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	Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
		General elections in the Republic of Ireland are covered in Parliamentary Elections in Ireland - Elections to Dáil Éireann (House of Representatives).
		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.
		The outcome of a general election is actually decided in these seats, and political parties concentrate their efforts in retaining their own marginals, and capturing those held by their opponents.
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	Irish Republican Army - MSN Encarta
		It then became a party political organization seeking election, and when the annual conference of 1917 changed its constitution and elected as leader Eamon de Valera, the most senior commander of the rising still alive, it adopted the political goals of the Easter Rising rebels.
		Sinn Féin had a huge victory in the British general election of 1918, but it was not until after the failure to achieve self-determination as part of the Paris Peace Conference (see Versailles Treaty) that the IRA emerged as an identifiable fighting body.
		The anti-Treaty IRA, or the Irregulars, disagreed with the terms of the Treaty, which made the Irish Free State a dominion within the British Commonwealth; they wanted an independent republic and disputed the authority of the negotiators and the Dáil to conclude such a treaty that did not grant this status.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575144/Irish_Republican_Army.html (1710 words)

	Elections in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Residents of the Republic who are Irish citizens or citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland may participate in elections to the national parliament.
		While both Irish and UK citizens resident in the state may vote in elections to Dáil Éireann (the lower house of parliament), only Irish citizens, who must be at least eighteen years of age, may vote in the election of the President.
		Irish elections, 1921 in Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Irish_general_elections (514 words)

	Executive Council of the Irish Free State Online Research :: Information about Executive Council of the Irish Free State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Formally, the role of the Executive Council was to "aid and advise" the Governor-General of the Irish Free State who would exercise the executive authority on behalf of the Monarchy in the Irish Free State.
		The President of the Executive was appointed by the Governor-General after being nominated by Dil ireann (Irish Free State), the lower house of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State (parliament), and the remaining cabinet ministers were nominated by the President.
		The Irish Free State had the status of a Dominion of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Irish Executive Council derived its name from organs of government found in other dominions.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Executive_Council_of_the_Irish_Free_State.html (1085 words)

	Dublin Travel Guide - Description, hotels, facts, history, fly, attractions, pubs, circuits, tourism
		Beyond the Pale, Ireland remained unbowed, and raids from the fierce Irish warriors constantly threatened Dublin's Anglo-Norman stronghold.
		Thousands of Irish volunteers fought in the war; the nationalists among them believed their efforts would ensure that Britain stood by its promise of Home Rule.
		The General Post Office, the headquarters of the rising, was quickly taken by the rebels and other key points in the city were secured.
	www.bestcitiestravel.com /dublin (1527 words)

	Irish Republican Army information - Search.com
		Physical force Irish republicanism as an ideology had a long history, from the United Irishmen of the 1798 and 1803 rebellions, to the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and the Irish Republican Brotherhood rebellion of 1867.
		In theory, the IRA was responsible to the Dail and was the army of the Irish Republic.
		The most contentious areas of the Treaty for the IRA were abolition of the Irish Republic declared in 1919, the status of the Irish Free State as a dominion on the British Commonwealth and the British retention of the so called Treaty Ports on Ireland' south coast.
	www.search.com /reference/Irish_Republican_Army (5634 words)

	History of Ireland
		Irish history is characterized by devastating wars that impoverished the country, by plantations that placed nine-tenths of the land in the hands of English and Scottish landlords, by political and religious persecution, and by economic problems that forced many Irish people to emigrate to other countries.
		Irish landowners were ordered to move west of the River Shannon to the province of Connacht before May 1, 1652, on pain of death.
		After the Irish aristocracy lost their lands, a decline in Gaelic learning set in and the poets and chroniclers were reduced to poverty.
	www.jimkelley.com /irishhistory.htm (7671 words)

	Embassy of Ireland - Washington, DC
		Irish monks established centres of learning and Christianity in many parts of Europe in the period before 800 A.D. During the ninth and tenth centuries, Ireland was regularly raided by the Vikings.
		Irish writers and painters were at the forefront of European modernism in the early decades of the twentieth century.
		Irish, the State’s first official language, is a part of the Celtic family of languages, and is closely related to Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton.
	www.irelandemb.org /info.html (5391 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Irish_Civil_War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Irish Civil War (June 1922–April 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, which established the Irish Free State, precursor of today's Republic of Ireland.
		The Anti-Treaty IRA claimed that it was defending the Irish Republic that had been declared in 1916 during the Easter Rising, that had been confirmed by the First Dáil and that had been invalidly set aside by those who accepted the compromise of the Free State.
		This was demonstrated in the elections immediately after the civil war, which Cumann na nGaedheal, the Free State party, won easily (See Irish general election, 1923 for the results).
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=Irish_Civil_War (2704 words)

	IRISH CIVIL WAR FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Irish Civil War (June 1922–April 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish_Treaty of December_6, 1921, which established the Irish_Free_State, precursor of today's Republic_of_Ireland.
		The Anti-Treaty IRA claimed that it was defending the Irish Republic, that had been declared in 1916 during the Easter_Rising and created by the First_DÃ¡il and had been unlawfully usurped by those who accepted the compromise of the Free State.
		The fact that The Irish Civil War was fought between Irish Nationalist factions meant that the issue of Northern_Ireland was ignored and Ireland was spared what could have been a far bloodier civil war based on ethnic and sectarian lines over the future of Ireland's six north-eastern counties.
	www.19gmarketinggroup.com /Irish_Civil_War (2358 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The general election of 1918 is generally regarded as the most important election in Irish history a watershed in Irish politics.
		Although the by-election in Roscommon resulted in the first defeat of the IPP by Sinn Féin, the victory was largely attributed to the obvious emotional factor that existed because of the candidate’s connection to a martyr.
		At the general election of December 1918 it won six seats (four of which Sinn Féin decided not to contest to avoid splitting the nationalist vote) whereas Sinn Féin won seventy-three of the 105 Irish seats.
	irelandsown.net /1918election.html (3381 words)

	Irish Northern Aid, Inc./Irish History Overview
		The Irish resisted strongly and it was not until 1601 in the reign of Elizabeth I of England that the Gaelic system of law and organization was broken.
		The Irish Volunteers became the Army of the Republic, under the Ministry of Defense and pledging its allegiance to Dail Eireann.
		Three mayors of Irish cities, all members of the IRA, were killed by the British; martial law was declared through nearly half of the country; streets, shops and factories in many towns were burnt to the ground; there were executions in prisons and torture in internment camps.
	www.inac.org /irishhistory (2206 words)

	Dail Elections since 1918
		The result was that future Senate elections in the Irish Free State were restricted to TDs and Senators, and the rate of replacement was stepped up to twenty members plus vacancies rather than fifteen at each triennial election.
		Afer this sequence of elections, there was general relief among the political classes when Hillery announced that he would seek a second term as President, and he was re-elected unopposed.
		General expectations were that Fine Gael and the Progressive Democrats would form a coalition with Labour; but instead Labour opted to do a deal with Fianna Fáil, keeping Albert Reynolds as Taoiseach of a government with a massive majority.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/gdala.htm (3582 words)

	WHKMLA : The Irish Free State
		The Irish Free State was merely an interlude on the road to a republic.
		The Political structure of the Irish Free State was stipulated in the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
		The Irish Civil War (June 28, 1922 - May 24, 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, which established the Irish Free State.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/sp/0708/eunsol/eunsol1.html (2090 words)

	Irish Civil War - Wiki Ireland
		The Irish Civil War (June 1922–April 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, which established the Irish Free State, precursor of today's Republic of Ireland.
		The Anti-Treaty IRA claimed that it was defending the Irish Republic, that had been declared in 1916 during the Easter Rising and created by the First Dail and had been un-lawfully usurped by those who accepted the compromise of the Free State.
		The fact that The Irish Civil War was fought between Irish Nationalist factions meant that the issue of Northern Ireland was ignored and Ireland was spared what could have been a far bloodier civil war based on ethnic and sectarian lines over the future of Ireland's six north-eastern counties.
	www.wiki.ie /wiki/Irish_Civil_War (2452 words)

	United_Kingdom_general_election,_1923 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923.
		As the election had been fought on the Conservative proposals for tariff reform it was inevitable that they could not retain office and so the first ever Labour government was formed.
		Being in a minority it only lasted 10 months and another election was held in 1924.
	www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election,_1923 (95 words)

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		This tradition generally only found effective expression when after a period of non-armed agitation, large sections of the Irish people, faced with the British government's denial of the legitimate demand for Irish independence, exercised the right to use armed struggle.
		The lessons of this period were not lost on succeeding generations of Irish patriots and the Fenian Movement of the late 1850s and 1860s won widespread support in Ireland and America for its programme of armed struggle to achieve an Irish Republic.
		The Irish Volunteers became the Army of the Republic, under the Ministry of Defence and pledging its allegiance to Dail Eireann.
	members.tripod.com /~Data_Mate/irishgen/Irahis.txt (2280 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 5 - 21 November, 1923 - THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S ADDRESS (MOTION FOR RESOLUTION OF ...
		A general outline of their scheme is the organisation of the retail trade in certain selected towns for a start.
		To me it appears that the people who in the recent election refused to take their share in the election of the Government were, to a certain extent, ignoring Parliamentary institutions.
		The general conditions of railway men in Ireland and England are the same, with the exception that railway men in Ireland are paid a lower rate for Sunday and overtime work, and 2,000 Irish railway men, who work the very small companies, work 10 per cent.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0005/D.0005.192311210032.html (16309 words)

	Britain And Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Irish peasants are dependent on the potato - their grain and pigs go to the landlord for rent.
		Irish representatives sign a treaty with the British government under which Britain will withdraw from 26 of Ireland's 32 counties.
		The Irish are led to believe that the remaining six counties will soon rejoin the rest.
	www.pittsburghirish.org /AOHDiv32/BritainandIreland.htm (686 words)

	Irish FAQ: History [5/10] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Generally, though, the discrimination against Catholics (who were regarded as treacherous and potential allies of France and Spain) was worse than that against the nonconformists.
		Proportional representation was eliminated for local council elections in 1922 and for the Northern Ireland Parliament in Stormont in 1929.
		After a general election (in which he retained a narrow majority) he was forced out of office in April 1969, following a bombing which was blamed on the IRA but later turned out to be the work of loyalists.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/cultures/irish-faq/part05 (2985 words)

	Irish 1916 Easter Rising ~ War for Independence - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasibleIn every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to National freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms.
		In December, at the General Election, all Nationalist Ireland declared its allegiance to the Republican ideal, and the Sinn Fein policy of abstention from Westminster was adopted.
		An Irish delegation headed by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins met representatives of the British Cabinet in London, and after six weeks conference, the Irish delegates, compelled by threat of renewed ruthless warfare on their prostate land, signed a compromise treaty on December 6th.
	home.fiac.net /marshaw/1916.htm (2639 words)

	The Irish General Election, to be held on Friday, May 17th
		Following a general election in June, 1989, Fianna Fáil entered coalition with the Progressive Democrats.
		Cumainn na nGaedheal was formed in March 1923 from the pro-Treaty element of Sinn Féin.
		Another high profile PD Attorney General Mr Michael McDowell may face a stiffer task regaining a seat in Dublin South-East where he narrowly lost out to the Green Party's Mr John Gormley at the last election.
	www.eire.dk /library/general_election_2002.htm (2877 words)

	The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923 by Paul V. Walsh - A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
		But the constitution for the new Irish Free State that came out of the 'Collins-De Valera Pact' contradicted the terms of the Treaty, so that, upon meeting with the British Government, Griffith and Collins were forced to accept an amended version that was stripped of the compromises upon which the pact was founded.
		The amended constitution was published on 16 June, the day in which a general election was held to determine the composition of the new Dail of the Irish Free State.
		The results of the election bestowed legitimate democratic authority upon both the Provisional Government and the Irish Free State, which was scheduled to be established on 6 December.
	libraryautomation.com /nymas/irishcivilwar.html (16352 words)

	Irish Political Review Editorial - October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		But, when the Irish electorate took the war propaganda in earnest and voted for the establishment of a separate Irish State, it found that the newly-democratised British Parliament took no heed of its vote and that it would have to fight in order to gain what it had voted for.
		It is therefore a movement of the same general kind as Fianna Fail and Fine Gael (at least, as they used to be prior to McDowell's revelation), with the difference that it operates in the North as well as the Republic.
		The historic sequence is that the Irish, as a political body, were broken by the conquest of William of Orange, and that the regime based on the conquest was not even an apartheid system.
	www.atholbooks.org /magazines/ipr/ipred.html (4513 words)

	United_Kingdom_general_election,_1847 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The 1847 UK general election saw candidates calling themselves Conservatives win the most seats, in part because they won a number of uncontested seats.
		However, the split among the Conservatives between Protectionists led by the Earl of Derby and free traders led by Sir Robert Peel left the Whigs, led by Prime Minister Lord John Russell, in a position to continue in government.
		The Irish Repeal group won more seats than in the previous general election, while the Chartists gained the only seat they were ever to hold.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election,_1847 (88 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair.
		In Northern Ireland, the election was dominated in the unionist community by a battle between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to be the region's largest unionist party in Parliament.
		Other elections in the province have shown both a shift in votes towards the DUP but also a collapse of support for the cross-community Alliance Party which is likely to be more marked in a first past the post election and thus which may work in the UUP's favour.
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (2714 words)

	Irish_Civil_War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Opponents of the Treaty objected to the fact that it retained constitutional links between the United Kingdom and Ireland, and that the six counties of Nothern Ireland would not be included in the Free State.
		The Anti-Treaty IRA claimed that it was defending the Irish Republic, that had been declared in 1916 during the Easter Rising and created by the First Dail and had been un-lawfully usurped by those who accepted the compromise of the Free State.
		In fact, because of the Irish Civil War, Northern Ireland was able to consolodate its existence and partition of Ireland was confirmed for the forseeable future.
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