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Republic of Ireland Information and Guide
The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is a state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of northwest Europe. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as Northern Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The constitution proclaims that the state's name "is Éire or, in the English language, Ireland". The Republic of Ireland is the official description of the state, from the Republic of Ireland Act. (In this article, unless otherwise indicated, Ireland refers to the Republic of Ireland). Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Northern Ireland Information and Guide
Northern Ireland, a region of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles), and has a population of 1,685,000 (April 2001). The capital is Belfast. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Foreign relations of the Republic of Ireland Information and Guide
International disputes: Northern Ireland issue with the UK (historic peace agreement signed 10 April 1998); Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Denmark, Iceland, and the UK (Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area) Illegal recreational drugs: The Republic is transshipment point for and consumer of hashish from North Africa to the UK and Netherlands and of European-produced synthetic drugs; minor transshipment point for heroin and cocaine destined for Western Europe. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Geography of Ireland Information and Guide
Location: Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain Geographic coordinates: 53 00 N, 8 00 W Map references: Europe Area: total: 70,280 sq km land: 68,890 sq km water: 1,390 sq km Area - comparative: slightly larger than West Virginia Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Central Statistics Office of Ireland Information and Guide
The Central Statistics Office is the statistical agency responsible for Ireland's census and other state data collection activities. The office is answerable to the Taoiseach and has its main offices in Cork. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Constitution of Ireland Information and Guide
The Constitution of Ireland is the founding legal document of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland. The constitution falls broadly within the liberal democratic tradition. It establishes an independent state based on a system of representative democracy, and guarantees certain fundamental rights. The constitution was adopted in 1937 by referendum, and may only be amended in the same manner. It is also widely referred to, in English, by its Irish Gaelic title: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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President of Ireland Information and Guide
The President of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain reserve powers. The office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937. The President's official residence is Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. The current office-holder is President Mary McAleese. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Irish_nationalist Information and Guide
An Irish nationalist is generally one who seeks (greater) independence of Ireland from Great Britain or a United Ireland. In the 19th century most "nationalists" were in favour of Home Rule - an Irish parliament within the United Kingdom. Following the defeat of Charles Stewart Parnell and the Gaelic Revival, physical force republicanism became increasingly important and, after the Easter Rising of 1916, became the dominant force in Irish nationalism. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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History of Ireland Information and Guide
What little is known of pre-Christian Ireland comes from a few references in Roman writings, Irish poetry and myth, and archaeology. The earliest inhabitants, people of a mid-Stone Age, or Mesolithic, culture, arrived sometime after 8000 BC, when the climate had become more hospitable following the retreat of the polar icecaps. About three or four millennia later, agriculture was introduced from the continent, leading to the establishment of a high Neolithic culture, characterised by the appearance of huge stone monuments, many of them astronomically aligned. This culture apparently prospered, and the island became more densely populated. The Bronze Age, which began around 2500 BC, saw the production of elaborate gold and bronze ornaments and weapons. See the Early history of Ireland for a fuller treatment of this period of Irish history. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Ireland in the 20th century Information and Guide
1901 Centenary year of the Act of Union. Edward VII is proclaimed King of Ireland in a state ceremony in Dublin. Members of the Irish Yeomanry return home from fighting in South Africa. The Irish census shows the population of Ireland to be 4,459,000. The All-Ireland Champions are London (hurling) and Dublin (football) ,
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Battle of the Boyne Information Guide
The Battle of the Boyne was a controversial military clash between the deposed King James II and his son-in-law and successor, William III, for the English, Scottish and Irish thrones. It took place on July 1, 1690 (as a consequence of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar the battle is now commemorated on July 12) just outside of the town of Drogheda on Ireland's east coast. Though a minor military skirmish in reality, its symbolic importance has made it one of the most infamous battles in British and Irish history and a key part in Protestant and Catholic folklore. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Penal law Information and Guide
In the most general sense, penal is the body of laws that are enforced by the State in its own name and impose penalties for their violation, as opposed to civil law that seeks to redress private wrongs. This usage is synonymous with criminal law and is covered in that article. More specifically, the Penal laws were a set of laws which punished nonconformism in the United Kingdom. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Easter Rising Information and Guide
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Casca) was an unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. The rebellion marked the most famous attempt by militant republicans to seize control of Ireland and force independence from the United Kingdom. The Irish Republican revolutionary attempt occurred from April 24 to April 30, 1916, in which a part of the Irish Volunteers led by school teacher and barrister Padraig Pearse and the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic independent of Britain. The event is seen as an key point on the road to Irish independence, though it marked a split between republicanism and mainstream Irish nationalism, which had hitherto accepted a promise of limited autonomy under the British crown, enshrined in the Third Home Rule Act, which had been enacted in 1914, but suspended for the duration of World War I. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Irish Civil War Information and Guide
The Irish Civil War (June, 1922 - April, 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921 which had established the Irish Free State, precursor of today's Republic of Ireland. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Irish_Free_State Information and Guide
The Irish Free State (Irish language:, Saorstát Éireann) was (1922–1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921. The Irish Free State came into being in December 1922, replacing two co-existing but nominally rival states, the de jure Southern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and which from January 1922 had been governed by a Provisional Government under Michael Collins and the de facto Irish Republic under the President of Dáil Éireann, Arthur Griffith, which had been created by Dáil Éireann in 1919. (In August 1922, both states in effect merged with the deaths of their leaders; both posts came to be held simultaneously by W.T. Cosgrave.) Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Bloody Sunday Information and Guide
On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, twenty-seven people were shot by British soldiers after a civil rights march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Derry MP Ivan Cooper to protest the internment of Irishmen in British occupied Northern Ireland. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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The Troubles Information and Guide
The Troubles is a generic term used to describe a period of sporadic communal violence involving paramilitary organisations, the police, the British Army and others in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s. The Troubles were another chapter in the long-running hatred between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Roman Catholic factions. brought to an end by a peace process which included the declaration of ceasefires by some paramilitary organisations, the withdrawal of most troops from the streets and the creation of a new police force in a series of reforms, most notably the Belfast Agreement (commonly known as the Good Friday Agreement). Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Good Friday Agreement Information and Guide
The Good Friday Agreement (also known as the Belfast Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was signed in Belfast on April 10 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. It was endorsed by the voters of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in separate referenda in May 1998. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Celtic Tiger Information and Guide
The "Celtic Tiger" is a nickname for the Republic of Ireland, referring to that country's rapid economic growth during the 1990s. Many economists credit Ireland's low taxation and business-friendly regulation policies as responsible for much of the growth. A more sceptical intrepretation is that much of the growth was due to the fact that the economy of Ireland had lagged the rest of northwestern Europe for so long that it had become the one of last sources of a relatively large, relatively low-wage labour pool left in that region of the world. Ireland's membership of the European Union since 1973 has helped the country gain access to markets that previously it had to access through the United Kingdom, and provided subsidies and investment capital. IDA Ireland attracted a variety of high profile companies to Ireland. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Charles Stewart Parnell Information and Guide
Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27 1846 - October 6 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in nineteenth century Ireland and the United Kingdom. William Ewart Gladstone thought him the most remarkable person he had ever met. A future Liberal prime minister, Herbert Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in one hundred and fifty years. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Irish Diaspora Information and Guide
The Irish diaspora consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Quebec and Australia. By one estimate, the diaspora contains as many as 60 million people. Visit this site to find out MORE...,
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Irish Coinage
History, description, images and catalog valuations of Irish Coins (with a few banknotes).,
Contact: Dublin, County: Dublin, tel: +353.14900599,
Irish Air Corps Aircraft and How to model them
Colour schemes and markings of Irish Air Corps aircraft and Aer Lingus planes from their foundation to the present day. Particularly useful for modellers.,
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Ballingeary and Inchigeelagh Historical Society, Co. Cork,
Local History from Ballingeary and Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork, Ireland,
Contact: County: Cork
Chronology of Ireland
Detailed chronology of Ireland-related births, deaths and events from earliest times to the present,
Contact: Lurganboy, Virginia, County: Cavan, tel: 049 8541041,
Irish Seamens Relatives Association [1939-46]
Specifically formed to provide information to relatives of seafarers lost on Irish Vessels 1939-46,
Contact: Irish Seamen's Relatives Association (1939-46), 51 Conquer Hill Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3, tel: 01 8335119, fax: 01 8186632
Irirsh History DVD Project
Irish History DVD Project is An American based Irish Education Group has been formed to develop a comprehensive ten DVD (20 hours) series on Irish History from ancient times through today.,
Contact: County: Dublin
Schull Books, Co Cork
Out of print booksellers specialising in books of Irish interest and military history. Based in Ballydehob, Co Cork, and established for over 20 years. Co-organisers of Dublin's Rare Book Fair - contact for details.,
Contact: Schull Books, The Bookshop, Ballydehob, County: Cork, tel: +353 [0]28 3731, fax: +353 [0]28 37317
Bloody Sunday
Unique color photos of Bloody Sunday (Derry, 1972) and related events by an American news photographer. See also: www.rukeyserphotos.com,
Contact: 805 Oak Ave., Davis, tel: +1 530 756-7123, fax: +1 530 757-2555
History of Ireland in Word and Song
Discover the most beautiful, entertaining, irresistible, delightful and quick way to learn Irish History. ,
Contact: Franks & O'Flaherty, 504 Toulouse Street, Post Office Box 281, Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA 70821, tel: +1 888 301-6910, fax: +1 225 778-6912
Forgotten Revolution - The Limerick Soviet 1919
The full story of the Limerick Soviet, or General Strike, of 1919,
Contact: Clowanstown, Drumree, County: Meath, tel: +353-1-8258188, fax: +353
Ulster Scots Site
An Ulster Scots Site based in Cork, Ireland wi Evangelical writin's owerset intae Ulster Scots. Drap in an'see us! ,
Contact: 10 Briarscourt, Shanakiel, County: Cork, tel: +35321-4393325, fax: +353
BiblioIreland
A guide to Irish books,
Contact: BiblioIreland.com, 12 Bayview Road, Bangor, County: Down, tel: 02891470310,
AUD by Xander Clayton
Sir Roger Casement sent a German warship to Ireland during the 1916 Rising. The Aud, is given an entirely new treatment in a new book by historian Xander Clayton. Previously unseen photographs of the ship and crew enhance the true story of a largely unknown maritime struggle which strived to help in the formation of the Republic of Ireland. ,
Contact: AUD, P.O. Box 238, Plymouth, PL5 1WU, County: Dublin, tel: +35387490232, fax: +353
Edgeworth Website
A site about the Edgeworth family which included the author Maria Edgeworth,
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PoliceHistory.com - Irish Police History
PoliceHistory.com, Irish Police History, Garda Siochana Historical Society, Garda Museum, Dublin Castle, History of Ireland's National Police Force ,
Contact: Garda Siochana Historical Society, Garda Museum, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, County: Dublin, tel: +35316669998, fax: +35316669998
Society For The Study Of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Society For The Study Of Nineteenth-Century Ireland,
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Welcome To Ireland
A comprehensive site of Ireland's history and culture. With information on Irish literature and Celtic music. Also has Irish links.,
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Irish History
Articles and Reviews relating to Irish History, Post-Colonialism compiled by Pádraig Ó Cuanacháin. This site offers a professional historical research service for those seeking further information on aspects of modern Irish history. Correspondence welcomed in either English or Irish.,
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The Omagh Bomb
A comprehensive tribute to the 29 civilians who perished in the 1998 Omagh bomb. Also includes detailed factual material on the event.,
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Irish Academic Press
Irish Academic Press is a long-established publisher of academic books. Subject areas: History, Local History, Literary History, Women's Studies, Genealogy and Music.,
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Living History Ireland
Photographs of ancient sites in the Irish Landscape, Druids in Ireland; Tipperary & District Historical Society; an Omagh Memoriam; how a historical musical documentary historical street play was researched and produced in County Tipperary; modern sculpture in a Pagan Irish style; Celtic Sun/Moon Calendars Ó; Irish Heraldry.,
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