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    The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
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    The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities...
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  • Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI; Irish: Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann) was the national mapping agency of the Republic of Ireland. It was established on...
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    fortification on Spike Island. This work was undertaken by the Irish Board of Ordnance. In October 1790, the Earl visited the island and named the incomplete...
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  • was Master-General of the Irish Board of Ordnance. He was made a brigadier-general in 1699 and was one of the Lords Justices of Ireland from 1702 to 1704...
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  • Robert Byron (Royalist) (category People of the Irish Confederate Wars)
    Ireland and he was imprisoned on at least one occasion. After the Stuart Restoration, he was appointed Master-General of the Irish Board of Ordnance in...
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    2015, the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company, 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable...
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    The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In...
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    The names Ireland and Éire derive from Old Irish Ériu, a goddess in Irish mythology first recorded in the ninth century. The etymology of Ériu is disputed...
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    by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's Board of Ordnance to help defend the Kingdom against attack. They were one of three royal gunpowder...
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    associated with the Board of Ordnance, and later the War Department and the Ministry of Defence. It was exported to other parts of the British Empire,...
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    1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance. The aim of the survey was to establish precise geographical coordinates of almost 300 significant landmarks...
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    status of the Irish language has remained high in the Republic of Ireland from foundation. This reflects the dominance of the language in Irish cultural...
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    Corporation of the City of Londonderry – via Google Books. Ireland, Ordnance Survey of; Colby, Thomas (14 January 1837). "Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry"...
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    (Irish: Tiobraid Árann Theas) was a county in Ireland in the province of Munster. It was named after the town of Tipperary and consisted of 52% of the...
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    Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ] ; Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the...
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    Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) (category 18th-century Irish architects)
    appointment which (held with that of Surveyor General) made him the most influential officer in the Irish Board of Ordnance. In this role, he was responsible...
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    The Department of Justice (Irish: An Roinn Dlí agus Cirt) is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Justice. The department's...
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    Civil parishes (Irish: paróistí sibhialta, paróistí dlí) are units of territory in the island of Ireland that have their origins in old Gaelic territorial...
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    assimilated to the Irish cultures and some even became "more Irish than the Irish themselves". Following the Tudor conquest of Ireland and the 1610–15 Ulster...
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    The Defence Forces (Irish: Fórsaí Cosanta, officially styled Óglaigh na hÉireann) are the armed forces of Ireland. They encompass the Army, Air Corps...
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    The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the...
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  • Wing (ARW) (Irish: Sciathán Fianóglach an Airm, "SFA") is the special operations force of the Irish Defence Forces, the military of Ireland. In late 2023...
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    Guildford Slingsby (category Irish MPs 1634–1635)
    of Northumberland, one of Strafford's closest friends. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states Slingsby was appointed to the Irish Board of...
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    D.P.; Woodman, P.C. (eds.). "The Island of Ireland: Drowning the Myth of an Irish Land-bridge?". The Irish Naturalists' Journal: 19–34. McGreevy, Nora...
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    1806. Earl Temple concurrently served as Paymaster of the Forces and Vice-President of the Board of Trade. The term has since been used in politics to...
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    A postal address in Ireland is a place of delivery defined by Irish Standard (IS) EN 14142-1:2011 ("Postal services. Address databases") and serviced...
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    Admiralty in the 16th century (category History of the Royal Navy)
    drink, along with a Board of Ordnance under a Master of the Ordnance, an independent body which supervised the storage and issuing of weapons and gunpowder...
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    Thompson submachine gun (category Submachine guns of the United States)
    prototypes could be shipped to Europe. At an Auto-Ordnance board meeting in 1919, in order to discuss the marketing of the "Annihilator", with the war now over...
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    George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
    over Ireland. He also served as Master-General of the Ordnance, first in the North Ministry and then in the Fox–North Coalition. Born the son of Charles...
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