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- proper noun A county in the
Republic of Ireland .
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Examples
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One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources.
FIRECRACKER 2010
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One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources.
FIRECRACKER 2010
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Barack Obama is following hot on the heels of the Queen, coming to visit Ireland early next week, and the man wanted a ticket to see the president in his ancestral home in Moneygall in County Offaly.
Thanks for coming to Ireland – but we still need a bailout | Colm Toibin 2011
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Residents of the village in Ireland's County Offaly were eagerly anticipating the president's pilgrimage.
Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland 2011
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He had legal papers served on him at his home address in Co Offaly last month.
Defeated taoiseach Brian Cowen faces seizure of UK buy-to-let property 2011
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Jewel Samad/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Obamas sipped Guinness at a pub in Moneygall, a village in rural County Offaly, Ireland, where the president's great-great-great grandfather Falmouth Kearney hailed from.
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Residents of the village in Ireland's County Offaly were eagerly anticipating the president's pilgrimage.
Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland 2011
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Residents of the village in Ireland's County Offaly were eagerly anticipating the president's pilgrimage.
Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland 2011
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An "Offaly good breakfast" may be a crap joke, but it was true to its word: grilled kidneys, pink at the eye, with Leopold Bloom's "faint tang of urine", a little fried wobbly liver, a round of black pudding, a fried egg trimmed unto the yolk on a piece of fried bread, a plank of crisp bacon and a dollop of their own ketchup.
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Obama will be visiting County Offaly to see his ancestral family roots, before a state visit to London when he will meet the 85-year-old woman who has unexpectedly become an Irish media star.
Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite 2011
bilby commented on the word Offaly
I could never live in this county. I would spend all my time making bad puns and never get anything done.
October 24, 2018