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River Foyle The River Foyle () is a river in west Ulster in the northwest of the island of Ireland, which flows from the confluence of the rivers River Finn (County Donegal), Finn and River Mourne, Mourne at the towns of Lifford in County Donegal, Repub ...
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Lough Foyle Lough Foyle, sometimes Loch Foyle ( or "loch of the lip"), is the estuary of the River Foyle, on the north coast of Ireland. It lies between County Londonderry in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. Sovereignty over t ...
, an estuary of the River Foyle


Entities named for the River Foyle

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BBC Radio Foyle BBC Radio Foyle ( ga, BBC Raidió Feabhail) is a BBC Northern Ireland local radio station, serving County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It is named after the River Foyle which flows through Derry, the city where the station is based. The ...
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Foyle (Assembly constituency) Foyle (, Ulster Scots: ''Foyle'') is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembl ...
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Foyle (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Foyle was a single member constituency in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. It was created in 1929 as one of the five single-member constituencies replacing the former five-member Londonderry constituency. The constituency continued in exis ...
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Foyle (UK Parliament constituency) Foyle is a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The current MP is Colum Eastwood of the SDLP. Constituency profile The name comes from the River Foyle which the city lies on and is used to avoid the con ...
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Foyle and Londonderry College Foyle College is a co-educational non-denominational voluntary grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland. The school's legal name is Foyle and Londonderry College. In 1976, two local schools, Foyle College and Londonderry High School, merged unde ...
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Foyle Film Festival Foyle Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Derry, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the islan ...
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Ulsterbus Foyle Ulsterbus is a public transport operator in Northern Ireland and operates bus services outside Belfast. It is part of Translink, the brand name for the subsidiary operating companies of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company, which also ...
, the Derry-based bus operator


Arts and entertainment

* ''Kitty Foyle'' (film), a 1940 film * Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, the protagonist of the TV series ''
Foyle's War ''Foyle's War'' is a British detective drama television series set during and shortly after the Second World War, created by ''Midsomer Murders'' screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series '' ...
'' * Foyle, a partner of Bonehead in the film ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown''


Other uses

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Foyle (surname) Foyle is a surname. It may refer to: * Adonal Foyle (born 1975), Vincentian-American basketball player * Ashley Foyle (born 1986), English footballer * Charles Henry Foyle (died 1948), English businessperson; inventor of the folding carton * Christ ...
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Foyles W & G Foyle Ltd. (usually called simply Foyles) is a bookseller with a chain of seven stores in England. It is best known for its flagship store in Charing Cross Road, London. Foyles was once listed in the ''Guinness Book of Records'' as the w ...
, a bookshop in London * HMS ''Foyle'' (T48), a Mersey Class trawler built for the Royal Navy {{disambiguation, geo