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3 unusual facts about Irish


Irish-American lobby

The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) is a an organization founded in December 2005 by Niall O'Dowd, Ciaran Staunton, and Kelly Fincham that campaigns for reform of United States immigration law and for legalizing an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants.

Scotch-Irish

The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England

Scotch-Irish Americans, descendents of Ulster Scots who first migrated to North America in large numbers in the early 18th century


Aidan Coffey

He recorded with Irish traditional fiddle players Seamus Creagh and Frankie Gavin and with guitar players Mick Daly and Arty McGlynn.

Anthony Blake

Anthony Richard Blake (died 1849), Irish lawyer, administrator and 'backstairs Viceroy of Ireland'

Bandon, Oregon

It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown.

Carson McCullers

In a discussion with the Irish critic and writer Terence de Vere White she said: "Writing, for me, is a search for God".

Child of the Prophecy

Publishers Weekly said that "Marillier's strong voice and rolling, lucid prose seem appropriate for a 10th-century Irish tale, and her command of a fantasy story's

Cuil

The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson's husband Tom Costello sparked the name Cuil, which the company states is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories involving a character, Fionn mac Cumhaill, they erroneously refer to as Finn MacCuil .

Dungal MacDouall

King Robert I of Scotland's invasion of Galloway in 1307, led by his brother Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, Malcolm McQuillan, Lord of Kintyre, two Irish sub kings and Reginald de Crawford, and composing of eighteen galleys, landed at Loch Ryan.

Earl of Courtown

His youngest son Sir Lionel Stopford was a Colonel and Honorary Major-General in the Derby Regiment and Irish Guards.

Edmond Stanley

Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.

Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair

On their 1976 debut studio album Scottish Folk, the Scottish traditional music group Battlefield Band recorded a song about Irish immigration entitled "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" that shares a melody with this song.

Gustin Gang

The Gustin Gang was one the earliest Irish-American gangs to emerge during the Prohibition era and dominate Boston's underworld during the 1920s.

Harry Boland

In the 1996 biographical film Michael Collins, Harry Boland was portrayed by Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn.

Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light

Filmmaker John J Doherty traces the life and work of the Irish artist, book illustrator and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889–1931) with major contributions from his biographer Nicola Gordon Bowe as well as many stained glass artists, poets and historians.

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Henry George Hughes

Henry George Hughes (10 August 1810 – 22 July 1872) was an Irish judge, politician, and third Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845 – 1927), British politician and Irish peer, Governor-General of Canada

Hermit Songs

Written in 1953 on a grant from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, it takes as its basis a collection of anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in translations by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Howard Mumford Jones, Kenneth Jackson and Sean O'Faolain.

Hollywood Trials

The series followed ten Irish actors trying to break into Hollywood.

Holy Name of Jesus Catholic School

The children of HNJ parish attended Ascension School, which opened in September 1961, staffed by the Irish Sisters of Mercy, from Ardee, Ireland.

Horse goddess

Étaín, identified as a horse goddess in some versions of Irish Mythology

Ian Madigan

Ian Madigan (born 21 March 1989) is an Irish professional rugby union player for Blackrock College RFC, Leinster Rugby and Ireland.

Jessie Barr

Jessie Barr (born 24 July 1989 in Waterford, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish athlete who will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.

John O'Sullivan

John M. O'Sullivan (1881–1948), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, TD, cabinet minister and academic

John Treacy

Treacy overtook Spedding with 150m to go, during which the Irish television commentary of Jimmy Magee listed the previous Irish Olympic medal winners up to that time, before culminating: "And for the 13th time, an Olympic medal goes to John Treacy from Villierstown in Waterford, the little man with the big heart."

Mario Esposito

Mario Esposito (7 September 1887 - 19 February 1975) was an Irish-born scholar who specialised in Hiberno-Latin studies.

McKearney

Pádraig McKearney (1954–1987), Marxist-oriented Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer

Monkstown, County Dublin

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly Irish traditional music), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does BirdWatch Ireland.

No Rain, No Rainbow

The opening track "Seven Hours" features, frontman Ryan Zimmerman's wife, Michelle along with many other guest vocalists throughout the album such as Craig Mabbitt of Escape the Fate, Beau Bokan and Jared Warth of Blessthefall and Cameron Martin of The Irish Front.

Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa

He graduated from University College Dublin in 1970 with a BA in Irish, history and philosophy and obtained a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1971.

Peter Rono

He attended St. Patrick's High School, Iten where he was trained by Brother Colm O'Connell, an Irish Patrician missionary and headmaster of the school at that time.

Peter Walsh

Peter Valesius Walsh (1618–1688), Irish politician and controversialist

Red Hanrahan

Owen Red Hanrahan, an Irish schoolmaster/poet who figures in several poems and short stories by William Butler Yeats

Ruairí McKiernan

He is a recipient of a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award, an Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers Ireland award.

Saint-Gildas

The first book by the Irish writer Julia Kavanagh, Saint-Gildas, or, The Three Paths (1847) is largely set in the village in the eighteenth century.

Scotch-Irish American

In reaction to the proposal by Charles I and Thomas Wentworth to raise an army manned by Irish Catholics to put down the Covenanter movement in Scotland, the Parliament of Scotland had threatened to invade Ireland in order to achieve "the extirpation of Popery out of Ireland" (according to the interpretation of Richard Bellings, a leading Irish politician of the time).

Sheep on the Road

It is a life-size bronzes of six sheep and a shepherd, sculpted in 1991 by acclaimed Northern Irish sculptor, Deborah Brown.

Soleirolia

It has also been called Irish moss; however, it is not a moss, nor should it be confused with Sagina subulata or Chondrus crispus, which are also known as "Irish moss".

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.

St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule

It was named after Saint Kilian (using the German language version of his name), the Irish saint who spread Christianity throughout Europe.

Stephen Martin

Stephen J. Martin (born 1971), Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction

Susan Devlin

She won two Irish national women's doubles titles and played Uber Cup for Ireland in the '62-'63 and '65-'66 campaigns.

The Peeler and the Goat

The Penal Laws had been passed with the intent of persecuting the Irish Catholic population and Sir Robert Peel had been appointed Secretary of Ireland by the British Government in 1812.

Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1820–1885) Anglo-Irish surgeon, explorer, and writer

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

Tom French Cup

Carl Hayman was awarded the Tom French Cup in both 2004 and 2006, and was instrumental in helping New Zealand Māori defeat the British and Irish Lions for the first time in 2005.

Treaty of Nice

The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

William Annesley

William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley (1772–1838), Irish noble and British Member of Parliament

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845), known as Lord Maryborough between 1821 and 1842, was an Anglo-Irish politician and an elder brother of the Duke of Wellington.


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Atatürk Olympic Stadium

On 6 September 2010, the renowned Irish rock band U2 gave a concert at the stadium which reportedly attracted 54,278 fans, as a part of their U2 360° Tour, the opening act of which was performed by the group Snow Patrol.

Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

As with many other monastic groups, they looked to the New World for a place of refuge.The monks went on to found Conception Abbey in nearby Conception, Missouri, and began to minister to German and Irish immigrants of the region.

Carmel Gunning

The book was launched at The Coleman Music Centre, Gurteen, County Sligo after a comprehensive lecture entitled A World Stage For Irish Music.

Charm and Arrogance

Charm and Arrogance was the second album from Irish alternative band Toasted Heretic.

Cronyism

Bertie Ahern, former Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach, was mentioned on several occasions to have taken sums of money and kickbacks from property developers during the Celtic Tiger.

Cúla 4

Cúla 4 has also dubbed some children's films into Irish including Harry Potter, Jungledyret Hugo, Free Willy.

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Des Bishop

He began hosting shows at the International Comedy Cellar - a venue set up by Irish comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea and Barry Murphy.

Donna Haraway

Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when she was 16 years old.

Ferrall

Ferrall is a surname of Irish origin, from the Irish Farrell clan (Irish: Uí Fhearghail) meaning "descendant of Fearghal".

Gael Linn

On the business side, they run the Gael-Linn Records record label, which is partly funded by the Irish state.

Gustavus Hamilton

Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne (1931–1995), Irish peer and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire

He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'

The Irish girl group Buffalo G released a rap cover version of the song in 2000, reaching the top 20 in both the Irish and UK charts.

Irish Steam Preservation Society

The Irish Steam Preservation Society was formed in 1965 in Stradbally, in Ireland.

John Rogerson

Sir John Rogerson (1648–1724), Irish politician, wealthy merchant and property developer; Member of Parliament for Clogher and Dublin City

John Sheehy

John Joe Sheehy (1897–1980), Irish political/military activist and sportsperson

Johnson baronets

A descendant of the O'Neill dynasty, his family name was originally MacShane (Irish: Mac Seáin), of which Johnson is a translation.

Kim Taylor

Taylor recently starred in director Matthew Porterfield's forthcoming independent film, I Used to Be Darker, about a pregnant Northern Irish runaway who seeks refuge with family in Baltimore, MD, only to find her aunt on the verge of divorce.

Laurel Hill Coláiste

It recently came seventh in the overall Irish national school league table, published in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times (5 November 2006), highlighting the high percentage of pupils who go on to university level.

Máel Muire

Máel Muire mac Céilechair (died 1106), Irish cleric and scribe at the monastery of Clonmacnoise

Moscow Flyer

Ridden by the Irish 18 year old Kate Harrington, 'Moscow' won comfortably and was giving a rousing reception in the winners' enclosure post race.

Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones (Irish MP) (d. 1664), Welsh-Irish soldier and member of the Parliament of Ireland

Patrick McCartan

They persuaded Éamon de Valera to support the Philadelphia branch of Clan na Gael against the New York branch led by John Devoy and Judge Daniel Cohalan in their struggle to focus the resources of the Friends of Irish Freedom to Irish independence rather than domestic American politics.

Sir Robert McAlpine

The song "McAlpine's Fusiliers" (written by Dominic Behan and made famous by "The Dubliners") described the realities of life on the building site for many Irish expatriates.

Somersett's Case

These lawyers included Francis Hargrave, a young lawyer who made his reputation with this, his first case, and the famous Irish lawyer and orator John Philpott Curran whose lines in defence of Somersett were often quoted by American abolitionists (such as Frederick Douglass).

Svipdagsmál

Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (1975) suggests that the substance of the poem comes from the Irish legend of Art mac Cuinn.

Tadhg Ó Cellaigh

Rudhri was defeated, and Fedlim "plundered the officers of Ruaidri O Conchobair and seized the kingship of Connacht from Assaroe (Assaroe Falls) to Slieve Aughty himself .. and took hostages of the Clann Cellaig." Forced to submit, Tadhg now accompanied Fedlim, who switched sides and proceeded to wage war against his former allies, the Anglo-Irish of Connacht.

Taig

The name Tadhg was once so common as an Irish name that the name itself came synonymous with the typical Irishman in the same way that Paddy or Mick might be today.