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  Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, 2d Viscount on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Castlereagh placed great hope in the “congress system”; agreed on at Vienna, by which the great powers would consult regularly for the maintenance of peace.
However, he did not approve of outright intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries and protested, in increasingly explicit terms, the assumption of this right by the powers of the Holy Alliance.
One of the foremost statesmen of his time, Castlereagh was cold in personality and lacked ability as an orator; he never gained an easy popularity and was hated by radicals like Shelley.
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 Encyclopedia: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Three years later, in 1812, Castlereagh returned to the government, this time as Foreign Secretary, a role in which he served for the next ten years, He also became leader of the House of Commons in the wake of Spencer Perceval's assassination in 1812.
Castlereagh was not known to be an effective public speaker and his diplomatic presentation style was at times abstruse.
Despite his many achievements, Castlereagh was extremely unpopular within the country as a result of his supposed reactionism abroad, and his support at home for the repressive measures of Home Secretary Lord Sidmouth.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Stewart,-Viscount-Castlereagh   (3509 words)

  
 Castlereagh Borough Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main centres of population are Carryduff, 5 miles (8km) south of Belfast city centre and Dundonald, 5 miles (8km) east of it.
Castlereagh and the city of Kent in Washington in the United States signed up as sister cities partners on 1 August 2000.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament the area is split between the East Belfast constituency, the South Belfast constituency and the Strangford constituency.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castlereagh_Borough_Council   (230 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The title of viscount was not officially inherited, but he became briefly the 2nd Marquess of Londonderry in the peerage of Ireland on the death of his father in 1821.
In this role he was instrumental in negotiating what has become known as a Quadruple alliance between the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia and Prussia at Chaumont in March 1814, in the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris that brought peace with France, and at the Congress of Vienna.
Despite his many achievements, Castlereagh was extremely unpopular within the country due to his supposed reactionism abroad, and his support at home for the repressive measures of Home Secretary Lord Sidmouth.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh   (729 words)

  
 Lord Castlereagh
Castlereagh and Pitt became convinced that the best way of dealing with the religious conflicts in Ireland was to unite the country with the rest of Britain under a single Parliament.
In November 1819, Parliament was assembled and Castlereagh introduced in the House of Commons the severe measures that became known as the Six Acts.
Castlereagh, who was the government's spokesman for civil matters in the House of Commons, along with Lord Liverpool and Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary, took the blame for these repressive measures and the men were booed whenever they appeared in public.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcastlereagh.htm   (1204 words)

  
 V&A - The Castlereagh Inkstand
To explore the Castlereagh Inkstand fully is to examine the roots of some of the central issues of European history in the last 200 years from the story of Poland, to the relative decline of France, and the unification and rise of Germany.
Castlereagh's heavy burden of work as Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons (where he continued to sit after he inherited an Irish peerage as Marquess of Londonderry in 1821) appears to have deranged his mind in the summer of 1822.
Castlereagh's diamond-set Garter insignia, hatband and sword were a striking part of his dashing appearance at the coronation of George IV in 1821.
www.vam.ac.uk /collections/metalwork/silver/highlights/castlereagh   (2907 words)

  
 CastleReagh Properties - Property Consultants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In pursuit of this policy, we are equipped with the latest and most sophisticated property management system, giving every manager instant access at his or her fingertips to all necessary tenant information and records and the day to day financial data relating to the particular management.
Castlereagh will also deal with any other matter within their professional expertise which is not specifically provided for within the schedule of services.
Castlereagh work along side a team of specialist building surveyors who will assist us to ensure that the block is maintained to the highest standard and, in consultation with the Landlord, stringent financial controls will always be maintained.
www.castlereagh.co.uk /management.asp   (1980 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, 2d Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, 2d Viscount[ka´sulrA] Pronunciation Key, 1769–1822, British statesman, b.
A dominant figure at the Congress of Vienna (1814–15; see Vienna, Congress of), Castlereagh worked for the establishment of the United Netherlands and the German Confederation.
Castlereagh placed great hope in the "congress system" agreed on at Vienna, by which the great powers would consult regularly for the maintenance of peace.
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 History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 4; Ch. 6. Nova Scotia at the Turn of the 19th Century: "The Legislature & The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1795, Castlereagh declared himself to be a Tory.
Castlereagh worked with Pitt and both are to be given credit for the amalgamation of the Irish and the English parliaments in 1800.
While England and Europe owe much to Castlereagh, he was pursued with rancorous hatred like no other politician4, a hatred that disclosed itself even at his funeral as they bore his body for burial at Westminster.
www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part4/Ch07.htm   (4105 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Castlereagh
The district council of Castlereagh was created on October 1, 1973, when the six historic counties...
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount (1769-1822), British statesman, born in County Down, Ireland, and educated at the University of Cambridge.
The National Trust property Mount Stewart House and Garden is a major attraction in County Down.
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Lord Castlereagh was the representative of Britain for most of the duration of the Congress.
Castlereagh's only interest was in the creation of a general European balance of power, to deter future aggression.
Castlereagh was actually ordered by the British government not to participate in the negotiations over Poland and Saxony.
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 Guardian | Castlereagh's inky memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The tributes to the diplomatic skills of Viscount Castlereagh garlanding the solid gold inkstand recently acquired by the VandA would be more touching if the foreign secretary hadn't commissioned them himself in 1817.
But Castlereagh saved them up until he had about a kilo of pure gold, and handed them to Paul Storr and Philip Rundell, the leading goldsmiths of his day, to melt down.
Castlereagh died in 1822 by cutting his throat.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4683047-110427,00.html   (176 words)

  
 Penrith City Council - Local Suburb Profiles - Castlereagh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Castlereagh was designed to provide storage space and accommodation for the local community, especially during flood time.
Castlereagh, Mulgoa, St. Marys and Penrith Shires amalgamated to form the Municipality of Penrith.
The Muncipality of Castlereagh was proclaimed in 1895.
www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au /index.asp?id=458   (2149 words)

  
 Break-in at Castlereagh
In effect, the investigation into to the Castlereagh break-in is being conducted by the agencies whose members are most likely to have carried it out.
Indeed, the recent break-in at Castlereagh has parallels with an earlier incident in 1990, when the office of the Stevens inquiry into collusion between loyalists and the security forces, which was housed in an RUC complex in Carrickfergus, was broken into and set on fire.
By declaring the theft of the documents form Castlereagh to be a matter of “national security” the British government has already set up the pretext for the suppression of any information on this latest incident that could be politically damaging.
www.socialistdemocracy.org /News&AnalysisIreland/News&AnalysisIreBreak-inAtCastlereagh.htm   (1324 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | N Ireland | Castlereagh break-in: Who was behind it?
This has been the major line of the investigation, the part of inquiry, to use the words of one source, where "the evidence talks to you", but there are other lines which detectives continue to "explore" and "dissect".
The chef's wife, from whom he is separated, is now a witness in the police case and is on a witness protection programme.
He was in the Castlereagh complex on the day of the robbery even though he no longer worked there and returned to the United States soon after the break-in.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/2238298.stm   (731 words)

  
 N. Ireland's Castlereagh to Be Razed (phillyBurbs.com) | Europe
The police closed Castlereagh (pronounced Cassel-RAY) in November 1999 and opened a new, modern interrogation center at Antrim police station west of Belfast, which videotapes interrogations and has received no official complaints of abusive treatment.
Castlereagh was opened after the IRA "Bloody Friday" attack in July 1972 - when 20 no-warning bombs detonated within an hour across Belfast, killing nine people and wounding scores.
Castlereagh's most famous interrogation suspect was future Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams, who says he was beaten up while being questioned in 1978 about his alleged involvement in another of the IRA's worst atrocities: the firebombing of a hotel that killed 12 Protestants.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-03032005-458215.html   (345 words)

  
 Castlereagh College, East Belfast, Northern Ireland, News & Events
Students from Castlereagh College were celebrating last week at the college's annual Higher Education Graduation ceremony at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast.
Art and Design Students from Castlereagh College celebrated their successful completion of their BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design course, at a public exhibition of their work, which opened on Friday 17 June in the college Art department.
Castlereagh College was awarded the BT ILT Award at the recent LSDA conference held at W5.
www.castlereagh.ac.uk /news_summary.html   (683 words)

  
 RTE News - Man arrested after Castlereagh raid charged
A man who was arrested in connection with the Castlereagh raid has been charged with having documents likely to be of use to terrorists.
The man was one of six people arrested in Belfast and Derry at the weekend in relation to the break-in at Castlereagh police station in east Belfast last month.
However, it is understood the documents involved in the charge are not connected to the security breach at Castlereagh.
www.rte.ie /news/2002/0403/north.html   (152 words)

  
 The Castlereagh Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The castlereagh line began in the late summer of 2003 when Damien arrived back from a working holiday in england to remember that he'd sold everything except his guitar.
He asked chum and old band-mate eddo to play some beats to his jangly tunes and with much trepidation they stepped into the rehearsal room (new farm park) and began the arduous task of minimising Damien's superfluous repertoire of pop-junk.
"The Castlereagh Line" is a radio drama written by Ross Napier about a coach line in northern New South Wales during the late 19th century.
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 The Hutchinson Dictionary of British History: Castlereagh, Robert Stewart (1769-1822)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As foreign secretary 1812-22, he coordinated European opposition to Napoleon and represented Britain at the Congress of Vienna 1814-15.
Castlereagh sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1790.
When his father, an Ulster landowner, was made an earl 1796, he took the courtesy title of Viscount Castlereagh.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28725782&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (170 words)

  
 District Policing Partnerships
Castlereagh District Policing Partnership is active in the area covered by Castlereagh Borough Council area and the Castlereagh PSNI District Command Unit.
 Castlereagh is situated towards the south east of Belfast and covers 32.6 square miles.
Castlereagh PSNI Command Unit has responsibility for policing matters within the urban area of Castlereagh itself, together with the towns of Carryduff and Dundonald and the smaller villages of Moneyreagh, Newtownbreda and Crossnacreevy.
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Castlereagh Borough Council remains fully committed to attracting inward investment into the area.
Castlereagh has suffered in terms of inward investment throughout recent years, through an acute scarcity of land zoned for industrial use.
Castlereagh Borough Council has recently formalised a Sister City Relationship with the City of Kent, near Seattle in America.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmniaf/198/198ap05.htm   (421 words)

  
 Castlereagh, Viscount Biography / Biography of Castlereagh, Viscount Biography Biography
The British statesman Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh and 2d Marquess of Londonderry (1769-1822), as foreign secretary did much to consolidate a firm final international alliance against Napoleon and to establish the framework for a remarkably durable European peace settlement.
As the eldest son, Robert held the courtesy title of Viscount Castlereagh from 1796 until he succeeded as Marquess of Londonderry in 1821.
His schooling in Ireland was followed by a year at Cambridge and by a good deal of contact with the influential English families of his mother and stepmother, the Hertfords and the Camdens.
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 Castlereagh Borough Council - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For the statesman commonly called Castlereagh, see Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.
The main centres of population are Carryduff, 8km south of Belfast City Centre and Dundonald, 8km east of it, and the population totals nearly 66,500.
Castlereagh and the City of Kent, Washington State signed up as sister cities partners on 1 August 2000.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Castlereagh   (251 words)

  
 Northern Ireland Housing Executive : News Releases : Castlereagh Housing Office wins fourth Charter Mark - 10 February ...
It is also a bench mark of what can be achieved by working with the community, not just in consultation, but also in helping them to guide our decision-making.
In Castlereagh members of staff work with many community groups in trying to understand and hopefully deal with a wide range of issues and problems that may impact on the quality of life for the residents concerned.
Given the extensive range of activities in which Castlereagh District is involved it is not always possible to get things right every time but we will continue in consultation with our customers, to do our best to rectify any shortcomings in service delivery.
www.nihe.gov.uk /news/news.asp?Id=822   (371 words)

  
 Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Castlereagh was one of the most distinguished foreign secretaries in British history.
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Formerly astride Down and Antrim counties, in 1973 Castlereagh was established as a district covering 33 sq mi (84 sq km) of rolling lowlands bordering the districts of Lisburn to the southwest, North Down to the north, Ards to the east, and Down to the south.
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 The secrets of Castlereagh - [Sunday Herald]
It was this that led directly to the raid on Castlereagh a night later.
Crucially, the FRU's 'east detachment' is based in the so-called 'Green Hut' within the grounds of Castlereagh -- a good source of support and information for the CME team which would have been dropped into Ulster from England shortly before the raid to 'recce' the barracks.
Two separate investigations into the Castlereagh break-in are now under way -- one by the police and one by Sir John Chilcot, a former Whitehall mandarin and an expert on Northern Ireland, who will be assisted by Sir Colin Smith, a former Thames Valley chief constable.
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 Assessments of Lord Castlereagh: contemporary and subsequent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He managed the foreign affairs of the country with a judgement and ability that will hand down his name with honour to posterity, when those of his pitiful revilers will be buried in oblivion.
Castlereagh's attitudes to the issues of the day were not obscurantist...
Castlereagh's appeal was to all sections of the Tory party, and he would have been a good choice to succeed Liverpool as Prime Minister.
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