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The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Dance, Music
Length:
336 words
Ireland's most famous dance personality remains Ninette de Valois. Although she spent most of her working life in England, she formed an eight-year collaboration with the Abbey Theatre ... More
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The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
132 words
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1
Seventh-century Ireland was divided into about 150 small kingdoms called tuatha, some becoming loosely aggregated into larger tribal units. The main tribe in the north-west was the ... More
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World Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
508 words

Second largest island of the British Isles. Ireland is w of Great Britain. The Irish Sea and St George's

Ireland, Republic of

Ireland, Republic of   Quick reference

World Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
606 words
Illustration(s):
4

The Republic of Ireland consists of a large lowland region surrounded by a broken rim of low mountains. The lowlands

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

Jane Suiter

The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
1,202 words

Over the decades since independence from Britain, Ireland (population 4.6 million) has transformed into one of the most open economies

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

Thomas Phelim Kelly and Harry A. Walsh

Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Social sciences, Society and culture
Length:
12,809 words
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Robert T. Francoeur The Republic of Ireland—“Eire” in the Irish language—occupies five sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean west of Great Britain. Slightly ... More
Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
4,517 words

Up to the arrival of W. B. Yeats in the 1890s, the Irish theatre was colonial. Yeats, with a little

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Religion, Social sciences
Length:
4,217 words

Much of what we know of the religion of the first people of Ireland comes to us from myth and

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,160 words
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1

Ireland emerges from prehistory in the 5th c., with the formal establishment of Christianity in 431 by Palladius, sent

Ireland and the Irish

Ireland and the Irish   Reference library

Leon Litvack

The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (19th century)
Length:
912 words

The attitude Dickens adopted toward Ireland and the Irish was a fusion of objectified pronouncements and informed observation. His interest in the ...

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
Length:
199 words
The English lordship over Ireland was established by Henry II in 1171, and colonization of Ireland gave England control of around two-thirds of the island by the end of the thirteenth ... More
Ireland

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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Society and culture, Customs and Traditions, Social sciences, Regional and Area Studies
Length:
1,768 words

Second largest of the British Isles, 32,595 square miles in area, largest of all Celtic lands; its modern population, over

Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
243 words

The leaders of the rising of 1916, drawing on a long political tradition (see republicanism), proclaimed an

Ireland, names for

Ireland, names for   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
328 words

The commonest name for ‘Ireland’ is Old Irish Ériú, Modern Éire, which may mean ‘fertile country’ (<Indo‐European [*]

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
4,894 words

archaeology, Irish

archaeology, Irish   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Literature
Length:
628 words

The study of the human past in Ireland, through analysis of the material remains of different cultures, has established that

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

Richard Corballis

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature
Length:
1,419 words
had an early impact on New Zealand and its literature thanks to the significant percentage of Irish among the early settlers. Irish New Zealanders (some 17 per cent of the total ... More
Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Brontes

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (19th century)
Length:
591 words

Both Revd Patrick *Brontë and Revd A. B. *Nicholls were born in the north of Ireland, Brontë in ...

archaeology: Ireland

archaeology: Ireland   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,482 words

1. Introduction 2. Pre-Norman period 3. Urban archaeology 4. Rural settlement 5. Future directions

1. Introduction

Many archaeological investigations have been

Ireland

Ireland   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Religion
Length:
1,845 words

In the context of the European Reformation, Tudor Ireland and the Spanish Netherlands stand out as exceptions to the usual

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