Macha is mentioned in the Book of the Taking of Ireland, and is also said to have been responsible for the construction of the hill site of Emain Macha ( now Navan Fort near Armagh City ) to serve as the capital of the Ulaid kings ( who give their name to Ulster ), also thought to be Macha's height.

County Armagh ceased to serve as a local government unit in 1973 and currently the county is divided into four district councils for local government purposes, namely Armagh City and District Council, most of Craigavon Borough Council, approximately the western third of Newry and Mourne District Council and a small part of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council, centred around Peatlands Park.

With the proposed reform of Local government in Northern Ireland in 2011, County Armagh is proposed to be form part of two new council areas, Armagh City and Bann District, and Newry City and Down.

Armagh once had a well-developed railroad network with connections to, among others, Armagh City, Culloville, Goraghwood, Markethill, Vernersbridge, Tynan ( see History of rail transport in Ireland ) but today only Newry ( Bessbrook ), Portadown, Poyntzpass, Scarva, and Lurgan are served by rail.

* Brian Boru ( 941-1014 ), buried in Armagh City, victor of Clontarf, High King of Ireland

* Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

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These included all MPs elected to sit for Belfast city, Counties Down, Antrim, Armagh, and Londonderry ( as opposed to Londonderry City ), two out of three MPs for County Tyrone and one out of two MPs for County Fermanagh.

Member of the Farmers Club, London and the County Club, Armagh City.

The population of Armagh City on Census day ( 29 April 2001 ) was 14, 590 people, of whom:

Two late goals sealed Glentoran's first defeat of the season and ultimately led to successive defeats, and the slight climax ( 8 – 0 vs. Armagh City ).

Crowley was born in New York City, the son of an Irish-American father and an immigrant Catholic mother from County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

He sat then for Armagh City in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom.

He and his family later moved to Northern Ireland-first to Armagh City, then to Newry, County Down, and then to Holywood.

Murnaghan was educated at two schools in Northern Ireland: St Malachy's Primary School in Armagh City and Sullivan Upper School ( a grammar school ) in Holywood, followed by the University of Sussex in England, graduating with a master's degree in history in 1980.

The site is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Navan, in Armagh City and District Council area.

It reopened on a seasonal basis in 2005 after the site was bought by Armagh City and District Council.

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A simple type of anemometer, invented ( 1846 ) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory.

On 25 June 2007, the Second Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment vacated the Army complex at Bessbrook Mill in Armagh.

On 10 March 2009 the CIRA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon, County Armagh — the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.

These were joined in 1584 / 5 by the counties of Armagh, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone.

For the purposes of the Act, "... Northern Ireland shall consist of the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, and Southern Ireland shall consist of so much of Ireland as is not comprised within the said parliamentary counties and boroughs.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

* 1889 – 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.

Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

The work of David J. Asher, Armagh Observatory and Robert H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory and independently by Esko Lyytinen in 1999, following on from the Kazan research, is considered by most meteor experts as the breakthrough in modern analysis of meteor storms.

The RPG-7 has been used on British armoured personal carriers and static observation points throughout the conflict, especially in Republican West Belfast and South Armagh.

Slavery in early medieval Europe was so common that the Roman Catholic Church repeatedly prohibited it — or at least the export of Christian slaves to non-Christian lands was prohibited at e. g. the Council of Koblenz ( 922 ), the Council of London ( 1102 ), and the Council of Armagh ( 1171 ).

James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland.

* June 12 – The Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Ireland kills 78.

* September 27 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh ( b. 1672 )

* James Ussher becomes Archbishop of Armagh.

** Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh ( d. 1360 )

* The great Book of Armagh is written by Ferdomnach, a scribe at the School of Armagh.

In 1998, C Company deployed for a tour of duty in South Armagh.

* St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh ( Roman Catholic ), the current seat of the R. C.

* Buildings of Co. Armagh by C. E. B. Brett, published by the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society in 1999

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, R. F. Fenno & Company, New York City.

* 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Non-league sides include Spartans and Edinburgh City, who play in the East of Scotland League along with Civil Service Strollers F. C., Lothian Thistle F. C., Edinburgh University A. F. C., Leith Athletic F. C., Tynecastle F. C., Craigroyston F. C.

Sullivan was born in New York City, New York, the son of Elizabeth F. ( née Smith ) and Peter Arthur Sullivan, a customs house employee.

After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six.

The Foster's Lager brand was used as an advertising sponsorship deal with Norwich City F. C.

The city's football club ( St Albans City F. C.

* John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, New York, USA, commonly known as JFK

* 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.

Loach lives with his wife, Lesley, in Bath, where he is a supporter of and shareholder in Bath City F. C.

* Lincoln City F. C., an English football club

* 1985-The Crowd-You'll Never Walk Alone ( Bradford City F. C.

* 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport ( now John F Kennedy International Airport ) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.

* 2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

Neil Kinnock is a lifelong Cardiff City F. C.

On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward F. McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show.

In February 1964, while in New York City, F. C.

* City Girl, F. W. Murnau, 1930

Neptune City, N. J .: T. F. H. Publications, 1965, 1993.

By the early 1960s, a campaign to rid New York City of gay bars was in full effect by order of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who was concerned about the image of the city in preparation for the 1964 World's Fair.