• The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for the national teams of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Shaw and Shrewsbury team first played in 1888 and is considered the precursor of the British & Irish Lions. (wikipedia.org)
  • On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they officially adopted the name British Lions, the nickname first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The team continued after the Irish Free State was set up in 1922, but was still known as the British Lions or British Isles. (wikipedia.org)
  • The name "British & Irish Lions" has been used since the 2001 tour of Australia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jason Leonard announces the British and Irish Lions squad to face South Africa. (skysports.com)
  • But now the quartet have come together to smooth things over in preparation for the British and Irish Lions. (dailyrecord.co.uk)
  • The UK Treasury has agreed to back a British and Irish Lions rugby tour as a unity exercise. (scotsman.com)
  • Ahead of their month-long South African tour which begins next Saturday, the British & Irish Lions will play a warm-up game against Japan today and we have all the details on how you can watch it on TV or online for free. (androidcentral.com)
  • Whether you're a big rugby fan that's been following the Lions since the beginning of the season or just want to see the team play on home soil, we'll show you exactly how to watch the British & Irish Lions vs Japan from anywhere in the world. (androidcentral.com)
  • British & Irish Lions vs Japan - When and where? (androidcentral.com)
  • Stream Channel4's coverage of the British & Irish Lions vs Japan match for free online with BBC iPlayer. (androidcentral.com)
  • Get a British & Irish Lions vs Japan live stream in the U.S. (androidcentral.com)
  • We have all the details on how you can watch the British & Irish Lions vs Japan in the U.S., the UK and Australia further up in this guide. (androidcentral.com)
  • Now, we have earned the title of the sole kit supplier for the Irish National Rugby Union Team and the British and Irish Lions . (canterbury.com)
  • The British & Irish Lions registered a 6-34 victory against the Chiefs in Hamilton to win the last mid-week match ahead of the first test match against New Zealand. (lions-tour.com)
  • Irish passport applications in Northern Ireland began to rise in 2016 after Britain voted to leave the EU. (irishamerica.com)
  • 22 great tracks that have populated the Hotdisc British & Irish Chart during 2016. (ukcountryradio.com)
  • In their 2016 periodic review, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reiterated what they had stated five years previously and recommended that an Irish Language Act be enacted due to concern about the lack of effective measures in place to protect the language. (lu.se)
  • The British journal of ophthalmology 2001 Mar 85 (3): 281-6. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2001 the British government ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which specified Irish in Part III. (lu.se)
  • Meanwhile, asked if he was frustrated with the British approach to Brexit talks, Mr Varadkar said: "If anyone should be angry, it's us, quite frankly. (irishtimes.com)
  • It also reveals a great deal about what the British government is hoping to achieve from Brexit negotiations. (cityam.com)
  • Why, if there can be mutual recognition for Irish dairy farmers crossing the border from the Republic into Northern Ireland, can't there be mutual recognition for British banks and Insurers that want to continue to do business with the rest of Europe after Brexit? (cityam.com)
  • The threat of a Brexit could be driving a significant rise in applications for Irish passports, it has been reported. (independent.co.uk)
  • Ms. Gallagher adds, "The introduction of a carbon tax on the sector in Budget 2019 would only further undermine the capacity of Irish agri-food companies to prepare for Brexit and to diversify their trading links. (cov.com)
  • Later the team used the name British Isles. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. (nhbs.com)
  • In the Celtic languages, there are a number of words that seem to have come from non-Indo-European language speakers that inhabited the British Isles and Western Europe, including a couple of words that are conspicuously similar to Basque words. (lu.se)
  • It later sold for £75,000 in the Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale on 13 June, 2018. (sothebys.com)
  • Sarah-Jane Drummey's film 134 tells the story of an Irish couple struggling with their child, Jack's, gender identity. (britishcouncil.org)
  • Ordinary Irish and British people often got along, so therefore, Britain was never an imperial power. (irishcentral.com)
  • Over 38,000 Irish companies do business in Britain. (dfa.ie)
  • 2 In the 70 years since the war ended there has been little scholarship on the 'neutral' Irish who fought for Britain. (openedition.org)
  • Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. (irishamerica.com)
  • It is our position in negotiations with the British Government and it's the very clear positionthat we have when we engage with the task force that is negotiating on our behalf with the UK. (irishtimes.com)
  • So the Irish question could have given Mrs May her first win in trade negotiations with the EU. (cityam.com)
  • Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters. (nhbs.com)
  • The topic of the Big House in Irish literature and cultural consciousness has a long-standing tradition, originally emerging from historical circumstance with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. (lu.se)
  • From 1888 onwards, combined British rugby sides toured the Southern Hemisphere. (wikipedia.org)
  • Irish rugby injury survey: Dungannon Football Club (1986-87). (bmj.com)
  • The number of Irish passport holders in Northern Ireland has risen dramatically while applications for U.K. passports have dipped, according to official reports outlined in a report by the Irish Times. (irishamerica.com)
  • The number of adults born in England, Scotland or Wales applying for their first Irish passport on the basis of having an Irish-born grandparent increased by more a third between 2014 and 2015, from 379 to 507, according to the Guardian' s figures. (independent.co.uk)
  • ship for an Irish passport in a process known as a corporate inversion. (ctj.org)
  • In 2014, the company attempted to trade its U.S. passport for a British one by acquiring the firm AstraZeneca. (ctj.org)
  • Figures obtained by the Guardian suggest that the increase may be linked to the looming referendum in June, revealing that the number of British-born people applying for Irish passports has risen sharply. (independent.co.uk)
  • This article was submitted to the IrishCentral contributors network by a member of the global Irish community. (irishcentral.com)
  • Since 1918 when the British Government had unsuccessfully attempted to introduce conscription, the independence movement had been growing in popularity and men had been flocking to the cause. (irishcentral.com)
  • The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. (irishamerica.com)
  • The UK Government would not underwrite any matches planned for Dublin and the Irish government has been cautious over the return of crowds. (scotsman.com)
  • The Irish government has made clear the priority that we place on the relationship with the UK. (dfa.ie)
  • Previous studies of these transnational volunteers have focused largely on government policies towards the recruits and on ascertaining an accurate figure for the number of Irish people in the wartime British forces. (openedition.org)
  • For the Irish government the end of the war in Europe signalled the miraculous survival of Ireland (or Éire) as a small, independent and democratic state which had avoided the fate of many other European neutrals. (openedition.org)
  • While some of this research has examined Irish motives for joining up, the main focus has been on government policies towards these recruits and on ascertaining an accurate figure for the number of Irish people in the British forces during the war. (openedition.org)
  • The Late Late Irish Show is a compilation show featuring Ireland's best comedians. (comedy.co.uk)
  • He ignores the historical reality that decades before, Douglas Hyde, later Ireland's first president, had set up the Gaelic League leading to the Irish revival. (irishcentral.com)
  • Maree Gallagher is quoted in the Irish Examiner regarding Brexit's impact on Ireland's agri-food sector. (cov.com)
  • Ms. Gallagher, also Chair of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce Agri-Food Committee, says, "The agri-food sector is Ireland's largest indigenous industry employing around 250,000 people enabling €12.6bn in exports a year. (cov.com)
  • In spite of Ireland's neutrality tens of thousands of Irish people fought in the British forces during the Second World War. (openedition.org)
  • Join us in our mission to support and promote British comedy across the decades. (comedy.co.uk)
  • Jimmy's school, Rinceoirí Na Ríochta, has shaped World Champion Irish dancers for decades. (britishcouncil.org)
  • Attempts to rectify this began over two decades ago with the publication of popular accounts of Irish people involved in the war by Richard Doherty and Myles Dungan, among others 2 . (openedition.org)
  • They had refused to soldier any longer until the last British soldier left Ireland. (irishcentral.com)
  • Daly was the last British soldier to be executed for a military offense. (irishcentral.com)
  • Mr Thornton died almost instantly when British soldier Allan McVittie fired twice at the van he was driving close to the former Springfield Road RUC station. (irishnews.com)
  • As proof of the Irish love affair with the British, Kennerk names writer Brendan Behan having British friends and a World War I soldier from Ireland describing himself as British. (irishcentral.com)
  • The intervening years had seen an escalation in IRA activity: President De Valera had escaped from Lincoln prison, the British military authority had introduced a curfew in Dublin ( citizens were ordered to remain indoors and keep their houses in darkness until 6am. (irishcentral.com)
  • Only Irish citizens qualify for the documents but the country's nationality law means that people can claim through marriage, naturalisation and descent. (independent.co.uk)
  • In case of the Irish Convention , and the British Colombian and Onta rian c itizens' assemblies , the citizens were selected randomly with an eye to gender, geography, age and socio-economic categori es to ensure the group broadly re flected wider society. (lse.ac.uk)
  • His op-ed, masquerading as a piece of scholarship, states "The Irish always had a British heritage. (irishcentral.com)
  • Much of the scholarship concerns Northern Ireland, though that often pays little attention to popular fiction, as is true of Irish Studies more generally. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • Irish crime fiction does not always reflect what Connolly 2011 suggests is a habitual critical assumption that Irish writing must be about Irishness, an assumption that continues to mark some Irish Studies scholarship. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • All of this scholarship has significantly advanced the study of Irish people in the Second World War, but there remain important questions about who these recruits were, why they enlisted and what significance should be attached to the figure of 70,000. (openedition.org)
  • For example, the Old Irish word adarc 'horn' closely resembles Basque adar 'horn', while words with the same meaning in other Indo-European languages are vastly different (English horn , Latin cornu , Ancient Greek kéras ). (lu.se)
  • Jersey will be hosting a British-Irish Council (BIC) Environment Sector officers' technical workshop next week to discuss the Asian hornet Vespa velutina. (www.gov.je)
  • In 2017, the Council of Europe Advisory Committee for the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities called for legislation to protect and promote the Irish language, echoing previous findings. (lu.se)
  • The collection and archiving of 57 oral history interviews with Irish veterans by the Volunteers Project in University College Cork in the late-1990s has gradually attracted more scholarly research on the Irish in the British forces 4 . (openedition.org)
  • I deeply regret that it has not been possible for the British Parliament to approve the Agreement. (dfa.ie)
  • Having actively encouraged submissions and held a series of regional meetings to gather views on which issues to should be considered , the Convention chose Dáil (the lower house of the Irish parliament) reform and the inclusion of economic, social and cultural rights in the constitution. (lse.ac.uk)
  • For the 1989 tour, the British national anthem "God Save the Queen" was used. (wikipedia.org)
  • How much happier we might all have been if we stayed obedient British subjects and embraced 'God Save the Queen. (irishcentral.com)
  • Details of the disturbing actions of British soldiers were raised this week at an inquest into the killing of 10 people over three days in Ballymurphy in west Belfast in 1971 by the Parachute Regiment. (irishnews.com)
  • IRA prisoners were on hunger strike in Irish and British jails and on March 25, 1920, The Royal Irish Constabulary special reserve infamously better known as the Black and Tans were let loose on the Irish population. (irishcentral.com)
  • Wonder if he heard of the pitch cap where Irish prisoners had boiling oil poured on their heads and their brains literally sundered from their bodies - but I digress. (irishcentral.com)
  • Ireland was Britain's first colony and Indian nationalists were watching eagerly as the drama for Irish independence unfolded. (irishcentral.com)
  • Indeed there was a reason conscription was never introduced in Ireland as there would have been violent opposition from Irish who did not want to die in Britain's world war. (irishcentral.com)
  • It concludes by assessing the significance of Irish recruitment within the wider context of the contribution to Britain's war effort from members of the British Commonwealth. (openedition.org)
  • In 1908, with the Scottish and Irish unions not taking part, the Anglo-Welsh side sported red jerseys with a thick white band on tour to Australia and New Zealand. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Irish contexts and settings distinguish Irish crime fiction from its international counterparts-including the English, Scottish, and American work to which it is most often compared-its particularity is further signaled by several patterns. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • C a lls to establish a c onstitutional convention for the UK in the aftermath of the Scottish independence referendum have cited the Irish Convention on the Constitution as a possible template. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The British-Irish Chamber of Commerce has been a voice of pragmatism throughout this difficult process. (dfa.ie)
  • The protesters were enraged by constant reports of brutality by British forces in Ireland. (irishcentral.com)
  • It is most closely associated with Irish communities even though Weatherly himself never set foot in Ireland. (8notes.com)
  • The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. (irishamerica.com)
  • Mr Varadkar insisted he and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney's were in agreement, when asked about a report in the London Times and its Ireland edition that a border could exist in the Irish Sea and free movement would be allowed on the island of Ireland. (irishtimes.com)
  • The New York Times just published possibly the worst op-ed piece on Ireland I have ever read, including those in British newspapers. (irishcentral.com)
  • Did you know the Irish hardly existed and the 1916 leaders invented a Gaelic Ireland that never previously was present? (irishcentral.com)
  • because Ireland, you see, was really British. (irishcentral.com)
  • Kennerk writes that the notion of "Ireland for the Irish" was rooted in the political turmoil of the late 19th century (ignoring Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Francis Meagher etc. (irishcentral.com)
  • Ireland for the Irish" - what a ridiculous idea! (irishcentral.com)
  • The Irish Health Service Executive Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte, FSS) is responsible for the provision of healthcare from public funds, providing services for everyone living in Ireland. (baus.org.uk)
  • Anyone with an Irish parent automatically qualifies, even if they were born abroad, and anyone with a grandparent born in Ireland can also apply, alongside those born in Northern Ireland. (independent.co.uk)
  • However, the unrelenting focus on the First World War among Irish historians has meant that other conflicts no less significant for Ireland and its peoples have received comparatively little attention. (openedition.org)
  • Yet in 1945, while Irish politicians congratulated themselves on keeping Ireland out of the global conflagration, British civil servants in the Dominions Office estimated that 42,665 men and women from neutral Ireland had served in the British forces during the Second World War 1 . (openedition.org)
  • The drug and consumer health products maker is attempting to buy Allergan, an Ireland-based firm, and assume that company's Irish identity. (ctj.org)
  • Castle Rackrent many other Irish novels has dealt with the social hierarchies and realities of British-occupied Ireland, creating the genre of Big House novels. (lu.se)
  • Language rights have long been a significant and divisive issue in Northern Ireland, with allegiances to both Irish and Ulster Scots entrenched along sectarian lines. (lu.se)
  • The Act gives the Irish language official status in Northern Ireland for the first time. (lu.se)
  • This Act comes after years of campaigning by language groups within Northern Ireland to see Irish language rights and the protection of the language realised. (lu.se)
  • The Identity and Language Act (the Act) came as an important development for those who have been seeking standalone recognition for the Irish language, akin to the status afforded to Welsh and Scots Gaelic. (lu.se)
  • Ties were cemented between the respective independence movements resulting in the Indian constitution mirroring aspects of the Irish constitution. (irishcentral.com)
  • There are an estimated 85 Irish companies with a presence in Wales, employing just over 5,500 people. (dfa.ie)
  • British & Irish Butterfly Rarities is the first book to focus solely on those butterfly species regarded as extinctions, rare migrants or introductions. (nhbs.com)
  • It has recently been suggested that TBE and louping ill viruses belong in the same species (TBE virus), which has 4 types: western TBE virus, eastern TBE virus (which includes Far Eastern and Siberian subtypes), Turkish sheep encephalitis virus (which includes the Greek goat encephalitis [GGE] virus,) and louping ill virus (which includes Spanish, British, and Irish subtypes) ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The aims of this study were (1) to carry out a nutritional assessment of selected Irish athletes and (2) to provide individual results and specific advice to each athlete on how to achieve an optimum diet. (bmj.com)
  • Elsewhere, this avoidance reflects Irish literary inheritances like the supernatural, pronounced in the novels of French and John Connolly, and less overt but still clear across their contemporaries' writings. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • In 1936, the Dail passed the Connaught Rangers (pensions act) giving some former members of the mutiny entitlement to pensions, gratuities, and allowances thus acknowledging their contribution to Irish independence. (irishcentral.com)
  • British jockey Ryan Moore (R) and Irish trainer Kevin Ryan (L) celebrate with their trophies after their horse English raider The Grey Gatsby won the French Derby, also known as the Prix du Jockey Club, on June 1, 2014, in Chantilly, north of Paris. (gettyimages.com)
  • People think there's this one form of British English, but there are actually so many different ones. (babbel.com)
  • Logically the answer would appear to be that there can be mutual recognition and there should, particularly given that British financial services regulators wrote most of the rules for their European counterparts in the first place. (cityam.com)
  • Previous research conducted regarding Big House fiction has repeatedly stated the significance of the genre in relation to Irish collective memory, identity, and culture. (lu.se)
  • Work has appeared on irish-boxing.com, Boxing News, the42.ie, and local and national media. (irish-boxing.com)
  • According to Kennerk, the ultimate statement of this nefarious culturization of the Irish "came in the revolutionaries' 1916 Proclamation that the British were a 'foreign people. (irishcentral.com)
  • So this idea of bad, very bad food, tinned food, ready-made food that wasn't of a high quality, I think, has carried on right up to the present day, even in the minds of British and Irish people. (babbel.com)
  • Before 1916, according to Kennerk, there was no sense of Irish national identity. (irishcentral.com)
  • Kennerk says the Irish needed an identity that "set them apart from other Britons. (irishcentral.com)
  • An important element of this is appointment of an Irish language commissioner and an Ulster Scots commissioner, as well as the establishment of an Office of Identity and Cultural Expression. (lu.se)
  • This brings these powers of the Secretary of State and the Northern Irish Office into force in relation to the establishment of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression and the Irish and Ulster Scots commissioners. (lu.se)
  • A statement from the British Horseracing Authority said that funds have been released to cover the costs of John Dance's racing interests. (irishmirror.ie)
  • Jack is a competitive Irish dancer, and it takes huge emotional and financial support to steer your child towards world champion status. (britishcouncil.org)
  • I didn't want to portray the world of Irish dancing in a negative light. (britishcouncil.org)
  • There was a real sense of pride on set that day, for the world of Irish dancing and for the story we were telling. (britishcouncil.org)
  • It will allow for the use of the Irish language in the courts, repealing the 1737 Act of Justice which had outlawed this. (lu.se)
  • Official journals of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. (baus.org.uk)
  • Doubts have always existed about official British estimates for Irish recruits due to the fact that some estimates were based on records of last address before enlistment rather than place of birth. (openedition.org)
  • British politics is in a very fluid state, as developments in train at this very moment at Westminster bear out. (dfa.ie)
  • An arrangement of popular Irish Jigs by Andy Ralls. (8notes.com)
  • Clashing identities run throughout the hearts of these novels, those of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy and the Irish peasantry. (lu.se)
  • Immunogenetics and clinical phenotype of sympathetic ophthalmia in British and Irish patients. (cdc.gov)
  • The Irish Republic is a small country with a rich cultural heritage and a strong track record in medical research as well as in scientific progress. (baus.org.uk)
  • Not only is the The Great British Bake Off back on our screens every Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 4, but a new host is joining the tent this year! (aol.com)