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Urney Chocolates, the Glossary

Urney Chocolates (colloquially known as Urneys) was an Irish confectionery manufacturing business founded by the Gallagher family in County Tyrone, which once operated one of the largest chocolate factories in Europe.^[1]

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1919 establishments in Ireland
County Kildare
Food and drink companies established in 1919

Aintree Racecourse

Aintree Racecourse is a racecourse in Aintree, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, bordering the city of Liverpool.

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Ballyknockan

Ballyknockan or Ballynockan is a village and townland in County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Blessington

Blessington, historically known as Ballycomeen (from the Irish surname Ó Coimín), is a town on the River Liffey in County Wicklow, Ireland, near the border with County Kildare.

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Burnley

Burnley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021.

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Chesham

Chesham is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, south-east of the county town of Aylesbury, about north-west of central London, and part of the London commuter belt.

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Cigarette card

Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.

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Coastal trading vessel

Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, are shallow-hulled merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.

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Coenraad Johannes van Houten

Coenraad Johannes van Houten (15 March 1801 – 27 May 1887) was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker known for the treatment of cocoa mass with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is still called "Dutch process chocolate".

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Confectionery

Confectionery is the art of making confections, or sweet foods.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster.

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County Donegal

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region.

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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County Tyrone

County Tyrone is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland.

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County Wicklow

County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin) is a county in Ireland.

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Couverture chocolate

Couverture chocolate is a chocolate that contains a higher percentage of cocoa butter (32–39%) than baking or eating chocolate.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Dictionary of Irish Biography

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) is a biographical dictionary of notable Irish people and people not born in the country who had notable careers in Ireland, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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Do it yourself

"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts.

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Eileen Gallagher

Eileen Gallagher (born Helen Mary Cullen; 9 September 1887 - 8 October 1976) was an Irish businesswoman who founded Urney Chocolates with her husband Harry Gallagher.

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Electric generator

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit.

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English Market

The English Market (Irish: An Margadh Sasanach) is a municipal food market in the center of Cork city, Ireland.

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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.

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Fondant

Fondant is a mixture of sugar and water used as a confection, filling, or icing.

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Fudge

Fudge is a type of confection that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk.

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Hadji Bey

Hadji Bey is a Turkish delight confectionery that was originally produced in Cork and has since moved to a production site in County Kildare, Ireland with the successor to Urney Chocolates.

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Halifax (Ireland)

Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland, which later became part of Lloyds Banking Group.

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Harry Gallagher (businessman)

Henry Thomas Gallagher (13 April 1880 – 15 March 1975), known as Harry Gallagher, was an Irish solicitor, proprietor, and founder of Urney Chocolates, the quintessential confectionary company of 20th century Ireland.

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HB Ice Cream

HB Ice Cream (originally an initialisation of both Hughes Brothers and Hazelbrook Farm) is an ice cream brand in Ireland and is part of the Unilever Group's Heartbrand ice cream brand.

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Hollywood, County Wicklow

Hollywood is a village in west County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Irish Free State

The Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish name i, was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

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Irish pound

The pound (Irish: punt) was the currency of Ireland until 2002.

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Lowney Chocolate Factory

The Lowney Chocolate Factory is a historic industrial complex at 150 Oakland Street in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

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Milk chocolate

Milk chocolate is a form of solid chocolate containing cocoa, sugar and milk.

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Milk Marketing Board

The Milk Marketing Board was a producer-run product marketing board, established by the Agricultural Marketing Act 1933, to control milk production and distribution in the United Kingdom.

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New York metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing.

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Newbridge, County Kildare

Newbridge, officially known by its Irish name Droichead Nua, is a town in County Kildare, Ireland.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Powers (whiskey)

Powers is a brand of Irish whiskey produced by the Irish Distillers subsidiary of Pernod Ricard.

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Private limited company

A private limited company is any type of business entity in "private" ownership used in many jurisdictions, in contrast to a publicly listed company, with some differences from country to country.

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Public company

A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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Putting-out system

The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work, like a tailor.

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Redmond Gallagher

Redmond Gallagher (27 February 1914, County Donegal – 31 October 2006, Sagra, Alicante) was an Irish businessman and racing driver.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border

The Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, sometimes referred to as the Irish border or British–Irish border, runs for Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 1999 (PDF) by KJ Rankin and published in association with Institute for British-Irish Studies, University College Dublin and Institute for Governance, Queen's University, Belfast (also printed as IBIS working paper no.

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River Shannon

The River Shannon (Abhainn na Sionainne, an tSionainn, an tSionna) is the major river on the island of Ireland, and at in length, is the longest river in the British and Irish Isles.

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Rosary

The Rosary (rosarium, in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), also known as the Dominican Rosary (as distinct from other forms of rosary such as the Franciscan Crown, Bridgettine Rosary, Rosary of the Holy Wounds, etc.), refers to a set of prayers used primarily in the Catholic Church, and to the physical string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Flying Corps airfields

A list of airfields of the Royal Flying Corps.

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Sagra, Alicante

Sagra is a village in the province of Alicante and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.

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Seán Lemass

Seán Francis Lemass (born John Francis Lemass; 15 July 1899 – 11 May 1971) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1959 to 1966.

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Sic

The Latin adverb sic (thus, so, and in this manner) inserted after a quotation indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated as found in the source text, including erroneous, archaic, or unusual spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

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South Dublin County Council

South Dublin County Council (Comhairle Contae Átha Cliath Theas) is the local authority of the county of South Dublin, Ireland.

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Tallaght

Tallaght (Tamhlacht) is the largest settlement, and county town, of South Dublin, Ireland, and the largest satellite town of Dublin.

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Taoiseach

The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland.

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The Echo (Dublin newspaper)

The Echo (previously The Tallaght Echo) is a regional newspaper covering parts of Dublin in Ireland.

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The Emergency (Ireland)

The Emergency (Ré na Práinne / An Éigeandáil) was a state of emergency in the independent state of Ireland in the Second World War, throughout which the state remained neutral.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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Thurles

Thurles (Durlas Éile) is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Unilever

Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Urney, County Tyrone

Urney is a townland (of 188 acres) and civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

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W. R. Grace and Company

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urney_Chocolates

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Urney Chocolates, the Glossary

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See also

1919 establishments in Ireland

County Kildare

Food and drink companies established in 1919

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