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George Bernard Shaw received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
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Sheep dog herding the sheep.
A well trained sheepdog is a key aid for moving sheep from one field to another and essential for gathering mountain sheep. Training and handling sheepdogs is a very skilled job and well trained dogs are very valuable. The most common breed of sheep dog is the Border Collie.
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Labbacallee wedge-shaped tomb
Labbacallee wedge tomb (Leaba Caillighe in Irish, meaning The Hag's Bed) is a large prehistoric burial monument, located 8km north of Fermoy in Co. Cork. Labbacallee is thought to have been built during the early Bronze Age, circa 1500 BC. The site is one of the largest Irish examples of a wedge tomb.
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Glór
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Patrick Sarsfield, First Earl of Lucan
Patrick Sarsfield played an important role on the Jacobite side during the Williamite war in Ireland.
Courtesy of 'The History of County Dublin, 1906'.
Transport by Train
This method of public transport was faster and more efficient than anything that had been seen before.
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William Rowan-Hamilton
William Rowan-Hamilton
Mayo County Library
Ennis Friary, Creagh tomb
Ennis Friary, Creagh tomb. Detail of a scene showing the betrayal of Christ. This is very similar to a number of carvings found on alabaster altar pieces made in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is probably a copy of one, that perhaps once decorated the altar at Ennis.
Fairtrade shop
The front of a fairtrade shop.
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ArcticExternalPlaySeekMute
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- Ask about Ireland
Ask about Ireland
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The Minstrel Boy
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Siúl a Rúin
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- eBook: The King of Ireland's Son, Part 1
eBook: The King of Ireland's Son, Part 1
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eBook: Cú Chulainn and Emer
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MP3: An Síofra
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Colour Sheet: Sparrow Hawk
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Rince Philib a' Cheoil
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- O'Connell, Philip. The Diocese of Kilmore: It's History and Antiquities. Dublin: Browne and Nolan Ltd., 1937
O'Connell, Philip. The Diocese of Kilmore: It's History and Antiquities. Dublin: Browne and Nolan Ltd., 1937
Phillip O'Connell's The Diocese of Kilmore: It's History and Antiquities tells the story of the diocese from the coming of St. Patrick to Ireland in the 5th century until the early 20th century.The diocese of Kilmore encompasses most of County Cavan and parts of counties Leitrim, Fermanagh, Meath and Sligo and straddles the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan diocese which fall under the Archdiocese of Armagh, the most senior primatial see in Ireland.
Cavan County Library
- Simington, Robert C. The civil survey A.D. 1654-1656: County of Tipperary. Volume 1. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931
Simington, Robert C. The civil survey A.D. 1654-1656: County of Tipperary. Volume 1. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931
The Civil Survey A.D. 1654-1656: County of Tipperary edited by Robert C. Simington (1885-1976) of the Quit Rent Office was published in two volumes between 1931 and 1934. The mid 17th century survey consists of returns of the extent and value of lands forfeited by Catholic and Royalist rebels in County Tipperary following their defeat during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Tipperary Joint Libraries
- Synge, John Millington, The Aran Islands, Part I and II, Dublin: Maunsel And Company Ltd, 1912
Synge, John Millington, The Aran Islands, Part I and II, Dublin: Maunsel And Company Ltd, 1912
The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was first published in 1907. It is a four part series of essays on the geography and people of Islands with whom the playwright and author became intimate with over several summers in the late 1890s.
Environment & Geography | Galway County Library
- Somerville and Ross, Irish Memories, London. Bombay, Calcutta: Longman's, Green and Co., 1917
Somerville and Ross, Irish Memories, London. Bombay, Calcutta: Longman's, Green and Co., 1917
Irish memories is an autobiographical account of the literary lives and adventures of the writing due Somerville and Ross aka Edith Somerville and Violet Martin.
History & Heritage | Galway County Library
- 12 Statistical Survey County Clare
12 Statistical Survey County Clare
Clare County Library
- Statistical Survey of the County of Donegal
Statistical Survey of the County of Donegal
Statistical Survey of the County of Donegal, with observations on the means of improvement; drawn up in the year 1801, for the consideration, and under the direction of The Dublin Society, by James McParlan, M.D. Dublin 1802.
Donegal Cultural Services
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