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Dundalk F.C.

Dundalk Football Club (Cumann Peile Dhún Dealgan) is a professional football club that competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top tier of football in the Republic of Ireland. The club is based in Dundalk and its home ground is Oriel Park. The club crest is three martlets on a shield, which was adopted from the town's old coat of arms, and the team colours are white shirts and black shorts.

Founded in 1903 as Dundalk G.N.R., the works-team of the Great Northern Railway, they were a junior club until they were invited to join the Leinster Senior League in 1922–23. After playing at that level for four seasons, they were elected to the League of Ireland for the 1926–27 season. Six seasons later, they became the first club from outside Dublin to win the league title. They have won 49 trophies at national and all-Ireland level as of 2023, including four League and Cup 'Doubles', and are the only club to have won a league title or an FAI Cup in every decade since the 1930s. They are the second most successful club in the League's history, with 14 league titles as of 2023.

Dundalk are the highest-ranked Irish club in European football as measured by UEFA club coefficients. They made their European debut in the 1963–64 European Cup and became the first Irish side to win an away match in Europe in that campaign. Their best performance in the European Cup was in 1979–80, when they reached the last 16, and they reached the last 16 of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1981–82. They are the only Irish club to have qualified for the Europa League group stage twice and in 2016–17, they became the first team from Ireland to both win points and win a match at that level of European competition. They remain the only Irish team to have done so as of the 2023–24 European season.

Dundalk G.N.R. (1903–1930)
The Dundalk Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) Football Club was established during the 1883–84 season as a rugby football club. They played their final rugby match in February 1903, and in September 1903 the club switched codes to association football, setting in motion their journey to become the modern-day Dundalk F.C. The new club, known locally as "the Railwaymen", adopted the Dundalk Athletic Grounds (a facility near the town centre shared by several sporting codes) as its home ground. They played challenge matches at first, then became founder members of the first Dundalk and District League (DDL), formed in 1906. There are no records of the club being active between 1907–08 and 1912–13, but they re-joined the local league in 1913–14 for what was the final season before the outbreak of World War I.

The local league was dormant during the war, but the G.N.R. club entered both the Irish Junior Cup and Leinster Junior Cup competitions during the war years. After exiting the Irish Junior Cup in January 1917, the club was inactive again for the following two seasons. It re-formed for 1919–20, affiliated with the Leinster Football Association, and joined both the Newry and District League and the revived DDL. The G.N.R. club spent three seasons in the DDL, winning it twice, and represented the district in both Junior Cup competitions those seasons. They reached the Leinster Junior Cup final in 1920 (the club's first cup final), which they lost to Avonmore after two replays.

Looking to progress, they were elected to the Leinster Senior League for 1922–23 to replace sides that had been promoted to the nascent Free State League. They played four seasons in that division, before being elected to the Free State League on 15 June 1926 to replace Dublin club Pioneers as the national league looked to spread to the provinces.

On 21 August 1926, they travelled to Cork to face Fordsons for their league debut, eventually finishing eighth in the 1926–27 season. By this stage, the team represented the G.N.R. works in name only and the club's management committee decided to make it independent of the company. New colours of white shirts and blue shorts with a crest of the town's coat of arms were adopted in December 1927. They contested their first cup final as a senior club in April 1929, the Leinster Senior Cup final, which they lost after a replay. It was the last time that the club was billed to appear as 'Dundalk G.N.R.', and the name of the club was formally changed to 'Dundalk A.F.C.' in the summer of 1930.

The works teams
When Dundalk G.N.R. joined the League of Ireland in 1926, it was one of four works-teams in the 10-team league—the others being Jacobs, St. James's Gate and Fordsons. Another railway works-team—Midland Athletic of the Midland Great Western Railway—had competed for two seasons but had resigned when the company went through a merger. By 1944–45, Dundalk were the only club with works-team roots remaining. Another works-team, Transport (sponsored by CIÉ), joined in 1948–49 but were not re-elected for 1962–63, leaving Dundalk again as the only surviving club with works-team roots. The works themselves became Dundalk Engineering Works Ltd with the demise of the G.N.R.(I) company in 1958.

First successes (1930–1949)
With a new manager, Steve Wright, "doing everything except selling the programmes", Dundalk finished as runners-up in both the League and the FAI Cup in 1930–31. Proof that they could compete at a national level gave the management committee the confidence to press ahead and the club was converted to a membership-based limited company, 'Dundalk A.F.C. Limited', on 25 January 1932. In the 1932–33 season, they became the first team from outside Dublin to win a league title, sealing it in Dalymount Park with their first victory over Bohemians. In becoming champions, they also became the first team from outside Dublin or Belfast to win a league title in Ireland since the inception of the original Irish League in 1890. Hoping to improve gate receipts and revenue, the club's management committee decided to move from the Athletic Grounds to a ground of their own. In 1936, they secured land on the Carrick Road owned by P.J. Casey (a former committee member) on a long-term lease, and named it 'Oriel Park'.

After winning the league title, they were runners-up eight times across the five main competitions (League, Shield, FAI Cup, Dublin City Cup and Leinster Senior Cup), before winning the 1937–38 City Cup—their first cup final victory. They won their first FAI Cup—in their fourth appearance in the final—with victory over Cork United in Dalymount Park in 1942. Five weeks later, they won the inaugural Dublin and Belfast Inter-City Cup to become (unofficially) 'Champions of All Ireland'. The following September, in the new season, the City Cup was won for a second time.

During the mid-1940s, the management committee relied on player sales to English clubs to bankroll the club, as gate receipts alone did not meet its running costs. After missing out in both the League and the City Cup by a point in 1947–48, the committee decided to invest the surplus from its transfer dealings on several professional players from Scotland and a player-coach, Ned Weir. The investment paid off when the City Cup was won for a third time at the start of the new season by topping its new league format unbeaten, while the club's second FAI Cup was won with victory over Shelbourne in the 1949 final. But the new team fell short in both the Shield and the League and, despite the cup double and improved gate receipts, the additional income was not enough to cover the increase in costs.

Struggles and recovery (1950–1964)
The attempt to maintain a full-time squad had not paid off and the 1949 cup-winning team was broken up. A surplus from transfer dealings prevented a more serious financial crisis arising, and despite the turnover in players, Dundalk won the Leinster Senior Cup for the first time in 1950–51. The cutbacks started to have an impact, and they finished second from bottom in the league table the following season. They went on a memorable FAI Cup run, however, coming from 3–1 down against Waterford in a semi-final replay to win 6–4 in extra time; then defeated Cork Athletic in the 1952 FAI Cup Final (also in a replay), to win the Cup for a third time.

Midway through the 1952–53 season, Club Secretary Sam Prole left to take over at Drumcondra. Prole, a Great Northern Railway employee, had played for Dundalk G.N.R. in junior football, and had been Secretary for 25 years. He had been responsible for the club's transfer activities, and player sales tailed off after his departure. The subsequent drop in income obliged the club to focus on controlling costs, and they finished last in the two seasons after he left. They continued to struggle for the rest of the decade but, in contrast to their league form, they won their fourth FAI Cup with a 1–0 victory over Shamrock Rovers in the 1958 final.

Having not challenged for the League or Shield during the 1950s, they ended the decade at the top of the league table. Although they subsequently fell short of winning the title, the club was competitive again. A second Leinster Senior Cup was won in 1960–61, and a first league title in 30 years followed in 1962–63. That success meant that Dundalk entered European competition for the first time, where they became the first Irish side to win an away leg of a European tie by beating FC Zurich, 2–1 (in a 4–2 aggregate defeat), in the 1963–64 European Cup. They could not manage to retain the title that season, finishing as runners-up, and they were also runners-up in the Shield. But they did win the season-end Top Four Cup for the first time.

Takeover, rise and fall (1964–1974)
A poor 1964–65 followed, and the club's management committee decided that it was time to hire a modern-style manager, who would have sole responsibility for recruitment and player selection. They appointed Gerry Doyle, who had spent most of his career as both a player and a coach with Shelbourne. The new season saw little improvement, however, and with financial losses growing and investment in Oriel Park needed, it became clear early in the 1965–66 season that the membership-based ownership model could not provide the financial support required to take the club forward. A new public limited company took over in January 1966, after the voluntary liquidation of the old company.

The new board invested heavily in both Oriel Park and the squad ahead of the 1966–67 season, and signed a new player-coach, Alan Fox, from Bradford City. The pay-off was immediate. Dundalk finally won their first League of Ireland Shield, then charged to the league title, winning it by seven points, to seal the club's only League and Shield Double. They then won that season's Top Four Cup to complete the club's first 'treble'.

The following season, Oriel Park hosted European football for the first time, under newly installed floodlights, with the visit of Vasas SC of Hungary. But Fox fell out with the club's board during the trip to Budapest for the return leg, and he was released the following March, despite his side being set to retain the title. The Dublin City Cup of 1967–68 was his final success at the club. Dundalk subsequently finished as runners-up in the League, qualifying for the 1968–69 Fairs Cup, where they won a European tie for the first time with victory over DOS Utrecht. But fourth-place in the League that season, and another City Cup, was all that the remnants of Fox's team could achieve.

Future Ireland manager Liam Tuohy took over in the summer of 1969 and also joined the board, and as a result of his managerial experience, Dundalk entered the new decade at the top of the league table. But Tuohy was obliged to thin the squad and cut the wage bill because of the scale of the debts still hanging over the club from the redevelopment of Oriel Park, and he could not build a side able to sustain a title challenge. The 1971–72 Shield success would be the high point of his reign, and he quit at the end of that season, criticising a lack of local support in the process. His only other trophy at the club was the 1970–71 Leinster Senior Cup.

Dundalk had to sell or release a number of players to survive after Tuohy left, and they slid down the table—with a young, inexperienced team finishing second from bottom in 1972–73. To recover the situation, a new board took over the running of the club, and hired John Smith from Walsall as player-manager. After renegotiating the club's debts, they were able to provide Smith with funds to sign several players. Smith delivered a Leinster Senior Cup in his first season, but they subsequently fell away in the league after a good start, and Smith quit two matches into his second season for a job outside football. Following his departure, the club appointed Jim McLaughlin as player-manager in November 1974.

A trophy-laden era (1975–1995)
It was under McLaughlin that Dundalk recovered and reached a new level of success. With the remnants of Smith's squad and players unwanted elsewhere, he won his first league title (the club's fourth) in 1975–76, losing one match in the process. The title brought European football back to the town for the first time since 1969 and in the following season's European Cup, they met PSV Eindhoven and were deemed unlucky not to win the first leg at home. That match started an unbeaten run in Europe in Oriel Park of eight matches over the following five seasons. They ended the season by winning the Leinster Senior Cup, and a week later won the club's first FAI Cup since 1958 when they defeated Limerick United in the 1977 final.

League form had been mixed for the two seasons following the title and, despite winning their first League Cup and retaining the Leinster Senior Cup, a poor end to the 1977–78 league season led to rumours that McLaughlin would be let go. The club supported the "reorganisation" he demanded, however, and it used funds from the sale of three players to Liverpool to invest in the squad and make ground improvements at Oriel. McLaughlin's second league title followed in 1978–79, and they went on to defeat Waterford in the Cup final to complete the club's first League and Cup Double. The Double winning side's 1979–80 European Cup run the following season, where they narrowly missed out on qualifying for the quarter-finals (going down 3–2 on aggregate to Celtic), was the club's best European performance until 2016.

They finished as runners-up in the league for the next two seasons, and achieved their only domestic cup double in 1980–81—winning both the League Cup and the FAI Cup. McLaughlin's third and final league title at the club arrived in 1981–82, after an early season 10-point gap to Bohemians was overhauled. A trophy-less 1982–83 season, which saw Dundalk slip to third place in the league table behind Louth rivals Drogheda United, signalled that the team was entering a transition period. But McLaughlin resigned in May 1983, saying he needed a change.

After two seasons that ended in mid-table, former player Turlough O'Connor was appointed ahead of the League's split into two divisions in 1985–86. O'Connor quickly built a squad capable of challenging for honours and his sides consistently finished in the top four over the following eight seasons. They won the 1987 League Cup Final, and finished as runners-up in both the League and the FAI Cup to qualify for Europe for the first time in five years. The following season started with a visit from Cup Winners' Cup holders Ajax Amsterdam, and ended with the club's second League and Cup Double—with the title being won on the last day of the season, and the FAI Cup being won with victory over Derry City.

O'Connor won his second League Cup in 1989–90, and another league title followed in 1990–91 in an end of season, winner takes all match in Turner's Cross against Cork City. But Dundalk spurned an opportunity to progress in the European Cup, when a 1–1 draw away to Honved was followed by a 0–2 home defeat. Attendances started to drop noticeably during 1992–93, as the new English Premier League, broadcast live on BSkyB, was growing in popularity. By the end of the season the board was facing financial issues that threatened the club's survival—a "healthy" surplus in 1989, had become a serious deficit, with income falling due to some of the lowest gate receipts in memory. The 1993–94 season started with mixed results, with good away victories being followed by defeats at home and, after a home defeat to Monaghan United, O'Connor resigned.

He was replaced by another former player, Dermot Keely. The older players were released, and a thin squad struggled—missing out on the 'Top Six' round-robin that decided the title. They played out the final third of the season in a meaningless 'bottom six' round-robin in front of tiny crowds, which contributed to the worsening financial position. Early the following season the financial issues came to a head, and a number of local businessmen formed a new interim company to take the club over, saving it from bankruptcy. Despite the financial problems, and with a squad still lacking in depth, Keely led his team to the club's ninth league title on a dramatic final day. Starting the day in third place in the table, they needed to win their match at home and for both Shelbourne and Derry City to fail to win their games. They defeated Galway United and news eventually filtered through that both of their challengers had failed to win, confirming Dundalk as Champions.

Decline and upheaval (1995–2012)
The 1994–95 title did not halt the overall decline, and Keely did not see out the title defence, quitting midway through the 1995–96 season—reportedly frustrated at being unable to strengthen his squad. Dundalk sank down the table and had to survive a promotion/relegation play-off in 1996–97. The board turned to Jim McLaughlin to try to turn things around, but early in the 1998–99 season it was revealed that the club was in serious financial trouble again and the whole squad had been transfer listed. An end of season collapse saw the club drop from the top-tier for the first time, with relegation confirmed 20-years to the day after they had won their first Double.

The club was taken over by a supporters' co-op in 2000, and initial expectations were of an immediate return to the top-flight. But Dundalk became embroiled in a losing battle with the league's hierarchy and Kilkenny City, which reached the High Court, over the latter playing an improperly registered player. The following season the co-op invested heavily in the playing squad and, under new manager Martin Murray, they were promoted as 2000–01 First Division Champions. Although seemingly well-placed for the return to the top-flight, they were relegated again the following season, with the League being reduced from 12 teams to 10. Despite this setback, Murray's side won the club's ninth FAI Cup a week later, with victory over Bohemians in the final.

After being relegated again, Dundalk were stuck in the lower reaches of the First Division for the next four seasons. With no sign of promotion, the co-op members agreed to the club being taken back into private ownership by its CEO, Gerry Matthews. They finished second under new manager John Gill in 2006, securing a play-off tie against Waterford United. Even though they won the play-off, they were still denied a place in the 2007 Premier Division, with Galway United (who had finished third in that season's First Division) selected by the FAI's 2006 IAG Report to be promoted ahead of both Dundalk and Waterford. In 2008, they won promotion back to the Premier Division, pipping Shelbourne to the top spot on the final night of the season. Gill was replaced by Ian Foster for the return to the top flight, despite winning the First Division title.

At first, Dundalk stabilised their position back in the Premier Division—qualifying for the 2010–11 Europa League, leading the league table midway through the 2010 season, and reaching the 2011 Setanta Sports Cup final. But results subsequently deteriorated and, with financial losses mounting as the 2011 season drew to a close, Matthews decided to let Foster's contract expire and relinquish control of the club. With the club in danger of insolvency during a disastrous 2012, it was taken over by local businessmen Andy Connolly and Paul Brown (owners of the team's official sponsors, Fastfix), and Dundalk subsequently managed to remain in the top-flight by defeating Waterford United in the play-off.

Revival and dominance (2013–2019)
Having saved the club, the new owners turned to Stephen Kenny to become the new manager. They mounted an unexpected title challenge in his first season, eventually finishing as runners-up. Kenny kept the nucleus of the new side together for the following season, and went on to guide the club to its first league title since 1994–95. They also won that season's League Cup, the club's first League and League Cup Double. The 2015 season saw them dominate, winning the club's third League and FAI Cup Double—with the title being won by 11-points and the Cup with victory over Cork City in the final. They also won the Leinster Senior Cup—the club's first 'treble' since 1966–67. A third league title in a row was sealed with two games to spare in 2016.

2016 also saw the club qualify for the Champions League play-off round, after they first defeated FH of Iceland, then came from a goal down in the tie to defeat BATE Borisov 3–1 on aggregate. They drew Legia Warsaw for the play-off, with the first leg played in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in front of a crowd of 30,417. They suffered a 2–0 defeat in the home leg, but shocked Legia in the return leg by taking a 1–0 lead. With Dundalk pushing for the equaliser that would have taken the tie to extra-time, Legia scored on the break, and won the tie 3–1 on aggregate. As a result, Dundalk qualified for the group stage of the Europa League. A draw with AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands, followed by a victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv in Tallaght Stadium, were the first points earned by an Irish club in the group stage of European competition.

The departure of some key players after the European run, and a slow start to the new season, meant that they slipped to runners-up spots in both league and FAI Cup although they won their sixth League Cup. The club's European form had attracted interest from abroad, however, and a consortium of American investors led by Peak6 Investments completed a takeover in January 2018. Kenny's side reasserted itself in 2018, winning another League and Cup Double—the second under Kenny and fourth in the club's history—breaking points-total and goals scored-total records in the process. In the aftermath, Kenny resigned in order to accept the Republic of Ireland U-21 manager's role.

Hoping to achieve continuity, the new owners replaced Kenny with his Assistant Manager, Vinny Perth, as Head Coach, with John Gill returning as First-team coach. Despite falling 13-points behind early 2019 leaders Shamrock Rovers in April, they overhauled the deficit within weeks, and subsequently won the club's 14th league title with four games to spare. They also won the League Cup by defeating Derry City on penalties in the final, to secure a second League and League Cup Double. They were denied a first domestic Treble of League, FAI Cup and League Cup, however, when they were beaten in a penalty shoot-out in the FAI Cup Final. But they ended the season with a comprehensive 7–1 aggregate victory over Northern Irish champions, Linfield, in the inaugural Champions Cup.

Transition (2020–present)
Early the following season, a goal scored by Jordan Flores went viral and was subsequently nominated for the FIFA Puskás Award. Soon after, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the cessation of football in line with other European countries. The season resumed with a reduced schedule of 18 matches in total and matches being played behind closed doors. Manager Vinny Perth was dismissed following Dundalk's exit from Europe in the first qualifying round of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League. He was replaced by Italian Filippo Giovagnoli. Dundalk subsequently qualified for the group stage of the 2020–21 Europa League after victories over Inter Club d'Escaldes, Sheriff Tiraspol and KÍ Klaksvik in the qualifying rounds. They were drawn in Group B alongside Arsenal, Rapid Wien, and Molde. They failed to pick up any points and finished bottom of the group.

In the FAI Cup, they had an 11–0 semi-final victory over Athlone Town—setting a new record for the biggest win in the competition's history, which was also a new club record victory. They followed that with a 4–2 extra-time victory over Shamrock Rovers, with David McMillan scoring a hat-trick, to win the Cup for the twelfth time and qualify for Europe for the 25th time.

The 2021 season saw Shane Keegan named first-team manager, with Giovagnoli reverting to the position of 'coach' because he did not have a UEFA Pro Licence. The season began with a victory in the President's Cup, but after a run of defeats at the start of the league campaign, both Keegan and Giovagnoli left the club. Dundalk struggled for the remainder of the domestic season with their lowest league finish since 2012 and went out to Vitesse Arnhem in the third qualifying round of the inaugural Europa Conference League. Before the season ended, the club was returned to local ownership when a consortium led by former co-owner Andy Connolly and sports technology firm STATSports agreed a takeover with Peak6. The new owners then installed former captain Stephen O'Donnell as the club's new head coach in the close season.

O'Donnell steered his new-look side to a third-place finish and qualification for the Europa Conference League at the first attempt. They failed to capitalise in the 2023 season, exiting the Conference League in the second qualifying round and finishing mid-table and outside the European qualification places. The club saw another change of ownership in the close season, when it was taken over by US-based Irish businessman, Brian Ainscough. A poor start to the 2024 season, which saw Dundalk at the foot of the table after eight matches, resulted in O'Donnell being let go. He was replaced on an interim basis by the club's Head of Football operations, Brian Gartland, and first team coach, Liam Burns. Noel King, a former player of the club, was subsequently named manager on 20 April. His tenure lasted 25 days before he resigned, citing medical issues. He was replaced by Jon Daly subsequently.

Crest history
After outgrowing its links with the Great Northern Railway, the football club adopted the then coat of arms of the town of Dundalk (three gold martlets on an azure field) in December 1927 and incorporated the crest on the club's new white playing shirts. This coat of arms had been adopted by the town in 1673 when it was granted a charter under Charles II of England. It appears as the 'Corporation Seal' in a town plan dated 1675. The crest disappeared from the playing shirts in 1930, however, after the urban district council proposed to remove the "three black crows" from the seal of the town. A modified crest was reintroduced to the shirt for the 1952 FAI Cup Final, consisting of three black martlets on a white shield bearing the club name. After a number of minor redesigns in the following years, the white shield became a red shield with white martlets in 1997, and in 2015 this crest was modified to incorporate a gold star, to commemorate Dundalk's tenth League of Ireland title.

Kit history
Dundalk's colours have been white shirts with black shorts and black or white socks since the start of the 1940–41 season. It is known that the Dundalk G.N.R. club wore blue shirts when it started in 1903. and were reported to be wearing "yellow and black" in 1906, but there is no further evidence of defined club colours in the pre-World War I years. When the club was revived for the 1919–20 season, the colours adopted were black and amber-striped shirts with white shorts. In advance of dropping the 'G.N.R.' moniker and becoming 'Dundalk A.F.C.', the club changed to a strip of white shirts with the coat of arms of the town (the old Dundalk Corporation seal) as its crest, and blue shorts matching the azure shield of the crest. The new colours were first worn on St Stephen's Day 1927 in the opening match of the 1927–28 League of Ireland Shield.

This combination was worn until 1939 but came to be seen as unlucky due to the number of cup final defeats Dundalk had during the 1930s. Hoping a change would bring more luck, the club introduced a sky blue and maroon quartered shirt with white shorts and maroon socks in 1939–40, but they promptly lost to non-league opposition in the first round of that season's FAI Cup, and went back to wearing white shirts for the following season, this time paired with black shorts. Possibly by coincidence, when the clubs of the town amalgamated to form the first Dundalk Association Football Club in 1904, the colours chosen were "white shirt, bearing the Dundalk coat of arms, and black pants". The 'home' colours have remained essentially unchanged with red trims being incorporated occasionally since the 1990s. An all-white kit was introduced for the first time in the 1965–66 season, and was also the combination used in 1973–74 and 2003. All-white kits are still worn occasionally when required to avoid kit clashes. The earliest photographic record of the team in 'away' colours comes from the 1928–29 season. For their first visit to play Fordsons after adopting white shirts, Dundalk were obliged to wear borrowed shirts with their own navy blue shorts and black socks, as the home side also wore white shirts. For the next two seasons, they wore their old black and amber-striped shirts when travelling to face teams wearing white.
 * Away colours

The club did not have an official away kit until 1977–78. In the interim, red shirts were worn if change colours were needed. An all-red kit was produced for the Cup Winners' Cup tie away to Hajduk Split in 1977 and this became the away kit for domestic games that season. An all-red away kit was worn against Tottenham Hotspur in 1981 but otherwise official away colours were not required again until the 1990–91 season, when all-red was again adopted. Since then, away kits have usually been based on red or black. The club has twice introduced away colours that pay homage to its G.N.R. roots—in 2016 and again in 2021. Prior to 2019, ad hoc third colours had been worn by the team only when both home and away kits clashed with an opponent's colours. An official commercially available third kit was introduced that season for the first time—an all-lilac strip with white and black trim. It was designed by then kit supplier CX+ Sport, as part of a fundraising partnership between the club and Temple Street Children's University Hospital. The logo of the charity replaced that of the official sponsor Fyffes on the chest of the shirt. This kit was worn in all rounds of the successful 2019 League Cup campaign, and in the early rounds of that season's FAI Cup. The next season that the club released third colours (that was not the previous season's away kit repurposed) was in 2023.

Kit suppliers
The club's kit supplier is Playr-Fit, who signed a three-year deal beginning with the 2023 season. They replaced Umbro, who had been the supplier between 2007 and 2015, and between 2020 and 2022. Previous suppliers include Dundalk-based companies CX+ Sport (2016–2019) and Eros Sportswear (1985–1988). O’Neills (1976–1984; 1990–2004) have also been a long-term supplier. Erreà (2005) and Diadora (2006) have each been suppliers for one season while Adidas Teamwear was used temporarily during 1982–83. A Cork-based company, Union Sport, supplied kits for two seasons (1988–89 and 1989–90). Their products were notable in that the company used a Confederate flag (the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia) as its logo, which featured prominently on team shirts and other apparel.

Athletic Grounds
Between 1903 and 1936, Dundalk mostly played at the Athletic Grounds near the town centre (land which was eventually sold in 1959 for a factory development). The Athletic Grounds were owned by the Dundalk Young Ireland's Athletic Grounds Company and made available for all local team sports. Dundalk's matches were usually played on Sundays, enabling a large Northern Irish contingent of spectators (inconvenienced by Sunday Observance laws) to attend games. When matches were moved to Saturdays because of Sundays being unavailable, the club suffered financially from lower gate receipts. If the Athletic Grounds were unavailable altogether, then matches were played at the grounds of the Dundalk Educational Institution (now Dundalk Grammar School), the grounds at St Mary's College, or the Carroll's Recreation Ground.

Oriel Park

In 1936, the club moved permanently to land on the Carrick Road made available by former committee member P.J. Casey on a long-term land lease and named the new ground "Oriel Park". Almost 10 years to the day after Dundalk G.N.R. played their first Free State League match away to Fordsons, the same club (as Cork F.C.) were the first visitors to Oriel Park, with the home team winning 2–1. Oriel's attendance record is an estimated 18,000, set in 1982 for Dundalk's European Cup Winners' Cup second round tie against Tottenham Hotspur F.C. On occasions when Oriel has been unavailable due to works, matches have been moved to either United Park in Drogheda or Gortakeegan in Monaghan. The ground has had an artificial playing surface since 2005. Dundalk played their first home European match, against F.C. Zurich in the 1963–64 European Cup, in Dalymount Park in Dublin—as Oriel Park did not have floodlights. Floodlighting was installed in 1967 to allow matches to be played there—the first being the visit of Vasas SC of Hungary in the 1967–68 European Cup. The 1995–96 UEFA Cup tie against Malmö was moved to United Park in Drogheda as the Oriel pitch was being re-laid that summer, and the 2002–03 UEFA Cup tie against Varteks was moved to Tolka Park in Dublin because Oriel did not meet UEFA's upgraded standards for football stadiums at that time.
 * Home grounds for European matches

Oriel has since been upgraded to a Category 2 Stadium, able to accommodate 3,100 seated spectators for European matches. Matches requiring a ground to have Category 3 status have been played in Tallaght Stadium and matches requiring a ground meeting Category 4 status have been played at the Aviva Stadium.

Supporters
The Supporters Club is called 'The 1903', in honour of the football club's year of formation. There is also a Ladies Supporters Club, the 'Lilywhite Ladies'. The Dundalk G.N.R. club's members formed its first Supporters Club during the 1928–29 season. The Supporters Clubs have raised vital funds in support of the club through the decades, money that was often required to keep the club viable.

Dundalk fans have nicknamed the team 'the Lilywhites' and supporters also use 'the Town' as shorthand for the club. Both nicknames have been in use since at least the 1950s. The hashtag #CmonTheTown is used by fans on social media. From when the club was first formed until its change of colours in 1927–28, the team's nickname was 'the Railwaymen'. Later, the team was known as 'the Northerners", or 'the Bordermen' (due to the town's location close to the border with Northern Ireland).

The current generation of fans—who followed the club out of the First Division, through the ownership crisis of 2012, and into the subsequent successful period—style themselves the 'Shedside Army'. They are responsible for Oriel's 'tifo' displays. One such display—the flying of Palestinian flags in Oriel Park during a Europa League tie—resulted in a UEFA fine for Dundalk of €18,000. Supporters have two mottoes: "We See Things They'll Never See" owing to the roller-coaster of highs and lows the club has experienced; and "Dundalk Will Never Die But You Will", a riff on a Mogwai album title. The club anthem has become Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and the Wailers (both because of the club crest and because of the sentiments expressed in the lyrics).

Support base and attendances
The club's support base is the Dundalk Municipal District, the adjacent Carrickmacross–Castleblayney Municipal District of County Monaghan, and south County Armagh. The average Friday night home league attendance is approximately 3,000, with attendances at 'bigger' matches of approximately 4,000.

Rivalries
The Louth Derby is contested between Dundalk and Drogheda United, who entered the League of Ireland in 1963. The clubs played an annual friendly from 1966 to 1984—the Donegan Cup, presented by former Louth TD Paddy Donegan. Apart from one attempt to revive the contest in 1990, it was dropped as the two clubs could not find suitable dates for it during the season after the split of the League of Ireland into two divisions. The friendly was reintroduced as a pre-season match in 1997 with a new trophy—the Jim Malone Cup, in honour of three-time chairman of the board, the late Jim Malone.

While there is a sibling rivalry between the two towns, Derbies are not usually antagonistic because the two clubs have rarely competed for top honours simultaneously, although they did meet in the final of the 1971–72 League of Ireland Shield, with Dundalk winning 5–0. Many of Dundalk's most successful periods have corresponded with Drogheda being at the lower end of the league table or in the First Division, while Drogheda's most successful period (between 2004 and 2008) occurred while Dundalk were in the lower tier. The derby has been fractious on occasion, however, particularly during cup ties between the sides. In addition to the Louth Derby, Dundalk fans would see Shamrock Rovers as one of their biggest rivals, as Rovers hold the record for the most league titles and the record for the most FAI Cups, with Dundalk next in the honours list for both competitions.

Ownership and finances
On 30 November 2023 a club statement was issued to the effect that Dundalk Football Club had been acquired by the Boston-based sports investor Brian Ainscough.

Ownership history
As an association football club for the employees of the Great Northern Railway works in the town, it was 'owned' by the company and run by a management committee elected by its members. The club was converted to a membership-based limited company, 'Dundalk Association Football Club Limited', on 25 January 1932. This brought it under the ownership of its supporters, who elected a management committee every two years. This ownership structure survived until the end of 1965 but by then, the club's liabilities had grown and Oriel Park was in need of investment. The membership-based model, which saw the club break even on an annual basis at best, could not provide the required finance and the company was voluntarily liquidated and taken over by a public limited company, 'Dundalk Football Club Limited', in January 1966.

The financial issues that occurred in late 1994, which saw the club become effectively insolvent, forced the liquidation of the 1966 company. It was taken over by 'Dundalk AFC Interim Limited', a new holding company comprising former and current directors under chairman Enda McGuill. But the solvency issues that had faced the club through most of the 1990s arose again in 1998, resulting in relegation that season for the first time in the club's history. It was taken over by the 'Dundalk F.C. Co-operative' in 2000, returning it to a membership-based, supporter-owned model. But the co-op was unable to make the sort of investment in either the team or in Oriel Park required to bring the club back to the Premier Division. They decided to sell the training ground, Hiney Park, in order to service debts and pay for work at Oriel.

The man who purchased Hiney Park, Gerry Matthews, was subsequently invited to join the board as CEO in 2006. He then took the club into private ownership as 'Dundalk FC Limited' when it was accepted that the co-op could not continue to support it. It was returned to a solid footing under the ownership of Matthews but his decision to end his financial support in 2012 lead to another threat of insolvency. With the assistance of the Dundalk FC Supporters Trust, the club was rescued by the owners of its official sponsors, Fastfix—Paul Brown and Andy Connolly. They formed a new trading company 'Dundalk Town FC Limited' and completed a takeover in time for the 2013 season. Brown and Connolly then sold their interest to a consortium of investors led by the American investment firm Peak6 in 2018. At the end of the 2021 season, the club was returned to local ownership when a group led by the returning Connolly and the owners of sports technology firm STATSports agreed a takeover deal with Peak6.

The club saw another change of ownership at the end of the 2023 season, when Irish-American businessman Brian Ainscough assumed full control of the club.

Sponsorship and income streams
Dundalk's first shirt sponsor became National Aluminium with the introduction of shirt sponsorship in 1980. The company's brand remained on the team's shirts until 1984. From 1987 until 2002, the official sponsor was Harp Lager (the brand being synonymous with the town, and the Great Northern Brewery, where the product was brewed, being near Oriel Park). Subsequently, the club had a number of official sponsors, including a sponsorship deal with Fyffes, which ran from 2012 until 2020.

For the 2024 season, the team playing shirt's chest logo is that of official sponsors 888casino. The shirt's sleeve and upper back sponsor is (Renault) Blackstone Motors and the lower back of the shirt is sponsored by StatSport and Fastfix. The full list of sponsors for 2024 are:
 * 888casino (Official Sponsor)
 * Renault Blackstone Motors
 * Statsports
 * Fastfix
 * Playr-Fit (Official kit supplier)
 * Sportsfile
 * UHY Farrelly Dawe Whyte
 * Dundalk Credit Union (women's teams main shirt sponsors)
 * Dole (men's U17 and U19 academy teams main shirt sponsors)
 * Hanley Energy (men's U14 and U15 academy teams main shirt sponsors)
 * The Unit (First team training shirt sponsors)

There are several other sponsorship arrangements, such as sponsorship of individual players, and sponsorship of individual home matches. The club's Lotto is managed in partnership with Clubforce.

There is a merchandise shop at Oriel Park and an online store on the official website. In addition to sponsorship, Oriel Park is made available for junior and schools football, and is also available for rent to private groups and clubs in other sporting codes. The ground's public bar, 'The Lilywhite Lounge', is available for social events, as is the members' bar—the 'Enda McGuill Suite'.

The club introduced a membership scheme for supporters in 2020. The scheme is run on a monthly subscription basis via Patreon.

Player transfers
Players in the League of Ireland are typically signed on single season contracts, meaning they become free agents at the end of each season. Contracts of two-year duration are less typical; while players and clubs rarely sign deals of a longer duration. As a result, the transfer-fee inflation seen throughout European club football has not been a feature of the game in Ireland, and Dundalk have not benefited financially from player transfers since the Bosman ruling came into effect. Indeed, the PFAI Players' Player of the Year for 2015 (Richie Towell), and 2016 (Daryl Horgan), both left for EFL Championship clubs at the end of their respective award-winning seasons on free transfers, due to contract expiry.

Transfer fees both paid and received have generally remained undisclosed. The record transfer fee received (when all clauses were eventually triggered and paid) was approximately £80,000 (equivalent to €200,000 in 2019) for Steve Staunton, who was signed by Liverpool in August 1986 for an initial fee of £20,000. Dundalk subsequently received a further estimated £70,000 (equivalent to €150,000 in 2019) when Staunton was transferred by Liverpool to Aston Villa in 1991.

Television and radio
Ireland's State-owned public service broadcaster, RTÉ, and main commercial broadcaster, Virgin Media Ireland have broadcast rights for League of Ireland and FAI Cup matches as part of packages from the FAI that include international matches. However, there is little or no income derived from these rights for clubs. Indeed, RTÉ refused to pay the fee asked to broadcast the home leg of Dundalk's Champions League victory against BATE Borisov in 2016, a few months after they had been named RTÉ's "Team of the Year" for 2015.

Live commentary of matches is broadcast on Dundalk FM (a community radio station) and LMFM. The radio broadcasts do not have licensing restrictions and can be accessed online in Ireland and globally from the stations' websites.

Online
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 season, which resulted in matches being played behind closed doors, the WatchLOI service was introduced by the FAI and RTÉ. The service made all games not already due to be broadcast on television available for streaming worldwide on a subscription basis.

The WatchLOI service was discontinued in June 2021 and replaced by 'LOITV', with clubs being responsible for producing their own live match coverage.

Documentaries
Two documentaries centred on the club have been produced. Once In a Lifetime, released in 2015, was a retelling of stories of the club's 1979–80 European Cup campaign.

One Armed Wonder: The Extraordinary Story of Jimmy Hasty, released in 2023, was produced by UEFA TV and told the life story of former Dundalk player Jimmy Hasty. The documentary won the 'Outstanding Short Documentary' award at the 2024 Sports Emmy Awards.

Club publications
The club's official website, dundalkfc.com, has been voted 'Website of the Year' by the Soccer Writers Association of Ireland on eight occasions, most recently for 2021.

A matchday programme is produced for all home matches—the "DFC Magazine". This programme was voted 'Programme of the Year' for 10 of the 12 seasons between 2008 and 2019 by the Irish Football Programme Club. In 2017 the Louth County Museum celebrated the achievements of the club with a new exhibition entitled "One Team, One Dream", which ran for over a year. In 2018 a short documentary entitled "Chasing Doubles" was published on YouTube by Dundalk Sport and Lightstorm Media. The piece was nominated by the FAI for a "Best Digital Initiative Award", as part of the association's "Communications Awards" in July 2019.

In addition, the following books have been published:

 * 2003: The History of Dundalk F.C. – The First 100 Years, by Jim Murphy
 * 2013: C'mon The Town! A Dundalk FC Miscellany, by Jim Murphy
 * 2014: CHAMP10NS, by Gavin McLaughlin
 * 2015: The Double, by Gavin McLaughlin
 * 2016: Making History, by Gavin McLaughlin
 * 2018: Taking Back the Throne, by Gavin McLaughlin
 * 2019: We See Things They'll Never See, by Gavin McLaughlin
 * 2020: Dundalk Football Club: In Black And White, by Daniel Sexton

First-team squad
As of 17 July 2024.

Youth teams
Dundalk maintains an academy with youth teams in the U-14, U-15, U-17, and U-19 age brackets of the League of Ireland.

Women's teams
Dundalk do not currently have a women's team in the League of Ireland Women's Premier Division (formed in 2023 as a successor to the Women's National League). Teams are maintained at Under-17 and Under-19 level that compete in the EA Sports LOI Academy. There is also a team at Under-15 level.

Prior to the formation of the Women's National League, a loosely affiliated club, Dundalk City L.F.C., competed in the Dublin Women's Soccer League during the 2000–2005 period and won the 2005 Women's FAI Cup Final.

Scholarships
A sports scholarship, run by Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) in partnership with the club, "is aimed at those candidates who wish to pursue a full-time third level education whilst simultaneously pursuing a professional soccer playing career with League of Ireland Champions Dundalk FC".

Technical staff
As of 30 May 2024. Source:

Club officials
As of 8 April 2024 Source:

Records
The record for the most appearances in all competitions is currently held by Tommy McConville, who appeared in 580 matches in two stints at the club between 1964 and 1986. Several players have won five league titles—Martin Lawlor being the first to reach the mark. Patrick Hoban is the club's leading goalscorer in all competitions. Five other players—Joey Donnelly, Eddie Carroll, Joe Martin, Jimmy Hasty, and Paddy Turner—have also scored 100 goals or more. Hoban broke Donnelly's club record for league goals during the 2019 season and subsequently became the first Dundalk player to score 100 league goals for the club during the 2022 season. He then broke Donnelly's record for goals in all competitions during the 2023 season and finished his Dundalk career in 2023 with 150 goals.

Bob Egan became the first Dundalk player to win an international cap on 20 April 1929, when he represented Ireland in a 4–0 victory over Belgium. The player who has won the most caps while at the club is Billy O'Neill, who won 11 caps for Ireland—his international career being cut short at the age of 23 by the outbreak of World War II. Mick Fairclough was the most recently capped player, earning two caps in May 1982. In 2021, Raivis Jurkovskis and Sonni Nattestad became the first Dundalk players to be capped for a country other than Ireland while at the club.

Dundalk's record win is an 11–0 victory over Athlone Town in the 2020 FAI Cup. The record league win is 9–0, achieved against Jacobs in 1932, and again against Shelbourne in 1980. The biggest victory in a European match is 4–0, achieved with home wins against Fram Reykjavík in the 1981–82 European Cup Winners' Cup, and Newtown in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League.

The record home attendance is 30,417 v Legia Warsaw in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin for the Champions League play-off round in 2016.

European competition

Dundalk have qualified for European competition 26 times as of the 2023–24 European season. They made their European debut in the 1963–64 European Cup and in that campaign, they became the first Irish side to win an away match in Europe. Their best performance in the European Cup was in 1979–80, when they reached the last 16, and they reached the last 16 of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1981–82. They have qualified twice for the Europa League group stage and they became the first team from Ireland to both win points and win a match at that level of European competition in 2016–17.

They have played against several major names in European football such as Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Celtic, FC Porto, PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, Red Star Belgrade, Hajduk Split, Legia Warsaw, and Zenit St Petersburg. They have faced opponents from the Netherlands most often, having played ties against PSV, Ajax, DOS Utrecht, AZ Alkmaar, and Vitesse Arnhem.

The club is now the highest-ranked Irish club in European football in terms of UEFA club coefficients. In a January 2021 ranking compiled by statistical analysis site FiveThirtyEight, Dundalk were ranked 290th in 'International Club Soccer'.

As of 3 August 2023.
 * Overall European record.

Honours
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Lightship categories
I noticed you had made a new category for "lightships." You might not have been aware that there is already a page titled "List of Lighthouses and Lightvessels." While not a category, it still serves its purpose. From there you can link into a listing of lighthouses and lightvessels, sorted by nation. I was just wondering if you felt it was still necessary to create it's own category while this listing was already available. Just a thought...no biggie. Just seemed pointless with only one ship being listed in the new category. PS-You seem very knowledgable, keep up the good work :-) ScottyBoy900Q 11:55, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Amphib organization
Could use your help sorting out a conflict in the gator ships. I'm thinking that the article Amphibious assault ship should more rightfully be titled Amphibious warfare ship. The Navy classifies all gator ships (LHA, LHD, LCC, LPD, AGF, LSD, LCAC, LCM, LCU...) as amphibious warfare ships, but only the LHA and LHD [and the forthcoming LHA(R)] are considered amphibious assault ships. Amphibious assault ship should then contain information on the Tarawa and Wasp class vessels. Changing the title though, would throw dozens of page links off. Any ideas? Ocon 21:01, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. I'm not entirely sure that I agree with you, though. :-)    Jane's uses the same system of division, as do a couple other countries.  That said, I think I can live with it.  The articles are all very U.S.-centric to start with, and they might benefit from a little breadth.  I'll see about making the amphib assault article a little more inclusive and look into pointing the other articles to the proper pages.  We also don't have a category for the ships to slip into.  I think that the category Ship classes is the lowest category available, but it doesn't really fit.  Thinking about making subcats under category Ship types for the 10 or 11 major ship types and dropping them in there.  Ocon 23:37, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Model ship is better
Please take a look at Talk:Ship_model. -- Netoholic 05:42, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Stan, please stop trying to change references to model ships until there is consensus. That is just completely irresponsible, considering my main point above is that more articles point to model ships Refering to these edits    and more. -- Netoholic 06:27, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Mountain Home AFB
I noticed that you created Mountain Home Air Force Base. Is this the same as Mountain Home AFB, Idaho? The latter was created in 2002. —John | Talk 02:33, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

NPOV Request
Ahoy, Stan! When you have a second, please take a look at Revolt of the Admirals and make sure my POV is sufficiently N, particularly in my final paragraph where I try to show the relevance of the incident. Thanks! --the Epopt 19:32, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Motorola 6800
Hello, there, Stan. I removed the category from Motorola 6800 because I don't think nonexistent categories should be added to articles. Any more questions? I'm open. Peace Profound! -- Merovingian ✍  Talk  14:06, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Microprocessors
Hi, thanks for establishing the category! I wonder if we should have a subcategory Microcontrollers, or if that should be a subcat under Electrical components, like Microprocessors? Anyway, I think µCs deserve their own category (the alternative would be to rename the Microprocessors cat "Microprocessors and microcontrollers", which would entail some tedious editing work...). (BTW, I put Microprocessors under Computing and Electrical components). --Wernher 18:10, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * I thought about it - it should be a subcat if anything, because as microcontroller tells us, they're a type of microprocessor. The only trickiness is defining µC vs µP precisely enough for categorizing, category membership being a Boolean situation. On the other hand, if there really is a gray-area chip, it could legitimately put in both categories, everything will work. So let's make the subcat and fill it up. Stan 19:05, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Done (i.e., subcat made, filling-up started). Hmm, I'm a little unsure about the i960, though. IIRC, it was ~only used as a µC, in laser printers. The i860, however, was more of a µP-as-such. It was used in the Intel Paragon. --Wernher 23:25, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * i960 was used in Nortel PBXes too (at Cygnus, we used a Nortel PBX inhouse and supported their use of GNU to develop it :-) ), and it was just one chip in a substantial system. Hard to imagine calling it a µC when its embedded system is more powerful than one's desktop machine! BTW, I readded the cat to 6501 - people are expecting categories to be complete, rather than selective (every article should have at least one category, ultimately). Stan 04:28, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Unrecognized Countries
Hi Stan, I noticed you had made contributions to Anjouan. If you're interested in Anjouan and similar places, why don't you drop by the WikiProject Unrecognized countries and help add some more depth to Wikipedia's coverage of these?

Be sure to visit the Project talk page, and if you are interested, you can become a member.

By the way, I miss Xconq. Best game ever made. Ambivalenthysteria 12:39, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the link. I haven't really played it since I gave up my Mac years ago, so time to take another look! Thanks for dropping by the WikiProject, too. :) Ambivalenthysteria 06:37, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Yesterday, on the project page, you mentioned Biafra and Stellaland. Do you know of any other historical places that would fit here? Katanga is the only other one that I know of, so I'd appreciate any assistance you can give. Ambivalenthysteria 11:58, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Tucson
Stan, thanks for your attempts to find a solution on Talk:Tucson, Arizona. kmccoy (talk) 05:31, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, I appreciate it. Node 15:41, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Language talk pages?
Hi, I'm mystified by the rearrangement at Talk:Programming language etc, and you don't seem to have explained your purpose anywhere. What's going on? Stan 17:05, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Whenever I see something that is irrelevant to the topic of the article (or is more relevant to some other article), I move it to a more relevant article.

 * (I leave a "moved to" link behind so people can confirm I'm not just randomly deleting stuff).

 * At one time, there was a list of programming languages at programming language. So it made sense to discuss that list at Talk:Programming language.

 * But now that list has been moved to List of programming languages.

 * So I moved the discussion about that list to Talk:List of programming languages.

 * Same for "I'm going to add ___ to the article." comments. They are more about the person doing it, than about the article itself. (Unless it's a "Do you think I should add ___ ?" question).

 * Does that make sense ?

 * --DavidCary 18:20, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Sim City
Good catch on the category. When I was adding these to various game articles I was copy-pasting and apparently forgot to edit this one. Anárion 08:35, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

various new Mineral articles
Thanks for adding a small stub to the different mineral images/articles. I uploaded the images yesterday, and was planning to make stubs today, but you beat me to it. Thanks. I will check the images and try to fix the few flawed images. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 09:25, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

William Hague
Hi!

I noticed you have edited the most recent version of William Hague, to add the section on his nicknames. Im afraid that the version you edited was reverted by an anon editor (user:195.92.198.75 who also seems to be user:195.92.198.72 and user:195.92.198.74) whose version appears to contain significantly more POV and anti- Hauge bias than the previous version. I would prefer not to revert your edits, so would you mind reverting to this version and adding your edits to that? Iainscott 17:52, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC) (links corrected)

 * Sorry to bother you again... I appear to have given you the wrong links, above (ive now corrected 'em). The NPOV problems I was refering to are here, and Im afraid your latest version appears to retain the POV Im objecting to. Iainscott 18:22, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Programming language articles
You're making a gigantic mess of things by renaming all the programming language articles. There is simply no need to do it; for all but a handful, the name is completely unambiguous. Also, the names are actually "BLISS" etc, not "BLISS programming language"; it's like titling an article "Albert Einstein Homo sapiens", when there's never been anyone who's had that as a name. Why not add some content to language articles, instead of making more pointless work for everybody? Stan 20:56, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I sincerely apologize if I have caused you any difficulty. Of course the real names do not include the programming language phrase: the phrase is a classifier (I don't see it as a disambiguator, there are other mechanisms for doing that). Besides trying to put some order into what was the mess in 'Category:Programming Languages'(it used to include not only prog langs, but also prog langs lists, programming terms, among other things) I have also created the FL, FP, Function-level, ZPL, among other, content articles. Furthermore, the classifier should not end up being 'programming language' but '(programming language)' so that the wiki shortcuts would apply (perhaps the right administrator might attempt that change later). Finally, I don't think it speaks well of Wikipedia's level of quality if there is such inconsistency on a page as there was in the prog langs category page: some languages were labeled 'LanguageName programming language' and redirected from 'LanguageName', others did the exact opposite (in fact,Tcl, Modula-2, Modula-3, and Objective-C still go the other way)... that's more like a mess to me. But if you detail how the changes have affected you, I will see how to fix it. Thanks for your comment. Wish you a good day.danakil
 * Why didn't you just create redirs from the longer forms, as per the longstanding rule? Stan 21:39, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)'
 * Stan, the idea would be to eventually be able to automatically produce dynamic lists of prog langs (in fact, if you take a look at the 'Category:Programming languages' page you will see that, for example, the article with the list of prog langs in alphabetical order becomes redundant, and with it go away the problems of keeping it synchronized (which are not trivial).I have indeed read the language naming policy page, but found it to be mostly applicable to natural languages and as such its contents do not reflect the vast majority of the existing prog lang articles, most of which were created with the 'programming language' classifier. Furthermore, the policy page actually suggests creating something like 'LanguaName programming language' and redirect this to the 'LanguageName' article... what's the point for doing that? The other way around does make sense. With the classifier enclosed in parenthesis (something that any sysop with a bot can easily do overnight), then it would not even be printed using the ... pattern. Again, I apologize for the inconveniences, but now that I understand that what affects you is the redirecting from other articles, I am fixing those right now (I indeed had taken care of double redirects when I made the change, though). Thanks again for all your comments.
 * Please don't make any more changes regarding programming language articles!
 * Agreed, Stan. In fact, I'm taking your advince and will attempt some fast talking on the policy page...whose latest entry, by the way, is precisely about the need to standardize the prog langs article names. Have a nice Monday (most probably I'll not be able to log in again until Tuesday :-P) danakil

Date/time
I guess it doesn't really matter, since like I said, when preferences are set properly, it shows up in exactly the manner the user prefers. -Joseph 19:22, 2004 Aug 16 (UTC)

Administrator needed
I need an administrator to move Eiger (Canton of Bern) to Eiger. (Someone moved Eiger to Eiger (Canton of Bern) and replaced it with a disambiguation page; but since none of the other senses of "Eiger" listed on that page have an article yet I moved it to Eiger (disambiguation). All that's left is to move Eiger (Canton of Bern) back to Eiger.) Gdr 14:34, 2004 Aug 18 (UTC)

Falls of Clyde
I've done some serious damage ;-> to Falls of Clyde. Please look it over and see if I've deleted anything I shouldn't've. --the Epopt 05:15, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Kenneth Alan
Kenneth Alan's case is now in arbitration. See Requests for arbitration/Kenneth Alan. You may wish to add comment to Requests for arbitration/Kenneth Alan/Evidence Mintguy (T) 14:27, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

DKM
Hi Stan, I’d first like to apologize because I completely forgot about this whole affair in the midst of all the other things. I have to say, now that I’ve consulted with numerous sources that DKM is in fact erroneous, apparently being used by some of the allied intelligence services during the war and mostly an invention of post war author. Germans did in fact call them just by their class, i.e. "Battleship Bismarck" or "Cruiser Admiral Hipper". GeneralPatton 17:05, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

pix
Hi Stan,

Perhaps u like to know that I appreciate your flower photosgraphs and have uploaded some at the dutch wiki. TeunSpaans 14:48, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

gosmacs
Hey Stan, thanks for the extra information on good old Gosmacs. Your changes were great. I'm so glad it's dead enough to be included in an Encyclopedia. :)

St. Basils photo replacement
Hi Stan, I'm new at editing on wikipedia, so I really hope I'm not standing on your toes doing this.

I think I have a better version of St. Basils cathedral, not because of any skills as a photographer, just because there's less scaffolding on the building when I took the picture. I'm going to attempt to upload it over what's there, which I think is yours.

I hope this doesn't offend. --d 10:54, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tacoma Aroma
There! that's taking the bull by the horns! As long as no encyclopediable information is omitted, wouldn't you say it's usually okay just to go ahead and do that? I've been timidly making redirects but I feel I'm treading on tender sensibilities whenever I do. Wetman 21:27, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

U.S. vs. US
For your first point, take it to the Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. Discussion regarding putting this into policy was there. For your second, I'm not done so please be patient. --Jiang 03:45, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

"Scrutiny"
I already spend enough time every day cleaning up poor English and misspellings on Wikipedia, so if you could monitor the articles I edit and catch anything that might slip through the cracks, that would be great. Feel free to add content, too, that's always welcome. Everyking 16:58, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

A factoid is not a fact; it is the opposite.
This is another one of those maddening words that after a while can have two opposite meanings, like "cleave," for example.

Russian Navy
Hi, Stan! I'm sorry that it took me so long to reply. I added a paragraph about John Paul Jones's service in the Russian Navy (that's all I could find online). As for the Battle of Copenhagen, I'll be looking for more info on it. KNewman 01:45, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Blohm + Voss
See my response at User talk:Rlandmann. -Joseph 14:26, 2004 Sep 9 (UTC)

Article Guidelines
You make a fair enough comment on the use of population statistics in articles. I defer to the commonly accepted guidelines. I hope you are not offended if I also ask you to defer to the commonly accepted guidelines on article length (or, as you advise me, to challenge them on the appropriate discussion page.) Deleting Unnecessary Words 13:50, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Jersey zoological park
Actually, it's Jersey as in the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel ... so I removed the American Zoo category! - DavidWBrooks 12:34, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

HMS Black Prince
Thanks for the additions/corrections. By the way, is there a good place to look up early Royal Navy ships, for additions like the first two there? Most online references seem to go back to the 1800s at best. —Morven 21:08, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * That's what I figured. This is why I go to the library and buy factual books whenever I can find them cheaply ... there's so much that's not online, and there's so much that's online and wrong; thanks to the ease of online search, wrong facts tend to get spread around various online sites quickly. —Morven 00:37, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

Colonies
Are you refering to Category:French colonies? I moved it to Category:Former French colonies. I was uncomfortable with having currently independent nations like Algeria and Burkina Faso listed as French colonies. - SimonP 04:25, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

ribbit
Mmmmmm, beetles. Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. 8-)

Seriously, it's great to hear from you. Pull up a lily pad and grab a bug juice sometime, and fill me in on all your news!

I'm not really a Wikipedia addict (yet) -- just looking for something productive to do with my time while I'm (still) between jobs. I'm hoping something will work out soon and don't really want to undertake any large projects in the meantime.

Dr.frog 13:18, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

OK, no sooner do I write that, than I get the phone call with the job offer! Research staff at MIT. :-) Probably can start next week already.

Dr.frog 16:40, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Systemic bias
I think you may have misunderstood my meaning about Systemic bias, so I post my reply here too.--Xed 02:42, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Good for you. No one is pushing you to do anything. You have misread what I have said. Again and again I have said - edit what you want. DON'T STOP WORKING ON WHAT YOU WANT TO. I'm talking about people who WANT to counter-act the systemic bias and how they can be given more oppurtunities to do so.--Xed 02:35, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

beta Systemic Bias section
Hi, if you wish to help contribute to a beta version of a Wikipedia page section designed to counter-act Wikipedia's systematic bias, please sign the bottom of this section on the Village pump - Village_pump. If not, no worries.--Xed 03:35, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

"Panckaucke"
Stan, I didn't want to make the actual correction, but you should: the French publisher (19c editions of Latin texts is what I know him from) is Panckoucke with an O.

Best, Bill 19:41, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Armenian monarchs
Hi. I noticed that you were the original creator of Tigranes I of Armenia. However, all the information in the article is about Tigranes II of Armenia. I know nothing about the first Tigranes, but it appears that every reference to Tigranes I on Wikipedia is actually Tigranes II. I am moving the article, and changing all links and references elsewhere on Wikipedia.

Just wanted to warn you before I start so it's not mistaken for vandalism. Isomorphic 17:40, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * To clarify, it seems like maybe we were using Tigranes' dynastic number within the Seleucid dynasty. The books on Armenia I've read recently all call him "Tigranes II".  Is the other style common in the context of the Seleucids? Isomorphic 20:20, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah, there's definitely confusion going around. These two links provide an amusing contrast:

The Columbia Encyclopedia article is under "Tigranes" and says he's also called Tigranes I or Tigranes the Great. At the same time, Britannica calls him Tigranes II the Great. One website lists no less than seven Armenian kings named Tigranes, although the site's appearance doesn't inspire confidence. Eeek.

 * I have a couple good sources at home. I'll try to sort this out if I remember.  Isomorphic 21:22, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Point Roberts
Hi, Stan: Thank you for catching the logical error in the Point Roberts, Washington article. "Unique" wasn't my word, but by adding the Northwest Angle into the sentence, I broke the logic. And yes, it was just plain lazy to leave the duplicate NW Angle link in there. That's 2 editorial demerit points for me! -Sewing - talk 01:41, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Italian Population Figures, Provinces
Stan, ISTAT, the official census arm of the Italian government, has all the 2003 figures here. I've been following your lead and linking to as yet nonexistent province entries; but have been entering them strictly in Italian (i.e., Firenze province rather than "Province of Florence"); hope this is OK. Best, Bill 22:24, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion
See Votes for undeletion. Anthony DiPierro is challenging your right to speedy delete articles. RickK 00:10, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
 * No I'm not. I'm only challenging a few speedy deletions which don't appear to fit the criteria for speedy deletions. anthony (see warning) 00:39, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Whatever. Why don't you add some content for a change? Your contributions history is 90%+ wikipedia: and talk:, all distraction from the real business at hand. Am I supposed to type in all hundreds of insect families and plant genera myself? Stan 02:49, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Zermatt and Matterhorn
Hi Stan — I thought you would like to know that I've nominated your photo of Image:Zermatt and Matterhorn.jpg on WP:FPC. -- Solipsist 13:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sawfish Thanks
G'day Stan,

Just a quick thank-you for the taxonomy corrections to the sawfish page. I'm quite a taxonomy weenie, so the corrections to the taxobox were greatly appreciated.

All the best,

pjf 00:07, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Popes
I only moved the articles in the cases in the case of Popes where the other version was merely a redirect page to the Pope. Titles generally don't belong in articles (as seen here) and I don't see most Pope articles as being above that guideline. I can see where it might be argued that it's nice to use Pope for all entries for consistency, but I think it stays nearer the guidelines to only include the title when necessary (to avoid confusion with others). Even in those cases I think it would be more acceptable to use (for example) Joseph I, Pope rather than Pope Joseph I, as it is done with other titles. Sarge Baldy 01:07, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * I won't deny now that it was a somewhat hasty decision to make, and I'll certainly take the matter there now :) Sarge Baldy 01:17, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Aircraft Carriers
Stan, I have a favor to ask of you. I saw your contribution to the USS Abraham Lincoln discussion page, and I was wondering if you would check the USS Carl Vinson and USS John F. Kennedy to make sure I got everything correct. I would appreciate it very much. TomStar81 00:32, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I appreciate your clarifications on Bush's flight to the USS Abraham Lincoln. Now it's my understanding that even after the carrier was in helicopter range, the White House kept up the story that the president needed to fly in via fighter because it was too far out. It doesn't address the real reason why he still felt the need to land in a fighter if it wasn't an engineered publicity stunt and photo-op. How do you think this could best be discussed in a NPOV way? -R. fiend 16:59, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your reply. I didn't mean to imply that I was looking to state a definitive answer one way or the other, just that the controversy itself could be addressed more specifically. Though I agree it starts to get out of the scope of the article as an article on the ship, and I'm not really sure we need a separate article just on this one issue (though we have multitudes of infinitely more superficial information here). Clearly we can't state with 100% accuracy the reason why Bush landed on the deck in a fighter plane, but we can discuss the accusations and defences levelled on both sides. If you think its worthwhile but needs to be addressed elsewhere then creating a separate article would be okay with me. I'll leave such a decision up to you. I have no strong objections to the article as it stands, except that it sort of seems to dismiss the idea that the whole endeavor was a publicity stunt. -R. fiend 05:04, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Aquatic plants
Hi, I noticed that you've been working on aquatic plants. I've created an aquatic plants category as a sub category of plants, ideally all the aquatic plant genera should link to there to make them easy to find :)--nixie 02:08, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cleaver Disappointment?
I just argued on Votes for deletion/Cleaver for But i count 4 Del to my 1 Keep, and 14 hours left. --Jerzy(t) 10:39, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)
 * Keep, for the sense, re glacier-bearing mountains in at least western N. Amer, of a rock formation flanked by two glaciers. (Even if the term is geographically restricted, it would be either a redir to the dominant term, or the target of the redirects from all the other regional terms.) These are important features in mountaineers' planning of ascent and traverse routes, and IMO an article could discuss what they have in common, probably different categories of them, and examples that affect notable routes.

Project Liberty Ship
Stan, Thanks for the clarification on ship naming convention. Any suggestions on List of Liberty ships. Oldfarm 13:38, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Categories
Hi Stan - some of the categories you've been working on, particularly Category:Plants and Category:Plant families, need more thinking out before adding lots of articles to them; from what it contains, the currect Category:Plants is going to end up with 400,000 articles listed eventually, which makes a mockery of the system. I think best hold fire until the methodology of what goes where is sorted better, using a more hierarchical system. - MPF 15:27, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Salve Stan from the new Usor:Gangleri at la.wikipedia. I will have some question about categories too, mainly related to InterWiki linking. Regarding the problem described above I have seen in de.wikipedia that every person is either Mann, Frau or Person. It is important to know the gender of the persons (for visitors not familiar with that particular culture)but I thing this could be done with some dummy categories too (dummy = you can never search them, they are just indications). Regards Gangleri 00:36, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)

HIJMS
Yes, I did, apparently. Hmm. -Joseph (Talk) 12:06, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)

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Hyundai Pony

The Hyundai Pony (Hangul: 현대 포니), is a small automobile produced by the South Korean manufacturer Hyundai from 1975 until 1990. The Pony was South Korea's first mass-produced and exported car. It has a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and variants were made with two-door coupé utility, three-door liftback, four-door saloon car, and five-door liftback or estate car body styles. The Pony nameplate remained in use until 2000 on some export versions of the Hyundai Excel and Accent.

Background
Hyundai had already ventured into car production by producing locally built versions of the Ford Cortina under licence from 1968. When the company wanted to develop their own car, they hired George Turnbull, the former managing director of Austin and Morris at British Leyland in 1974. He in turn hired five other top British car engineers, Kenneth Barnett as body designer, engineers John Simpson and Edward Chapman, John Crosthwaite as chassis engineer and Peter Slater as chief development engineer. With Turnbull's experience with the Morris Marina, engines and transmissions from Mitsubishi, some parts from the Ford Cortina they were already producing, and a hatchback body styled by Italdesign Giugiaro, they developed the Hyundai Pony.

First generation (1975)
The Pony was presented as a coupé concept car at the Turin Motor Show in October 1974, and the car was introduced in December 1975 as a four-door saloon car to compete with the Saehan Gemini and Kia Brisa. A coupé utility version was added in May 1976, which was called a pickup, although it differed from a typical pickup truck in that its cargo tray was integral with the body rather than being a separate assembly. An estate car arrived in April 1977. In 1981, the small boot lid from the saloon was replaced by a hatchback tail gate creating a new five-door liftback model. This was accompanied with a new three-door liftback. The Pony was loosely based on both the earlier licence-built Ford Cortinas and the Morris Marina, with former British Leyland engineers being hired by Hyundai to design the car.

Hyundai began exporting the Pony to Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Egypt in 1976. European exports began in 1979 with Belgium and the Netherlands, with Greece added shortly thereafter. The pickup version was added in October that year, only available with the smaller, 1.2 l, engine and a 380 kg payload.

The 1238 cc four-cylinder engine claimed 55 PS and the 1439 cc engine produced 68 PS. The 1.4 GLS was tested by the British car magazine Motor and top speed was 92 mph with acceleration from 0–60 mph in 15.3 seconds.

Lineup

 * 1200:GLS/GL/Standard (UK: T, L, TL, GL)
 * 1400:GLS/GL (UK: TL, GL, TLS, GLS)
 * 1600:GLS/GL/Limited (not in all markets)

Second generation (1982)
Introduced in January 1982, the Pony II was similar mechanically to the first-generation version, but was extensively restyled. Only the five-door Liftback and two-door pickup were offered.

With the Pony II, exports also began to the UK in the spring of 1982 – making it the first South Korean car to be sold there. Initially, the Pony was positioned as a budget offering between Eastern Bloc brands (Lada, Skoda) and the lower echelons of established Japanese makes for sales, marking the beginning of a successful foray into this market by Korean carmakers.

Engine types
For 1984, the Pony came only with a 1439 cc 4G33 Mitsubishi inline-four engine, rated at 70 hp and 82 lbft of torque. This engine was available with either a four-speed or five-speed manual or a three-speed automatic transmission. The 1238 cc 4G36 engine was not available in Canada. This engine was retained across the line until 1986, after which only the 1597 cc 4G32 engine (74 hp and 93 lbft of torque) was available. In mid-1985, the door handles were blacked out, chrome was removed from the windshield wipers, and the "HD" badge was removed from the centre of the grille and replaced with the lettering "Hyundai" off to the left side. A 1.6 l model 4G32 engine became available in 1985, with optional air conditioning. These powerplants had a hemispherical crossflow cylinder head, two valves per cylinder (chain-driven SOHC), a two-barrel downdraft carburettor (manual choke) and breaker point-type ignition.

Trim levels
Trim levels were 'L' (standard), 'GL/CX', and 'GLS/CXL'. The 'CX/CXL' designations were for 1987 model years only. The L featured vinyl seats, a fold-down rear bench seat, and usually a four-speed manual transmission mated to a 1.4 l inline-four engine. The GL/CX included vinyl-cloth seats, a standard clock (which was mounted in the instrument cluster for 1984–1986 models, and for 1987, a digital clock was added in the centre of the upper dash) rear wiper, passenger-side mirror, tinted glass, lockable fuel door, standard door guards, 50/50 fold-down seats, upgraded interior trim, and (from 1985) an available 1.6 l engine. The GLS/CXL included the above with the option of a tachometer, passenger-side vanity mirror, full cloth seats, and (from 1985) a standard 1.6 L engine.

Only the 'L' and 'CX' were trim levels for 1987. The 'L' was the same as the previous 'L', however the clock was now digital and the CX had a standard tachometer. From 1986 to 1987, interior colours available were tan or blue. From 1984 to 1985, it was light grey on dark grey. Options included rear window louvers, a front air dam, rear spoiler, GT package (which included a leather-wrapped Momo three-spoke steering wheel), tachometer, different trim and badging, fog lamps, and extra lights in the rear. All GTs came with the more powerful 1.6 engine. The Pony pickup was sold in Europe (only) until the end of the 1980s. The second generation Pony remained on sale until 1988 (until 1990 in South Korea). In some markets the Pony was replaced by a re-badged Hyundai Excel from 1985, particularly in Europe.

Lineup

 * 1200: LE/L/GLX/GLS/GL/Standard
 * 1400: GLS/GL/CX
 * 1600: GLS/CX

Canadian-spec (Non-ECC LHD)
The Pony II was exported to Canada from 1983, where it was one of the least expensive vehicles on the market, and sales greatly exceeded expectations; initial projections for 1984 called for 5,000 sales, but the final total was 25,123, making it one of the top-selling vehicles in that country. The Pony was released for sale in Canada for the 1984 model year and sales ended in 1987. The Pony was sufficiently popular there that it was sold alongside the Excel until 1987 rather than being replaced by that vehicle as was done in some other markets. The Canadian version of the Pony was modified to meet local standards. Differences between the Canadian Pony versus its European counterparts were 8 km/h bumpers, sealed-beam headlights, side marker lamps instead of indicator repeaters (also in a lower position), and slight alterations in interior instrumentation and trim application.

Coupe concept
The Pony Coupe Concept was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign and first shown at the 1974 Turin Motor Show. According to Italdesign, the styling exercise was not performed under commission from Hyundai, but that company's executives asked to brand the concept as a Hyundai just before the opening of the Turin show. After the positive reception in Turin, the concept Coupe was imported to Korea and featured in domestic advertisements there; reverse engineering the concept began at the Hyundai Ulsan plant, and engineering drawings were made, but the Pony Coupe never reached mass production.

The styling of the Pony Coupe Concept went on to inspire both the DMC DeLorean (1981) and Hyundai N Vision 74 concept (2022). The N Vision 74 is equipped with dual electric traction motors (both fitted to the rear axle) with a combined output of 670 hp and 664 lbft of torque, drawing from a 62.4 kW-hr battery pack and hydrogen tanks storing 4.2 kg for an on-board fuel cell.

Rebadged Excel
In Europe, the front wheel drive Hyundai Excel was sold under the Pony name from 1985 as a replacement for the rear wheel drive version. In other markets, the second generation Pony continued on sale alongside the new Hyundai Excel. Until discontinuation, Excel carried the Pony name.
 * The first generation Excel (X1) was called Pony in Europe from 1985 to 1987, and the face-lifted model from 1987–1989 was called the Pony XP.
 * For the second generation Excel (X2), the hatchback versions were called Pony in Europe.

The final usage of the name was with the first generation Hyundai Accent, sold as the Pony in France. The Pony name was last used by Hyundai in 2000.

Super Pony
For the second and third generations, some taxi models of the Hyundai Accent were sold as "Hyundai Super Pony". The fourth generation used the name "Grand Pony" instead.

Pony EV
In April 2021, Hyundai displayed the Pony Heritage EV, a restored first-generation Pony converted with an electric vehicle powertrain as a concept, in Hyundai Motorstudio Busan. The powertrain specifications were not available; the interior featured an instrument panel with two three-digit nixie tube displays for state of charge and vehicle speed. The head- and tail-lights feature a pixellated design which Hyundai have called "Pixel Road Trip" or "Parametric Pixel", reminiscent of 8-bit graphics and matching the design language applied to vehicles under its Ioniq sub-brand, including the contemporary Ioniq 5 production and 45 EV concept vehicles.

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The Wolf's Hour

The Wolf's Hour is a 1989 World War II horror novel by American writer Robert R. McCammon. It is the story of a British secret agent who goes behind German lines to stop a secret weapon from being launched against the Allies. This agent is a werewolf. The book also includes some of the agent's history, namely how he became a werewolf.

Plot
In 1942, British spy Michael Gallatin successfully steals German staff maps in North Africa for the British army, who intend to intercept the advance of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in the region. Joining his friend Countess Margritta in Cairo, Gallatin is attacked by a German assassin. He narrowly escapes death by strangulation thanks to his lycanthropic power. Having the gift of transforming into a large black wolf with green eyes, he succeeds in killing the assassin, but Margritta is unable to escape and is shot in the head. Tired of the war and feeling responsible for Margritta's death, Michael Gallatin retires to Wales.

Two years later, Gallatin is approached by officers who ask him to return to duty. While the Allies are in the midst of organizing a major invasion, disturbing news has reached them from one of their spies in Paris, who holds important information on a large-scale Nazi operation. Refusing the mission at first, Gallatin ends up accepting when he learns that the traitor Harry Sandler, responsible for Margritta's death, has been seen in Berlin.

Parachuted near Paris, Gallatin must reach the capital to make contact with the spy Adam, who is under the surveillance of the Gestapo. Gallatin contacts Adam through a Nazi deserter called “Mouse”. He slips a note in Adams pocket that informs Adam to go to an opera at the third act, so Gallatin can receive the information. The Gestapo had followed Adam and shoot him in the head just after the information was disclosed to Michael. Michael escapes by faking suicide using cyanide; he does not swallow the pill. This fake-out allots him time to turn into a werewolf and he kills the fleeing Gestapo. Gallatin and Mouse must make their way east to Berlin, the heart of the Nazis lair, in an attempt to foil a top-secret Nazi plan, “Iron Fist”.

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User talk:IanL

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