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  2. Peculiar People - Wikipedia

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    The Peculiar People, now officially known as the Union of Evangelical Churches, is a Christian movement that was originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex, by James Banyard, [1] a farm-worker's son born in 1800. They derive their name from a term of praise found in both the Old Testament and the New ...

  3. History of Ireland (400–795) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The early medieval history of Ireland, often referred to as Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age. The period includes the Hiberno-Scottish mission ...

  4. History of Christianity in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Saint Patrick in Aughagower, County Mayo. The introduction of Christianity to Ireland dates to sometime before the 5th century, presumably in interactions with Roman Britain. Christian worship had reached pagan Ireland around 400 CE. It is often misstated that Saint Patrick brought the faith to Ireland, but it was already present on ...

  5. Christianity in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Christianity (Irish: Críostaíocht) has been the largest religion in Ireland since the 5th century. After a pagan past of Antiquity, missionaries (most famously including Saint Patrick) converted the Irish tribes to Christianity in quick order. This produced a great number of saints in the Early Middle Ages, as well as a faith interwoven with ...

  6. Two by Twos - Wikipedia

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    Official website. none. Two by Twos (also known as The Truth and The Way) is an international, home-based Christian new religious movement that has its origins in Ireland at the end of the 19th century. The church has no official name; among members, the church is more usually referred to as "The Truth", "Meetings", or "the workers and friends".

  7. Religion in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Christianity is the largest religion in the Republic of Ireland based on baptisms. Irish Christianity is dominated by the Catholic Church, and Christianity as a whole accounts for 82.3% of the Irish population. Most churches are organised on an all-Ireland basis which includes both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

  8. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of British descent (sometimes more broadly of Northwestern European descent), who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often the Mainline Protestant elite. [ 2 ...

  9. What is Irish soda bread? Here's the history behind this St ...

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    Instructions. 1. Preheat the oven to 425°F (215°C). 2. Mix together the flours, salt and baking soda in a large bowl. Add the butter and rub it into the flour mixture with your fingertips until ...