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Armagh, district, Northern Ireland
(Encyclopedia)Armagh ärmäˈ [key], district, 258 sq mi (668 sq km), S Northern Ireland. Armagh rises from boggy, fertile lowlands in the north to barren hills in the south. It is the ...Armagh, city, Northern Ireland
(Encyclopedia)Armagh, city, S Northern Ireland. Textiles, chemicals, and processed foods are produced in the city. Armagh (originally Ard Macha) has been the ecclesiastical capital of all Ireland since ...Ireland, Northern
(Encyclopedia)CE5 Ireland, Northern, division of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 5,462 sq mi (14,147 sq km), NE Ireland. Made up of six o...Northern Ireland
(Encyclopedia)Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. ...Derry, city, Northern Ireland
(Encyclopedia)Derry lŭnˌdəndĕrˈē, lŭnˈdəndĕrˌē [key] city and district, NW Northern Ire...Ulster
(Encyclopedia)Ulster, northernmost of the historic provinces of Ireland. Modern Ulster consists of nine counties. Six (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Derry, and Tyrone) now make up Northern Ireland (see Ireland, ...Londonderry, city, Northern Ireland
(Encyclopedia)Londonderry: see Derry.Bangor, town, Northern Ireland
(Encyclopedia)Bangor băngˈgər [key], town, North Down dist., E Northern Ireland, on Belfast Lough. It is ...Craigavon
(Encyclopedia)Craigavon, town and district, S central Northern Ireland. Craigavon was designated one of the new towns in 1962, primarily to stimulate economic growth....Muldoon, Paul
(Encyclopedia)Muldoon, Paul, 1951–, Irish poet, b. Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, B.A. Queen's Univ., Belfast, 1973. Muldoon worked as an arts producer for the BBC (1973–86), then taught at the Univ. of East Ang...Browse by Subject
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