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Crosaire. John Derek Crozier (12 November 1917 – 3 April 2010), under the pseudonym " Crosaire " (Irish pronunciation: ['kɾˠɔsəɾʲə] [2]), was the compiler of the cryptic crossword in The Irish Times from its inception in 1943 until the year after his death. [1] It was formally named "The Irish Times Crossword", as opposed to the non ...
The Parliament of Southern Ireland was a Home Rule legislature established by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was designed to legislate for Southern Ireland, [ 2][ 3] a political entity [ a] which was created by the British Government to solve the issue of rising Irish ...
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
Definition of "clan". The Irish word clann is a borrowing from the Latin planta, meaning 'a plant, an offshoot, offspring, a single child or children, by extension race or descendants'. [ 4 ] For instance, the O'Daly family were poetically known as Clann Dalaigh, from a remote ancestor called Dalach. [ 4 ]
Altitude. Highest point: Carrauntoohil, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland (1,041 m / 3,466 ft) Highest settlement: Meelin, County Cork, Republic of Ireland (254 m / 832 ft) Lowest point: North Slob, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. Many points are on, or near sea level, but due to high rainfall, there are no natural dry pieces of land below ...
Counties. There are four provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The Irish word for this territorial division, cúige, meaning "fifth part", suggests that there were once five, and at times Meath has been considered to be the fifth province. In the medieval period, however, there were often more than five.
Map 8: Gaul (58 BC) with important tribes, towns, rivers, etc. and early Roman provinces. Map 9: Gaul (Gallia) on the eve of Roman conquest (Celtica, which included Armorica, Belgica and Aquitania Propria were conquered while Narbonensis was conquered earlier, already ruled by the Roman Republic).
Connacht or Connaught (/ ˈkɒnɔːt, ˈkɒnə (x) t / KON-awt, KON-ə (kh)t; [5][6][7] Irish: Connachta [ˈkʊn̪ˠəxt̪ˠə] or Cúige Chonnacht [ˌkuːɟə ˈxʊn̪ˠəxt̪ˠ]), is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach ...