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• Cumberland
  ...to the coast, stretching along the coast of the [[Solway Firth]] and the [[Irish Sea]]. ...easternmost reach, [[County Durham]]. The county's bounds lie along the [[Irish Sea]] coast, the Solway and Liddesdale to the north and along the [[Pennine
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• Blackpool
  ...[[River Ribble|Ribble]] and [[River Wyre|Wyre]] estuaries, washed by the [[Irish Sea]]. Blackpool is the heart of the long pleasure coast of Lancashire, an ...t in 1876 Blackpool was incorporated as a borough governed by its own town council and aldermen. In 1881 Blackpool was a booming resort with a population of 1
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• County Kilkenny
  |irish=Contae Chill Chainnigh ...c of Ireland. The territory of the county was the core part of the ancient Irish Kingdom of Osraige which in turn was the core of the Diocese of Ossory. Acc
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• County Offaly
  |irish=Contae Uíbh Fhailí ...<ref name="DC">{{cite web | title=Demographic context | work=Offaly County Council Development Plan 2009 - 2015 | url=http://www.offaly.ie/NR/rdonlyres/A4AD0
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• London
  ...ent, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, politics, professional services, sports, tourism, transport and culture in general all contribute to its global pos ...p=1-5-212-1376-1380_9_2__ |title=International Passenger Traffic, Airports Council International |publisher=Aci.aero |date= |accessdate=2010-05-03}}</ref>
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• St David's
  ...nd the Cathedral Close''.<ref>[http://www.stdavids.gov.uk/ St David's City Council]</ref> St David's is also a popular base for walking and water sports. It has several hotels and a youth hostel, and a number of pubs.
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• Sunbury-on-Thames
  ...is regularly used by local schools and youth organisations to teach water sports skills. Lower Sunbury has become increasingly popular with young first tim The town has been the home to London Irish Rugby Club since 1932 although since 2001 its premiership team has played a
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• River Foyle
  The Foyle takes its name from the Irish Gaelic language ''an Feabhal''.<ref>[http://www.logainm.ie/1166108.aspx Pla ...hts outside the City Council offices in the heart of Londonderry. The main sports on the river are canoeing, sailing and rowing. Water-skiing and jet-skiing
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• Bangor, County Down
  ...ay resembles the horns of a bull. It may also be linked to ''Beanna'', the Irish for cliffs. The area was also known as ''The Vale of Angels'', as Saint Pat ...The motto reads ''Beannchor'', the archaic form of the city's name in the Irish language.
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• Hartlepool
  The monkey legend is also linked with another of the town's sports clubs, Hartlepool Rovers RFC, which uses the hanging monkey as the club log ...h century around Hartlepool Abbey. The Abbey was founded by St Aidan, the Irish missionary saint, in 640 on a headland overlooking a natural harbour. The A
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• Cardiff
  ...ootball team and Cardiff Blues rugby union team) and Cardiff International Sports Stadium (the home of Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club). The city is also HQ of ...Archaeologically Sensitive Areas|date=2006-07-20|publisher=Cardiff County Council|accessdate=2008-10-01|format=PDF}}</ref> which is the natural boundary of C
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• Eastbourne
  ...release|title=Sunniest Place in Great Britain|publisher=Eastbourne Borough Council|date=22 October 2007|url=http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/eastbourne/news/2007/ ...AssetID=294&type=full&servicetype=Attachment |publisher=Eastbourne Borough Council|accessdate=27 November 2008|format=PDF}}</ref>
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• Coatbridge
  ...bridge has also been described as "uniquely populated largely by people of Irish descent".<ref>Sport and the Contestation of Ethnic Identity: Football and I ...f |title=Residential Planning Application Refusal|author=North Lanarkshire Council |accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
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• River Ribble
  ...[[Clitheroe]], [[Ribchester]] and [[Preston]], before emptying into the [[Irish Sea]] between [[Lytham St Annes]] and [[Southport]]; a length of 75 miles. ...eir 'Riverworks' proposals. The aim of these proposals is to build a water sports park on a section of the Ribble, coupled with over 4000 units of high quali
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• Alderney
  ...nal matters in Alderney) and thence to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.<ref>[http://www.alderney.gov.gg/Court-of-Alderney Court Of Alderney]</re ...way of shelter and accommodation from the ruins." An influx of English and Irish labourers, plus the sizeable British garrison stationed in the island, led
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• Cork
  |irish=Corcaigh ...isher=Cmrc.ucc.ie |date=|accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> The city is a major Irish seaport; there are quays and docks along the banks of the Lee on the city's
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• Stranraer
  Stranraer remained the main Scottish port for the Irish ferries for the next 150 years or so. ...g pool (with flume), fitness suite, gymnasium and large sports hall at the council-run Ryan Centre, as well as other football fields, parks and all-weather mu
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• Jersey
  ...groups in the island are Portuguese (around 7%, especially Madeiran); and Irish. The ethnic French community is also present and there is a growing communi Jersey is an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The Jersey cricket team plays in the Inter-insular match among other
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• Brandon Mountain
  |irish=Cnoc Bréanainn ...peak of the mountains of the peninsula's mountainous spine and the highest Irish mountain outside the [[MacGillycuddy's Reeks]].
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• Douglas
  |website=[http://www.douglas.gov.im/ Douglas Borough Council] ...SN 00665983.</ref> Current speculation links the store-buildings with the Irish Sea Herring fishery, and the import/export trade.
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• Republic of Ireland
  [[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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• Ashington
  ...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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• Southport
  ...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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• Wicklow Mountains
  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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• Burnley
  ...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>
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• Lewis
  ...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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• Altrincham
  ...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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• Drumshanbo
  |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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• Canvey Island
  |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
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• Lytham St Annes
  ...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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• Salford
  ...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
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• Town and village flags of the United Kingdom
  ...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
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• Portadown
  ...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
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• River Bann
  ...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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• Armoy
  ...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
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• Camlough
  |irish=Camloch == Sports ==
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• Stanley, County Durham
  ...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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• Penarth
  ...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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• Bootle
  ...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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• Fleetwood
  ...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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• Brigg
  ...hing inn with an early mock Tudor façade, which is now home to Brigg Town Council. Another former coaching inn, the Exchange, stands in Bigby Street, opposit ...nford|year=1988|publisher=Glanford Borough Council|author=Glanford Borough Council Leisure Services Department}}</ref> although its etymology is not specified
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• Stoke Newington
  ...voir is now a leisure facility, offering sailing, canoeing and other water sports, plus Royal Yachting Association-approved sailing courses. On its western e These days, Stoke Newington is a very multicultural area, with large Asian, Irish, Turkish, Jewish and Afro-Caribbean communities. The area continues to be h
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• Ireleth
  ...m-in-Furness]] and the two villages have grown together and share a parish council. ...y"/> while the villages' exposed position on the eastern bank facing the [[Irish Sea]] have encouraged the establishment of wind energy generation, amidst l
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• Askam-in-Furness
  ...a little inland. The two villages have grown together and share a parish council. Askam is much younger than its neighbour; it was established following th ...y"/> while the villages' exposed position on the eastern bank facing the [[Irish Sea]] have encouraged the establishment of wind energy generation, amid loc
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• Tamworth
  ...oduced the famous (or infamous) three-wheeled Robin model and the Scimitar sports car for several decades. ...eed of pig called Tamworth Pig was initially bred here using some imported Irish stock.
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• Crowborough
  |website=[http://www.crowboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk/ Crowborough Town Council] ...on smelting was carried on here, but while smelting was known locally, the Irish language was not.
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• Ennis
  |irish=Inis The name Ennis comes from the Irish word "Inis", meaning "island", which here relates to an island formed betwe
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• Galway
  |irish=Gaillimh ...It is reckoned the fourth most populous city in the [[Republic of Ireland|Irish Republic]].
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• Limerick
  |irish=Luimneach ...ows into the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. It is the third most populous city in the Irish Republic. In 2014, Limerick is to be designated Ireland's ''City of Culture
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• Sligo
  |irish=Sligeach Sligo's Irish name ''Sligeach'' - meaning shelly place - allegedly originates in the abun
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