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  2. John Ireland (bishop) - Wikipedia

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    Died. September 25, 1918. (1918-09-25) (aged 80) Saint Paul, Minnesota. John Ireland (baptized September 11, 1838 – September 25, 1918) was an American religious leader who was the third Roman Catholic bishop and first Roman Catholic archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1888–1918). He became both a religious as well as civic leader in Saint ...

  3. J. J. Lee (historian) - Wikipedia

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    Political party. Independent. John Joseph Lee (born 9 July 1942) (commonly known as J. J. Lee), is an Irish historian and former senator. He has held the chairs of Modern History in University College Cork and Professor of History and Glucksman Professor for Irish Studies and Director of Glucksman Ireland House, at New York University.

  4. Irish people - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture. There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has been continually inhabited for more than 10,000 years (see Prehistoric Ireland).

  5. History of Freemasonry - Wikipedia

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    The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organisation known as Freemasonry.It covers three phases. Firstly, the emergence of organised lodges of operative masons during the Middle Ages, then the admission of lay members as "accepted" (a term reflecting the ceremonial "acception" process that made non-stone masons members of an operative ...

  6. History of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    History of Ireland. The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 33,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BCE. [1] The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary, around 9700 BCE, heralds the beginning of Prehistoric Ireland, which ...

  7. Timeline of Irish history - Wikipedia

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    c. 500 BC. During the Iron Age in Ireland, Celtic influence in art, language and culture begins to take hold. [4] c. 300 BC. Murder of Clonycavan Man, according to radiocarbon dating. c. 200 BC. La Tène influence from continental Europe influences carvings on the Turoe Stone, Bullaun, County Galway. [5] c. 100 BC.

  8. Irish republicanism - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Irish republicanism (Irish: poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Throughout its centuries of existence, it has encompassed various tactics and identities, simultaneously elective and militant and has been both widely supported and iconoclastic. The modern emergence of ...

  9. History of Dublin - Wikipedia

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    The city of Dublin can trace its origin back more than 1,000 years, and for much of this time it has been Ireland's principal city and the cultural, educational and industrial centre of the island. Founding and early history Main articles: History of Dublin to 795 and Early Scandinavian Dublin The Dublin area c. 800 The earliest reference to Dublin is sometimes said to be found in the writings ...