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* '''Clontarf:''' old name for Dublin;  most famous for the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 where Brian Boru defeated the Viking invaders. The Battle of Clontarf is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars.
 
* '''Clontarf:''' old name for Dublin;  most famous for the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 where Brian Boru defeated the Viking invaders. The Battle of Clontarf is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars.
  
* '''Clane:''' a town in County Kildare, Ireland, near Clongowes Wood College, where both Joyce and Stephen Daedalus were educated.
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* '''Clane:''' a town in County Kildare, Ireland, near '''Clongowes Wood College''', where both Joyce and Stephen Dedalus were educated.
  
* '''clean'''
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* '''clean turf''': an oxymoron
  
 
[[Category:Irish history]]
 
[[Category:Irish history]]
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[[Category:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]
 
[[Category: Geography of Ireland]]
 
[[Category: Geography of Ireland]]

Latest revision as of 11:47, 19 January 2014

  • Clontarf: old name for Dublin; most famous for the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 where Brian Boru defeated the Viking invaders. The Battle of Clontarf is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars.
  • Clane: a town in County Kildare, Ireland, near Clongowes Wood College, where both Joyce and Stephen Dedalus were educated.
  • clean turf: an oxymoron