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St Patrick's Channel

St. Patricks Channel an arm of Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton Island, Canada


All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1973

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with St Patrick’s Creggan, based in Randalstown, County Antrim and Thurles winning the championships of the other two provinces.

Antao D'Souza

Born and raised in Nagoa, Salcete, Goa (at the time part of Portuguese India), D'Souza's father emigrated to Karachi, Pakistan, at the time of Partition, where D'Souza attended St Patrick's High School.

Anthony Flood

Flood announced that he had rejoined his first professional club, St Patrick's Athletic, via his Twitter account.

Bernard Heinze

Educated at St Patrick's Catholic College, Ballarat, Heinze received violin lessons at an early age, under the guidance of Walter Gude (1904–12) first in Ballarat, and later at the University of Melbourne under Franklin Peterson, before being awarded the (Sir William) Clarke Scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London (1913).

Cardinal Knox Centre

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is a monumental icon of Melbournian Architecture.

Charles Frewen

He opposed the Maynooth Grant of financial assistance for St Patrick's College, a Roman Catholic seminary at Maynooth in Ireland, and distributed more than 20,000 handbills in one week to explain his views.

Church of St Mary on the Rock

John Comyn, the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, created a new collegiate church at St Patricks parish church, a collegiate church his successor Henry de Loundres turned into a second cathedral.

Count Guy de Lasteyrie

In 1912 he married Constance Whitney Warren, the daughter of George Henry Warren II, at St Patrick's Cathedral.

Cumann Gaelach

Although the groups are not formally linked, they operate in a similar manner through the facilitating of Irish classes (usually free), céilís and trips to the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking areas), while many hold special events during Seachtain na Gaeilge (English: Irish Language Week), which takes place the fortnight before St Patrick’s Day.

Dublin Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland national cathedral in Dublin, Ireland

E. L. B. Hurulle

He completed his primary and secondary education at St Patrick’s College and Jaffna & Trinity College, Kandy where he passed the London Inter - Arts Examination.

Eddie McGrady

Born in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, one of eleven children, McGrady was educated at St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick and at Belfast Technical College, where he trained as a chartered accountant, subsequently entering his family's accountancy firm.

Edward Fitton, the elder

He was buried on 21 September in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin beside his wife Anne Warburton.

Fergus Crawford

The local Phoenix Park provided a safer place to kickabout and he was soon spotted there by scouts from Bulfin United, a feeder club for St Patrick's Athletic.

Finley Jeffrey

Jeffrey was born in the village of Chantimelle, St Patrick, Grenada, on 22 July 1969 to small farmers Rita and Henezie Jeffrey.

Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford

Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathredal, who married Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Archbishop of Dublin, Lancelot Bulkeley, and was the father of Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford, Gerald Aungier, and Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford

Interbang

In the UK the show was broadcast on The Children's Channel in the late 1980s and on the Terrestrial Channel ITV.

Jacques Le Goff

In his 1984 book The Birth of Purgatory, he argued that the conception of purgatory as a physical place, rather than merely as a state, dates to the 12th century, the heyday of medieval otherworld-journey narratives such as the Irish Visio Tnugdali, and of pilgrims' tales about St Patrick's Purgatory, a cavelike entrance to purgatory on a remote island in Ireland.

John B. Cosgrave

Educated at Royal Holloway College, London, he lectured in Carysfort College(Blackrock, Dublin) and St Patrick's College of Education(Drumcondra).

JSTV

Launched in March 1990 and broadcasting from London, the channel initially broadcast for two hours each night from 8pm (GMT) on the Lifestyle transponder 5 on the Astra 1A satellite in analogue format (frequency 11.273 MHz, time-sharing with The Children's Channel, Lifestyle and The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox).

Kentwell Cup

Teams who have competed in the competition have included those linked by geographical location, such as Drummoyne DRFC, Lane Cove RUFC, and Petersham RUFC, others linked by connections to schools, such as Newington Old Boys (NOBs), St Patrick's Rugby Club, Old Ignatians and Knox Old Boys; while others have been linked by occupation, like Bondi Life Savers.

Mick Robertson

When Freetime was axed by ITV in 1985, he helped to establish The Children's Channel, where he presented a show called Roustabout.

Moodabe family

JP's wife, Dorothy, died in May 1967, and on 29 November that year, at St Patrick's Cathedral, he wed Leila Dunstan Macknight (née Maher); neither marriage produced children.

Olcán

Olcán (fl. 5th century) is the name of an early Irish saint of the Dál Riata, disciple of St Patrick and founder of Armoy (Irish:Oirthear Maí) in northeast Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Oswin Mascarenhas

St Patrick's High School and St. Patrick's College have the distinction of having had Prof. Mascarenhas as the only lay-person as principal of both institutions.

Peter Drelincourt

He was buried in the Armagh Cathedral, where a fine monument by Rysbrach was erected by his widow to his memory.

Pettigo railway station

The station's main purpose was to offer easy access for the considerable pilgrim traffic to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

Rathgar

The Roman Catholic Church of The Three Patrons (named after the three Patron Saints of Ireland: St Patrick, St Bridget and St Columba) on Rathgar Road is known as "The Servants' Church" because in the late 19th and early 20th century it was the place of worship for the large number of servants who worked and lived in the large houses in the area.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

St Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the archbishop of Melbourne, currently Denis Hart.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta

St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Parramatta, currently Anthony Fisher OP.

Simon Poidevin

Born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Poidevin played rugby at St Patrick's College (now Trinity Catholic College) in New South Wales, and made the Australian Schoolboy side.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta

The commissioned artists included Sydney sculptor Anne Ferguson (who worked in stone), Tasmanian designer Kevin Perkins (who worked in timber), and Sydney sculptor and jewellery designer Robin Blau (who worked in metal).

The current bishop is the Most Reverend Anthony Fisher O.P. The current dean is the Very Reverend John Mcsweeny (appointed 2012).

St Patrick's Church, Liverpool

On the east wall above the altar is a large painting of the Crucifixion executed in about 1834 by Nicaise de Keyser of Antwerp.

St Patrick's College, Belfast

The local sporting scene has many connections to St Patrick’s College, with students including Olympic medallist Paddy Barnes and champion boxer Ryan Burnett, both likely to be selected to fight for Ireland at the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games.

St Patrick's College, Dublin

Lord Lifford (Lord Chancellor of Ireland former MP for Coventry).

St Patrick's College, Mackay

Wendell Sailor – dual-code international Rugby League and Rugby Union player and TV personality

Graeme Connors – Country music singer, songwriter, and performer

St Patrick's College, Townsville

Valma Weetman joined the R.A.A.F and became a Corporal during her first two years issuing kits in a Sydney airmen Depot.She was one of several ladies selected to appear in news articles promoting women recruitments into the defence forces.

St Patrick's GFC, Cullyhanna

Ciaran McKeever, Armagh U21 and Senior player, member of 2008, 2010 and 2011 Ireland international rules football teams

St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick

In the area of Performing Arts, the school has brought a number of productions to fruition over the years, the most recent being Philadelphia, Here I Come! and The Phantom of the Opera.

St Patrick's Isle

It is connected to the town of Peel on the Isle of Man by a causeway over Fenella Beach, named after the character in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak.

St Patrick's Purgatory

Pete McCarthy's visit in 1998 is described in McCarthy's Bar.

Marie de France translated it into French and expanded it into the Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick.

The Dave Fanning Show

The previous incarnation of the weekday Dave Fanning Show started on RTÉ 2fm radio on March 18, 2002 the day after St Patrick's Day and the last programme was broadcast on July 28, 2006.


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