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 King ...
(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 (1685–1769), Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine and Austria
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Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe
Eduard Franz Joseph Graf von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (24 February 183329 November 1895) was an Austrian statesman, who served for two terms as Minister-President of Cisleithania, leading cabinets from 1868 to 1870 and 1879 to 1893. He was ...
(1833–1895), Prime Minister of Austria 1868–1870 and 1879–1893
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Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe
Heinrich Graf von Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe (22 May 1872 – 25 July 1928) was an Austrian landowner who until 1919 held hereditary titles from two different countries: he was a Count (''Graf'') in the nobility of Austria and a viscount in th ...
(1872–1928), last Viscount Taaffe
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Charlie Taaffe (1950–2019), American football coach
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Denis Taaffe (died 1813), Irish political writer, pseudonym Julius Vindex
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Éamonn Taaffe (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, ne ...
(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, American writer
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Tom Taaffe, Irish horse trainer
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Richard Taaffe, gemmologist and discoverer of taaffeite
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Taaffe O'Connell, American actress
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Olivia Taaffe
Olivia Taaffe (24 June 1832 – 3 May 1918) was the founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society.
Early life
Taaffe was born Olivia Mary Blake on 24 June 1832 in Annagh House, near Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland to John Joseph Blake and Elizabet ...
, founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society
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Emily Taaffe (b. 1984), Irish actress
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