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Edward Ryan, a third-class Irish passenger, put a towel over his head before stepping into a lifeboat.

As it is now, I feel stuck in the midst of a lot of loud, brassy Irish Catholics, and the only way I can maybe write about them all.

And some, he thought, were no more than sighs, like the one he once wrote on the sand of an Irish beach for the tide to take away.

If life doesn't inspire me to get up and do a little Irish jig every morning before breakfast, what the hell is the point of it?

Just like the majority of the Irish pubs, Irish& Co has an informal atmosphere, good service, live music and of course tasty dark beer.

Mike O'Kane, editor of the Irish Daily Star, said he treated Kate as he would any celebrity.

An Irish reporter said, It usually seems to take a visit from you to give the peace process a boost.

One of the few lit lamps at this time of night beats down on Sean's silver, slicked hair, and ruddy, Irish face.

A Lloyds spokeswoman said the bank's Irish loans are included in a catch-all category marked 'other. '

At a different level, some Irish banks operated indifferently across the island, as if the border with the North did not exist.

The Irish foreign minister, Michael Martin, said he was delighted to hear that Commins, from Dublin, and her colleague had been released.

The Irish situation reminds me of one of these loan shark advertisements: "Need money fast? No questions asked. "

I don't like Scotch. Now, if it had been Irish Whiskey you'd offered me.

Swift, though born a member of Ireland's colonial ruling class, came to be known as one of the greatest of Irish patriots.

In either case, the result was a beautiful animal, with a coat comparable to that of an Irish Setter and a temperament like a spaniel.

Above the fire place is an old Whiskey advertising mirror that would have originally been situated in an Irish pub.

In fact I've already heard of a very good job which would be just right for you, teaching the five daughters of an Irish family.

We determined to slam the door the two this marriage certificate, decided to west, led by Irish certificate of Chinese marriage had.

The blood of two or three Irish mothers in his line, however, was enough to dance him.

NEAR the crest, I sat down to a lunch of bread, Irish Cheddar and Spanish chorizo, and looked out at the valley.

Some say that this is due to the management lacking the requisite Celtic spirit to be able to forge a real Irish bar.

'I felt slight removed from myself; it was almost like an out-of-body experience, ' he told the Irish Times.

The party's leader John Gormley said there had been a breakdown in trust and the Irish people were losing confidence in politics.

Despite the protests of the Irish doctors, I said that I wanted to leave the hospital immediately.

Time traveler caught on film: An Irish filmmaker has uncovered evidence of a woman speaking into a cellphone in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film.

She said Irish law does identify the sperm donor as the father, and he therefore had a right to have a relationship with his son.

In Europe, Greeks, Irish and Spaniards began partying through the night to help put a year of economic woe behind them.

An Irish-owned ship that was trying to break through the Israeli blockade of Gaza has been diverted to the Port of Ashdod.

After another stop on the Irish coast Titanic went out to see on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic bound for New York.

Said the man sitting next to him in an Irish bar with tennis rackets on the wall while drinking a quart of beer.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

How the party responds to this reverse will be one of the interesting sub-plots in Irish politics over the coming months and years.

This time I let Joe do the talking. He was Irish and he had a bit of a brogue.

If I were to take that trip, I might have gone to Ireland to discover that my Irish ancestors were originally from Scotland.

His mother was an Irish Catholic, his father an English Methodist-Quaker.

After drinking Bailey's Irish Cream from the bottle, she chatted with him on an orange beanbag, before exchanging telephone numbers.

The moment a protesting Irish priest took to the circuit, it was clear that this wasn't going to be a normal grand prix.

As the young man began to push his gurney along the corridor, the patient heard him humming an ancient Irish hymn, "Be Thou My Vision. "

Faced with an Irish rally, he was ready to submit himself to his sovereign, King Henry.

For now, in any case, the two exchanges will slug it out--across the Irish Sea as well as across the Atlantic.

The unpopular government is bracing for collapse, and on Tuesday, Irish government bonds continued a week-long slide to a fresh record low.

Denise Hyland was a tall, freckle-faced Irish girl with kind, beautiful eyes and an infectious smile.

Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of a popular Irish show band; her mother was an amateur 7 musician.

Did you know? Potatoes were not part of the first Thanksgiving. Irish immigrants had not yet brought them to North America.

And he never forgot the humble origins of his Irish immigrant background.

Consider the following scenario. A group of Irish republican terrorists carries out a bombing raid in London.

Irish Foreign Minister Martin said he is confident that Mitchell can prevail in his Middle East task as well.

If all that happens, the hope is Irish banks will be able to raise long-term private sector debt.

It's not easy to make traditional Irish-Scottish music sound sexy and yet still seem wholesome.

Since then, the accusations and the question of justice have been a preoccupation across Ireland and among Irish emigrants around the world.

It is unclear how much, if any, of the illegal GM maize seeds have been sold and are now being cultivated by Irish farmers.

Then Irish banks, saddled by poor property loans, began to sink, and the state stepped in with bailouts that total up to 50 billion.

Irish victims accused the pope of evading the question of Vatican responsibility in the long-awaited, eight-page letter.

Irish keeper Given admits it has been a season of toil for Owen, but claims the forward is now much more upbeat.

If you were, you might have ascertained that your Irish friend has no money, not a penny.

The winners will be asked to blog about their experiences a few times a week and write for The Irish Times once a month.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said the deal was "an essential step for peace, stability and security in Northern Ireland" .

The sword dance, similar to an Irish jig of a Highland fling, is usually performed at a Scottish wedding gathering.

Two months later the crowd found a leader in a thirty-year-old Irish-born small businessman named Denis Kearney.

McCarthy was a fascinating man, tall, gray-haired, and handsome, an Irish Catholic intellectual with a fine mind and a biting wit.

'For me, taking these pictures is a way of dealing with it - my own forms of catharsis, ' he told the Irish Times.

Between them they have Indian blood, of course, and Italian, French, Scottish, English and Irish blood as well.

And certain issues, close to the heart of the Irish public, have been safeguarded.

The sword dance, similar to an Irish jip of a Highland fling, is usually performed at a Scottish wedding gathering.

Whether it's far down a country road or deep in the heart of the city, the Irish pub is as unique to Ireland as a fingerprint.

The Irish airline Ryanair said there was no high-density ash over Scotland and accused Britain's Civil Aviation Authority of incompetence.

Some of the arms sent by the British to arm the new Irish Army were in fact given to IRA units and their weapons were sent to the North.

French workers are the world's biggest whiners , according to a study published Monday which said the Irish complain least about their lot.

The bottom line of the Irish crisis is to emphasise the interdependence that exists in Europe and not just the eurozone.

Sean Donnelly, an Irish political scientist, said the episode "smacks of complete lack of political judgment and panic" .

Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, who cared a lot about the Irish issue, wrote, Say what you want, but do not say that he quits.

Some of us were really dressed up in cool gear. Jesters hats, faces painted and Bulgarian and Irish Quidditch tops.

Its history is also Irish. You see, there was this guy named Jack, and he had a terrible reputation for playing practical jokes on people.

A brand of Irish Cream, made of Irish whiskey blended with fresh cream , spirits and a little chocolate .

Irish ministers, however, insisted that they were not in discussions with the EU and said they were determined to weather the storm.

As an Irish-speaking Celt, the actions of these ancient Gaulish and British Celts are very interesting to me.

They contended that this makes the Irish medical system unsuitable for women seeking a foreign abortion for personal health reasons.

Jessica: I may not look sexy but I hope to be sounded sexy. Irish accent is now considered as the sexiest voice in the world.

The initiative's aim is to give people who want to use Irish "the choice to be able to do so" , a Government source said last night.

And the keeper is sad Hunt did not try to contact him despite the Irish midfielder claiming he wanted to wish him well.

I should love to spend a holiday meandering along Irish lanes, it would be a real change from the stresses of city life.

I had also been encouraged to do this by Boston mayor Ray Flynn, an ardent Irish Catholic and a strong supporter of mine.

A short walk away I found a regular Irish bar where I sat, talked to another patron, and felt properly welcome.

IF THE past is a foreign country, the version that used to be taught in Irish schools had a simple landscape.

In other words, the Christian church incorporated local Irish, Scottish, and Welsh pagan traditions into one of its own holy days.

Grudgingly, she told me that Granny came of Irish Scotch, and French stock in which Negro blood had somewhere and somehow been infused.

The Irish government points out that its expenditure is fully funded until the middle of 2011, so it has no need to tap bond markets yet.

The bust has at least produced cheaper housing, as well as (for now) curing the Irish of their property obsession.

She said it focused too narrowly on Irish Catholic leaders without scrutinizing the role of the Vatican.

Remembering her life is sweet Her eyes like a wild Irish sea Is she a daydreamer like me ?

Having overlaid the Irish Catholicism of his childhood with a dose of Tibetan Buddhism, he warms to the pacifist strain in the Asian creed.

The red-spotted eye of a red Irish lord fish stands out in God's Pocket Marine Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.

The name jack-o'-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a greedy, gambling, hard-drinking old farmer.

This time it was a rival suitor who made his appearance, and Simon's hot Irish temper rose when he saw another Richmond in the field.

Taxpayers had to pay the price. Foolishly, the Irish government took on the liabilities of Irish banks, passing the burden to its citizens.

Known as Ted or Teddy, he was the youngest of nine children born to the Irish Catholic family of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.

An Irish woman is in a jail in Africa for coming to the rescue of a fellow church member that claimed he was having visa problems.

Our Irish faery terrors have about them something of make-believe.

For some reason, economic nationalists never seem to complain about job-killing Dutch or Irish competition.

The Irish have known for a while that they would need to take some tough medicine to try to cure their economic ills.

The head of the Irish Catholic church said he was profoundly sorry.

The Irish government cannot rerun the past two years to see what would have happened had it let spending rip.

But prices and yields are set at the margin: Irish and Portuguese bonds are at least partly the victims of speculative position taking.

Religion, land, and local Lordship were to be the great trio of Irish wrongs.

Sure, there was one other guy who tipped the scales above 200 pounds, but he was tougher, more Irish, less nerdy.

Fear of Irish voters is one reason why Mrs Merkel agreed to set aside the suspension of voting rights (that would hardly be a small change).

Whitehall officials said the call with the coded warning came from a number in the Irish Republic on Sunday evening.

To get a glimpse of the muddle likely to ensue, the province's politicians and parents need only look across the Irish Sea.

That is correct. -The Irish jig guy? -His legs flail about as if independent from his body!

As to what motivates them, a dissident spokesman provided a clue last month in a rare interview with a Belfast paper, the Irish News.

This time, we met for a drink on a Friday night, and for three hours we sat in a booth at an Irish pub near Union Square.

Master tailor Lance Sergeant Matthew Else inspects the uniforms of members of the Irish Guards at Victoria Barracks in London on April 21.

An Irish problem has quickly become a euro-zone problem-and a British headache, too, given the close links between the neighbours.

The Irish economy continues to be one of the leading economic growth performers in the industrialised world.

In "Nixon" he made that president so epically loathsome that even his Irish setter turned on him.

In an interview with the Irish Independent, Matthew Elderfield said there was a choice of two options.

Makers of the Irish stout used to market it under the slogan "Guinness is good for you" - until they were told to desist.

Just as the Irish suffered a bad bout of irrational exuberance in the boom years, they have now been overcome by excessive pessimism.

This paper try to set about the background of Irish Famine, to analyse the depravation of Famine and the cause of this crucial tragedy.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child. ---George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright.

I explained the situation to Barak, who was intrigued by the differences and similarities between the Irish problems and his own.

'It has nothing to do with that, ' said a third. It's because being 'Irish itself is hilarious. '

It is interesting to note that the song, though written by a great poet, is one of the simplest in Irish music.

we turn to Saint Columban, one of the many Irish monks who contributed to the re-evangelization of Europe in the early Middle Ages.

in your worst Irish accent and then smack the glass out of her hand so it smashes on the floor.

The test of a man or a woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel---George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright.

Much of the rest of his tale concerns Sean Fitzpatrick's disastrous mortgage bank, Anglo Irish.

Removing the Irish primate, who has said he will only go if the pope requests it, could signal that the era of cover-ups is finally over.

The first was a handsome Irish law student called Tom Lefroy, who she met in 1795, but who had to return to Ireland a year later.

On the phone was an police officer with a very heavy Irish accent.

Irish Americans, especially those who arrived in the U. S. in the 1840s, have had to overcome much suffering.

He was well-mannered and rather shy, schooled in respect by his Irish mother and reinforced in fatalism by his fervent Catholic faith.

Irish physician and chemist who suggested that animal heat is distributed throughout the body by the arterial blood.

The Irish did the opposite, giving blanket bank guarantees in September 2008 which have recently been extended to the end of June at least.

I can't explain it to you but I always describe myself as having an Asian soul in an Irish body.

IT IS over now and a lot of Irish people, gazing out of the windows of their brand-new houses, still cannot believe it happened.

They would also be able to absorb losses on their holdings of Irish and Portuguese government bonds.

The British and Irish folk rock (or electric folk ) sound started out as an offshoot of the North American.

The Irish Guards returned from active duty in Afghanistan at the beginning of April, and are now preparing for ceremonial duties.

Typical jobs would be in hotels, shops and supermarkets working in a variety of roles and mixing with Irish people.

A similar impulse (but a very different sound) can be found in bands who mix traditional Irish music with punk rock.

"If we now find the right answer to the Irish problem, then the chances are great that there will be no contagion effects, " he said.

Now that the Irish have voted Yes, what sort of Europe will emerge?

If you are Italian, that might be a recipe for a delicious spaghetti sauce. Irish?

I grew up in an Irish-Catholic family on the South Side of Chicago.

Deposits held at Irish banks by nonresidents plunged 49% from a year ago through February, Minerd estimates.

Some news just in: a vote by the parliamentary colleagues of the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on his leadership has ended in Dublin.

Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man is the masterwork of the distinguished Irish writer, James Joyce .

It would provide a "platform to showcase the best of Irish science and research across all disciplines" , Mr Ahern said.

The song, while featuring by sadness and a typically gentle and lovely Irish sentimental manner, also mixes in a carefree spirit.

The Irish government had denied for weeks that it would need a rescue package to help salvage its economy.

Until 1999 the Irish Republic claimed the whole island of Ireland under its constitution, but it did not act on it.

He had to face a lot of opposition from his co-religionists, as he was not Irish.

For the Irish, the biggest question is whether the foreign companies will be able to provide jobs.

The British RAF, the Irish Coastguard and an Irish Naval ship are continuing to search for the missing five people.

Trimble could be dour and pessimistic, but beneath his stern Scots-Irish front was a brave idealist who was also taking risks for peace.

So how did the portrait come to be in the hands of a leading Anglo-Irish family, and how did it go unnoticed?

British banks would be among the hardest hit by an Irish debt default because they are among the largest investors in Irish bonds.

Ethnic units were a way for the Union Army to help win Irish support for its cause.

One hundred years ago, Irish athletes boycotted the London games over the British refusal to give independence to Ireland.

A new Irish government to be elected next spring is bound to repudiate the current arrangements.

As many working-class Irish people saw it, this was discrimination: They were poor men being forced to fight in a "rich man's war. "

In other words, European banks are highly vulnerable to any losses incurred on the bonds of either the Irish government or Irish banks.

Irish comedian Des Bishop is in Australia to talk about his new show and his book about his father.

It also secured an order restraining Mr Byrne from dealing with any sums in his account with National Irish Bank or other bank accounts.

But uncertainty over how the Irish debt crisis would play out remained the chief thorn in the side of market participants.

Once among the richest people in Europe, the Irish have been laid low by a banking collapse and the euro zone's debt crisis. What now?

Irish government bonds are likely to comprise a large part of the total, although no details are given.

In terms of worker morale, Dutch workers are the happiest, followed by their Thai and Irish counterparts.

Lucas, an Irish Setter, is held by his handler Jamie Lamphere as they compete in the Junior Showmanship competition.

Fact: The Omaha Beach scene cost $11 million to shoot and involved up to 1000 extras, some of whom were members of the Irish Army Reserve.

In Ireland's case, investors will probably calculate that the Irish economy will be strong enough to weather continued austerity.

IRISH businessmen like to say that the country has "first-mover advantage" when it comes to austerity.

Fishing The Irish Sea fishing industry makes a significant contribution to the economy, in terms of output, employment and exports.

Drink warm beer out of a c in a real Irish pub.

To the left , an Irish girl is turning the cup edge I, peacefully , enunciate : Love Is between the sky and you .

As the punch line of the old Irish joke goes, "I would not start from here" . Yet we do.

It was no longer regarded as primarily an Irish or Scottish festival, and became a fixture in the North American calendar.

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats, irish poet.

Irish also presents breakdowns of a typical QA hierarchy and of common QA practices.

Irish rain and Icelandic ash had forced the 1, 500-strong White House party to take refuge in London 12 hours early.

The Irish government declined his wife's offer to repatriate his remains.

Roma: To me, an inspiration was historic, was Irish. You were relating to the story of the Celts.

The Irish will toil for years to service rescue loans that, at Europe's insistence, pay off the bondholders of its defunct banks.

The Irish people carved scary faces out of turnips, beets or potatoes representing " Jack of the Lantern " , or Jack-O-Lantern .

Two years of intense suffering have brought Irish wages down to some extent, although Spain and Greece have barely begun the process.

The bank also has about GBP 1 billion in exposures to Irish sovereign and other debt in its investment-banking trading book.

Allied Irish Bank (AIB) had an all-too-familiar and costly problem two years ago: its employees kept forgetting their passwords.

S&P's move sent Irish banking stocks plunging, hit the euro and forced up the cost of insuring the country 's debt against default.

The city was gearing up to celebrate the success of Rory McIlroy, the young Northern Irish golfer who won the US Open on June 19th.

Having seen their leaders make such a mess of things, most Irish welcome the arrival of technocrats.

Many Irish people immigrated to the United States during the Great Potato Famine of the mid-19th century.

Relative to the size of the economy, this is still far less than the cost of the Irish bail-out.

Danes fear that without the krone they might have sunk into an Irish quagmire .

Helena: Well, the Greeks are the fourth largest national group in Australia, after the British, the Irish and the Italians.

Our host today, Enterprise Ireland, works with Irish companies and business interests around the world to develop partnership opportunities.

But a vote on transferring new powers would be suicide: just ask Irish, French or Dutch politicians.

But I'm an Irish-American, and perfectly willing to innovate, so I would call Doyle a Brit Mick, or more respectfully, an Irish-Brit.

Decorated in dark colors with very comfortable sofas, Hennessey's Irish Pub is an ideal place to have lunch or dinner with friends.

A man from Yorkshire claims to have started speaking in a broad Irish accent after waking up from a brain operation.

A poll conducted after the bail-out found just 8% wanting him to stay as prime minister (roughly the same as Irish bond yields at the time).

He's an intellectually minded product designer with square-framed glasses, a thick Irish accent, and a cult following of passionate techies.

The Irish bailout is intended as a signal that the euro zone will come to the aid of its own.

Maureen, an associate of the Trinity Academy of Irish Dancing, watched the team reel off two gold medals and a bronze this week.

Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making polite conversation when she asked an Ethiopian teenager about her wedding day.

He says that it would be "virtually impossible" to make the Irish vote again on a tweaked version of the treaty.

But it is not the rugged Irish scenery that has changed the face of the beauty industry.

The swift decline of the Irish economy was as mythic as its rise.

"It's different to the Americans, where the chief executive will fly in to take a picture with the local bishop, " says an Irish executive.

And to anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. 'Tis ashamed of you I am this minute.

One of a race of elves in Irish folklore who can reveal hidden treasure to someone who catches him.

Medieval old streets full of vitality and history, picturesque scenery make a GeErWei became the Irish place one of the most spectacular.

Such was the extent of the swell in the area that it took the Irish crew five attempts to pluck the two survivors from their inflatable .

Second, European rescue funds are not big enough to replicate the Irish rescue should bigger countries get into trouble.

They also point out that there is still no emergency towing vessel in the Irish Sea following the Sea Empress spill.

The ECB holds at least 20 per cent of the Greek, Portuguese and Irish debt, yet yields remain painfully high.

Nevertheless, as a member of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, Swift received the best education Ireland could offer.

Rather than resenting the newcomers, many Irish were proud that their country had become a place people wanted to enter rather than leave.

Note that Dublin is in a pinch, where water rushing north up into the Irish Sea has nowhere to go!

Earlier, all flights in and out of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic were grounded.

In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

McGee was a very active journalist and the author of numerous books devoted to Irish and Roman Catholic history, politics and literature.

The figure emerged from stress tests carried out on the troubled Irish banking sector following the financial crisis.

All the year round, Irish cities, towns and villages are due to various cultural and artistic activities and full of vitality. . .

And if the conditions attached to any EFSF deal were too onerous, the Irish might yet be able to play the IMF against Berlin.

Definitely Italian - American, Irish - American immigrant, working - class, blue-collar neighborhood. Absolutely. . .

Irish bank assets became grotesquely out of line with the nation's economy during the property bubble.

An analysis of the competitiveness of the Irish HNS industry relative to its main trading partners.

The Irish have made a great start, cutting public spending dramatically, while holding corporate taxes down.

What better tribute to a giant of 20th-century Irish literature than his own bridge over the Liffey?

If you look carefully, you'll see that the front of the bus says "Out of Service" in English and in Irish!

Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs.

Conan is the name of two mythological figures from the Irish Gaelic tradition.

EU officials have been discussing a bailout in the wake of a 13-day Irish bond-sell off that only eased at the end of last week.

was the most dramatic, but there is much to admire in this irascible Irish artist who, like Fuseli, once taught William Blake.

The spread demanded by investors to hold Irish bonds rose to a new euro-era record, and spreads on Greek and Portuguese bonds also shot up.

The Irish collapse was the fault of crazy banks and a mania for property.

The new Irish government should make this point firmly.

In spite of this, Danny Boy is considered to be an unofficial signature song, particularly by Irish Americans and Irish Canadians.

Irish bond yields fell for a few hours, but were setting new records by the end of November 29th.

"May God starve ye yet, " yelled an old Irish woman, who now threw open a nearby window and stuck out her head.

and blank cheque bail-outs, like the one to the Irish banks, are a stupid waste of innocents' money.

Irish and European officials have given firm promises that there would be no such haircut for current holders of most senior bonds.

Michael D Higgins is a published poet, a former university lecturer and a long-serving member of the Irish parliament.

Irish Enterprise Minister Batt O'Keeffe said a bailout has not been discussed and rejected the assertion that there is a "crisis. "

Yields rose on Irish government bonds ahead of talks in Dublin about a possible bail-out of Ireland's debt-laden economy.

Careworn Irish taxpayers are asking how a small, flexible, and pro-business economy failed to anticipate the impending disaster.

Unexpectedly the Irish make a surprise attack on them at the assembly point . Tristan's parents both are slaughtered during the raid .

The Irish authorities are now openly pressing for a visit, and both Downing Street and Buckingham Palace look favourably disposed.

Investors are worried Irish banks may require so much help that it will open new holes in the Irish government's budget.