The Irish Hobby is an extinct breed of horse developed in Ireland prior to the 13th century. The breed provided foundation bloodlines for several modern...
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The Hobby Horse (film), a 1962 Australian television play Irish Hobby, an extinct breed of horse A 1972 band around Mary Hopkin Dandy horse or hobby horse...
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Hobby (bird), a small, very fast falcon Irish Hobby, a type of horse ridden by Hobelars in the Middle Ages Hobby Airport, a public airport serving the Houston...
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Hobelar (redirect from Irish hobelar)
gorget, iron gauntlets, sword, knife, and lance. The native Irish horse, the Irish hobby, represented today by the Connemara pony,[citation needed] was...
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century. It is believed that the breed was developed when the then-common Irish Hobby was successively bred with 12th-century Anglo-Norman war horses; Iberian...
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see Courser (horse) Courser (horse) Destrier or "Great Horse" Hobby, see Irish Hobby Jennet, sometimes called Spanish Jennet Palfrey Rouncey Steppe horse...
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Connemara pony (category Horse breeds originating in Ireland)
brought to Ireland. Another source was likely the Irish Hobby, a now-extinct breed established prior to the 13th century. Trade between Ireland and Spain...
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rounceys were also preferred by mounted archers. Horses in the Middle Ages Irish Hobby Palfrey Look up rouncy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Reeve, Moira...
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Kerry Bog Pony (category Horse breeds originating in Ireland)
mountain and moorland breed of pony that originated in Ireland. Possibly descended from the Irish Hobby horse, it originally lived a mainly feral existence...
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up hobby horse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse...
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breeding stock came from a variety of breeds, some of which, such as the Irish Hobby, had developed in northern Europe prior to the 13th century. Other mares...
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List of horse breeds of the British Isles (category Horse breeds originating in Ireland)
pony Cob Hack Hunter Polo pony Riding pony Windsor Grey Galloway pony Irish Hobby Norfolk Trotter Old English Black Yorkshire Coach Horse Yorkshire Grey...
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In folklore, a hobby horse is a costumed character that features in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the...
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which contributed to the Narragansett Pacer may have been members of the Irish Hobby breed; another possible ancestor is the Galloway pony. A 2022 genetic...
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Hobby tunneling is tunnel construction as a pastime. Usually, hobby tunnelers dig their tunnels by hand, using little equipment, and some can spend years...
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: 108 The Asturcón is thought to have given rise to the extinct Irish Hobby, and has been used in attempts to re-create that breed.: 440 The Asturcón...
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Gaelic warfare (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
warfare practiced by the Gaelic peoples (the Irish, Scottish, and Manx), in the pre-modern period. Irish warfare was for centuries centered on the Ceithearn...
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HobbyConsolas is a Spanish video game magazine founded in 1991 by Hobby Press and published by Axel Springer SE. The first issue appeared in October 1991...
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The Hobby Horse was a quarterly Victorian periodical in England published by the Century Guild of Artists. The magazine ran from 1884 to 1894 and spanned...
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mark: hope always takes one step further than mankind." David Lorao of HobbyConsolas rated the film with 33 points ('bad'), assessing that, as the title...
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Grande. Their bloodlines may also include American Saddlebred, Canadian, Irish Hobby, and Tennessee Walking horses, although this was in dispute for many...
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Hurling (redirect from Irish hurling)
Hurling (Irish: iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares...
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early 1600s. Bloodlines may also include American Saddlebred, Canadian, Irish Hobby, and Tennessee Walking horses. In the early 1900s, stallions of Thoroughbred...
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Board game (section Hobby board games)
Timothy (2010). "'A Fenian pastime'? Early Irish board games and their identification with chess". Irish Historical Studies. 37 (145): 5. doi:10.1017/S0021121400000031...
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Animal fancy (category Hobbies)
Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, or breeding of pet or domestic animals. Fancy may include ownership, showing, animal sports...
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Láir Bhán (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
centuries. The Irish term "Láir Bhán" translates as "White Mare". This meaning is identical, and the pronunciation similar, to the Manx hobby horse custom...
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Bono (redirect from Paul Hewson (Irish musician))
is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he attended...
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that Ireland got a lot of British WWI weapons due to conflicts with the United Kingdom just after WWI such as the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil...
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breeding imported horses such as the Spanish Jennet, Neapolitan coursers, Irish Hobbies, Flemish "roiles", or draught horses, and Scottish "nags", or riding...
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Games that Ireland contested as a nation under the Olympic Council of Ireland. 16 Irish athletes qualified for 17 different Olympic events in 2008. Key Note–Ranks...
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