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The Northern Ireland Office is led by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who sits in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland is a distinct legal jurisdiction, separate from the two other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom (England and Wales, and Scotland).
In the autumn of 1695 a merchant galley called the Ouzel (meaning blackbird) sailed out of Ringsend in Dublin under the command of Captain Eoghan Massey of Waterford.Her destination, it was supposed at the time, was the port of Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire (now İzmir in Turkey), where the vessel's owners – the Dublin shipping company of Ferris, Twigg and Cash – intended her to engage in a ...
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Maura Higgins (born 25 November 1990) [1] is an Irish television personality, television presenter and model. [2] She rose to prominence in 2019, when she was a finalist on the fifth series of ITV2 reality series Love Island. [3]
Ireland has a total area of 84,421 km 2 (32,595 sq mi), [1] [2] [112] of which the Republic of Ireland occupies 83 percent. [113] Ireland and Great Britain, together with many nearby smaller islands, are known collectively as the British Isles. [114]
"The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast" [7] D'anam chun De! but there it is— The dawn on the hills of Ireland ! God's angels lifting the night's black veil From the fair, sweet face of my sireland ! O, Ireland! isn't grand you look— Like a bride in her rich adornin ! With all the pent-up love of my heart I bid you the top of the ...
6 February – Jackie Blanchflower, capped 12 times for the Northern Ireland national football team, survives the Munich air disaster involving Manchester United on the return flight from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia.