Introduction When Christianity was introduced to Ireland, some old Gaelic names became more popular because they sounded similar to saints' names e.g. Treasa > Teresa | Máiréad > Margaret | Áine > Anna.
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Award-Winning Irish Movies Here's our selection of Irish movies that brought Ireland to international attention, with an honourable mention to the Irish county in which they were set or filmed...
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The Clans of Ireland
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Agnes Jones 1832 Agnes Jones was born in 1832 in Cambridge to Irish immigrant parents.
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The Kingdom as it's often referred to has some of the most spectacular sights on the island from the Ring of Kerry, Skellig Islands to the Dingle Peninsula it's no wonder over 1 million tourists stopped off there last year.
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Background There are 289 parishes in Northern Ireland (i.e. Counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone).
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THE IRISH TOOK THE BOAT
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In the 1720s Dean Jonathan Swift gav
Kiltullagh Killimordaly (Galway) Galway
Irish Soda Bread Soda bread – the staple of the people in rural Ireland especially (where yeast was hard to come by) is still a top favourite on this island today.
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