behind Brent with 7 out of the top 15 wards.

" When these troubles were finally at an end, the inducements offered to settlers by the lord of the Manor attracted many emigrants, not only Germans, but Dutch, English, Scotch, Irish and French as well.

When he was ten his mother took him to Moscow during the summer holidays for a course of ten piano lessons with Alexander Dubuque, a pupil of the Irish pianist and composer John Field.

When the Irish Free State came into being in 1922, Dublin Castle ceased to function as the administrative seat.

When in 1799 the government brought forward its bill it was defeated in the Irish House of Commons.

When news reached him of the Confederate victory at Bull Run in July 1861 he was very pleased, although 15 months later he wrote that " the American War ... has manifestly ceased to have any attainable object as far as the Northerns are concerned, except to get rid of some more thousand troublesome Irish and Germans.

When control of the army became an issue, concerning the Irish Rebellion from September to October 1641, Pym directed the house's defiance and helped draft the Grand Remonstrance of grievances presented to the King on 1 December 1641.

When de Valera founded Fianna Fáil as the party of an " Irish Republic " in 1926, he and his party, though agreeing to contest elections, refused to take the Oath.

When New Zealand was separated from the colony of New South Wales in 1841 and established as a Crown colony in its own right, the Royal Charter effecting this provided that " the principal Islands, heretofore known as, or commonly called, the ' Northern Island ', the ' Middle Island ', and ' Stewart's Island ', shall henceforward be designated and known respectively as ' New Ulster ', ' New Munster ', and ' New Leinster '".

When Jacob Munster, a young man from the Netherlands who until the 1860s spelled his surname " Monster ," opened an area General Store complete with a U. S. postal station on the back, the local farmers and settlers came to rely on the postal station, which soon became a United States Post Office.

When in 1888 he defended Munster farmers he was again imprisoned for six months under the provisions of the new Criminal Law Procedure Bill, or Coercion Act.

A stage play named Alone it Stands ( by John Breen ), and a book named Stand Up and Fight: When Munster Beat the All Blacks by Alan English were both based on the events.

When war broke out he joined the British Army, initially in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 as a private, before being commissioned in May 1915 and joining the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

When he returned to Munster he discovered that the see was already in the possession of Hugh O ' Driscoll, who had been appointed to the see in 1473 by the same Pope Sixtus.

When New Zealand was separated from the colony of New South Wales in 1840 and established as a colony in its own right, the Royal Charter effecting this provided that " the principal Islands, heretofore known as, or commonly called, the ' Northern Island ', the ' Middle Island ', and ' Stewart's Island ', shall henceforward be designated and known respectively as ' New Ulster ', ' New Munster ', and ' New Leinster '".

When the count of Steinfurt tried to sell his share of the castle to the bishop of Munster and the count of Loon tried to sell his share to the count of Gelderland, a conflict broke out between the bishop and the count of Gelderland.

When Edward Maria was nineteen he apparently accompanied his uncle, one of the key settlers involved in building a plantation in Munster, Ireland, truly the " forging house for Virginia ", with Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir John Popham and others.

When Grimes returned to Ireland he rejoined the county team and won his first Munster title on the field of play in 1957.

When he needs money to buy something like, say, the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable patch, he takes a flyer in the sale of surplus army supplies.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

When the Vikings returned in force in 892 they found a kingdom defended by a standing, mobile field army and a network of garrisoned fortresses that commanded its navigable rivers and Roman roads.

When he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline.

When the Roman infantry became entangled in combat with his army, the hidden ambush force attacked the legionnaires in the rear.

When Abdülhamid came to the throne the army asked for gratuities and the sultan claimed that: " There are, no longer, gratuities in our treasury, all of our soldier sons should learn ".

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When he had reached Bodmin on 28 July, he found that there was no chance of supplies or recruits, and he also learned that the Royalist army was at Launceston, close to his rear.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

When the revolt broke out, it was supported by intellectuals, the army, and almost all the ethnic minorities of the Empire, and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-adopt the long defunct Ottoman constitution of 1877, ushering in the Second Constitutional Era.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

When the Byzantine forces saw the entire Ottoman army get on their knees to pray, the Byzantine army was witnessing how united the Ottoman Turks were and this worried them.

When Constantius learned of Shapur's withdrawal from Roman territory, he prepared his army for a counter-attack, drilling them and upgrading the equipment of his cataphracts.

When the Japanese army approached Wuhan in the fall of 1938, Chiang's forces abandoned the city without a fight and withdrew farther inland, to Chongqing.

When Hernando Pizarro and his army returned, Almagro's troops quickly defeated them and took the Pizarro brothers Hernando and Gonzalo captive.

When the army reached Bithynia, some of the soldiers smelled an odor emanating from the coach.

When the army issued revised mobilization regulations in 1942, it distinguished " homosexual " recruits from " normal " recruits for the first time.

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

When most of the land army arrived, the King and Queen had a profound dispute.

When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.