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Ruscus aculeatus, known as butcher's-broom , [ 2] is a low evergreen dioecious Eurasian shrub, with flat shoots known as cladodes that give the appearance of stiff, spine-tipped leaves. Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes. The female flowers are followed by a red berry, and the seeds are ...
Irish Canadians ( Irish: Gael-Cheanadaigh) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry to immigrants who originated in Ireland. 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived from 1825 to 1970, and at least half of those in the period from 1831 to 1850. By 1867, they were the second largest ...
Irish people. Irish Travellers ( Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people ), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs[ 3] ( Shelta: Mincéirí ), [ 4] are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous [ 5] ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. [ 6][ 7][ 8] They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of ...
Pages in category "Butcher family (Anglo-Irish)" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Anishinabek Nation, also known as the Union of Ontario Indians, is a First Nations political organization representing 39 member Anishinabek Nation First Nations in Canada in the province of Ontario, Canada. [ 1] The organization's roots predate European contact in the 16th century, in the Council of Three Fires. [citation needed]
Jews certainly lived in Ireland long before Oliver Cromwell in 1657 revoked the English Edict of Expulsion. A permanent settlement of Jews was certainly established in the late 15th century. Following their expulsion from Portugal in 1497, some of these Sephardic Jews settled on Ireland's south coast.
Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland. Ontario received a large number of those who landed in Quebec ...
Hiberno-English, Irish, African languages. Black people in Ireland, also known as Black Irish, [ 1] Black and Irish[ 3] or in Irish: Daoine Goirme/Daoine Dubha, [ 4] are a multi-ethnic group of Irish people of African descent. Black people, Africans and people of African descent have lived in Ireland in small numbers since the 18th century.