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  Irish general election, 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Labour Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Irish Labour Party is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland.
The split damaged the Labour movement in the 1944 general election.
A disastrous performance in the subsequent election for President of Ireland led to Spring's resignation as party leader.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/ir/irish_labour_party.html   (839 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)

  
 Irish Government Online Research :: Information about Irish Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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.
These are typically organised as boards appointed by a Minister (the Irish Minister for Finance if there is no other relevant minister), though some may only have one member (for example the Ombudsman) or a very small number of members (the Commission for Communications Regulation has a maximum of three members).
Irish Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defensive Measures
in-northcarolina.com /search/Irish_Government.html   (1793 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)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Profile: Irish election contenders
He was born in Limerick in the west of Ireland in 1943 and qualified as a teacher before entering politics.
This is his first general election as party leader and many feel it is a task too far for the former teacher.
Seen as a tough, no nonsense political operator she is fighting for her party's survival at this general election.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1987288.stm   (1133 words)

  
 GENERAL ELECTIONS (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
2 Direction for a general election in lieu of a dissolution.
Direction for a general election in lieu of a dissolution.
(b) every reference in that Act to the general election consequent on a dissolution of Dáil Eireann shall be construed and have effect as a reference to the general election in pursuance of such direction by the President.
www.irishstatutebook.ie /1943_11.html   (928 words)

  
 Ben Tillett
In the 1892 General Election he was the the ILP's candidate in Bradford and only lost to the Liberal Party candidate by 500 votes.
In the 1918 General Election Tillett stood as the Labour Party candidate in North Salford.
She came of gentle Irish stock, and was devoutly religious, but the drudgery of her life, hunger, pain, and suffering destroyed her body, though there was flame in her soul to the end.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REtillett.htm   (1806 words)

  
 Electoral Reform Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The most striking aspect of the 1992 election was the success of the Labour Party with 19.3% of the vote and 33 seats.
This was the first time in Irish political history that a party had left a governing coalition and gone into government with opposition parties without first holding an election.
The 1997 General Election was not the most exciting election in Irish political history.
www.electoral-reform.org.uk /publications/briefings/nireland.htm   (1630 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The election for the 29th Dáil was held on 17 May 2002.
The election of a large number of independent candidates to Dáil Éireann.
The 2002 general election left a very unhealthy situation in Dail Eireann, the non-government parties are fragmented and have major policy diffrences and Fianna Fail can continue in government with the support of some independent TD's even if the Progressive Democrats withdraw.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Irish_general_election,_2002   (295 words)

  
 The Collection
The Archives of Irish America has been building upon a pilot project started in 1997 to survey and collect materials related to the New York Irish community.
Under a multi-year grant from the Irish Institute of New York, in memory of its founder Paul O'Dwyer, material was retrieved from spare rooms, basements, attics, and garages in the metropolitan New York area.
Primarily documents relating to FBI surveillance of Irish Republican activities in the U.S.A, circa 1930 to the present.
www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/aia/collection01.htm   (634 words)

  
 The US50 - A guide to the fifty states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Two U.S. military efforts to subdue the Indians ended in disaster before General "Mad" Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794, near present-day Toledo, Ohio.
The railroads permit new areas to be logged, all sizes of trees to be cut and, most importantly, allow year-round transportation of logs to the sawmills.
Their accomplishments will include: planting over 484 million seedlings (more than twice the number in any other state), expending 140,000 man-days in fighting forest fires, placing 150 million fish in rivers and lakes, and constructing 7,000 miles of truck trails, 504 buildings and 222 bridges.
www.theus50.com /michigan/history.shtml   (3420 words)

  
 Irish Echo Online - News
The head of government (typically the prime minister, or in Ireland, the taoiseach) is elected by a majority of the lower house (in Ireland, the Dáil).
There were two more general elections in 1982 before a stable coalition government was formed.
The pattern was repeated in 1943 and 1944.
www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=14796   (790 words)

  
 Know Our World
General / Tags : jennifer jones, joseph cotten, gregory peck, king vidor, william cameron menzies, otto brower, josef von sternberg, sidney franklin, david o.
It's a heady combination: Krall is at least as good an instrumentalist as her contemporaries; add to that her singing and now an interest in songwriting that reflects the influence of pop music as well as jazz, and you have a genuinely unique talent.
General / Tags : al pacino, robert de niro, val kilmer, jon voight, michael mann, color, widescreen, closed-captioned, dolby, dvd, warner studios
www.knowourworld.com   (3782 words)

  
 Irish Democrat
Irish Republicans need to include the northern protestant identity in their vision of a united Ireland to prize them away from unionism, writes Felim O’Hamill
The Irish Democrat argues that whatever the the IRA's response to Gerry Adams' appeal for the organisation to embrace a purely political path, there is a moral responsibility and international obligation on the part of the British government to implement the Good Friday agreement in full
Chris Donnelly analyses what the May 5 election results mean for the political parties in the six counties and what may now transpire in light of Sinn Féin and the DUPconsolidating their electoral dominance
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk   (1277 words)

  
 1981 Irish Hungerstrikers
Ned Maguire's son, also called Ned, and a second cousin of Kieran, was an internee in Cage S of Long Kesh in 1974, when he took part in the mass escape from the camp during which Hugh Coney was shot dead by the British army.
Although Kieran had not been taught Irish at school, and had no time to learn it, later he became a fluent speaker in the H-Blocks like hundreds of his imprisoned comrades.
In June of this year, in the Free State general election, Kieran was elected a member of the Leinster House parliament for the Cavan/Monaghan constituency with 9,121 first preference votes - only 303 votes behind the then-sitting Free State Minister of Education.
larkspirit.com /hungerstrikes/bios/doherty.html   (2527 words)

  
 World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Ir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Articles about persons are generally alphabetized by first name, not surname.
Irish Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Irish Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Ir.htm   (140 words)

  
 1943
February 11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
February 14 - World War II: The Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war
August 17 - World War II: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
www.fact-library.com /1943.html   (1714 words)

  
 There They Go Again - Altercation - MSNBC.com
It turns out that you can represent the Election results in ways that are far more informative than what we see.  For example, if we view the U.S. vote based on Popular Vote and Population Density, we see that much of the Western Red States are essentially empty spaces.
A voter in Pataskala said people at her polling place were being asked to declare a party affiliation, which is not required in a general election.
Several people who said they are longtime voters reported that their names did not appear on the registered voter list for this election, which meant they had to vote on a provisional ballot.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6382485   (4932 words)

  
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Intellectual property lawyers generally never considered them: The very basis of their universe is the assumption that Congress can do whatever it wants with the copyright clause.
Gore to the effect that a state legislature's word on the conduct of federal elections is final and cannot be supplanted or perhaps even supplemented by the state's courts.
First, extend unemployment benefits, which are considerably less generous now than in the last recession; this will do double duty, helping some of the neediest while putting money into the hands of people who are likely to spend it.
brothersjudd.blogspot.com /2002_09_29_brothersjudd_archive.html   (14791 words)

  
 Irish Elk
This 1943 picture of the main altar of the church in Trampas, N. M., is among photos taken by John Collier in the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection at the Library of Congress' American Memory site.
To win the primary, [Kerry] overcame the election eve arrest of his brother, Cameron, and campaign field director Thomas J. Vallely, both then 22, in the basement of a Lowell building that housed the headquarters of Kerry and another Democratic contender, state Representative Anthony R. DiFruscia of Lawrence.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
mcns.blogspot.com /2004_09_01_mcns_archive.html   (9782 words)

  
 Today in Irish History, June - World Cultures European   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The only requirement is for the writer to be Irish, under 40 and published.
In the course of the election there has been a duel between William Paul Warren and Jack Hardy, which leads to Hardy's right hand and arm being shattered; it is thought that it would have to be amputated
Not tied to a particular year, this colorful and entertaining journal can be used year after year and features a significant Irish fact for every day of the year.
www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /02Hist/6June2.html   (3197 words)

  
 ireland.com / Today / News in Focus / ELECTION 2002
Mr Burke benefited from the boundary changes in Galway East that transformed the constituency from a 3-seater to a 4-seater for the 1997 General Election.
He topped the poll and won the additional seat created by this revision.
In April he raised the issue of school transport in the Dail over a battle between parents from Gort in Galway and the Department of Education over transport for their children to an all-girls' secondary school in nearby Kinvara.
www.ireland.com /focus/election_2002/biogs/burke_ulick.htm   (113 words)

  
 Salt Spring News :: Daily News Of and For Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The more fertile a woman, the more attractive she is to men, scientists claim today.
For many years, scientists believed that when lovers gaze at each other they are merely using facial clues - large eyes, small nose, large lips and so on - to check that their prospective mate has high "fitness" and can efficiently pass their genes to the next generation.
The female sex hormone oestrogen was thought to be the mediator of beauty, which advertises health and fecundity.
www.saltspringnews.com   (6056 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Scotch-Irish ancestry Politicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pennsylvania state attorney general, 1915-19; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania,
Michigan state house of representatives from Oakland County 2nd District, 1907-08.
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
politicalgraveyard.com /group/scotch-irish.html   (1512 words)

  
 ireland.com / Services / EXPLORE IRELAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Approximately one million are believed to have died of starvation and disease in the famine years
1933: The oath of allegiance to the British Crown is abolished as a prerequisite for membership of Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament); General Eoin O'Duffy is dismissed as head of the Garda (Police Force), his "National Guard" organisation adopts fascist-style uniform; Fine Gael is formed as a political party with O'Duffy as leader
1960: Nine Irish soldiers are killed while serving with the UN in the former Belgian Congo
www.ireland.com /explore/counties/timeline.htm   (3547 words)

  
 Ground Zero Books Ltd. Title Index
Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830
Captain's Bride, General's Lady: The Memoirs of Mrs.
General Butler in New Orleans: History of the Administration of the Department of the Gulf in the Year 1862
www.groundzerobooksltd.com /store/index.htm   (10016 words)

  
 General
1943 General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II
1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
www.brainyhistory.com /topics/g/general.html   (6321 words)

  
 History Books for Teachers and Students at Embracing The Child
Grandma's General Store: The Ark [unequal opportunities for fl in the South during the Great Depression lead a family to move to Philadelphia/intergenerational/excellent for teaching tool in or out of classroom/use for mapping.]
Nim and the War Effort [based on Author's childhood memories - 1943 WWII San Francisco - school newspaper drive to help the war effort]
George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen by Both Sides [Two enemies: George Washington and George III of Britian/Two Georges-two sides of the story]
www.embracingthechild.org /history.html   (4773 words)

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