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Urbs Intacta Manet Waterfordia "Waterford remains the untaken city" Waterford (Irish: Port Lairge) is, historically, the capital of County Waterford in Ireland, though today the city is administered separately from the county, the latter having its seat in Dungarvan. Waterford was Ireland's first city, founded by the vikings in 914 AD, which is approximately 1-2 hundred years older than Dublin. Today Waterford is the ...

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Main article - History of Waterford From 795 AD, Vikings had been raiding along the coast of Ireland. Soon the Vikings over-wintered in Ireland at ships' havens called Longphorts. A longphort was established at Waterford in 853. Waterford and all the other longphorts were vacated in 902, the Vikings having being driven out by the native Irish. According to the Irish annals, the Vikings re-established themselves in Ireland at Waterford in 914 and buil ...

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Main article: County (United States) The term "county" is used in 48 of the 50 states of the United States for the tier of state government authority immediately below the statewide tier and above the township tier, in those states that sub-divided counties into civil townships. Each county contains a county seat, which is where county offices are located (this is usually, but not always, an incorporated municipality). In some states, counties are subdivided into townships, which typically provide some or all of the loca ...

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The original pattern of 32 counties evolved over many years from the original Norman conquest of Ireland. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 was a significant milestone in the framing of the counties and their status. Some of the 32 counties are no longer the main basis for local government, planning and community development purposes, although unlike the counties in Great Britain, the Republic's traditional county boundaries are still respected for other purposes (counties on occasion being sub-divided). In the Republic o ...

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Counties of Ireland, Counties of Ireland - Map, Counties of Ireland - Local government, Counties of Ireland - Administration, Counties of Ireland - Education, Counties of Ireland - Elections, Counties of Ireland - Alphabetical list, Counties of Ireland - Former counties

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County town - Historic counties of England. Bedfordshire - Bedford Berkshire - Abingdon, then Reading Buckinghamshire - Buckingham, now Aylesbury Cambridgeshire - Cambridge Cheshire - Chester Cornwall - Bodmin, now Truro Cumberland - Carlisle Derbyshire - Derby, though County Hall is in Matlock Devon - Exeter Dorset - Dorchester County Durham - Durham Essex - Chelmsford Gloucestershire - GloucesterSee also:

County town, County town - List of county towns, County town - Historic counties of England, County town - Non-metropolitan counties of England, County town - Counties of Scotland, County town - Historic counties of Wales, County town - Traditional counties of the Republic of Ireland, County town - Other counties of the Republic of Ireland, County town - Historic counties of Northern Ireland, County town - Former county towns, County town - Former administrative counties of England, County town - Former non-metropolitan counties of England, County town - Former counties of Wales

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The island of Ireland has 32 counties, the Republic of Ireland made up of 26 of these; Northern Ireland comprises the remaining 6. The counties are subdivisions of the ancient Provinces of Ireland, made up, in general, from smaller territories. While the provinces have existed in some form for many centuries, the counties developed under the Anglo-Norman and British administrations, with the first counties formed in the century after Strongbow's ...

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• Counties of Ireland - Map
• Counties of Ireland - Local government
• Counties of Ireland - Administration
• Counties of Ireland - Education
• Counties of Ireland - Elections
• Counties of Ireland - Alphabetical list
• Counties of Ireland - Former counties

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A county town is the 'capital' of a county in the United Kingdom or Ireland. County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county. In the case of Yorkshire in England, there are three county towns, one for each Riding: Northallerton for the North Riding, Beverley for the East Riding, and Wakefield for the West Riding. Contrary to popular belief, there are no civil administrative offices for the ...

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• County town - Counties of Scotland
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• County town - Traditional counties of the Republic of Ireland
• County town - Other counties of the Republic of Ireland
• County town - Historic counties of Northern Ireland
• County town - Former county towns
• County town - Former administrative counties of England
• County town - Former non-metropolitan counties of England
• County town - Former counties of Wales

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The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Numbering Plan, is regulated by the Office of Communications (Ofcom), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) in 2003. UK telephone numbering plan - History. The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local councils. But by 1912–13 [1] all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the Post Office. Post Off ...

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• UK telephone numbering plan - History
• UK telephone numbering plan - Director system
• UK telephone numbering plan - Introduction of area codes
• UK telephone numbering plan - All figure dialling
• UK telephone numbering plan - Calls to the Republic of Ireland
• UK telephone numbering plan - Number shortage
• UK telephone numbering plan - 01 for London
• UK telephone numbering plan - PhONE Day
• UK telephone numbering plan - Big Number Change
• UK telephone numbering plan - Format
• UK telephone numbering plan - Geographic numbering
• UK telephone numbering plan - National Dialling Only ranges
• UK telephone numbering plan - Nongeographic numbering
• UK telephone numbering plan - Crown dependencies
• UK telephone numbering plan - Drama numbers
• UK telephone numbering plan - Special service numbers

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1605 - Publications. Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. 1605 - Births. April 8 - King Philip IV of Spain (died 1665) April 18 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (died 1674) July 29 - Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (died 1659) August 8 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675) August 18 - Henry Hammond, E ...

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See also Religion in the United States The religious history of the United States is a complex narrative that begins more than a century before the former British colonies became the United States of America in 1776. Many of the original settlers were men and women of deep religious convictions. That the religious intensity of the original settlers would diminish to some extent over time was perhaps to be expected, but new waves of eighteenth century immigrants brought their own religiou ...

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• Religious history of the United States - America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century
• Religious history of the United States - European Persecution
• Religious history of the United States - The Puritans
• Religious history of the United States - Bible commonwealths
• Religious history of the United States - Persecution in America
• Religious history of the United States - Jewish refuge in America
• Religious history of the United States - The Quakers
• Religious history of the United States - Pennsylvania Germans
• Religious history of the United States - Roman Catholics in Maryland
• Religious history of the United States - Virginia and the Church of England
• Religious history of the United States - Religion in Eighteenth-Century America
• Religious history of the United States - 18th Century Churches
• Religious history of the United States - Religion and the American Revolution
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• Religious history of the United States - Religion and the Congress of the Confederation
• Religious history of the United States - Religion and state governments
• Religious history of the United States - Nursing Fathers
• Religious history of the United States - Church and state debate: Massachusetts
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• Religious history of the United States - Religion and the federal government
• Religious history of the United States - Religion and the Constitution
• Religious history of the United States - Religion in the Bill of Rights
• Religious history of the United States - Early presidential support for religion
• Religious history of the United States - The state becomes the church
• Religious history of the United States - Religion and the New Republic
• Religious history of the United States - The camp meeting
• Religious history of the United States - Emergence of African American churches
• Religious history of the United States - Mormonism
• Religious history of the United States - Benevolent societies
• Religious history of the United States - External link

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The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. (Until the Act of Union of 1707 joining the Kingdoms of Scotland and England (to form the Kingdom of Great Britain), Scotland had its own Parliament (see Scottish Parliament), and the term refers to the English House of Commons (which included representatives from Wales from the 16th century). From 1707 to 1832 the term refers to the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Great BritainIncluding:

• Unreformed House of Commons - Composition of the House
• Unreformed House of Commons - County members
• Unreformed House of Commons - Borough members
• Unreformed House of Commons - University members
• Unreformed House of Commons - Welsh members
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• Unreformed House of Commons - Irish members
• Unreformed House of Commons - Unrepresented towns
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Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of the English Parliament in 1649. Since the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Ireland had been mainly under the control of the Irish Confederate Catholics, who in 1649, signed an alliance with the English Royalist party, which had been defeated in the English Civil War. Cromwell defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country - bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars. He passed a very harsh series of Penal laws against Catholics and confisca ...

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• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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This is a list of the cities in Ireland, referring to those with a city charter. Cities are arranged in terms of traditional importance. Cities in Ireland - Republic of Ireland. Dublin - (1171) (capital) - pop. 495,781 (2002) (Greater Dublin Area - pop. 1,274,100) Cork - (1172) - pop. 123,062 (2002) Limerick - (1197) - pop. 54,023 (2002) Galway - (1484) - pop. 65,832 (2002) Waterford - (1171) - 44,594 (2002) Kilkenny - (1609) † - pop. 8,591 (2002) ...

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• Cities in Ireland - Northern Ireland
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Charles Farrar Browne, (April 23, 1834 - March 6, 1867) was a United States humorous writer, best known under his nom de plume of Artemus Ward. Browne was born in Waterford, Maine. He began life as a compositor and occasional contributor to the daily and weekly journals. In 1858 he published in the Cleveland Plaindealer the first of the "Artemus Ward" series, which in a collected form achieved great popularity in both America and England. In 1860 he became editor of Vanity Fair magazine, a humorous N ...

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The History of Ireland is the story of a large island in the north-west of Europe and is heavily influenced by the concurrent History of Britain, its larger neighbour to the east. The first humans inhabited Ireland from around 7500 BC and were later responsible for major Neolithic sites such as Newgrange. Following the arrival of St. Patrick and other Christian missionaries in the mid-fifth century, a syncretized form of Christianity subsumed the indigenous pagan religion by A.D. 600. This led to a golden age of monastic Irish writing and ar ...

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• History of Ireland - Early history: 8000 BC–AD 400
• History of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800
• History of Ireland - Early medieval era 800–1166
• History of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland
• History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185
• History of Ireland - The Lordship of Ireland 1185–1254
• History of Ireland - Gaelic Resurgence Norman Decline 1254–1360
• History of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 and Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801
• History of Ireland - Re-conquest and rebellion
• History of Ireland - Civil Wars and Penal Laws
• History of Ireland - Colonial Ireland
• History of Ireland - Union with Great Britain 1801-1922
• History of Ireland - Home Rule Easter 1916 and the War of Independence
• History of Ireland - Free State/Republic 1922-present
• History of Ireland - Northern Ireland
• History of Ireland - Footnotes

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Cork (Corcaigh in Irish) is the second city of the Republic of Ireland. The principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city of the province of Munster, it is situated slightly inland from the southern coast proper, located at 51°54′N 8°28′W. Statio Bene Fide Carinis "a safe harbour for ships" The River Lee flows through the city, an island in the river forming the main part of the city centre just before the Lee flows into Lough Mahon and thence to Cork Harbour, one of the ...

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• Cork - Industry
• Cork - Twinned Cities
• Cork - Transportation
• Cork - Air
• Cork - Bus
• Cork - Ferry
• Cork - Rail
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Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig (941 - 1014) ( known as Brian Boru in English) was High King of Ireland (1002-1014) . Although the exact details of his birth are unknown, he was born in the early tenth century near Killaloe (Kincora) (in modern County Clare). His father was Cennétig mac Lorcáin, King of Thomond and his mother was Bé Binn ingen Aurchada, daughter of the King of West Connacht. Brian Boru - Royal Ascent. When Brian's father died, the kingship of Thomond passed to his older ...

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• Brian Boru - Popular image
• Brian Boru - The Dal gCais
• Brian Boru - History
• Brian Boru - Extending authority
• Brian Boru - The struggle for Ireland
• Brian Boru - Emperor of the Irish
• Brian Boru - Marriages
• Brian Boru - Cultural heritage
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Bus Éireann, or Irish Bus, provides bus services in Ireland outside Dublin. Bus Éireann, established in 1987, is a subsidiary of Córas Iompair Éireann. The logo of Bus Éireann incorporates a red Irish Setter, a breed of dog. Busáras - Central Bus Station, a much hated and a much loved structure, is located in Dublin. Cork bus station perhaps once took the award for Bus Éireann's most badly planned, dirtiest and ugliest terminus, but as of 2004 the building is in the process of being remodelled as part of the city' ...

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The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a world-wide community of religious brothers of the Catholic church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice.The first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, in 1802. The Christian Brothers, as they are commonly known, chiefly work for the evangelization and education of youth, but work in many ministries, especially ministries with the poor. Congregation of Christian Brothers - Formation. Rice considered joining a religious order on the Continent, but instead, with the su ...

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• Congregation of Christian Brothers - Expansion
• Congregation of Christian Brothers - Sexual Molestation Charges Canada
• Congregation of Christian Brothers - Today

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Chapman codes are largely a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, but covering historical divisions. They are widely used in genealogy. Chapman code - Country codes. ENG England IRL Ireland SCT Scotland WLS Wales ALL All countries Chapman code - Traditional counties. Chapman code - Islands. CHI Channel Islands A ...

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• Chapman code - England
• Chapman code - Wales
• Chapman code - Scotland
• Chapman code - Ireland
• Chapman code - 1975-1996 regions

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