Taaffe can refer to:
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Viscount Taaffe
The title Viscount Taaffe, of Corren, was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1628, together with the subsidiary title Baron Ballymote. From 1661 to 1738, the Viscounts Taaffe were also the Earls of Carlingford.
From the 18th century onwards, ...
(title and family)
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Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford
Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford (c. 160331 December 1677), known as 2nd Viscount Taaffe, of Corren and 2nd Baron of Ballymote between 1642 and 1661, was an Irish Royalist officer who played a prominent part in the Wars of the Three Kin ...
(died 1677), Irish-born courtier and soldier in England
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Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford
Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford (1639August 1704), was 4th Viscount Taaffe, of Corren, and 4th Baron of Ballymote and an army commander and politician of Irish descent in the service of Emperor Ferdinand III in the Austrian capital Vienn ...
(died 1704), Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine
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Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe
''Feldmarschall'' Nicholas Taaffe, ''Graf'' von Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe and 6th Baron of Ballymote (about 168530 December 1769), was an Irish-born courtier and soldier who served the Habsburgs in Lorraine and Austria.
The first mention of the ...
(1685–1769), Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine and Austria
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Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833–1895), Prime Minister of Austria 1868–1870 and 1879–1893
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Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe (1872–1928), last Viscount Taaffe
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Charlie Taaffe (1950–2019), American football coach
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Denis Taaffe
Denis Taaffe or Dennis Taafe (bapt. 1759, Clogher, County Louth; d. 1813, Dublin) was an Irish political writer and historian also known under the pseudonym Julius Vindex, and a veteran of the 1798 Rebellion. He wrote extensively against the notio ...
(died 1813), Irish political writer, pseudonym Julius Vindex
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Éamonn Taaffe
Éamonn Taaffe (born 18 February 1975) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a full-forward for the Clare senior team.
Born in Tubber, County Clare, Taaffe first played competitive hurling during his schooling at Our Lady's College. He a ...
(born 1975), Irish sportsperson
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ( ; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, n ...
(born 1939), American composer
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Peter Taaffe
Peter Taaffe (born April 1942) is a British Marxist (Trotskyist) political activist and journalist. He was the general secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales from its founding until 2020 and was a member of the International Exec ...
(born 1942), British politician
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Philip Taaffe (born 1937), American artist
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Sonya Taaffe
Sonya Taaffe is an American author of short fiction and poetry based out of Massachusetts. She grew up in Arlington and Lexington, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in 2003 where she received a B.A. and M.A. in Classical Stud ...
, American writer
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Tom Taaffe
Tom Taaffe (b. 15 June 1963) is an Irish racehorse trainer based at Portree Stables, Boston, Ardclough, Straffan, in County Kildare.
He began training in the 1994/95 jumps season, having had a successful career as a professional jump jockey ...
, Irish horse trainer
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Richard Taaffe Edward Charles Richard (Graf von) Taaffe (1898–1967), known as Richard, was an Austrian-Irish gemmologist who found the first cut and polished taaffeite in November 1945.
Biography
Taaffe was born and grew up on the Bohemian estate of Ellisch ...
, gemmologist and discoverer of taaffeite
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Taaffe O'Connell
Taaffe O'Connell (born May 14, 1951) is an American actress and publisher, best known by her fans for her performance in cult-classic sci-fi horror film '' Galaxy of Terror''. Her acting career began in the late 1970s and continued uninterru ...
, American actress
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Olivia Taaffe, founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society
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Emily Taaffe (b. 1984), Irish actress
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