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	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.
		With a fuller parliamentary majority, de Valera was able to abolish the Oath of Allegiance (1933), the Senate (June 1936), university representation in the Dáil (1934-36), all references to the monarch in the Constitution (December 1936, in the aftermath of the abdication of Edward VIII), and the Governor General (1937).
		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)

	Irish general election, 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Irish general election of 2002 was held on Friday 17 May 2002, just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th Dáil on Thursday 25 April by President Mary McAleese, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.
		The general election took place in 42 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland for 166 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
		In the immediate aftermath of the election, Fine Gael leader Michael Noonan announced his resignation from the leadership and Enda Kenny was chosen as the new leader in the subsequent election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_General_Election,_2002 (572 words)

	Irish general election, 1938 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish general election of 1938 was held on June 17, 1944.
		The 138 newly elected members of the 10th Dáil assembled on June 30 when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed.
		The general election took place in 34 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Irish Free State for 138 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_general_election,_1938 (93 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1938: Ireland (Eire)
		While Ireland made no definite commitments on defense, it was generally understood that it would take immediate steps for strengthening its defenses by the development of an Irish navy and that these steps would be taken in cooperation with Great Britain.
		The new general election, Ireland's second within ten months, was set for June 17.
		Special appeals were made to Irish in the United States to join in the drive for liberation of the six "captive" counties, an appeal which was taken up by the American-Irish organizations.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500448/1938_Ireland_(Eire).html (1729 words)

	Irish Free State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Irish Free State (Irish language:, Saorstát Éireann) was (1922-1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
		In 1918 the majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won (mainly without contests) by Sinn Féin, a previously monarchist party that under Eamon de Valera's leadership from 1917 had campaigned for an Irish republic.
		A tiny minority of Irish people, usually attached to small parties like Sinn Féin and Republican Sinn Féin, denied the right of the twenty-six county state to use the name 'republic', continually referring to the twenty-six county state as the 'Free State', its citizens 'Free Staters' and its government the "Free State" or "Dublin" Government.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/ir/irish_free_state.html (2113 words)

	IRELAND FACTS AND HISTORY
		Irish is spoken as the vernacular by a relatively small number of people, however, mostly in areas of the west.
		Irish liberation from British rule was achieved as the result of a struggle extending over several centuries and marked by numerous rebellions.
		The new constitution, which abolished the Irish Free State and established Eire as a “sovereign independent democratic state,” was approved by the voters in a plebiscite conducted simultaneously with the election.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/irelandhistory/1998.html (5493 words)

	Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Biographies
		Sat for Mid Londonderry from the general election of 1945 until the general election of 1953, and for the Foyle Division of Londonderry from the general election of 1953 until the general election of 1969 when he was defeated.
		Sat for Belfast, Dock from the general election of 1933 until the general election of 1938, when he was defeated, and for Belfast, Willowfield from the byelection of 3rd December 1941 until his death in April 1957.
		Sat for Belfast, Oldpark from the general election of 1949 until the general election of 1958 when he was defeated, and for Belfast, Clifton from the byelection of 28th May 1959 until the general election of 1969 when he was defeated.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /stormont/biographies.html (17793 words)

	ireland.com / Today / News in Focus / ELECTION 2002
		The forthcoming general election, the 26th to be held since the foundation of the State, follows an unusually lengthy interval of five years since the preceding poll.
		The evidence of a significant anti-Treaty electorate was crucial in determining the course of Irish politics.
		Irish voters are still more likely to express a first preference for one of the two major parties which dominated Irish politics in the 1920s than for any other party.
	www.ireland.com /focus/election_2002/voting/ohalpin.htm (669 words)

	Irish Government Online Research :: Information about Irish Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Government (Irish language : Rialtas) is the Cabinet that exercises Executive (government) authority in the Republic of Ireland.
		The Attorney General of Ireland and Irish Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach are often mistakenly believed to be members of the Government, they are not, but they often attend cabinet meetings.
		Irish Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defensive Measures
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Irish_Government.html (1793 words)

	Con Colbert Cumann: University of Limerick
		The election results brought in a range of new young talented members to the Fianna Fáil ranks in Dáil Eireann, among them the present Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil, Bertie Ahern T.D., who served a most effective and inspiring period as Chairman of Ógra Fianna Fáil (1980 to 1983).
		June 17: General Election, Fianna Fáil received 52% of 1st preference votes, the highest ever won in the history of the state.
		June 16: General Election - Fianna Fáil for second time since PR was introduced won over 50% of first preferences and won the highest number of seats ever won by any Irish party (84).
	www.freewebs.com /concolbert/history.htm (1647 words)

	The CPI: A Critical History
		The organisational division of Irish Stalinism along the lines of the border coupled with its liquidation in the 26 Counties, seems to have been (indeed it must have been even for the Stalinites) designed as a temporary measure to be reversed at the end of the Second World War.
		Organisationally, the Irish Stalinite groups would tend, in the revived third International to act as a satellite of the british organisation which was, in turn, in that body, subordinate to its French comrades.
		The relations between the English rulers and the Irish rulers have been, throughout imperialist relations, consequently, the history of the 800 years of Anglo-Irish conflict – with the examples of every variety of imperialist aggression and of every form of resistance thereto – supplies an invaluable introduction to the critical study of Imperialism in general.
	www.workersrepublic.org /Pages/Ireland/Communism/cpihistory3.html (5920 words)

	Irish 1916 Easter Rising ~ War for Independence -
		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.
		In 1938 came one of the greatest achievements of the Irish government - the enactment of the new Constitution.
	home.fiac.net /marshaw/1916.htm (2639 words)

	The World at War - area Timeline from-to
		Irish War of Independence begins with an attack by the Third Tipperary Brigade of Irish Volunteers on members of the Royal Irish Constabulary at Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary.
		Republican prisoners in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison begin hunger strike to draw attention to the general state of affairs in Ireland and to the refusal of the British government of David Lloyd- George to recognize the IRA as a belligerent entitled to have its members treated as prisoners of war.
		The new constitution abolishes the Oath of Allegiance, replaces the Governor General with a President, makes Gaelic the country’s first official language, recognizes the special position of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society, prohibits the state from granting divorce and claims the whole island of Ireland and surrounding water as the national territory.
	worldatwar.net /timeline/ireland/18-48.html (3284 words)

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