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Leix

(Encyclopedia)Leix, Ireland: see Laoighis.

Ovoca

(Encyclopedia)Ovoca: see Avoca, river, Ireland.

Downpatrick

(Encyclopedia)Downpatrick dounˌpătˈrĭk [key], town, Down dist., E Northern Ireland, at the southwest extremity of ...

Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan

(Encyclopedia)Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, 1816–1903, Irish-Australian statesman. He founded (1842) the Nation, a patriotic Irish literary journal. Duffy agitated for the repeal of the union of Ireland and England, ...

Mitchel, John

(Encyclopedia)Mitchel, John, 1815–75, Irish revolutionist and journalist. A practicing lawyer, Mitchel contributed articles to the Nation (Dublin) and the United Irishman, which he founded in 1848, calling for re...

Tennent, William

(Encyclopedia)Tennent, William, 1673–1745, American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, b. Ireland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1695. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. He emigrated to America c.171...

Great Blasket

(Encyclopedia)Great Blasket: see Blasket Islands, Ireland. ...

Muckross

(Encyclopedia)Muckross, Republic of Ireland: see Killarney. ...

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