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  Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey in the County Dublin.
The President of Ireland lives in Áras an Uachtaráin, the former residence of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State in the city's largest park, Phoenix Park.
Both houses of the Oireachtas Éireann, meet in Leinster House, a former ducal palace on the south side of the city.
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  House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House of Commons was created to serve as the political outlet for this "commons" class, while the elite estates were represented in the House of Lords.
The House of Commons was thus elected by the people while members of the upper house were appointed on the basis of various forms of elite "merit", such as wealth, family, or prestige.
States with a House of Commons base their democratic systems upon this original British house of parliament (it is thus occasionally called "the mother of parliaments").
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 House of Commons of Southern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
House of Commons of Southern Ireland was the lower house of the Irish parliament created by the Government of Ireland Act, passed in 1920, during the Irish War of Independence.
In June 1921, the House of Commons, together with the appointed Senate, formally assembled in the Royal College of Science, now Government Buildings, in Merrion St., for a state opening by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent.
The House of Commons of Southern Ireland, having chosen Collins' government, was then dissolved and replaced by a new united parliament, called alternatively the Constituent Assembly (i.e.
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 Free Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Southern Ireland was the twenty-six county Irish state created in the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
The first general election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in 1921 was used by Sinn Féin to produce a new Dáil, the Second Dáil.
Southern Ireland is sometimes used as an unofficial name for the Republic of Ireland or the earlier Irish Free State.
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 Dáil Éireann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland.
The first legislature to exist in Ireland was the Parliament of Ireland and the first legislative lower house was the House of Commons of this body.
Nonetheless, because the First Dáil was illegal under the British constitution, the lower house of the Parliament of Southern Ireland, the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, is considered in British legal theory as the precursor to the Dáil.
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 Irish House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Irish House of Commons by Francis Wheatley (1780).
The upper house was the House of Lords.
The House of Commons was abolished when the Irish parliament merged with its British counterpart in 1801 under the Act of Union.
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 Oireachtas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The earliest parliament in Ireland was the Parliament of Ireland in existence until 1801.
The Irish Parliament consisted of the King of Ireland, a House of the Lords and a House of Commons.
The Parliament of Southern Ireland was formally abolished in 1922, with the establishment of the Oireachtas under the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
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 Anglo-Irish Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ireland was to become a self-governing Dominion of the British Empire, likeCanada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and The Union of South Africa.
Northern Ireland (which had been created earlier by the Government of Ireland Act) was to have the option of withdrawing from the Irish Free State within one month of the Treaty coming into effect.
(The House of Commons of Southern Ireland, which was made up largely of the same membership as the Dáil, but which was in British constitutional theory the parliament legally empowered to ratify the Treaty, did so in January 1922.) De Valera resigned as President and was replaced by Arthur Griffith.
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 Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
The United Kingdom Parliament is composed of the Crown, that is the monarch, the House of Lords, an appointive and hereditary upper chamber, and the popularly elected lower chamber, the House of Commons.
Wales is deliberately over-represented in the House of Commons, as was Scotland until recent times: the establishment in 1999 of a Scottish Parliament with devolved powers has led to a reduction of the number of Scottish constituencies.
These commissions are presided by the non-partisan Speaker of the House of Commons, and their recommendations, which are supposed to be free of political bias, have to be approved by the House of Commons.
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 Tennis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Act, introduced by the government of David Lloyd George, divided Ireland into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, each self-governing except in areas specifically reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom: chief amongst these were matters relating to the Crown, to defence, foreign affairs, international trade, and currency.
"Southern Ireland" was to be all of Ireland except for "the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry" which were to constitute "Northern Ireland".
All 128 MPs elected to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland were returned unopposed, and 124 of them, representing Sinn Féin, declared themselves TDs (Irish for Dáil Deputies) and assembled as the Second Dáil of the Irish Republic.
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 Southern Ireland Information - TextSheet.com
Southern Ireland was the twenty-six county state created in the Government of Ireland Act, 1920.
Nationalists demanded a form of Home Rule, believing that Ireland was poorly served by the British Government in Westminster and its Irish executive in Dublin Castle.
In reality, however, while Northern Ireland did become a functioning state, with a parliament and executive that existed until it was suspended in 1972, Southern Ireland never became a functioning reality.
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 Dublin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey in the County Dublin.
The University of Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland dating from the Trinity College, Dublin established by Royal Charter under Elizabeth I.
Both houses of the Oireachtas Éireann, meet in Leinster House, a former ducal palace on the south side of the city.
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 Dublin - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Paradoxically, while the southside is wealthier, the President of Ireland's residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, is on the northside, as is the residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (and his Church of Ireland counterpart's until the 1920s), while one of Dublin's wealthiest suburbs, the Hill of Howth is also on the northside.
Ireland's presidential residence, formerly the residence of the Governor-General.
In fact the island of Ireland no longer has thirty-two counties, as all six northern Ireland counties were replaced by new smaller local governmental units or counties (26 in total) while a number of the 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland, most notably Dublin, were also divided into new counties.
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 Irish Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1922, a government theoretically answerable to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, called the Provisional Government, was created under Michael Collins.
The House of Commons of Southern Ireland officially was based in the Royal College of Science in Dublin, now the Irish Government Buildings.
However the House of Commons only met on a handful of occasions, primarily to ratify the Treaty in January 1922 and confirm Michael Collins as head of the Provisional Government.
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 The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921
Senate and House of Commons of Northern Ireland were elected in 1921 and continued until 1972.
The Government of Ireland Act stipulated that if fewer than half the members of the House of Commons came to its first meeting on June 28, the institutions would lapse and Southern Ireland would be ruled as a Crown Colony.
The House of Commons of Southern Ireland had a curious resurrection a few months later, when as part of the process of ratification of the December 1921 Ango-Irish Treaty its members were called together to approve it and appoint the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State on 14 January 1922.
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 Articles - Government of Ireland Act, 1920   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Home Rule bill in 1886 had been defeated in the House of Commons and the 1893 bill was blocked by the House of Lords.
The Act, introduced by the government of David Lloyd George, divided Ireland into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, each intended to be self-governing except in areas specifically reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom: chief amongst these were matters relating to the Crown, to defence, foreign affairs, international trade, and currency.
Northern Ireland as defined by the Act, amounting to six of the nine counties of Ulster, was seen as the maximum area within which Unionists could be expected to have a safe majority.
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 Ireland Hotels, Dublin Hotels, Cork Hotels, Galway Hotels, 800 Hotels in Ireland
Either way, if you book a hotel room through the Roomex Hotel Network, the hotel is contracted to honour that booking at that rate.
If you do a search on www.RoomexHotels.com where you can search for hotels in Ireland and the rest of the world, you will be searching our allocation contract hotels.
Both methods of searching have their own advantages, you may find availability on one, but not on the other, you may get a better rate on one over another.
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 Articles - Southern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Southern Ireland was the twenty-six county Irish state envisaged by the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
This Act formally and controversially partitioned the island of Ireland in two, Northern Ireland (covering approximately fifteen percent of the island, in the northeast) and Southern Ireland (covering the remaining territory to the south and west).
Southern Ireland is sometimes used as an unofficial name for the Republic of Ireland or the earlier Irish Free State, especially in the English media.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ireland
Ireland lies in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain, from which it is separated in the north-east by the North Channel, in the east by the Irish Sea, and in the south-east by St. George's Channel.
In Ireland as elsewhere they attacked the monasteries and churches, desecrated the altars, carried away the gold and silver vessels, and smoking ruins and murdered monks attested the fury of their assaults.
Michael Davitt, the son of a Mayo peasant, and favoured by the prevailing distress and by the heartlessness of the landlords, it rapidly spread.
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 Michael Collins (Irish leader) Information - TextSheet.com
Like all senior Sinn Féin members, Michael Collins was nominated to seek a seat in the 1918 general election to elect Irish MPs to the British House of Commons in London.
Republican purists saw it as a sell-out, with the replacement of the republic by a returned crown, and an Oath of Allegiance made (it was claimed) directly to the King.
To be so installed, he had to formally meet the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Viscount Fitzalan (the head of the British administration in Ireland).
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 HOUSE OF COMMONS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster_System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower_house.
The Commons generally holds much more power than the upper_house (the House_of_Lords).
The House of Commons was created to serve as the political outlet for this "commons" class, while the elite estates were represented in the House_of_Lords.
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 ANGLO-IRISH TREATY FACTS AND INFORMATION
Northern_Ireland (which had been created earlier by the Government of Ireland Act) was to have the option of withdrawing from the Irish Free State within one month of the Treaty coming into effect.
Although the British government of the day had, since 1914, desired home_rule for the whole of Ireland, the British Parliament believed that it could not possibly grant complete independence to all of Ireland in 1921 without provoking a massacre of Ulster Catholics at the hands of their heavily-armed Protestant Unionist neighbours.
In fact, what Ireland received in dominion status, on par with that enjoyed by Canada, New_Zealand and Australia, was far more than the Home_Rule_Act_1914 (negotiated and won, albeit through democratic parliamentary procedure by the Irish_Parliamentary_Party leaders John_Redmond and John_Dillon), and certainly a considerable advance on the Home_Rule once offered to Charles_Stewart_Parnell in the nineteenth century.
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 SAOIRSE -- 50 Years Ago September 1997
Of course, Ireland had pioneered the anti-imperialist struggle world-wide and Ireland was the first to suffer partition, neo-colonialism and the arming of a minority as allies of British rule.
In the acceptance of matters of Defence, Peace and War and Political Treaty as the common concern of Ireland and the Empire, it marked the abandonment of the old ideological line-up with other subject peoples struggling to be free.
In Ireland 50 years ago, a radical nationalist organisation which been founded in the early 1940s was still very active although it would shortly be overtaken as a political party by Clann na Poblachta.
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 House of Commons of Southern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Both parliaments then chose their own governments, a republican administration under President of Dáil Éireann, Arthur Griffith and a Provisional Government under Michael Collins.
The unique status of this parliament was shown in the fact that it was presided over by the Ceann Comhairle (pronounced, keaun corrle), the title given to the speaker in Dáil Éireann yet received messages from the Lord Lieutenant.
The deaths of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins led to the merging of their offices under the united leadership of W.T. Cosgrave.
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 President of Dáil Éireann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Only in August 1921 did a constitutional amendment passed by Dáil Éireann introduce the title President of the Republic.
The constitutional structures of the Irish Republic continued in existence, answerable to Dáil Éireann following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, alongside a Provisional Government selected by the House of Commons of Southern Ireland (elected in 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920) and appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Both the Republican and Provisional Governments merged into one under the leadership of W.T. Cosgrave in August 1921, as did both their parliaments, following a new general election which produced a body variously described as the 'Third Dáil', the 'Constituent Assembly' and the 'Provisional Parliament'.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On 9 February 1830 a draft of a petition to the house of commons was brought before a public meeting.
He twice contested seats for the house of commons without success, but in 1886 was elected as a conservative for Portsmouth and sat until 1892.
But as a candidate for the federal house of representatives though really a convinced freetrader he was labelled a protectionist on account of his association with Lyne and Barton, a freetrader gained the seat, and Wise was lost to federal politics.
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