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Sa Pa (listen ⓘ, also written as Sapa) is a district-level town of Lào Cai Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam. The town has an area of 685 km 2 (264 sq mi) and a population of 70,663 in 2022.
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Lisdoonvarna (Irish: Lios Dúin Bhearna, meaning 'fort of the gapped keep') [2] is a spa town in County Clare in Ireland. The town is famous for its music and festivals. Although the music festival was discontinued in the 1980s, Lisdoonvarna still hosts its annual matchmaking festival each September. The population was 829 at the 2016 census. [1]
Its most famous drink is the Football Special which was originally produced to celebrate the successes of Swilly Rovers Football Club. [12] The town was the setting for the 1995 television serial The Hanging Gale, which told of the Great Famine of the 19th century. Ramelton is also a key setting for the A.E.W. Mason novel The Four Feathers.
Rathdown School, a Church of Ireland girls school is located here too. Sallynoggin Youth and Community Centre, which opened in October 2008, offers youth groups, youth clubs, under 10's group, a senior citizens group, estate management, local voluntary groups and Sallynoggin Neighbourhood Watch.
Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ráth Maonais, meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas".The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the Norman name de Meones, after the de Meones family who settled in Dublin about 1280; Elrington Ball states that the earlier version of the name was Meonesrath, which supports the theory that it was named after the family. [5]
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]