• expression Irish of Nantes denotes a community formed in the 17th century and of great importance in the 18th century. It was originally composed of Jacobite...
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    Nantes (/nɒ̃t/, US also /nɑːnt(s)/; French: [nɑ̃t] ; Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt [nɑ̃(ː)t]; Breton: Naoned [ˈnãunət]) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department...
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    The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known...
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    Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted Huguenots the right to practice their religion...
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    Protestant Ascendancy. For the 18th century see Ireland 1691-1801. Early Modern Irish language Irish of Nantes Senior 1976, pp. 41, 68. Senior 1976, pp. 53–57...
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    and most famous of the Irish of Nantes. He held a number of titles: marquis of Brunoy, count of Sampigny, baron Dagouville, count of Châteaumeillant,...
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    The Treaty of Limerick (Irish: Conradh Luimnigh), signed on 3 October 1691, ended the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, a conflict related to the...
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    times. In 1578, the Irish College in Paris was established as a Catholic school to train Irish students. In 1689, France supported Ireland during the Williamite...
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    Frenchman of Irish descent and prominent Jacobite based in Nantes, used his wealth generated from the slave trade to finance the Jacobite rising of 1745....
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    Battle of Nantes took place between Royalist and Republican French forces at Nantes on 29 June 1793 during the War in the Vendée. It consisted of the siege...
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    census, the population of historic Brittany was estimated to be 4,475,295. In 2017, the largest metropolitan areas were Nantes (934,165 inhabitants),...
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    The Diocese of Nantes (Latin: Dioecesis Nannetensis; French: Diocèse de Nantes; Breton: Eskopti Naoned) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church...
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    crown's revocation of the Edict of Nantes, many Huguenots settled in Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, encouraged by an act of parliament for...
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    the sister of Mary O'Shiell and Agnès O'Shiell. Her family and their manor Manoir de la Placelière were the center of the Irish of Nantes, and the manor...
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    The Irish slaves myth is a fringe pseudohistorical narrative that conflates the penal transportation and indentured servitude of Irish people during the...
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    Sérgio Conceição (category FC Nantes managers)
    the semi-finals of the former. In 2012, Conceição started working as a manager, leading five teams in his nation's top flight and Nantes in Ligue 1. He...
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    Business School is a French grande école and business school located in Nantes, France. The school enrolls 6,100 students from almost 90 countries on bachelors...
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    its own taxes. The Church of Ireland undertook the first publication of the Bible in Irish. The first Irish translation of the New Testament was begun...
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    of Nantes, was separated from the rest of Brittany partly in retaliation for a large number of Bretons supporting the Free French National Council of...
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    Irish Colleges is the collective name used for approximately 34 centres of education for Irish Catholic clergy and lay people opened on continental Europe...
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    17th-century Ireland (Irish: Plandálacha na hÉireann) involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land...
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    Khéphren Thuram (category French people of Guadeloupean descent)
    his first professional goal to win a home match by the same score against Nantes. In September 2021, Thuram extended his contract that was due to expire...
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    Antoine Walsh (category French people of Irish descent)
    owner and slave trader of Irish descent who operated in Nantes. Born into an expatriate Irish family who had settled in Nantes, France, his support for...
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    September, she achieved the biggest result of her professional career at the PSA W25 Open International de Squash de Nantes after reaching the final but coming...
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    and Germany (the Réunion policy) and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, caused a surge of Huguenot refugees to the Republic. This led William...
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    Jules Arnous de Rivière (category Sportspeople from Nantes)
    visited Paris in 1858 and 1863. Born in Nantes to a French father William Henri Arnous-Rivière and an Irish mother Marie Tobin. His grand father baron...
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    made its way into the hands of the Irish military via the British military and was subsequently translated into English by Irish Military Intelligence G2...
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    Royal de Luxe (category Nantes)
    Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Ireland. Sources: Portraits des géants on the Nantes website. The Sultan's Elephant in London (2006) A...
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  • John O'Molony (1617–1702) (category Irish expatriates in France)
    publisher (link) Irish Colleges on the Continent. Catholic Answers. Retrieved 22 February 2023. Hurley, Patrick (April 1892). "The Irish at Nantes". The Dublin...
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    of coastline. It is nicknamed "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish ancestry of many of its...
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