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  2. Follow Me up to Carlow - Wikipedia

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    The air is reputed to have been played as a marching tune by the pipers of Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne in 1580. [1]The words were written by Patrick Joseph McCall (1861–1919) and appear in his Songs of Erinn (1899) under the title "Marching Song of Feagh MacHugh".

  3. James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster - Wikipedia

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    Leinster was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy from 1741 before succeeding his father as 20th Earl of Kildare in 1743. [2] He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1746 [3] and in 1747, on the occasion of his marriage (see below), he was created Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and took his seat in the British House of ...

  4. Duke of Leinster - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Leinster (/ ˈ l ɪ n s t ər /; [2] [3] Irish: Diúc Laighean [4]) is a title and the premier dukedom in the Peerage of Ireland.The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Leinster are: Marquess of Kildare (1761), Earl of Kildare (1316), Earl of Offaly (1761), Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham (1747), Baron of Offaly (c. 1193), Baron Offaly (1620) and Baron Kildare, of ...

  5. FitzGerald dynasty - Wikipedia

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    George FitzGerald, Marquess of Kildare (1783–1784), eldest son of the 2nd duke, died in infancy; Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791–1874), second son of the 2nd duke, member of the Privy Council and was Lord High Constable of Ireland for William IV and Queen Victoria; Other titles (4th Duke onwards): Baron Kildare (UK 1870)

  6. John FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare - Wikipedia

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    John FitzThomas (c. 1250 – d. 10 September 1316) was an Anglo-Norman in the Peerage of Ireland, as 4th Lord of Offaly from 1287 and subsequently as 1st Earl of Kildare from 1316. Life [ edit ]

  7. Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare - Wikipedia

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    Gerald FitzGerald inherited the title of Earl of Kildare in 1477. [3] He was appointed Lord Deputy in 1477, but was quickly replaced by Lord Grey of Codnor on the supposition that an Englishman could do the job better. The Lords of the Pale set up a breakaway Parliament in protest, and Edward IV was forced to re-install Lord Kildare. [2]

  8. Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Kildare - Wikipedia

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    Lord Kildare was the son of Edward FitzGerald, younger son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and his second wife Elizabeth Grey, a cousin of Henry VIII.Edward married Agnes Leigh, daughter of Sir John Leigh of Stockwell, Surrey, [1] who was a half-brother of Queen Catherine Howard, the fifth queen of Henry VIII, both of them being children of Joyce Culpepper.

  9. Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare - Wikipedia

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    Dress of gallowglasses, c. 1521.Many fought on Fitzgerald's side. Illustration of the Earl of Kildare throwing down the sword of state.. He summoned the council to St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, and on 11 June 1534, accompanied by 140 armoured gallowglasses with silk fringes on their helmets (from which he got his nickname), rode to the abbey and publicly renounced his allegiance to his cousin King ...