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  DESMOND - LoveToKnow Article on DESMOND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Desmond estates were held by a doubtful title, and claims on them were made by the Butlers, the hereditary enemies of the Geraldines, the 9th earl of Ormonde having married Lady Joan Fitzgerald, daughter and heiress-general of the 11th earl of Desmond.
The effect of this marriage was a temporary cessation of open hostility between the Desmonds and her son, Thomas Butler, 10th earl of Ormonde.
In 1583 came the attainder of Gerald Fitzgerald, i~th earl of Desmond (q.v.), and in 1586 an act of parliament declared the forfeiture of the Desmo~d estates to the crown.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DESMOND.htm   (1615 words)

  
 FitzGerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main branches of the family are the FitzGeralds of Kildare (Earls of Kildare, later Marquesses of Kildare and now Dukes of Leinster and Premier Peers of Ireland) and the FitzGeralds of Desmond (Barons Desmond, later Earls of Desmond); see the articles on those titles for lists of people who have held them.
Garret FitzGerald (born 1926), seventh Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
Fitzgerald, is a large crater on the far side of the Moon.
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 Desmond FitzGerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Desmond FitzGerald or Fitzgerald may refer to several people:
Desmond Fitzgerald (1910-1967), a Central Intelligence Agency deputy director.
Desmond FitzGerald, currently claimant of the title Knight of Glin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desmond_FitzGerald   (101 words)

  
 Archontology.org: History of FITZGERALD, Garret (Gearóid Mac Gearailt): presidents, kings, prime ministers, ...
Garret FitzGerald was born in the family of Desmond FitzGerald, Minister for External Affairs in the government of William Thomas Cosgrave.
FitzGerald called for liberalization of the legislation on divorce, abortion, and contraception, but it was never implemented because of traditionalist opposition.
The most important achievement of FitzGerald as Taoiseach was the Anglo-Irish Agreement (Hillsborough Accord, 15 Nov 1985), which gave Ireland a consultative role in the governing of Northern Ireland and became the basis for developing trust and common action between the governments.
www.archontology.org /nations/eire/eire_govt/fitzgerald.php   (394 words)

  
 Biography: Desmond FitzGerald
FitzGerald was convinced that Angleton was suffering from paranoia.
FitzGerald was a charming, well-connected, redheaded Irishman whose roots derived from the same Boston-Irish background as the Kennedys'.
Desmond FitzGerald, then Chief, SAS, who was going to Paris on other business, arranged to meet with Cubela to give him the assurances he sought.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKfitzgeraldD.htm   (1876 words)

  
 Garrett Fitzgerald
Garret FitzGerald (born February 9, 1926) was the seventh Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, heading two coalition governments, from July 1981 to February 1982, and from December 1982 to June 1987.
FitzGerald was one of the Republic of Ireland's most popular politicians, known to all sides simply as 'Garret'.
Garret is the son of Desmond FitzGerald, himself a former Minister for External Affairs (the name by which Foreign Affairs was known before 1972!) in the 1920s.
www.generalmichaelcollins.com /Fine_Gael/Garrett_Fitzgerald.html   (1004 words)

  
 DESMOND, GERALD FITZGE... - Online Information article about DESMOND, GERALD FITZGE...
August 156o regulating the matters in dispute between Ormonde and the Fitzgeralds, the Geraldine outlaws were still plundering their neighbours.
John of Desmond were sent over to England, where they surrendered their lands to the See also:
July, and Bourchier was surrendered, but Desmond refused the other demands made in the queen's.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DESMOND_GERALD_FITZGERALD_15TH_.html   (1609 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Legacy: The Prodigal Grandson
Fitzgerald has been upwardly mobile in his free time since then, working as a draftsman for a South Boston architecture firm last summer and attending night school to learn computer assisted design.
Fitzgerald says he doesn’t feel burdened by his heritage—he isn’t even much of an expert on the Corporation.
Fitzgerald’s background couldn’t have hurt his chances at getting into Harvard, although his acceptances at nine other colleges suggest he probably didn’t need the tip factor.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=272683   (406 words)

  
 Desmond DNA Project - Family Project Website
"Desmond" is the Anglicized spelling of the Gaelic "Deasmhumhnaigh", which roughly translates to "south Munster".
A secondary goal of the Desmond DNA Project will be to see how (or if) Desmonds whose ancestors are from Continental countries such as Italy, France or Germany are genetically related to the Irish Desmond families.
Lastly, a genealogical goal of the Desmond DNA project will be to identify previously unknown links between modern-day Desmond families, and to possibly pinpoint the ancestral towns or parishes of those families in Ireland.
www.familytreedna.com /(rwubsmnlo4xhps450s3mpn55)/public/desmond/index.aspx   (593 words)

  
 FitzGerald & Company - Our Team
FitzGerald decided it would be beneficial to start his own firm, which through his leadership, dedication, creative approach and successful litigation performance, grew into what is now FitzGerald and Company.
As the company continues to grow, Desmond has not forgotten the importance of serving every client in a personalized manner and with a creative strategy to their problem.
FitzGerald had the opportunity to live in Bogotá, Colombia, where he studied Spanish at the Unversidad Javeriana.
www.fitzgeraldlawcompany.com /ourpeople.html   (1432 words)

  
 Desmond Child articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Desmond Child Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
He was the son of Gerald, steward of Pembroke castle, and Nesta, daughter of the prince of South Wales.
Fitzgerald crossed to Ireland in 1169 to join others in aiding Dermot McMurrough, king of Leinster.
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Lady Desmond was at first inclined to refuse the courtesy; but she either thought better of such intention, or else she had not courage to maintain it; for at parting she did give him her hand.
Fitzgerald know that he can come here no more; and all I want from you is a promise that you will on no account see him again, or hold any correspondence with him." That was all she wanted.
Lady Desmond felt that she had done her duty by her daughter; but her tenderness to Clara was not increased by the fact that her foolish attachment had driven Fitzgerald from the place.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/cslrc10.txt   (23824 words)

  
 Campusweb - Desmond Fitzgerald
Dr Fitzgerald enjoyed a very high professional standing, nationally and internationally, as exemplified by his appointment to several British Standards Institute committees, his consultancy work for a number of organisations involved in building design and energy conservation, and his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.
One of Dr Fitzgerald’s innovations within the Department was the introduction of a scheme to develop the writing skills of students through a series of essay-based assignments.
Within the wider University, Dr Fitzgerald was at various times a member of the Group on Energy and Water Economy, the Library Consultative Committee, and the Board of the Faculties of Science and Applied Science.
campus.leeds.ac.uk /news-obitdf-02aug07.htm   (573 words)

  
 York Weekly Obituaries: July 18, 2001
Desmond also was the owner of The Desmond Real Estate Agency, and at the time of his retirement from Real Estate, it was the oldest original owner-operated agency in York.
Desmond was a former member of the York Golf and Tennis Club and was an avid tennis player until the age of 81.
He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Constance (Hirst) Desmond of York Harbor; a son, Russell J. Desmond and his wife Bobbie; two grandchildren, Jacqueline and Brandon of York; a brother, Thomas J. Desmond of Chatham, Mass.; sister-in-law, Barbara Hirst Black; and two nieces and two nephews.
www.seacoastonline.com /2001news/yorkweekly/yw7_18obit.htm   (904 words)

  
 Apollo: Irish furniture 1740-1800: the Knight of Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, recalls how his interest in Irish furniture ...
Desmond Guinness tells me he bought this table at an auction of Henry Naylor's stock in Dublin when Naylor's nephew the late Ronnie MacDonnell, a well-known dealer, took over his business in about 1966.
Desmond could not see the table properly as a row of bidders were sitting on it.
Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, is President of the Irish Georgian Society and has written and lectured extensively on Irish art, architecture and decorative arts.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_523_162/ai_n15930834   (1518 words)

  
 Gerald Fitzgerald, 14th earl of Desmond --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 14th (or 15th) earl of
South African Anglican bishop and outspoken social activist Desmond Tutu received the Nobel prize for peace in 1984 for his efforts to bring a nonviolent end to apartheid, South Africa's policy of racial segregation.
Skilled in noting the telling detail, Fitzgerald used her perceptiveness of human faults and deficiencies...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030077   (675 words)

  
 Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th earl of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th earl of on Encyclopedia.com
DESMOND, GERALD FITZGERALD, 15TH EARL OF [Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th earl of] d.
In 1579 he was proclaimed a traitor, and after four years of rebellion, he was captured and killed.
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 R.D. Fitzgerald - biographical and botanical sources
Fitzgerald accompanied Scott to Wallis Lake, NSW in 1864 where his enthusiasm for orchids was kindled.
Rogers, R.S. (1911) Robert Desmond Fitzgerald, in, An introduction to the study of South Australian orchids.
Fitzgerald, R.D. (1888) Notes on the nidification of Sphecotheres maxillaris, (Lath.), and of Campephaga leucomelaena, (V.andH.), with descriptions of their eggs.
www.anbg.gov.au /library/fitzger.html   (1846 words)

  
 FITZGERALD of Desmond
He died in 1534 at the age of eighty, leaving a daughter by her, so that her marriage is unlikely to have taken place after 1524.
King Richard III endeavoured to attach him to his interests, and sent him a collar of gold weighing 20 oz., with the device of a white boar, pendant from a circlet of roses and suns, but the Earl augmented his Irish alliances, and retained his Irish habits.
There was no mystery of FitzGerald's death; he was attainted, chased down and on 11 Nov 1583 slain, and his head sent to Queen Elizabeth.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /FITZGERALD2.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Castle Richmond, by Anthony Trollope (chapter36)
He knew that Fitzgerald had now become heir to a very large fortune, or rather the possessor of that fortune, and he could not understand why a man who had been so popular while he was poor should be deserted now that he was rich.
Desmond, all my thoughts are of her; I dream of her at night, and find myself talking to her spirit when I wake in the morning.
Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, when he married that poor lady who is still staying at Castle Richmond, did so in the face of the world with the full assurance that he made her his legal wife.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /t/trollope/anthony/castle/chapter36.html   (4040 words)

  
 Fitzgerald, Gerald on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
FITZGERALD, GERALD [Fitzgerald, Gerald] see Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th earl of.
Gerald Cantor, founder of Cantor Fitzgerald, dead at 79; Wall Street innovator, art patron, and philanthropist dies in California after long illness.
Cantor Fitzgerald To Spin-Off Voice Brokerage Business To Create BGC Partners; BGC To Expand Across Europe, the United States and Asia With Addition of Hundreds of New Voice Brokers.
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 Desmond & Mabel Fitzgerald
While in London FitzGerald had been a member of the Imagist group of poets which included Ezra Pound with whom he had a lifelong friendship.
He was expelled from Kerry on suspicion of signalling to German submarines, moved to Bray, County Wicklow and fought in the GPO in 1916.
Papers of Mabel FitzGerald, nee McConnell, 1894–1959: including material relating to McConnell and FitzGerald family matters; to all aspects of her husband’s career; and to her own interests, including correspondence with George Bernard Shaw, 1909–34, for whom she had worked as secretary.
www.ucd.ie /archives/html/collections/fitzgearld-dandm.htm   (567 words)

  
 ASD Search Results - Desmond FitzGerald & Associates Pty Ltd - ICT - Australian Trade Commission - Austrade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Desmond FitzGerald and Associates are a computer software company, with its main product being Intrepid.
Desmond Fitzgerald and Associates provides specialist services to the earth sciences and geotechnical industries.
Eighteen years of service to the industry is reflected in our expertise and professional approach to all problems.
www.austrade.gov.au /corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_-2_5-3_CANB40536-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html   (145 words)

  
 Castle Richmond, by Anthony Trollope (chapter14)
Lady Desmond again let her eyes drop upon the book which she was reading, as though to show that she was by far too confiding a mamma to interfere in any correspondence between her daughter and her daughter’s lover.
Fitzgerald was there, she was still unsupported by the presence of any companion.
Fitzgerald,” she said, and the tone of her voice also was changed.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /t/trollope/anthony/castle/chapter14.html   (4010 words)

  
 The American Ireland Fund - Dallas : News - Knight of Glin
Desmond Fitzgerald, The Knight of Glin visits The Dallas chapter of The Ameican Ireland Fund.
Halloween saw the return of Desmond Fitzgerald, 28th Knight of Glin, Limerick Ireland to Dallas Texas.
Desmond Fitzgerald, The Knight of Glin and Mary Ann Perryman
www.irlfunds.org /aif/dallas/news_10.asp   (348 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 6911
     Desmond FitzJohn Lloyd FitzGerald was born in 1862.
He was the son of Desmond FitzJohn Lloyd FitzGerald and Lady Rachael Wyndham-Quin.
He is the son of Desmond Windham Otho FitzGerald and Veronica Villiers.
www.thepeerage.com /p6911.htm   (427 words)

  
 Desmond Fitzgerald (1910-1987) - Biographies [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
Archiseek / Ireland / Architects of Ireland / Desmond Fitzgerald
Very much known for one building - Dublin Airport at Collinstown (1937-1941), Fitzgerald was responsible for other buildings in the city - many of them reviled including O'Connell Bridge House and offices on St Stephens Green.
He was responsible for teaching many of the leading Irish architects of today as he held the chair of Architecture at UCD from 1954-1973.
www.irish-architecture.com /architects_ireland/fitzgerald.html   (128 words)

  
 "Joy of the Chase" - pg. 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On a May morning in 1565 at Affane the Earl of Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, brought into battle his Fitzgeralds accompanied by the MacCarthys, the O'Sullivans, the McSheehys and the O'Connors.
Opposing Fitzgerald was his boyhood companion Black Tom Butler, the Earl of Ormond, who led his Butlers plus the O'Kennedys, the Gillapatricks and the Burkes.
This pitched battle, won by the Butlers, was the last private one fought in Great Britain, infuriated Queen Elizabeth, and led to the forced renunciation by Gerald Fitzgerald of his claims to the historic lands of the Fitzgeralds that I referred to earlier.
www.rarebooks.nd.edu /collections/map/ireland/mcgrath/text/irishpg9.htmlold   (440 words)

  
 Conqueror 25
Desmond FitzGerald, Maj. Hon., M.C., * 1888, + 1916 killed in action.
Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Offaly, * 1974, + 1997.
Maurice FitzGerald, Lord, * 1852, + 1901, Md. 1880, Lady Adelaide Jane Frances Forbes, + 1942, d.
www.william1.co.uk /w25.html   (581 words)

  
 Etext » books
He knew that the countess rarely or never walked with her daughter, and that, as the governess was gone, Clara was driven to walk by herself.
Lady Desmond's heart was somewhat softened by this appeal; nor would I have it thought that she was a cruel woman, or an unnatural mother.
Fitzgerald!" and she now altered her tone as she spoke to him; "we have all been so pleased to know you, so happy to have you there; why have you destroyed all this by one half-hour's folly?"
etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/etext04/cslrc10.txt.html   (23823 words)

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