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County Tipperary ( Irish: Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is Ireland's largest inland county and shares a border with eight ...
This is a partial or incomplete list of places in countries other than Ireland named after places in Ireland.. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland.
Name Province Remarks/new name Baardskeerdersbos: Western Cape: Babelegi: North West: Babanango: KwaZulu-Natal: Badplaas: Mpumalanga: Bailey: Eastern Cape: Bakerville
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
The Irish diaspora ( Irish: Diaspóra na nGael) refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland . The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the Early Middle Ages, [1] but it can be quantified only from around 1700.
Durban ( / ˈdɜːrbən / DUR-bən; Zulu: eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay, lagoon") [a] is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Situated on the east coast of South Africa, on the Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean, Durban is South Africa's busiest ...
From the early 1960s Ireland vehemently opposed apartheid in South Africa. South African Nelson Mandela, then a dissident, later president, was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1988 while a political prisoner; he collected the award upon his release in 1990. Diplomatic ties between the two countries were established in 1994.
Tipperary ( / ˌtɪpəˈrɛəri /; Irish: Tiobraid Árann, meaning 'well of the Ara '), commonly known as Tipperary Town, is a town and a civil parish [ 2] in County Tipperary, Ireland. Its population was 4,979 at the 2016 census. [ 1] It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the ...