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Drogheda (meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin city centre.^[1]

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Abbey Theatre

The Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland (Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Ireland, is one of the country's leading cultural institutions.

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Abdülmecid I

Abdülmecid I (ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, I.; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

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Acts of Union 1800

The Acts of Union 1800 were parallel acts of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Airgíalla

Airgíalla (Modern Irish: Oirialla, English: Oriel, Latin: Ergallia) was a medieval Irish over-kingdom and the collective name for the confederation of tribes that formed it.

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Alison Comyn

Alison Comyn (born 28 October 1969, Drogheda, County Louth) is an Irish television journalist and broadcaster. She currently presents Sky World News on Sky News, and occasionally presented Sunrise with Stephen Dixon, She was formerly the news anchor of UTV Ireland's weekday news and current affairs programmes Ireland Live news and Ireland Live news at 10 which aired between January 2015 and January 2017.

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Alison Kelly (diplomat)

Alison Kelly (born 1953) is a former Irish diplomat.

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Amergin Glúingel

Amergin Glúingel ("white knees") (also spelt Amhairghin Glúngheal) or Glúnmar ("big knee") is a bard and judge for the Milesians in the Irish Mythological Cycle.

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Angela Greene

Angela Katherine Greene (born Angela Catherine Williams; 24 February 1921 – 9 February 1978) was an Irish-American actress.

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Aontú

Aontú ("Unity") is an Irish republican and socially conservative political party that operates in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Aosdána

Aosdána (from aos dána, 'people of the arts') is an Irish association or academy of artists, each of whom must have produced a distinguished body of work of genuine originality.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.

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Augustinians

Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.

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Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera (first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was an Irish statesman and political leader.

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Éamonn Ceannt

Éamonn Ceannt (21 September 1881 – 8 May 1916), born Edward Thomas Kent, was an Irish republican, mostly known for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.

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Barbican

A barbican (from barbacane) is a fortified outpost or fortified gateway, such as at an outer defense perimeter of a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive purposes.

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Barry Conlon

Barry John Conlon (born 1 October 1978) is an Irish former professional footballer and Head Coach of New York-based LMFC Blue Jaguars As a player he was a striker from 1996 to 2013.

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Battle of the Boyne

The Battle of the Boyne (Cath na Bóinne) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1689.

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Beaulieu House and Gardens

Beaulieu House and Gardens (Kevin O'Sullivan, "Let it shine: the woman behind Ireland's first big solar farm", The Irish Times) is an estate in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel. Drogheda and Belfast are port cities and towns of the Irish Sea.

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Bellewstown

Bellewstown is a village located 8 km south of Drogheda, on the Hill of Crockafotha in County Meath in Ireland.

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Bernard Flynn

Bernard Flynn (born 26 June 1965) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Meath county team.

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Black people in Ireland

Black people in Ireland, also known as Black Irish, Black and Irish or in Daoine Goirme/Daoine Dubha, are a multi-ethnic group of Irish people of African descent.

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Boyne RFC

Boyne RFC is a rugby team in Drogheda, Ireland, with the men playing in Division 1B of the Leinster League.

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Boyne Viaduct

The Boyne Viaduct (Tarbhealach na Bóinne), a 30-metre-high (98 ft) railway bridge, or viaduct, that crosses the River Boyne in Drogheda, carrying the main Dublin–Belfast railway line.

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Bronte, Sicily

Bronte (Brontë) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in Sicily, southern Italy.

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Bus Éireann

Bus Éireann ("Irish Bus") is a state-owned bus and coach operator providing services throughout Ireland, with the exception of Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area, where bus services are provided by sister company Dublin Bus.

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Busáras

Busáras (from bus + áras "building") is the central bus station in Dublin, Ireland for Intercity and regional bus services operated by Bus Éireann.

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Cable-stayed bridge

A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Central Statistics Office (Ireland)

The Central Statistics Office (CSO; An Phríomh-Oifig Staidrimh) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in Ireland, in particular the census which is held every five years.

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Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1875 to 1891, Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, who held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886.

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Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England.

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City status in Ireland

In Ireland, the term ''city'' has somewhat differing meanings in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.

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Colin Lowth

Colin Lowth (born October 5, 1977 in Drogheda, County Louth) is a former Irish swimmer who represented Ireland at the 2000 Olympic Games.

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Colin O'Donoghue

Colin O'Donoghue (born 26 January 1981) is an Irish actor and musician, best known for portraying Captain Killian "Hook" Jones on the ABC TV show Once Upon a Time.

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Connolly station

Connolly station (Stáisiún Uí Chonghaile) or Dublin Connolly is one of the busiest railway stations in Dublin and Ireland, and is a focal point in the Irish route network.

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Counties of Ireland

The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.

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County corporate

A county corporate or corporate county was a type of subnational division used for local government in England, Wales, and Ireland.

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County Louth

County Louth (Contae Lú) is a coastal county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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County Louth (UK Parliament constituency)

County Louth, otherwise known as Louth County or Louth, is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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County Meath

County Meath (Contae na Mí or simply an Mhí) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653) was the re-conquest of Ireland by the Commonwealth of England, led by Oliver Cromwell.

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Cullen number

In mathematics, a Cullen number is a member of the integer sequence C_n.

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Damien English

Damien English (born 21 February 1978) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath West constituency since 2007, and previously from 2002 to 2007 for the Meath constituency.

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Daniele Formica

Daniele Formica (10 June 1949 – 1 February 2011) was an Irish-born Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and television personality.

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Daryl DeLeon

Daryl DeLeon Taylor (born 2 August 2005) is a Filipino-British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Duckhams Racing with Bartercard.

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David James McAllister (born 29 December 1988) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Dáil constituencies

There are 39 multi-member electoral districts, known as Dáil constituencies, that elect 160 TDs (members of parliament), to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV), to a maximum term of five years.

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Dún Laoghaire railway station

Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) railway station (Stáisiún Uí Mhealláin, Dún Laoghaire) is a station in Dún Laoghaire, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

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Decimation (punishment)

In the military of ancient Rome, decimation was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

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Deirdre Gogarty

Deirdre Gogarty (born 10 November 1969) is a retired Irish female boxer and current coach of the Ragin' Cajun Boxing Club.

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Deirdre O'Kane

Deirdre O'Kane (born 25 March 1968) is an Irish stand-up comedian and actress.

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Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (An Roinn Fiontar, Trádála agus Fostaíochta) is a department of the Government of Ireland.

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Des Smyth

Desmond John Smyth (born 12 February 1953) is an Irish professional golfer.

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Dominic McGlinchey

Dominic McGlinchey (1954 – 10 February 1994) was an Irish republican paramilitary leader who moved from the Provisional IRA to become head of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) paramilitary group in the early 1980s.

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Doncaster Rovers F.C.

Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

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Dowth

Dowth (Dubhadh) is a Neolithic passage tomb near the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland.

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Drogheda (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Drogheda was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

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Drogheda (UK Parliament constituency)

Drogheda was a parliamentary borough constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Drogheda Independent

The Drogheda Independent is a newspaper that serves the Drogheda area, including Drogheda, Mid-Louth and East Meath.

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Drogheda Leader

The Drogheda Leader is a regional newspaper published in Drogheda, County Louth, which serves Drogheda, East Meath and Mid-Louth.

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Drogheda MacBride railway station

Drogheda MacBride railway station (Stáisiún Mhic Ghiolla Bhríde, Droichead Átha) is a railway station that serves Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland.

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Drogheda Steam Packet Company

The Drogheda Steam Packet Company was founded in 1826 as the Drogheda Paddle Steamship Co.

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Drogheda United F.C.

Drogheda United Football Club (Cumann Peile Dhroichead Átha Aontaithe) is a professional Irish association football club based in Drogheda, County Louth playing in the League of Ireland Premier Division.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland. Drogheda and Dublin are port cities and towns of the Irish Sea.

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Dublin Area Rapid Transit

The Dublin Area Rapid Transit system (stylised as DART) is an electrified commuter rail railway network serving the coastline and city of Dublin, Ireland.

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Dublin Pearse railway station

Pearse railway station (Stáisiún na bPiarsach) or Dublin Pearse is a railway station on Westland Row on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland.

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Dublin–Belfast corridor

The Dublin–Belfast corridor (population 3.3 million) is a term used to loosely describe a geographical area that encompasses the Republic of Ireland's capital city, Dublin and Northern Ireland's capital city, Belfast.

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Dundalk F.C.

Dundalk Football Club (Cumann Peile Dhún Dealgan) is a professional football club that competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top tier of football in the Republic of Ireland.

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Dundalk railway station

Dundalk Clarke railway station (Stáisiún Uí Chléirigh) serves Dundalk in County Louth, Ireland.

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Eamonn Campbell

Eamonn Campbell (29 November 1946 – 18 October 2017) was an Irish musician who was a member of The Dubliners from 1987 until his death.

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Earl of Drogheda

Earl of Drogheda is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Elizabeth O'Neill (actress)

Elizabeth O'Neill (179129 October 1872), also Eliza, was an Irish actress.

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Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile; c. 1437Karen Lindsey, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, p. xviii, Perseus Books, 1995. – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from 1 May 1464 until 3 October 1470 and from 11 April 1471 until 9 April 1483 as the wife of King Edward IV.

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Enterprise (train service)

Enterprise is the cross-border inter-city train service between in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, jointly operated by Iarnród Éireann (IE) and NI Railways (NIR).

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Evan Ferguson

Evan Joe Ferguson (born 19 October 2004) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Republic of Ireland national team.

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Evanna Lynch

Evanna Patricia Lynch (born 16 August 1991) is an Irish actress and activist.

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FAI Cup

The Football Association of Ireland Senior Challenge Cup (FAI Cup), known as the Sports Direct FAI Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out association football competition contested annually by teams from the Republic of Ireland (as well as Derry City from Northern Ireland).

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Fairytale of New York

"Fairytale of New York" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their London-based band the Pogues, featuring English singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals.

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Fiachra Trench

Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench (born 7 September 1941, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

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Fleadh Cheoil

The Fleadh Cheoil, or "music festival" in English, is an annual Irish arts festival and competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Irish pronunciation: ˈkoːl̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ ˈcoːl̪ˠt̪ˠoːɾʲiː ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ), or CCÉ, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote the learning of and performance of Irish traditional music and dance internationally and domestically, as the group maintains international branches in several countries.

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Formula One

Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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Freedom of the City

The Freedom of the City (or Borough in some parts of the UK) is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.

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Garristown

Garristown is a village in north-west Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland.

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Gary Oliver Kelly (born 9 July 1974) is an Irish former footballer who played his entire professional career with Leeds United.

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Gary Tallon

Gerrit Thomas "Gary" Tallon (born 5 September 1973) is an Irish former professional footballer who played in midfield, principally for Mansfield Town.

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Gavin Brennan

Gavin Brennan is an Irish retired footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in the League of Ireland and NIFL Premiership.

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Ged Nash

Gerald Henry Nash (born 7 December 1975) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since 2020, and previously from 2011 to 2016.

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George Drumgoole Coleman

George Drumgoole Coleman (179527 March 1844), also known as George Drumgold Coleman, was an Irish civil architect who played an instrumental role in the design and construction of much of the civil infrastructure in early Singapore, after it was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819.

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George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard

George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard PC (21 October 1685 – 19 June 1765) was an Anglo-Irish naval commander and diplomat.

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Geraldine Byrne Nason

Geraldine Byrne Nason (born 1959) is an Irish diplomat who is currently Ambassador of Ireland to the United States of America.

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Gerard Boate

Gerard Boate (also Gérard de Boot, Bootius or Botius) (1604, Gorinchem – 1650, Dublin) was a Dutch physician, known for his Natural History of Ireland.

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Glanbia

Glanbia plc is an Irish global nutrition group with operations in 32 countries.

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Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982), also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.

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Guinness

Guinness is a stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in the 18th century.

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Harry Clarke

Henry Patrick Clarke RHA (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Hector Ó hEochagáin

Shane Ó hEochagáin (born 17 August 1969), known mononymously as Hector, is an Irish television and radio presenter born in Drogheda, County Louth, and raised in Navan, County Meath.

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Henry Singleton (judge)

Henry Singleton (1682–1759) was an Irish politician and judge, who is remembered now mainly for his friendship with Jonathan Swift, and for his notable acts of charity during the Great Irish Famine of 1740-1, in which between 300,000 and 500,000 people (possibly 20% of the overall population) died.

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Hibernian F.C.

Hibernian Football Club, commonly known as Hibs, is a professional football club in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Highlanes Gallery

Highlanes Gallery is a public art gallery and visual arts exhibition centre in Drogheda, Ireland which opened in 2006.

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HMS Africa (1781)

HMS Africa was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched by William Barnard at Barnard's Thames Yard in Deptford on 11 April 1781.

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HMS Minotaur (1793)

HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched on 6 November 1793 at Woolwich.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Huddersfield Town A.F.C.

Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath

Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, 4th Baron Lacy (before 1135 – 25 July 1186), was an Anglo-Norman landowner and royal office-holder.

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Ian Harte

Ian Patrick Harte (born 31 August 1977) is an Irish football agent and former professional footballer who played as a left back.

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Iarnród Éireann

Iarnród Éireann, or Irish Rail, is the operator of the national railway network of Ireland.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish Confederate Wars

The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653.

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Irish House of Commons

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.

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Irish National Liberation Army

The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA, Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group formed on 8 December 1974, during the 30-year period of conflict known as "the Troubles".

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Irish Republican Brotherhood

The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was a secret oath-bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland between 1858 and 1924.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

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Jack Daniel's

Jack Daniel's is a brand of Tennessee whiskey.

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James Chadwick (bishop)

James Chadwick (24 April 1813 at Drogheda, Ireland – 14 May 1882 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and buried at Ushaw) was an Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic priest, and second Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

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James Cullen (mathematician)

Father James Cullen, S.J. (19 April 1867 – 7 December 1933) was an Irish mathematician.

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James Francis Hand (born 22 October 1986) is an Irish footballer.

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Jameson Irish Whiskey

Jameson is a blended Irish whiskey produced by the Irish Distillers subsidiary of Pernod Ricard.

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Jerome Clarke

Jerome Clarke (born 15 July 1951, in Drogheda) is an Irish former footballer.

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John Barrett (Royal Navy officer)

John Barrett (died 1810) was an Irish captain in the Royal Navy.

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John Boyle O'Reilly

John Boyle O'Reilly (28 June 1844 – 10 August 1890) was an Irish poet, journalist, author and activist.

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John Hume

John Hume (18 January 19373 August 2020) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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John Lumsden

Sir John Lumsden KBE (14 November 1869 – 3 September 1944) was an Irish physician.

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John Neary

Edward John Neary (May 4, 1964 – January 26, 2015) was an American electronic engineer, specializing in audio processing equipment for motion pictures and broadcasting, as well as an Academy Award and Emmy Award winner.

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John Philip Holland

John Philip Holland (Seán Pilib Ó hUallacháin/Ó Maolchalann) (February 24, 1841August 12, 1914) was an Irish-American engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.

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John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester

John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester KG (8 May 1427 – 18 October 1470), was an English nobleman and scholar who served as Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Constable of England and Lord Deputy of Ireland.

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Jonathan Kelly

Jonathan Kelly (born Jonathan Ledingham, 8 July 1947 – 2 May 2020) was an Irish folk rock singer-songwriter, who enjoyed a varied career in music, playing with many musicians and groups, including Eric Clapton and Tim Staffell.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

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Keane Barry

Keane Neill Barry (born 25 June 2002) is an Irish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and Youth Development Tour events.

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Kevin Anthony Thornton (born 9 July 1986, in Drogheda) is a retired Irish footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Killian Brennan

Killian Brennan (born 31 January 1984) is an Irish retired footballer who played as a midfielder in the League of Ireland Premier Division.

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Kingdom of Meath

Meath (Mí; Mide) was a kingdom in Ireland from the 1st to the 12th century AD.

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Knowth

Knowth (Cnóbha) is a prehistoric monument overlooking the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland.

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Lanyon Place railway station

Belfast Lanyon Place (formerly Belfast Central) is a railway station serving the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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League of Ireland Cup

The League of Ireland Cup (Corn Sraithe na hÉireann), also referred to in Ireland as the 'League Cup', was an annual knockout competition in men's football in the Republic of Ireland.

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League of Ireland Premier Division

The League of Ireland Premier Division (Príomhroinn Shraith na hÉireann), also known as the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division for sponsorship reasons, is the top level division in both the League of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland football league system.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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Leinster

Leinster (Laighin or Cúige Laighean) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the southeast of Ireland.

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List of Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.

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List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population

This is a list of the 60 largest towns and cities on the island of Ireland by population.

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List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922.

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List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland

This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and other major urban areas.

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List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland

This is a list of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland by population.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. Drogheda and Liverpool are port cities and towns of the Irish Sea.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Liverpool F.C. Women

Liverpool Football Club, commonly referred to as Liverpool or Liverpool Football Club Women if distinguishing themselves from the men's team, is a professional English women's football team based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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LMFM

LMFM is an independent Local Radio station based in Drogheda, Ireland.

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Local electoral area

A local electoral area (LEA; toghlimistéar áitiúil) is an electoral area for elections to local authorities in Ireland.

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Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898

The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 37) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that established a system of local government in Ireland similar to that already created for England, Wales and Scotland by legislation in 1888 and 1889.

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Local Government Act 2001

The Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37) was enacted by the Oireachtas on 21 July 2001 to reform local government in the Republic of Ireland.

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Local Government Reform Act 2014

The Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No. 1) is an act of the Oireachtas which provided for a major restructuring of local government in Ireland with effect from the 2014 local elections.

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Lord Deputy of Ireland

The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Lord Mountbatten

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.

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Lordship of Meath

The Lordship of Meath was an extensive seigneurial liberty in medieval Ireland that was awarded to Hugh de Lacy by King Henry II of England by the service of fifty knights and with almost royal authority.

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Louth (Dáil constituency)

Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas.

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Louth County Council

Louth County Council (Comhairle Contae Lú) is the local authority of County Louth, Ireland.

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Louth–Meath (Dáil constituency)

Louth–Meath was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1923.

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Lukas Browning Lagerfeldt

Lukas Edward Browning Lagerfeldt (born 6 January 1999) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swedish club Gefle.

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England.

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Mansfield Town F.C.

Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge

The Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in County Meath, and County Louth, Ireland.

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Meath West (Dáil constituency)

Meath West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas.

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Megan Campbell

Megan Campbell (born 28 June 1993) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Women's Championship club London City Lionesses and as a left back & center back for the Republic of Ireland women's national team.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Mellifont Abbey

Mellifont Abbey (An Mhainistir Mhór, literally 'the Big Monastery'), was a Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland.

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Michael D. Higgins

Michael Daniel Higgins (Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster and sociologist who has been serving as the ninth president of Ireland since 2011.

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Michael Holohan

Michael Holohan (born 27 March 1956) is an Irish composer.

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Michael Scott (architect)

Michael Scott (24 June 1905 – 24 January 1989) was an Irish architect whose buildings included the Busáras building in Dublin, Cork Opera House, the Abbey Theatre and both Tullamore and Portlaoise Hospitals.

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Mick Fairclough

Michael Joseph Fairclough (born 22 October 1952, in Annagassan) was an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Drogheda United, Dundalk and Huddersfield Town.

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Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency)

Midlands–North-West is a European Parliament constituency in Ireland.

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Millmount Fort

Millmount is a large fortified complex situated on a great mound on the South bank of the River Boyne located in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

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Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (An tAire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta) is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland and leads the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Monaghan

Monaghan is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Moneymore, Drogheda

Moneymore is a townland and housing estate in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Mullaghmore, County Sligo

Mullaghmore is a village on the Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland.

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Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840

The Municipal Corporations Act (Ireland) 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 108), An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 10 August 1840.

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Murder of Jill Meagher

Gillian Meagher (née McKeon) was a 29-year-old Irish woman living in Australia who was raped and murdered while walking home from a pub in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in the early hours of 22 September 2012.

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Nano Reid

Nano Reid (1 March 1900 – 17 November 1981) was an Irish painter who specialised in landscape, figure painting and portraits.

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) maintains a central database of the architectural heritage of the Republic of Ireland covering the period since 1700 in complement to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, which focuses on archaeological sites of the pre-1700 period.

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Navan

Navan (meaning "the Cave") is the county town and largest town of County Meath, Ireland.

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Newgrange

Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, west of the town of Drogheda.

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Nick Colgan

Nicholas Vincent Colgan (born 19 September 1973) is an Irish football coach and former professional footballer who is goalkeeping coach at EFL League Two side Stockport County.

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Normans in Ireland

Hiberno-Normans, or Norman Irish (Normánach; Gall, 'foreigners'), refer to Irish families descended from Norman settlers who arrived during the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century, mainly from England and Wales.

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Offica

Tomas Adedayo Adeyinka (born September 2000), commonly known by his stage name Offica, is an Irish rapper of Nigerian descent.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.

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Oliver Plunkett

Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket; Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot.

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Once Upon a Time (TV series)

Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy adventure drama television series that aired for seven seasons on ABC from October 23, 2011, to May 18, 2018.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (Ospidéal Mhuire Lourdes) is a public hospital located in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

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Paddy Gavin

Patrick Joseph Gavin (6 June 1929 – 8 April 2006) was a footballer who played for Dundalk and Doncaster Rovers, mainly as a left back.

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Paddy O'Hanlon

Patrick Michael O'Hanlon (8 May 1944 – 7 April 2009), known as Paddy O'Hanlon, was an Irish barrister and former nationalist politician in Ireland.

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Parliament of Ireland

The Parliament of Ireland (Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until the end of 1800.

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Passage grave

A passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones.

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Patrick Curtis (bishop)

Patrick Curtis (1740 – 26 July 1832) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Peadar Tóibín

Peadar Tóibín (born 19 June 1974) is an Irish politician who has served as leader of Aontú since January 2019.

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Peerage of Ireland

The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Phil Hogan

Philip Hogan (born 4 July 1960) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade between 2019 and 2020, and previously European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development between 2014 and 2019. He previously served as Irish Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government from 2011 to 2014 and Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 1994 to 1995, as well as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency from 1989 to 2014.

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Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer.

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Pope

The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland

A postal address in Ireland is a place of delivery defined by Irish Standard (IS) EN 14142-1:2011 ("Postal services. Address databases") and serviced by the universal service provider, italic.

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Poynings' Law (on certification of acts)

Poynings' Law or the Statute of Drogheda (10 Hen. 7. c. 4 (I) or 10 Hen. 7. c. 9 (I); later titled "An Act that no Parliament be holden in this Land until the Acts be certified into England") was a 1494 Act of the Parliament of Ireland which provided that the parliament could not meet until its proposed legislation had been approved both by Ireland's Lord Deputy and Privy Council and by England's monarch (the Lord of Ireland) and Privy Council.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.

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Priesthood in the Catholic Church

The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church.

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Privy Council of England

The Privy Council of England, also known as His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, was a body of advisers to the sovereign of the Kingdom of England.

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Professional Darts Corporation

The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the World Darts Council (WDC).

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Provinces of Ireland

There are four provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

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Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (sometimes called the "Reform Act of 1885").

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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 B is the reserve team of the Republic of Ireland national football team.

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The Republic of Ireland national football team (Foireann peile náisiúnta Phoblacht na hÉireann) represents the Republic of Ireland in men's international football.

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The Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team is a representative team of Irish football players.

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River Boyne

The River Boyne (An Bhóinn or Abhainn na Bóinne) is a river in Leinster, Ireland, the course of which is about long.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath

The Diocese of Meath (Dioecesis Midensis; Deoise na Mí) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church that is located in the middle part of Ireland.

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Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell

Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (13 June 1902 – 19 November 1963) was an English historian, writer and archivist.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between European and United States teams.

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Saint Laurence Gate

The Saint Laurence Gate is a barbican which was built in the 13th century as part of the walled fortifications of the medieval town of Drogheda in Ireland.

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Saint-Mandé

Saint-Mandé is a high-end commune of the Val-de-Marne department in Île-de-France in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Salinas, California

Salinas (Spanish for "Salt Flats") is a city in the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Monterey County.

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Samba

Samba is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba), samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Seamus Mallon

Seamus Mallon, MP First Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (1999–2001).

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Sean Thornton

Sean Thornton (born 18 May 1983) is a former professional footballer.

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Setanta Sports Cup

The Setanta Sports Cup was a club football competition featuring teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland.

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Shamrock Rovers F.C.

Shamrock Rovers Football Club (Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige) is an Irish professional football club based in Tallaght, South Dublin.

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Shane Monahan (rugby union)

Shane Monahan (born 28 April 1987) is an Irish professional rugby union player.

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Sheffield United F.C.

Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Sherlock (TV series)

Sherlock is a British mystery crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.

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Shrewsbury Town F.C.

Shrewsbury Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

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Siege of Drogheda

The siege of Drogheda took place from 3 to 11 September 1649, at the outset of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

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South Armagh (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

South Armagh was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

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South Louth (UK Parliament constituency)

South Louth was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected on a system of first-past-the-post, from 1885 to 1918.

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St John Ambulance Ireland

St John Ambulance Ireland (SJAI), previously known as the St John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland, is a charitable voluntary organisation in Ireland.

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St Oliver's Community College is a coeducational secondary school in Drogheda, Republic of Ireland.

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St. Peter's Church of Ireland, Drogheda

St.

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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda

St.

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Star and crescent

The conjoined representation of a crescent and a star is used in various historical contexts, including as a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire, and in contemporary times, as a national symbol by some countries, and as a symbol of Islam.

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State Street Corporation

State Street Corporation (stylized in all caps), is a global financial services and bank holding company headquartered at One Congress Street in Boston with operations worldwide.

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Steve Staunton

Stephen Staunton (born 19 January 1969) is an Irish football manager, scout and former professional footballer.

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Stevenage F.C.

Stevenage Football Club (known as Stevenage Borough Football Club until 2010) is a professional association football club based in the town of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Sunderland A.F.C.

Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Susan Connolly (poet)

Susan Connolly (born 1956) is an Irish poet.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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T. K. Whitaker

Thomas Kenneth Whitaker (8 December 1916 – 9 January 2017) was an Irish economist, politician, diplomat and civil servant who served as Secretary (administrative head) of Ireland's Department of Finance from 1956 to 1969, as Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 1969 to 1976 and as a Senator from 1977 to 1982, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.

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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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Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland

Numbers on the Irish telephone numbering plan are regulated and assigned to operators by ComReg.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.

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The Irish Times

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

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The Pale

The Pale (Irish: An Pháil) or the English Pale (An Pháil Shasanach or An Ghalltacht) was the part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages.

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The Tholsel, Drogheda

The Tholsel (Halla an Bhaile) is a municipal building in West Street, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.

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TheJournal.ie

The Journal (formerly styled as TheJournal.ie) is an online newspaper in Ireland.

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Thomas Charles Wright

Thomas Charles Wright (1799–1868) was an Irish-born naval admiral.

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Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond

Thomas FitzJames FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond (died 1467/68), called 'Thomas of Drogheda', and also known as the Great Earl, was the son of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond and Mary de Burgh.

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Thomas Lancaster

Thomas Lancaster (died 1583) was an English Protestant clergyman, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh from 1568.

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Thomas McLaughlin (engineer)

Dr.

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Time in the Republic of Ireland

Ireland uses Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+01:00; Am Caighdeánach Éireannach) in the summer months and Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+00:00; Meán-Am Greenwich) in the winter period.

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Tommy Breen

Tommy Breen (27 April 1912 – 1 March 1988) was an Irish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for, among others, Belfast Celtic, Manchester United, Linfield and Shamrock Rovers.

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Tommy Byrne (racing driver)

Thomas Byrne (born 6 May 1958) is a former racing driver from Ireland.

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Tony Byrne (boxer)

Anthony Byrne (6 July 1930 – 27 April 2013), commonly known as Tony Byrne or Socks Byrne, was an amateur boxer.

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Tony Martin (politician)

Anthony A. Martin (born August 31, 1948) is a Canadian politician.

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Town

A town is a type of a human settlement.

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Townley Hall

Townley Hall is a Georgian country house which stands in parkland at Tullyallen some 5 km west of Drogheda, County Louth in the Republic of Ireland.

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Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional sports club located in the city of Trabzon.

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UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.

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UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League (previously known as the UEFA Cup), abbreviated as UEL or sometimes UEFA EL, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs.

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Uilleann pipes

The uilleann pipes, also known as Union pipes and sometimes called Irish pipes, are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United Park

Weavers Park, also known as United Park, and formerly O2 Park, Hunky Dorys Park and Head In The Game Park for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Drogheda, Ireland.

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Urban and rural districts (Ireland)

Urban and rural districts were divisions of administrative counties in Ireland created in 1899.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.

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Visit by Pope John Paul II to Ireland

Pope John Paul II visited Ireland from Saturday, 29 September to Monday, 1 October 1979, the first trip to Ireland by a pope.

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Warrenpoint Town F.C.

Warrenpoint Town Football Club is an intermediate Northern Irish football club that plays in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League.

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Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487.

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Western European Time

Western European Time (WET, UTC±00:00) is a time zone covering parts of western Europe and consists of countries using UTC±00:00 (also known as Greenwich Mean Time, abbreviated GMT).

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Wexford

Wexford is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Drogheda and Wexford are boroughs in the Republic of Ireland.

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White people

White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.

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William Hughes (senator)

William Hughes (April 3, 1872January 30, 1918) was an American politician of Irish origin.

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William Kenny (VC)

William Kenny VC (24 August 1880 – 10 January 1936) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Women's International Boxing Federation

The Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) is one of the more recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in women's boxing.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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Yasmine Akram

Yasmine Akram (born 11 March 1981) is an Irish-Pakistani actress, writer and comedian.

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1412 in Ireland

Events from the year 1412 in Ireland.

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1956 Summer Olympics

The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956.

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2000 Summer Olympics

The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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References

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

Also known as Colp, Drogheda, County of the town of Drogheda, Drogheda Borough Council, Drogheda Town, Drogheda, County Louth, Drogheda, Ireland, Droichead Átha, Mell, Drogheda.

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