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  2. List of earls in the peerages of Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.It does not include extant earldoms which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with marquessates or dukedoms and are today only seen as subsidiary titles.

  3. Peerage of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages.Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as ...

  4. List of earldoms - Wikipedia

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    This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.

  5. Earl of Antrim - Wikipedia

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    Both titles were in the Peerage of Ireland. His eldest son, the second Earl, fought as a Royalist in the Civil War and was created Marquess of Antrim in the Peerage of Ireland in 1645. He was childless and on his death in 1682 the marquessate became extinct. He was succeeded in the viscountcy and earldom by his younger brother, the third Earl.

  6. Flight of the Earls - Wikipedia

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    The President of Ireland Mary McAleese unveiled a statue by John Behan depicting the Flight at Rathmullan. [12] There is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the Flight of the Earls and the subsequent plantation in Draperstown in Northern Ireland and at the "Flight of the Earls Centre" in the Martello tower at Rathmullan.

  7. Earl of Ormond (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    Walter, the eleventh earl, was given an English peerage as Lord Butler of Llanthony in 1801, [5] and was created the Marquess of Ormonde in the Peerage of Ireland in 1816; on his death that title became extinct and the earldoms passed to his brother, for whom the title Marquess of Ormonde was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1825. That ...

  8. Category:Earls in the Peerage of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    M. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney; Edward Brabazon, 2nd Earl of Meath; Edward Brabazon, 4th Earl of Meath; William Brabazon, 3rd Earl of Meath; John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira

  9. Earl of Tyrone - Wikipedia

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    The Earl of Tyrone is a title created three times in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created for the final time in 1746 for Marcus Beresford, 1st Viscount Tyrone , son-in-law of the last de Poer earls.