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Arts and entertainment

* ''Desmond'' (novel), 1792 novel by Charlotte Turner Smith * ''
Desmond's ''Desmond's'' is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, ''Desmond's'' stars Norman Beaton as barber Des ...
'', 1990s British television sitcom


Ireland

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Kingdom of Desmond The Kingdom of Desmond () was a historic kingdom in southwestern Ireland. It was founded in 1118 by Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh, King of Munster when the Treaty of Glanmire formally divided the Kingdom of Munster into Desmond and Thomond (, "Nor ...
, medieval Irish kingdom *
Earl of Desmond Earl of Desmond is a title in the peerage of Ireland () created four times. When the powerful Earl of Desmond took arms against Queen Elizabeth Tudor, around 1578, along with the King of Spain and the Pope, he was confiscated from his estates ...
, Irish aristocratic title *
Desmond Rebellions The Desmond Rebellions occurred in 1569–1573 and 1579–1583 in the Irish province of Munster. They were rebellions by the Earl of Desmond, the head of the Fitzmaurice/FitzGerald Dynasty in Munster, and his followers, the Geraldines an ...
, Irish rebellions during the 16th century led by the Earl of Desmond


Science and technology

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DESMOND (diabetes) DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) is a UK NHS training course for people with type 2 diabetes that helps people to identify their own health risks and to set their own goals. Background DESMOND is ...
(Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed), a UK NHS diabetes education programme *
Desmond (software) Desmond is a software package developed at D. E. Shaw Research to perform high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems on conventional computer clusters. The code uses novel parallel algorithms and numerical methods to achieve ...
, molecular dynamics simulation software * Storm Desmond, a windstorm in Britain and Ireland in 2015


Other uses

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Desmond (name) Desmond is a given name and a surname, derived from the Irish place-name ''Desmond'', an anglicization of the Irish ''Deas-Mhumhna'' ("South Munster"). The Irish peerages of Ormonde, Desmond, and Thomond represented the old sub-kingdoms of E ...
, a common given name and surname *
Desmond (horse) Desmond (1896 – 1913) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was at his peak as a two-year-old in the early summer of 1898 when he won three races in quick succession including the Coventry Stakes and the July Stakes. He never ...
(1896-1913), Thoroughbred racehorse *
Desmond's (department store) Desmond's was a Los Angeles-based department store, during its existence second only to Harris & Frank as the oldest Los Angeles retail chain, founded in 1862 as a hat shop by Daniel Desmond near the Los Angeles Plaza. The chain as a whole wen ...
, a former US store * Desmond, slang term for the British 2:2 degree classification


See also

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Desman The desman, a snouted and naked-tailed diving insectivore of the tribe Desmanini (also considered a subfamily, Desmaninae), belongs to one of two Eurasian species of the mole family, Talpidae. This tribe consists of two monotypic genera of sem ...
, a tribe of aquatic mammals * Clíodhna, principal goddess of Desmond, or South Munster *
Limerick Desmond League The Limerick Desmond League is an association football league featuring amateur, junior, youth and under-17 teams from the part of County Limerick west of the N20. Its top division, the Premier Division, is a seventh level division in the Repu ...
, an association football league in west County Limerick {{disambiguation