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  Irish general election, 1932 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The general election took place in 30 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland for 153 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
The 1932 General Election was one of the most important general elections held in Ireland in the 20th Century.
However, by 1932 this provision of solid government was wearing thin, particularly since the party had no solution to the collapse in trade which followed the depression of the early 1930s.
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 Encyclopedia: Irish General Election, 1932
Seanad Éireann (English: Senate of Ireland), the Irish Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas: the parliament of the Republic of Ireland1.
The general election took place in 30 parliamentary constituencies throught the Republic of Ireland for 153 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
The Irish general election of 1948 was held on February 4, 1948.
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 Irish general election, 1981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish general election of 1981 was held on June 11, 1981, three weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on May 21.
The general election of 1981 was the first one of five during the 1980s.
He had wanted to call the general election for early in the year, however a series of events led to the postponement of the election until the summer.
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 Irish general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Irish general election of 1997 was held on Friday, June 6, 1997.
It was opposed by a coalition of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats, which most Irish commentators regarded as a centre right coalition.
After the election, while Gerry Adams was leader of the Sinn Féin party, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin became leader (indeed, sole member) of the Sinn Féin parliamentary party.
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 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
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 Irish general election, 1932 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
However, by 1932 this provision of solid government no lomger sufficed, particularly since the party had no solution to the collapse in trade which followed the depression of the early 1930s.
Discussuins got underway immediately after the election and an agreement was reached in which the Labour Party would support Fianna Fáil.
Not only that but the 1932 General Election heralded in a sixteen year period in government for Fianna Fáil.
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 Ernest Blythe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the Gaelic League his Irish teacher was Sinéad Flanagan, the future wife of Eamon de Valera.
Following the Irish (UK) general election, 1918 Blythe was elected as a TD for North Monaghan.
He served in the Irish Senate until the institution was abolished in 1936.
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 Irish general election, 1923 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish general election of 1923 was held on August 27, 1923.
The newly elected members of the 4th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on September 19 when the new President and Executive Council of the Irish Free State were appointed.
N.B. Cumann na nGaedhael's results are compared with those of the Pro-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin in the previous general election.
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 Articles - Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Traditional Irish music, for example, though showing some variance in all geographical areas, is, broadly speaking, the same on both sides of the border.
Irish scholars excelled in the study of Latin learning and Christian theology in the monasteries that flourished, preserving Latin learning during the Early Middle Ages.
The early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze age artefacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the mediæval period.
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 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.
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 Internet Surftipps > Regional> Europe> Ireland> Society and Culture> History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
English Perceptions of the Irish - Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.
Irish Coins - Information about Irish coins (and banknotes) for numismatists, collectors, archaeologists and others who have an interest in the currency in use in Ireland from earliest times to the present day.
Irish Hunger Martyrs - Examines claims that during the famine of 1845-1852 Irish Catholics were forced to choose between conversion to the Protestant faith or starvation.
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 Eileen_Desmond
Desmond was first elected to Dáil Éireann in a by-election in 1965, caused by the death of her husband, Dan Desmond, who had been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 1948.
Her by-election victory caused Taoiseach Sean Lemass to disolve the 17th Dáil and call a general election.
Her Cabinet appointment was historic, as she was the first woman to hold a senior Irish portfolio since the foundation of the state in 1922, although Countess Markiewicz had been in Cabinet as Minister for Labour in 1919 and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn had been appointed as Junior Cabinet Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979.
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 Eamon De Valera & the Fianna Fail
In 1922 the Dail Éireann (the Irish Assembly) ratified the treaty.
The 1932 Elections were the 4th General Elections since the establishment of the Irish Free State.
In so far as any general line can be extracted from their many divergent and contradictory utterances, their objective seems to be to cut off this country from the rest of the world.
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 Encyclopedia: Cumann na nGaedhael
The party contested its first general election in 1923 and won 63 seats (39% of the poll).
It was surprisingly defeated by Fianna Fáil in the general election of February 1932.
Its support base contracted further in the general election of January 1933 and it subsequently entered discussions with the National Centre Party and the National Guard (Blueshirts) on the possibility of a merger.
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 Irish general election, 1932 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The results of the general election allowed Fianna Fáil to form a government for the first time with the help of the (A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries) Labour Party.
The results paved the way for the first transition of power to take place in the Irish Free State and many thought that Cumann na nGaedhael wouldn't hand over power to their (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War opponents.
(Irish statesman (born in the United States); as president of the Irish Free State he was responsible for the new constitution of 1937 that created the state of Eire (1882-1975)) Eamon de Valera
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 Irish FAQ: History [5/10]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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.
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 Ógra Fianna Fáil | Waterford City C.C.
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).
A member of the Irish Volunteers, Lemass fought in the GPO during the Easter Rising of 1916 and later in the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.
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 AllRefer.com - Eamon De Valera (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the general election of 1932 his party gained control of the DAil, and De Valera became head of the government.
Fianna FAil was defeated in the election of 1948, but De Valera returned as prime minister with independent support (1951–54) and with an absolute party majority (1957–59).
Hampered by failing vision, in 1959 he moved to the less demanding office of president of the republic, to which he was reelected in 1966.
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 EVENTS 1932
The need for its solution may be concluded from the course and present state of the Geneva disarmament negotiations and, further, from reasons connected with the general international situation.
We are striving for the equalization of armaments by means of a reduction of the general level.
Germany has never demanded rearmament up to the level of her neighbors, but disarmament throughout Europe and the whole world, and equality of treatment in the methods of disarmament and the assessment of the factors of armament.
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 Archives Dept, University College, Dublin
He was released in the general amnesty in 1917; elected a member of the National Executives of both Sinn Féin and the Irish Volunteers in October 1917; and elected Sinn Féin M.P. for South Monaghan in the 1918 general election.
He was a founder member of Fianna Fáil, was elected T.D. for County Dublin in the June 1927 general election, and was returned at every subsequent election until 1969, for the County Dublin, Dublin Townships, and Dublin South-East constituencies consecutively.
Irish Volunteers and Sinn Fein: material relating to Easter 1916 and MacEntee’s activities with the Louth Volunteers, his imprisonment and court martial; membership of Dáil Éireann, opposition to the Treaty and internment during the Civil War.
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 Irish general election, 1973 - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The general election took place in 42 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland for 148 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann
By the time the general election was called in 1973, Fianna Fáil had been in power for almost sixteen consecutive years.
Not long after the general election was called both parties agreed to a pre-election pact in order to fight the election together on the issues that united them.
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 The Irish General Election, to be held on Friday, May 17th
The party was a great success and held power between 1932 and 1948, 1951 to 1954 and 1957 to 1973.
An election in late 1992 led to the formation of another Fianna Fáil coalition government, this time with the Labour Party.
The Blueshirts was a quasi-fascist organisation formed in 1932 and composed initially of former soldiers.
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 Ireland's OWN History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When it was suggested to Larkin that an Irish general union would be a more effective means of organising workers, he rejected the idea, saying that the working class should not be split along national lines.
However in late 1908 the growing friction between Larkin and the NUDL general secretary, James Sexton, came to the boil, and he was suspended from his job.
His own command of Irish never went beyond a few expressions like 'mar dhea' or 'ná bac leis', to which he was partial at this time, or signing letters as 'Seamas'.
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 Ireland - becoming a free state
Irish liberation from British rule was achieved as the result of a struggle extending over several centuries and marked by numerous rebellions.
It became general knowledge, meanwhile, that the draft of a new constitution was in progress.
The new constitution, which abolished the Irish Free State and established Éire as a 'Sovereign independent democratic state,' was approved by the voters in a plebiscite conducted simultaneously with the election.
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