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Lismore

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Lismore, city, Australia

Lismore (lĭz`môr), city (1991 pop. 27,246), New South Wales, E Australia, on the North Arm of the Richmond River. An important industrial city, Lismore is a leading producer of butter. Its port is Ballina.

Lismore, town, Republic of Ireland

Lismore (lĭsmôr`, lĭz–), town (1991 pop. 715), Co. Waterford, S Republic of Ireland, on the Blackwater River. It is a market town with a salmon fishing industry. In the 7th cent., St. Carthagh founded a monastery there. By the 8th cent. it was a famed center of learning. Lismore Castle, which has been restored, was built under Prince (later King) John in 1185. Robert Boyle Boyle, Robert, 1627–91, Anglo-Irish physicist and chemist. The seventh son of the 1st earl of Cork, he was educated at Eton and on the Continent and conducted most of his researches at his own laboratories at Oxford (1654–68) and London (1668–91).
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Lismore, island, Scotland

Lismore (lĭz`môr, lĭzmôr`), island, 9 1-2 mi (15.3 km) long and 1 1-2 mi (2.4 km) wide, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland, in Loch Linnhe. There are ruins of several old castles, one of which was a 9th-century Viking fortress, another the residence of the bishops of Argyll. The present parish church was the choir of a 13th-century cathedral. The 16th-century

Book of the Dean of Lismore is a volume of Scottish Gaelic and other verse, compiled by Dean James Macgregor and his brother Duncan. It is one of the oldest Scottish Gaelic collections.



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Applicants for the TEN course have been recruited from across NSW, with the current trainee's coming from areas such as Kempsey, Unanderra, Tweed Heads, Manilla, Wellington, Tenilba Bay, Lismore, Redfern, Nambucca Heads, Narrawallee, Tamworth and Gateshead
The RRISK program is overseen by a steering committee with its partners representing the following organisations: North Coast Area Health Service Health Promotion (NCHPU), NSW Department of Education and Training (DET), Catholic Education Office, Lismore (CEOL), and Lismore City and Tweed Shire Councils.
] Set in and around the Australian town of Lismore, this emotionally rich novel features a loose community of students, artists, musicians (like Matt), and assorted other free spirits maintaining a subsistence-level existence.
 
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