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However, the influx of Irish brought with it different tensions, as it increased the number of Catholics in the city. This culminated in the Bloody Monday riots in 1855. [1] By the late 1860s, Irish residents of Portland moved to the Limerick district of Louisville, in order to be closer to their jobs with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad ...
"Historic Homes and Historic Sites in Lexington, KY". Horse Capital of the World: Lexington, Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau. 7 November 2011. "History – Waveland – Historic Sites – Kentucky State Parks". 6 November 2011. Kleber, John E. "Waveland." The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1992. Print.
Concentration of Protestants on the island of Ireland by county. The Republic of Ireland covers all bar six northeastern counties. Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland refers to Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland and its predecessor, the Irish Free State. Protestants who are born in the Republic of Ireland are Irish Citizens.
“Even if you’ve lived here your whole life, you’re going to find something you didn’t know about,” the executive director said.
This list of museums in Kentucky is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The building was opened as a museum center in October 2003 under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Lexington-Fayette Urban-County Government (Lexington, Ky.) and the Commonwealth of Kentucky that stipulated the municipal government would spend a "minimum $1,000,000" to renovate the Old Fayette County Courthouse as the Lexington History Museum—an amount that was never fulfilled.
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BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for ...