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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Irish General Election, 2002
		Seanad Ã‰ireann (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 42 parliamentary constituencies throught the Republic of Ireland for 166 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
		The Irish general election of 1973 was held on February 28, 1973.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Irish-General-Election%2C-2002 (3277 words)

	Embassy of Ireland - Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 general election, 1987 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The general election took place in 41 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland for 166 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
		The general election of 1987 was precipitated by the withdrawal of the Labour Party from the Fine Gael led government on January 20, 1987.
		The election was the first in modern times to be contested by Sinn Féin and the Green Party however it proved to be a disappointment for both as they both polled poorly and failed to win any seats.
	www.surfindark.com /index.cgi/000110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election,_1987 (519 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)

	Eoin MacNeill
		Commander in Chief of the Irish Volunteers after the split with Redmond, he was unaware of the planning for the Easter Rising and on the Sunday Morning he issued an order countermanding the mobilisation.
		Elected Sinn Féin M.P. for Derry City and the NUI in the 1918 general election, he served successively as Minister for Finance and Minister for Industries in the First Dáil.
		He was the first chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission founded the same year and devoted the remainder of his life to scholarship, publishing prolifically.
	www.ucd.ie /archives/html/collections/macneill-eoin.htm (374 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 (3603 words)

	Famous People of World War Two - The History Beat
		In the November 1958 elections de Gaulle and his supporters won a comfortable majority, in December de Gaulle was elected President with 78% of the vote, he was inaugurated in January 1959.
		Promoted to general in 1940 he was briefly chief of STAVKA before a disagreement with Stalin led to him being replaced in June with Marshal Boris Shaposnikov (replaced by Alexander Vasilievsky in November).
		On 19 December 1944, he was advanced to the newly created rank of Fleet Admiral, and on 2 September 1945, was the United States signatory to the surrender terms aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
	history.searchbeat.com /ww2people.htm (14663 words)

	Just Opinions :: General
		General Petraeus is being confirmed to implement the new strategy, which he believes in and endorses.
		I realize these are gross (imperfect) generalizations, and that there are many apposite examples on both sides, but I do believe that this is the fuzzy line that divides the polity.
		When it's election time, we just have to guess what's what, and choose among candidates, all of whom are saying lots of things they don't really mean.
	pubblog.com /v-web/b2/?cat=1 (14234 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 DÃ¡il).
		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 (792 words)

	a-a Encyclopedia Index
		Ir from Irish Church Disestablishment Act to Irish General Election 1943
		Ir from Irish General Election 1944 to Irish Militant Tendency
		Ir from Irish Minister For Agriculture to Irish Potato Famine
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /alpha/i.html (1119 words)

	Fine Gael information - Search.com
		This was regarded as a substantial achievement as Fianna Fáil had persuaded RTE to provide no coverage of the campaign and the election was held in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising of which De Valera payed a prominent role.
		In 1990, its candidate in the Irish presidential election, Austin Currie, was pushed into a humiliating third place, behind the winner, Labour's Mary Robinson and Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan.
		Noonan resigned on the night of the election result, and was replaced by Enda Kenny in the subsequent leadership election.
	www.search.com /reference/Fine_Gael (3335 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Ir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Irish Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
		Irish Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defensive Measures
		Irish Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Ir.htm (140 words)

	1943 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		February 11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
		February 14 - WWII: 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.
		September 8 - WWII: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1943 (3872 words)

	Irish_Labour_Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland.
		The split damaged the Labour movement in the 1944 general election.
		However the party is not known to have contested an election in the province since Gerry Fitt, then the party's sole Stormont MP, left the party to form the Republican Labour Party in 1964, though the Democratic Left and its forbearer parties have contested elections in the north more recently.
	www.partsquote.com /search.php?title=Irish_Labour_Party (1281 words)

	Foreign coverage of the general election :: Politics.ie
		In calling the election yesterday, opposition politicians say Mr Ahern may have also been motivated to prevent any possibly embarrassing revelations at the planned session of the tribunal looking into corruption in public life, which will now be delayed until after the formation of the new government.
		Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern defended himself on Sunday for taking cash from businessmen in the 1990s, saying the payments were made at a time of "great personal turmoil" following the breakdown of his marriage.
		In Irish politics though, he crucially lacks this "good lad" factor: this is not a man who would look at ease supping a pint of porter in a spartan North Dublin hostelry.
	www.politics.ie /viewtopic.php?t=19454 (2774 words)

	A Soldier’s Long Journey Home
		He was sent to England to recover, where he remained for the rest of the war, guarding German prisoners.
		On June 11, 1944, Cummiskey was awarded the Purple Heart, a medal for wounded soldiers with a history that stretches back to George Washington and America’s revolution against the British.
		Then came the revelation that Vincent’s son, a retired Irish history teacher who had worked in New York as well as Ireland, was still alive and living in Rhode Island.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irish-voice/ASoldiersLongJourneyHome20070524.aspx (783 words)

	Richard J. Jensen - "No Irish Need Apply": A Myth of Victimization - Journal of Social History 36:2
		The Irish community used the allegation of job discrimination on the part of the Other to reinforce political solidarity among (male) voters, which in any case was very high indeed—probably he highest for any political group in American history before the 1960s.
		It found that in general all groups have a preference for their own kind as coworkers (and were willing to take a 5—10% wage cut for the privilege of working alongside their own kind.) People who were willing to work with outsiders were paid more.
		However sources, such as melodramas with numerous Irish characters, had numerous references, and each was counted as a separate "unit-perception." In all he found 392 different descriptive adjectives, and coded them according to a scheme developed by a psychologist for the language in use a century later.
	tigger.uic.edu /~rjensen/no-irish.htm (12407 words)

	Timeline 1944
		1944 Mar 10, The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.
		1944 Oct 24, The aircraft carrier USS Princeton was sunk by a single Japanese plane during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
		1944 The ballet "Fancy Free" was composed and choreographed by Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins (25).
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1944.HTML (14051 words)

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		The sentence was commuted and Cosgrave was released in December 1916.
		Elected as member of parliament for Kilkenny city during a by-election in 1917, and again in 1918 for Carlow/Kilkenny, he was made Sinn Fein minister for local government in 1919.
		Cosgrave's department was one of the more successful Sinn Fein ministries during the Irish revolution, as it persuaded local government authorities in southern Ireland to sever their connection with the British administration and to transfer their allegiance to the revolutionary parliament in Dublin, Dáil Éireann.
	www.freegk.com /politics/cosgrave_william.php (552 words)

	Significant United States Supreme Court Cases
		The question presented was whether the limits placed on electoral expenditures by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, and related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, violate the First Amendment's freedom of speech and association clauses.
		S.S. Allwright was a county election official; he denied Lonnie E. Smith, a fl man, the right to vote in the 1940 Texas Democratic primary.
		Even though the Democratic Party was a voluntary organization, the fact that Texas statutes governed the selection of county level party leaders, the party conducted primary elections under state statutory authority, and state courts were given exclusive original jurisdiction over contested elections, guaranteed for fls the right to vote in primaries.
	www.whc.net /irish/government/ap/cases.htm (11058 words)

	Irish Index
		Irish Free State Offensive 1922 -irish Civil War
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	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/irish_index (79 words)

	Winston Churchill hero file
		Soviet forces will remain in Eastern Europe until free elections are held and the people are allowed to choose the form of government under which they will live.
		While the UN will be established, Stalin fails to allow free and fair elections in the Eastern European countries the Soviets occupy after the war.
		Churchill announces the German surrender on 8 May. His Conservative Party is defeated by the Labour Party in the election held in July, but he continues on in parliament as leader of the opposition and begins writing a six-volume history of the Second World War.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/churchill.html (3539 words)

	Ireland - becoming a free state
		Suspension of the bill stimulated the growth of the Citizen Army, an illegal force of Dublin citizens organised by the labour leader Jim Larkin (died 1948) and the socialist James Connolly (1870-1916); of the Irish Volunteers, a national defence body; and of the extremist Sinn Féin.
		This party, founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, a Dublin journalist, campaigned in the parliamentary election of 1918 on a program that called for the severance of all ties with Great Britain, an end to the separatist movement in northern Ireland, and the establishment of an Irish republic.
		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.
	www.iol.ie /~dluby/history.htm (2932 words)

	SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - 20th Century History
		The CELT Project at UCC includes the full text of James Connolly's Labour in Irish History (1912); Michael Collins' The Path to Freedom (1922) and The Dáil Treaty Debates 1921-1922.
		Irish Free State and Northern Ireland State are created.
		Amendments to Articles 2, 3 and 29 of the Irish Constitution passed by Referendum.
	www.searcs-web.com /hist20.html (591 words)

	2007 General Election - Politics.ie Wiki
		[edit] Election called for the 24th May 2007
		The 2007 General Election to be held on the 24th May 2007.
		The Twenty-ninth Dáil Éireann was dissolved on Sunday 29th April, and a election called for Thursday 24th May 2007, the Thirtieth Dáil Éireann will meet on the 14th June 2007.
	www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=2007_General_Election (128 words)

	Ulster - A Nation by Ulster Vanguard (1972) - Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums
		It is against this general background that the prospects of success
		The greatest threat to the loyalist cause is not the assault of Irish
		Ulster's incorporation in an Irish Republic, Gaelic, Catholic, and
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=530 (4639 words)

	master irish law bib (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Smurfit Irish Law Center is a research collection in Irish law intended to serve the needs of both the scholar and the practitioner.
		The Irish legal system is like ours in many ways--the Irish Constitution was largely patterned after the United States Constitution--and yet, as a result of its long connection with the law of England as well as the circumstances of its subsequent development, there are substantial differences as well.
		For the practitioner, access to the sources of Irish law is valuable, as a number of American corporations do a large amount of business in Ireland, and at least one major Irish corporation is prominent in the St. Louis area.
	lawlib.slu.edu /library/IrishLaw/irishlaw.htm (7880 words)

	Whatya! - What Happened All Those Years Ago
		1944 - Born this day, Roger Daltrey, in Hammersmith, London, England, actor, singer, producer, The Who, 1965 UK No.2 single My Generation, 1971 UK No.9 and US No.15 single Won't Get Fooled Again, plus over 15 other hit singles, rock opera albums Tommy and Quadrophenia, and solo, 1973 UK No.5 single Giving It All Away.
		Milligan is Irish the title is only honorary.
		HRH Prince of Wales is a long time fan of Spike Milligan's and the Goonshows.
	www.whatya.andibradley.com /whatya/mar01.php (9170 words)

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