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  • ...ick-making. Flint is extracted commercially too, leaving lakes, at Priory Country Park, at [[Wyboston]] and at [[Felmersham]]. *{{i-Park}} Priory Country Park
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  • ...your first 40 years you have established your credentials not just in this country, but on the world stage."</blockquote> * James Joyce (Webmaster)
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  • ...bles_and_Appendices.pdf |title=STATISTICAL TABLES Census 2011 – Town and Country |publisher=Central Statistics Office | accessdate=26 April 2013}}</ref> Th ...ducing new families such as Burke, Gibbons, Staunton, Prendergast, Morris, Joyce, Walsh, Barrett, Lynott, Costello, Padden and Price, Norman names are still
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  • ...h centuries and was described by William Camden as "the chief citie of the country". However, population growth stagnated by the mid 19th century as more dyna ...Hodges Baily were 'unable to withstand Carmarthen's inclement weather', as Joyce and Victor Lodwick put it (see 'The Story of Carmarthen' p.&nbsp;391). Alth
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  • ...the world.<ref name="GM Arch"/> In 1871 Oldham had more spindles than any country in the world bar the United States, and in 1909, was spinning more cotton t *{{cite book|first=Joyce |last=Marlow |title=The Peterloo Massacre |publisher=Rapp & Whiting |year=1
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  • '''Bristol''' is the major city of the West Country. It stands on the boundary of [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Somerset]], 105 mi ...ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35299|title=BRISTOL: Introduction|last=Horn|first=Joyce M|year=1996|work=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 8: Bristol, G
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  • ...lin Institute of Technology (DIT) is a modern technical college and is the country's largest non-university third-level institution. It specialises in technic ...ames Joyce: ''Ulysses''. ''Dubliners'' is a collection of short stories by Joyce about incidents and characters typical of residents of the city in the earl
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  • ...has attracted artistic interpretations, including an opera.<ref>McMillan, Joyce (3 March 2007) [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=336112007 "S ...abit of referring to Hirta as 'the high country' and Boreray as 'the north country'.<ref>Fleming (2005)</ref>
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  • ...e population today is made up of commuters to [[Birmingham]] and the Black Country. ...town and surrounding area is at the south western extremity of the [[Black Country]] and the majority of the working-class population retain the region's acce
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  • ...itsouthshropshire.co.uk/ludlow.htm Ludlow "England's finest market town" - Country Life]</ref> An annual coracle regatta is held on the Teme. In June 2005 it ...must have been at least one boat on the river at that time.<ref>F. Wayland Joyce, ''Tenbury - Some Record of its History'' (1931)</ref>
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  • ...y language only in a small number of rural areas mostly in the west of the country, collectively known as the [[Gaeltacht]]. According to a Georgetown University study, the country has one of the highest rates of regular attendance at Roman Catholic Mass i
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  • ...w Gap (carrying the R756) at 1,567 feet are the highest road passes in the country. *{{cite book |last1=Joyce |first1=P. W. |authorlink1=Patrick Weston Joyce |title=Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland |url=http://www.libraryireland.com/A
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  • ...ed from the name of a Gaelic clann or sept called the ''Múghdhorna''.<ref>Joyce, Patrick. ''The origin and history of Irish names of places''. 1869. p.128< ...y near Spelga Dam - geograph.org.uk - 1141416.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mourne country near Spelga Dam]]
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  • ...mes of Places |last=Joyce |first=Patrick Weston |authorlink=Patrick Weston Joyce |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co |year=1898 |page=305 |isbn=0-946130-11-6 ...f name=glassie-ballymenone /> Some of these tales are recounted in the old country song, "Ma na Bh Fianna (Monea) – The Plain of the Deer".<ref>{{cite web |
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  • The harbour, one of the largest in the country, and base for a now limited car ferry route to [[Great Britain]], is notabl The 820-berth marina is the largest in the country, and opened in 2001 following resistance for over 15 years by a group led b
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  • ...n to pass through the area.<ref name=Blyth>The Changing Face of Hedge End. Joyce B Blyth</ref> There is also a record that dates the crossing of the [[River ...sic played on air. Skyline produces a wide variety of programmes — rock, country, pop, local bands, easy listening — and regularly features interviews fro
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  • ...to a self-confident town.<ref name="S+D">{{cite book |author=Alan Ross and Joyce Raven |year=1998 |title=Stalybridge and Dukinfield |publisher=Chalford Publ ...up the 'Stalybridge Police Force', which was the first of its kind in the country. By this year the population of the town had reached 14,216 with 2.357 inha
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  • ...d which has been redeveloped as an extension to the Northolt and Greenford Country Park. The development consists of four large, man-made conical hills (built ...rrested in 1992 following police surveillance.<ref>Harnden, Toby. ''Bandit Country: the IRA and South Armagh'', pgs. 320-28.</ref>
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  • ...reted this as "a place full of little hills or brakes",<ref>Patrick Weston Joyce: Irish Local Names Explained (1870)</ref> which may be a reference to the n ...t one of Ireland's most prestigious and established blues festivals in the country;<ref>Monaghan Post, 2007-09-06. "[http://www.monaghanpost.com/2007/09/06/ W
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  • ...inna.<ref>{{cite book |title=Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland |author=P. W. Joyce | chapter=Cavan |url=http://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Cavan.php |year=19 ...Ireland, as it formed a physical boundary between the east and west of the country. In the Irish Confederate Wars of 1641-53, the Irish retreated behind the S
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