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(Encyclopedia) Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, 1816–1903, Irish-Australian statesman. He founded (1842) the Nation, a patriotic Irish literary journal. Duffy agitated for the repeal of the union of Ireland and England, ...

(Encyclopedia) Tennent, William, 1673–1745, American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, b. Ireland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1695. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. He emigrated to America c.171...

(Encyclopedia) Grenville, George Nugent Temple, 1st marquess of Buckingham, 1753–1813, British statesman; second son of George Grenville. He sat in the House of Commons from 1774 until 1779, when he succeeded his ...

(Encyclopedia) Muckross, Republic of Ireland: see Killarney. ...

(Encyclopedia) Queenstown, Republic of Ireland: see Cóbh. ...

(Encyclopedia) Aghrim, Republic of Ireland: see Aughrim. ...

(Encyclopedia) Great Blasket: see Blasket Islands, Ireland. ...

(Encyclopedia) Charles I, 1600–1649, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625–49), second son of James I and Anne of Denmark. There were no decisive victories in the civil war until Charles was defeated at...

(Encyclopedia) Kells, Republic of Ireland: see Ceanannus Mór. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dunleary, Republic of Ireland: see Dún Laoghaire. ...