County Donegal in the herbaria of the following institutions: the Ulster Museum, Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin; NUI Galway, and the Natural History Museum, London. Records of flowering plants include "Dactylorhiza purpurella" (Stephenson and Stephenson) Soó. The animals included in the county include the European badger ("Meles meles" L.). There are habitats for the rare corn crake ("Crex crex") in the county. At various times in its history, it has been known as County Tirconaill, County Tirconnell or County Tyrconnell (). The former was used as its official name during 1922–1927. This is in reference to both the old "túath" of Tír Chonaill
Meles Zenawi the TPLF and oppose the Derg. After the overthrow of the Derg's military government, he was elected as President of the transitional government and later as Prime Minister. He lifted his country from the ruins of civil war and transformed it into one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. Meles was born in Adwa, Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, to an Ethiopian father Zenawi Asres from Adwa and Alemash Guebreluel from Adi Quala, Eritrea. He was the third of six children. His first name at birth was "Legesse" (thus Legesse Zenawi, Ge'ez: ለገሰ ዜናዊ "legesse zēnāwī"). However, he eventually became better known by