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  Bernard Allen (Irish politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Allen (September 9, 1944) is an Irish Fine Gael politician.
Allen first became involved in politics in 1979 when he was elected to Cork Corporation.
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1981 general election as a Fine Gael TD for the Cork North Central constituency and has retained his seat ever since.
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 List of people by name: All - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allen, Andrew (1740-1825), American and British jurist, politician, and activist
Allen, Richard Anthony (born 1942), American baseball player
Allen, William (died 1891), American jurist - Massachusetts
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 IrishEyes: Irish Archives
Bernard Allen, FG: Electronic voting is a good idea but this system has been badly thought through and public confidence has been badly shaken by a Government unwilling to listen to anyone but its own so-called experts.
In fairness, most politicians are so aware of backlash at the parish pump that they are "open to consultation." In many occasions, that means paying millions of euro in fees for professional services or setting aside thousands of work hours to listen to union leaders yammer away.
Irish roads are a hive of activity as family members crisscross the countryside en route to famiy events.
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 Antiques Ireland - Online Book Lists - Irish Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The family have produced a variety of statesmen, politicians, diplomatists, soldiers, horse breeders, society leaders and eccentrics on both sides of the Irish Sea.
This was a major achievment in the study of Irish architects and architecture.
He was of Irish origins, and served in the Kildare Militia, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the Irish Hussars pre-WW1.
www.antiquesireland.com /booklists/irishbiography.shtml   (1137 words)

  
 The History of 8 Families
The Irish born rulers of Ireland lasted only 158 years from 1014 until 1172, when Henry II of England was made ruler of Ireland by Pope Adrian IV who was the son of an English priest.
Irish residence was on the banks of Lough Rynn.
While this writing is not meant to be an Irish "Keen" none the less, as the coffin ships made their slow voyage across the Atlantic it was said by men who had experienced both that the coffin ships transcended in horror the middle passage of the slave trade.
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 "G" Famous People
Gaay Fortman, Wilhelm Friedrich de (1911-97) Dutch politician and lawyer, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Giannini, Guglielmo (1891-1960) Playwright and politician, born in Pozzuoli, Campania, SW Italy.
Goodrich, Chauncey Allen (1790-1860) Lexicographer, scholar, and theologian, born in New Haven...
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 Neighborhoods 2
The huge numbers of Irish immigrants of the 1840s were basically divided into two groups: those with job skills who could carve out a living in New York, and those with no skills who left the povery of Ireland only to live in the poverty of New York.
Irish gangs were usually found in the Minettas, wrecking havoc and terrorizing the residents.
The Irish, almost to a man, were aligned with Tammany Hall, who rewarded their loyalty with jobs, contracts and naturalization help.
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 When the Irish Ran New York by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, City Journal Spring 1993
In the Irish section of Beyond the Melting Pot we recorded a bit of the career of "Battery Dan" Finn, a district leader of the Lower West Side.
The Irish also brought to America a settled tradition of regarding the formal government as illegitimate and the informal one as bearing the true impress of popular sovereignty.
The Irish habit of dealing with an informal government, combined with the establishment of an elaborate bureaucracy for that government, proved enormously effective in electoral politics.
www.city-journal.org /article02.php?aid=1499   (3252 words)

  
 Ireland sees big increase in caesarean sections -- 320 (7228): 140 -- BMJ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
One opposition politician, Fine Gael's Bernard Allen, said: "I believe the medical profession must give an explanation for these figures.
Brain damage or death of a fetus accounted for 38% of claims against Irish obstetricians, according to the Journal of the Medical Defence Union, in an examination of actions over eight years.
Four major damage awards were made by Irish courts last year, totalling £Ir4.5m (£3.75m; $6m) to parents of babies born with handicaps; obstetricians' insurance premiums jumped from £Ir1800 in 1988 to £Ir68 000 last year.
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 Irish Socialist Republic
Its social ideal, therefore, requires the public ownership by the Irish people of the land and instruments of production, distribution, and exchange to be held and controlled by a democratic state in the interests of the entire community.
But every Irish movement of the last 200 years has neglected one or the other of these equally necessary aspects of the national struggle.
The failure of our so-called 'leaders' to grasp the grave significance of this two-fold character of the 'Irish Question' is the real explanation of that paralysis which at constantly recurring periods falls like a blight upon Irish politics.
www.ucc.ie /celt/online/E900002-029.html   (1034 words)

  
 Irish Abroad - Irish American News
A delegation of Irish politicians are due in New York next Monday to discuss the plight of Irish immigrants in the U.S. and the moves for comprehensive immigration reform.
The Irish Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs will be visiting New York and Washington and are particularly interested in meeting with those in the community who are providing support services to Irish immigrants.
Michael Woods, Bernard Allen, Senator Paschal Mooney, Senator Paul Bradford, Senator Mary Rourke, policy advisor Dermot O’ Mahony and Sean Farrell of the Irish Abroad Unit will be at the New York Irish Centre in Queens to talk about the issues affecting the Irish abroad.
www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/irishpolsjune0105.asp   (328 words)

  
 IrishEyes: February 2, 2004 - February 8, 2004
IRISH WAN -- The Irish Wide Area Network teems with people who know how to connect rural Ireland--help those residents learn to use Wi-Fi.
It is incumbent on Irish politicians to appreciate this concept because it represent a general movement in our post-critical culture.
I resent the Irish government ceding my data to American snoops with no recourse to the length the data is held or the kind of oversight imposed on the data collectors.
irish.typepad.com /irisheyes/2004/week6   (8146 words)

  
 Index De-Dh
The Irish members of the House of Commons met as the Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly) and declared for a republic with de Valera as president.
A combative politician, he fought a fencing duel with a Gaullist deputy in 1967.
A new, younger administration under Bernard Dowiyogo took office in December 1976 (after a dispute over appointments to the cabinet), but DeRoburt was seldom far away from the centre of political life and resumed the presidency in 1978.
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 Irish News, November 26, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Afterwards, Fine Gael's spokesperson on Tourism, Bernard Allen said the position taken by Fianna Fáil members of the committee brought them into direct conflict with Minister for Sport Jim McDaid, who had recently indicated his opposition to the tax in the Dáil.
He was concerned the tax would have a negative impact on Irish tourism and that it could be treated as a precedent by other local authorities.
Mr Allen said it was the responsibility of the local authorities to use their own funding for infrastructural developments.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1998/11/26/ihead.htm   (5428 words)

  
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Politicians still have a lot of influence in this country, many people campaign for them and many people are grateful to them for getting their drains fixed or their pension sorted out or whatever.
So in determining whether a politician (or anyone else) would try to break a law, you have to take into account, not your (or my) perception of their credibility as a witness but their own perception of their credibility, which is think is far higher.
The Irish Times report ends with some quotes from the Minister's press release, but ascribes the ludicrous claim that VVAT would compromise the secret-ballot requirement to an unnamed Department official instead of to the Minister directly.
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 WIST - A Collection of Quotations :: Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) American businessman and statesman...
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) French religious, Doctor of the Church...
Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]...
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 Slugger O'Toole: October 2004 Archives
As quoted in the Irish News, courtesy of Newshound, the unnamed Sinn Féin spokesman, said, ""In the past he [Professor Kennedy] put his views to the electorate in west Belfast and was rejected at the polls..
The Irish Examiner's Noel Whelan looks again at Fianna Fail's strategy with the added knowledge of the presentation by Trinity politics professor Michael Marsh to the Political Studies Association of Ireland in Limerick last weekend, blogged previously, and argues, in effect, that, with Dermot Ahern's comments at Stormont, they have seriously overplayed their hand.
Rowan recounts a question Gerry Adams asked in the Irish Voice recently: "If the governments are satisfied with what they have proclaimed the IRA is going to do, then who are they waiting on?" Adams then answers his question that it is "obviously the DUP".
www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2004/10/index.php   (12386 words)

  
 Allen Upward -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Allen Upward (1863 - 1926) was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher.
His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914.
Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin).
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Allen_Upward   (236 words)

  
 {{Strong(e)/Strang(e) Research in Britain and Ireland}}
With the large number of possible pro- genitors of different lines of English, Scots, and Irish lines of Strongs, it is important to study Chart 1 for pos- sible beginnings for each line at the point of beginning for each lineage.
Allen, Dunlop, Hanna, McKee, Miller) that are still typical of the parish of Connor.
It length from the north west to the south east is 60 Irish or 76 statute miles; its breadth is 20 Irish or 25 statute miles; and its area is 819,574 acres, 1 rood, 37 perches.
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 Canada
ONT, Irish origin and RC - Emma 16, Albert Sydney 15, Francis 13, Henery 11, Florance 11, and John 5.
All are of Irish origin and RC; James Dalton, cultivator, mar., age 58 b.
Martin Dalton and family enumerated on the farm of Hugh Carlin; all are of Irish origin, b.
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 History of Stained Glass
His writings show him to have been a shrewd businessman, a politician with a genius for detail, and a devoted servant to his king.
He wrote, "If we are determined to have bad work, it is better to have it bad Irish than foreign." He arranged for three windows in the new Cathedral of Loughrea to be executed by Whall in Ireland using Irish craftsmen.
Harry Clarke was the only Irish stained glass artist of the time not associated with An Tur Gloine.
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 Catholic Almanac Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Allen, Fred (1894-1956): Entertainer; after a successful stage career, moved to radio in 1932 and became best known for The Fred Allen Show and the Texaco Star Theater.
Curley, James (1796-1889): Massachusetts politician; the model for Edwin O’Connor’s novel The Last Hurrah; served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1910-14; elected mayor of Boston for the first of several times in 1914; elected governor of Massachusetts in 1934.
Healy, James (1830-1900): Bishop of Portland from 1875-1900; son of an Irish father and an African-American mother; founded 60 parishes, 68 mission stations, and 18 schools and convents; also served as consultant to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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 Barnard College Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Helen’s paternal great-great-grandfather, William Gahagan, was of Irish descent and one of the founders of Dayton, Ohio.
The Minutes of the Board of Student Presidents for March 13, 1922 include a description of a special meeting convened to hear Gahagan’s plea to be allowed to participate in a play during her sophomore year despite having failed a class--which at the time disqualified a student from taking part in some extracurricular activities.
Increasingly confident of her abilities as a politician and feeling that she had enough support among Californians, Douglas decided to run for senator at the end of her third term in the House, in 1950.
www.barnard.columbia.edu /archives/persons.html   (14766 words)

  
 Hidden Agenda
His outburst during the film's Cannes press conference at Loach and screenwriter Jim Allen sparked off the controversy that surrounds the film in the UK to this day.
To look at the problems Loach and Allen caused their detractors is probably the best way to assess the effectiveness and power of Hidden Agenda.
In a period when Republican politician Gerry Adams could only appear on the news with an actor's voice dubbed over his words and The Pogues were pulled off a live broadcast when they sang “Streets of Sorrow” on terrestrial television, this was a bold and dangerous move.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/28/hidden_agenda.html   (1304 words)

  
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The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in changing the believer's mind.
- Woody Allen % Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him either.
-- George Bernard Shaw % The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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 A Welsh View: On This Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1905: Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal was the independence for all of Ireland.
1900: Heinrich Himmler, German politician and leader of the SS, is born.
1952: Vladimir Putin, Russian politician and president, is born.
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 Today in Irish History, November - World Cultures European
A special one-off award to mark the 75th anniversary of the ESB is made to Dr TK Whitaker who is named Greatest Living Irish Person for his role in transforming the Irish economy in the 1950s.
Not tied to a particular year, this colorful and entertaining journal can be used year after year and features a significant Irish fact for every day of the year.
He played a major part in the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War; some of today's problems are his legacy.
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 Montgomery County, Ohio History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The lather, our subject, is neither a politician, member of' church or office-seeker.
He has a large and successful business, to which he gives his whole and undivided attention, feeling that he has no time to dabble in outside matters.
During their partnership they purchased the brewery of James Kyle, at Xenia, and carried it on under the firm name of Hollencamp and Co., Mr.
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 Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Irish mystery with solicitor and amateur sleuth James Fleming.
Sister Frevisse ventures away from her medieval convent to investigate an outbreak of measles and sin.
Aaron Gunner is hired by the father of a Gangsta rapper who is certain that his son didn’t kill himself.
www.seattlemystery.com /Mail/winter99.htm   (3518 words)

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