President Bush Meets with Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern PRESIDENT BUSH: Taoiseach, welcome, and Happy St. Patrick's Day. It's always a joy to welcome the Taoiseach here to the Oval Office. And it's a reminder of the unbelievably powerful in

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The Queen has paid tribute to Irish nationalists who died fighting for independence from Britain. Dressed in emerald green, Queen Elizabeth laid a wreath at Dublins Garden of Remembrance. She is the first British monarch to visit the Irish Republic a

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Franklin was deeply, deeply distressed by what he saw. In Ireland he saw how England had put a stranglehold on Irish trade, how absentee English landlords exploited Irish tenant farmers and how those farmers in Franklin's words lived in wretched hove

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Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady, pauses during St Patrick's Day mass at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland, 17 Mar 2010 The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has apologized for his handling of a child sex abuse sca

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Breathing Emergencies Decline After Irish Smoking Ban A national smoking ban in Ireland has led to reduced hospital emergency admissions for respiratory ailments. It's the latest evidence of the health benefits of tobacco control. Seven years ago, Ir

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's a new era for Sinn Fein. That's the political party that has fought for a united, independent Ireland. Sinn Fein had close ties to the Irish Republican Army during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland known as the T

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been on an official visit to the Philippines. He's also scheduled to attend a series of leaders' meetings on China-ASEAN and East Asian cooperation. For more on China-Philippines relations, CRI's Guan Chao recently caug

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Chinese vice Premier Zhang Gaoli attended and delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2017 in China's southern island province of Hainan on Saturday, March 25, 2017. With the theme, Global

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His memory would be obliterated by events which would create Ireland's first and most enduring cult of personality. It is the story of a spiritual revolution born in an age of imperial collapse. Since the beginning of the fifth century, barbarian att

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It seems the Romans did briefly contemplate an invasion until trouble in Scotland called the legions away. And so Ireland was never subordinated to Roman law or government. But they didn't need to dispatch an army to exert an influence that extended

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A geographer living under Caesars rule described the Irish as a cannibal race who deemed it commendable to devour their deceased fathers and who lived a miserable existence because of the cold. But Mediterranean traders had long been immune to such d

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Here they constructed a memorial which celebrated revolution, faith and an idealized ancient world. At its center, this sculpture of the mythical Children of Lir condemned by an evil stepmother to wander the oceans as swans until the coming of Christ

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And this is the great settlement of Clonmacnoise. As you sweep around this turn in the river Shannon, you get the round towers, the churches and everything. You get the first idea that this is a really substantial monastic foundation. How did we arri

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Irish monks would carry their Gospel across the seas. Men like Brendan the Voyager, Colum Cille in the Irish kingdom of Dal Riata in Scotland, or Aidain at Lindisfarne in Northumbria. Now, the Lord had said, Get thee out of thy country and from thy k

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -March 15, 2002: Music written by John Williams / A question about Saint Patrick's Day / Watching baseball players get ready for the season Broadcast: HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC —

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McClaren: Boro can bounce back to the Premier League LAST TUESDAY Former Middlesbrough manager Steve McClaren says the relegated club can bounce back.

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今天我们要学的词是 hindrance. hindrance 的意思是阻力,障碍。The U.S. said it will scale back military exercises with South Korea next year, so the war games are not a hindrance to diplomacy over ending North Korea's nuclear weapons

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