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  • [[File:Flag of Ireland.svg|right|thumb|200px|The Irish Flag]] ...reland which was separated from the [[United Kingdom]] in 1922 to form the Irish Free State.
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  • ...0s, as the Duke of Portland built housing to encourage people escaping the Irish potato famine to come and work at his nearby collieries. As in many other p ...ds the southern end. After the 1920s houses in Ashington were built by the council, and were most often semi-detached houses, such as Garden City Villas. Thes
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  • ...of [[Liverpool]] and 15 miles southwest of [[Preston]], standing on the [[Irish Sea]] coast, fringed to the north by the [[River Ribble|Ribble]] Estuary. ...cial">{{cite web | url=http://www.southportairshow.com/ | publisher=Sefton Council | title=Southport Air Show Official | accessdate=2006-08-01}}</ref> and the
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  • An early name for the whole area of the Wicklow Mountains in the Irish language was ''Cualu''. There are also historic names for various territori ...ster]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mountainviews.ie/list/900m/ |title=900m Irish Mountains |work=MountainViews.ie |accessdate=5 July 2011 }}</ref>
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  • ...the Park district (modern-day town centre, around Parker St.) was known as Irish Park. ...ref>[http://www.burnley.gov.uk/youthscene/didyouknows.html Burnley Borough Council]. Accessed 6 September 2007.</ref>
    24 KB (3,843 words) - 09:42, 27 June 2016
  • ...Gaelic influence, the Lewis accent is frequently considered to sound more Irish or Welsh than stereotypically Scottish in some quarters. The Gaelic culture *Water sports
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  • ...ding the town not only with a water route to Manchester, but also to the [[Irish Sea]].<ref name="Nevell 92">Nevell (1997), p.&nbsp;92.</ref> ...liss (1992), p.&nbsp;58.</ref><ref>Nevell (1997) pp.&nbsp;106–107.</ref> Irish immigrants in the 1830s and 1840s brought Roman Catholicism to the area, th
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  • |irish=Droim Sean Bhoth The town takes its name from the Irish, ''Druim-Sean-Bhoth'' or "Ridge of the old huts".
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  • |website=[http://www.canveyisland-tc.gov.uk Parish council] ...ares of ''Canvey Lake Local Nature Reserve'' owned by Castle Point Borough Council. The lake existed as a means to facilitate the salt-making process during t
    33 KB (5,202 words) - 09:23, 16 November 2022
  • ...e northern side of the turning and, like [[Blackpool]], looks out over the Irish Sea, while Lytham is on the eastern side and looks over the Ribble Estuary. ...atoz/toptasks/index.asp?catID=16308 Official website for Lancashire County Council government]</ref>
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  • ...library,<ref name="Library">{{citation |unused_data=publisher=Salford City Council |url=http://www.salford.gov.uk/living/yourcom/salfordlife/aboutsalford.htm ...alford&nbsp;– Local History|publisher=salford.gov.uk|author=Salford City Council|accessdate=2 March 2008|date=6 August 2003|postscript=<!--none-->|authorlin
    45 KB (6,733 words) - 19:06, 22 October 2019
  • ...age flags can be a world away from this and belonging to the town, not its council. ...|| [[Belfast]] [{{Flag Institute|Belfast}}], Co Antrim || A banner of the Council arms: it shows a ship and a bell (suggesting the City's name), and a pile
    24 KB (3,544 words) - 07:30, 19 November 2023
  • ...Ó Neills).<ref name="RiseOfPortadown"/> The stronghold referred to in the Irish name ''Port an Dúnáin'' was likely the stronghold of the Mac Cana. ...ar against the English reconquest of Ireland. This ended in defeat for the Irish clanns, and much of their land was seized by the English. In 1608, James I
    28 KB (4,293 words) - 17:55, 29 January 2016
  • ...eltic Sea''. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.]</ref> The river has played ...ith the now disused [[Newry Canal]], which once gave access south to the [[Irish Sea]].
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  • ...three storeys. At one time, Armoy was the main religious settlement in the Irish part of the kingdom of [[Dalriada]]. ...rmoy has played host to what has become one of the stand out events in the Irish Road Racing callender, The Armoy Road Race, also known as "The Race of Lege
    7 KB (1,190 words) - 18:25, 5 April 2019
  • |irish=Camloch == Sports ==
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  • ...e covered by the new Town council). Campaigners promised that the new Town Council would increase the pace of regeneration within the town. ...ans C2C Cycle Route, a 140-mile bicycle route connecting Whitehaven on the Irish Sea coast of [[Cumberland]] to [[Sunderland]] on the North Sea coast of [[C
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  • ...opened six years later, constructed by a workforce of around 1,200 mostly Irish navvies under the direction of chief engineer Harrison Hayter and implement ...built at the seaward end. In 1929, the pier was bought by Penarth Borough Council, who added a new pier-head berthing pontoon, and in 1930 the current art de
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  • ...is a town in [[Lancashire]] at the mouth of the [[River Mersey]] on the [[Irish Sea]]. It is northwest of [[Liverpool]] along the Mersey shore and the two ...er.com/history/historic/irish-immigration.shtml |title=Merseyside History, Irish Immigration in Liverpool|publisher=Mersey Reporter}}</ref> The wealth to pa
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  • ...er of [[the Fylde]]. It stands in and fills the spit of land between the [[Irish Sea]] and the [[River Wyre]], which thus enters the sea here. Fleetwood ha ...self is on a peninsula almost two miles wide, bounded to the west by the [[Irish Sea]], to the north by Morecambe Bay, and to the east by the River Wyre. Ac
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