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  • proper noun A female given name. Alternative spelling of Sheila.

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  • Sheilagh Fogarty, typically, was skeptical, and accused Bacon of being a typical male hypochondriac.

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  • Sheilagh Matheson, 60, a fellow television producer and friend for 40 years, said: Gerry decided very early in life that, given any choice in the matter, we should be able to control the way and circumstances in which we die, just as we take major decisions about our life.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John-Paul Ford Rojas 2011

  • Sheilagh Matheson, 60, a fellow television producer and friend for 40 years, said: Gerry decided very early in life that, given any choice in the matter, we should be able to control the way and circumstances in which we die, just as we take major decisions about our life.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John-Paul Ford Rojas 2011

  • Sheilagh Tennant, curator of Inspired said the artists had an open commission to create work around their response to Burns.

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  • There he put out the handmade nativity scene his first wife, Sheilagh, loved.

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  • Sheilagh, who said she suffers has swollen and painful legs following a car accident years ago, recently swapped her compacted Peugeot 206 mobility car for a Volvo which she says has more room.

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  • Sheilagh travelled to London by coach on Tuesday and said she handed her documents to a police officer outside Downing Street who assured her he would pass them on to the PM.

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  • Sheilagh was evicted from her home in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, following a rent dispute.

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  • In European Proto-industrialization: An Introductory Handbook, edited. by Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Markus Cerman.

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  • Note 12: See: L.A. Clarkson, "Ireland 1841: Pre-industrial or Proto-industrial; Industrializing or De-industrializing?" in European Proto-industrialization: An Introductory Handbook, ed. Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Markus Cerman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 67-84; Dierdre Mageean, "To Be Matched or to Move: Irish Women's Prospects in Munster," in Peasant Maids — City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America, ed.

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