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1957 in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (278 words) |
 | See also: 1956 in Ireland, other events of 1957, 1958 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'. |
| January 1 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an IRA attack on an RUC barracks in County Fermanagh. |
| March 3 - Eamon de Valera tells a crowd in Cork that a United Ireland can be achieved with time and the support of the people. |
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| The E coast of Ireland is comparatively regular and has few deep indentations; the W coast is fringed by drowned or submerged valleys, steep cliffs, and hundreds of small islands torn from the mainland mass by the powerful forces of the Atlantic. |
| The counties in Ireland are: Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois (Laoighis), Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow, in Leinster Province; Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary North Riding, Tipperary South Riding, and Waterford, in Munster Province; Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo, in Connaught (Connacht) Province; and Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, in Ulster Province. |
| Nearly the entire Celtic population of Ireland and the majority of the inhabitants of the Pale remained Roman Catholic, and the Anglican church served as a political instrument for the English rulers in Dublin Castle. |
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