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	James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon Bt (8 January 1871 - 24 November 1940) was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
		James Craig was born at Sydenham, Belfast, the son of a wealthy whiskey distiller.
		He was made a baronet in 1918, and was in 1927 created Viscount Craigavon, of Stormont in the County of Down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon (463 words)

	Memoirs of the Earl of Listowel: Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lord Charlemont, the Commander-in-Chief, had been informed by the Lord Lieutenant, that an immediate invasion was expected, and that the city of Cork was a most likely point of attack.
		Lord Ennismore and his son are both distinguished for their skill and love of painting, and have in consequence profusely adorned the house with pictures of the best Masters".
		Lord Granville, the Liberal Leader in the House of Lords, was astonished that more than half the Liberal Peers voted against the Bill, though it had been carried comfortably by the Liberal majority in the House of Commons.
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	china human rights
		Lord Avebury: My Lords, many of your Lordships, including the noble Lord, Lord St John, echoed the hope expressed by the Director-General of the International Olympic Committee when he said that he was taking a bet that in the next seven years there would be many positive changes.
		Lord Howell of Guildford: My Lords, once again, the noble Lord, Lord Alton, has given your Lordships' House the opportunity to address an issue of enormous sensitivity and vast importance in what has proved to be a candid and balanced way.
		The noble Viscount, Lord Craigavon, mentioned the programme of assistance of the United Nations Population Fund, which is making available a full range of client-oriented reproductive health services in 32 Chinese counties on a voluntary basis.
	www.jubileecampaign.co.uk /world/china2.htm (5442 words)

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	Continuity and Change: Ulster 1798-1998
		Lord Craigavon, as Sir James Craig became in 1927, famously described the Northern Ireland parliament as 'a protestant parliament for a protestant state'.
		Despite Lord Craigavon's talk of Northern Ireland's commitment to the war, government performance, especially during the early war years, is open to criticism.
		Craigavon's death in 1940 had brought about the succession of John Andrews as prime minister, but Andrews left his cabinet virtually unchanged, and it remained open to charges of incompetence.
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	Belfast Blitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Craig, Lord Craigavon, was Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since is inception in 1921, until his death on November 24, 1940.
		James Craig, Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since is inception in 1921, claimed; "Ulster is ready when we get the word and always will be." He was asked, in the N.I. parliament: “if the government realized 'that these fast bombers can come to Northern Ireland in two and three quarter hours'.
		William Joyce (known as "Lord Haw-Haw"), announced in radio broadcasts from Hamburg that there will be “Easter eggs for Belfast”.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belfast_Blitz (4053 words)

	Ulster more British than Britain by Gareth Jones (1934).
		One of the main causes for this quiet and solidity in Northern Ireland is the Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon, who carries on the tradition of Carson as a man devoted to Ulster.
		Lord Craigavon replied: “We have no antipathy whatever towards the Inst Free State.
		When we were discussing the industrial situation Lord Craigavon was anxious to stress one point emphatically, and that was that there are no Customs barriers and no tariffs between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
	colley.co.uk /garethjones/irish_articles/ulster_more_british_than_britain.htm (1112 words)

	CAIN: Background: Chronology of Key Events 1800 to 1967
		During speech in parliament Lord Craigavon (James Craig), then Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, remarked in respect of Northern Ireland, "All I boast is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State".
		Lord Craigavon (James Craig) died and was replaced as Northern Ireland Prime Minister by John M. Andrews (1940-43).
		Lord Brookeborough (formerly Sir Basil Brooke) resigned as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Unionist Party.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/chron/ch1800-1967.htm (11256 words)

	irish country house accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This was the situation that confronted Lord Brookeborough and his wife in 1980.
		For a time, conversion to a golf club looked the only possibility, although it was realised that the character of the house and its setting would be unlikely to survive such a change.
		The Colebrooke estate offers one of the best driven snipe-shooting anywhere, excellent stalking of sika, fallow and red deer over 10,000 acres and pheasant shooting and fishing, all of which had the potential to be developed along the one guiding principal; that all these activities must bring paying guests into the house.
	www.colebrooke.info /history.htm (1377 words)

	Slugger O'Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lord Laird have forgotten that the Republic have moved on since then - its true that the South was just an annexe of the Vatican State for a good while - but in the past 10-20 years, the Republic is a lot more seculur than it was.
		In 1934 Lord Craigavon is quoted as having said: “We have the Orange Order, the Black Brethren and the B-Specials and they constitute all the fascism that Ulster wants.”.
		Lord Laird conveniently ignores the removal of the ban on divorce (1995), the ban on contraception (1985), the references of the special place of the Catholic church (1972), and the ban on homosexuality (1994).
	www.sluggerotoole.com /index.php/weblog/comments/4144 (3243 words)

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		The gargoyles were retrieved by Lord Hacking, who was once private secretary to Lord Craigavon.
		Lord Hacking lived at Mannings Hill Cottage, Cranleigh, Surrey, but left the gargoyles in the garden when he moved.
		They were sold by the daughter of the purchaser of the house who now lives in a flat in Sussex, and had insufficient room to display them.
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	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Two carved sandstone gargoyles in the form of mythological beasts, dating from the 19th century which are believed to have been salvaged from the Houses of Parliament after they fell during the Blitz, are estimated at £400-600.
		They were retrieved by Lord Hacking, who was once private secretary to Lord Craigavon.
		They are being sold by the daughter of the man who bought Lord Hacking's home but now lives in a flat in Sussex, and therefore has no room to display them.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/19990504-8148.cfm (1025 words)

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		Indeed Lord Brookborough (1942-1963) stated the case plainly when he said, “I recommend those people who are loyalist not to employ Catholics”.
		To complete the equation the protestant working class was encouraged to become sectarian by placing the blame for local problems on Catholics which initiated the catholic pogroms of 1921 which left 250 Catholics dead and 11,000 driven from their homes.
		Perhaps Unionist P.M Lord Craigavon (1920-1940) said it all when he said, we are a protestant parliament for a protestant state”.
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	CAIN: Issues: Politics: UUP (1968) 'Northern Ireland Fact and Falsehood: A frank look at the present and the past'
		Lord Craigavon met and endeavoured to reach an understanding with Mr.
		But it was the determination of Lord Craigavon, Ulster’s first Prime Minister, that the new administration of Northern Ireland should be placed upon a strictly impartial and non-sectarian basis.
		The first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland was a Roman Catholic.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/docs/uup/uup68.htm (6304 words)

	CTC news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Secretary of the All Party Cycling Group, Lord Berkeley, welcomed attendees to the ride, in particular the new Minister for cycling, Derek Twigg MP.
		Lord Berkeley noted that Mr Twigg’s responsibilities include rail as well as cycling, and hoped that the two could be better linked in future.
		Lord Berkeley, Lord Craigavon and former Transport Secretary Sir George Young MP have been re-elected as the group’s Secretary, Treasurer and Patron respectively.
	www.londoncyclesport.com /news_2005_ctc/ctc_mps.html (348 words)

	Stormont Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lord Craigavon was succeeded in office by Mr.
		Captain O'Neill as Prime Minister resided, when in Belfast, at Stormont House, built as a residence for the Speakers of the Northern Ireland House of Commons (but not used as such by the then speaker, the late Sir Norman Stronge, who with his son was later assassinated by the IRA).
		What is now the office of the Permanent Under Secretary of the NIO remained in use for a substantially longer time as a Secretary of State's dining room; Mr.
	www.nics.gov.uk /castle/castle.htm (1933 words)

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		Terence Marne O’Neill was born in County Antrim in 1914, the son of Captain Arthur O’Neill, the first MP killed in World War I. After military service in the Irish Guards he won the Stormont seat of Bannside in a by-election in 1946 and retained the seat until his resignation in 1970.
		In 1982 James Molyneaux led the Party into the Northern Ireland Assembly, which sat until it was dissolved in 1986, and in 1985 he led the Ulster Unionist MPs in resigning their seats in protest at the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
		He was made a Privy Councillor in 1982, was knighted in 1996 and, as Lord Molyneaux of Killead, became a life peer in 1997, when he stood down from his Parliamentary seat at the General Election.
	www.uup.org /welcome_history_leaders.htm (1533 words)

	Your Place And Mine - Greater Belfast - Flight through Time - Programme 1
		One of the earliest was a carpenter from Co. Londonderry who built wings which were meant to simulate the wings of a bird.
		Lord Londonderry entertained General Balbo at his Northern Ireland residence, here at Mount Stewart on the shores of Strangford Lough.
		His proposals for a flying boat base in Ulster were overruled by the Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon who favoured Foynes in the Irish Free State rather than the risks of the aircraft remaining in the air for another 20 minutes to reach Northern Ireland.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/belfast/A1317502.shtml (2167 words)

	The British Jigsaw Puzzle Library
		Members may keep the puzzles for any length of time within their subscription period and always have some at home whilst the others are being exchanged.
		The British Jigsaw Puzzle Library has been in existence since 1933 when Lord Craigavon, an addictive solver of puzzles, wished to lend his puzzles to friends and introduced a subscription charge to cover costs.
		Soon, Lord Craigavon passed on the Library and its existing forty members to a lady who introduced the exchanging of puzzles by post.
	www.britishjigsawpuzzlelibrary.co.uk (411 words)

	Bahá'í Council for Northern Ireland - Newsletter
		The Lord Mayor was very interested to know about the Bahá'í community in Belfast and what activities we were involved in.
		At the end of the meeting we presented the Lord Mayor with “The Divine Art of Living” and “A Crown of Glory” and gave him an invitation to the next Tranquillity Evening.
		The meeting ended on a very high note with the Lord Mayor asking us to send him a few small quotes from the Bahá'í Scriptures one of which he would read out before the start of a Belfast City Council meeting in the chambers at the City Hall.
	www.btinternet.com /~iain.s.palin/bc4ni/comm/98/comm.htm (1061 words)

	ulstday.htm
		The principal speaker was Lord Randolph Churchill who had told Lord Sailsbury, the leader of the Conservatives, that if Gladstone went for Home Rule the Orange card would be the one to play and proclaimed to cheering supporters that Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.
		The Bill was passed by the Commons in 1893, but thrown out by the Lords and an exhausted and dispirited Gladstone retired to be replaced in 1894 by Lord Rosebery who dropped Home Rule from his government's programme, while the Nationalists were too demoralised to conduct any effective campaign outside Westminster.
		The Lords gave way and accepted the budget only to face a Parliament Bill designed to deny peers the right to reject bills from the Commons for more than three successive sessions.
	www.proni.gov.uk /exhibiti/ulstday/ulstday2.htm (2742 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: 'Vested interests' present obstacle to mixed education...
		Lord Craigavon even had a good moan over it, complaining that "The door is thrown open for a Bolshevist or an atheist or a Roman Catholic to become a teacher in a Protestant school."
		The RC Church, as expected, refused to transfer their schools to the authorities but with the 'Protestant' Churches also refusing, pressure on the Government became so intense that, as ever, concessions were made to them and Bible instruction was permitted.
		There was no attempt to disguise its purpose, with Lord Craigavon saying at the time: "You need not have any fears about our educational programme for the future.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2004/10/vested_interest.php (2226 words)

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	History 1914 - 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lord Londonderry's Education Act, which became Law in 1925 incorporated the findings of the Lynn Committee into Education provision and paid all teachers salaries in elementary schools.
		Schools transferred from church control were known as four and two schools (management committee composed of four people nominated by the transferors and two by the local educational authority).
		The war was first mentioned at the meeting in May 1940 when it was decided to have no County Demonstration during the war and it was left to each District to make their own decision as to how to mark the Boyne Anniversary during wartime conditions.
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	Galway Ireland - accommodation holidays vacations - Everthing you need to know
		St Patrick made Armagh the centre of his mission in Ireland in the fifth century.
		Craigavon is very thoroughly signposted from the M1.
		Turn off at junction 11 for a look at the province's first 'New Town', designated in 1965, and named after James Craig, Lord Craigavon (1871-1941), first prime minister of Northern Ireland.
	www.irishholidays.com /infoarmagh.html (217 words)

	Crossbenchers - Websites Relating to Individual Crossbenchers
		These give a flavour of the very diverse experience and points of view that Crossbenchers bring to the House of Lords.
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		Lord Laming chaired the independent statutory inquiry into the tragic death of Victoria Climbié
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	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Niall Stanage: The chutzpah of David Trimble
		In reality, the IRA's campaign, and the tacit support it received from many nationalists, was mainly a response to the inequity of unionist-dominated Northern Ireland.
		Lord Craigavon, the statelet's first prime minister, infamously described Stormont as "a Protestant parliament for a Protestant people".
		The Unionist party governed in an unbroken stretch from 1922 until 1972.
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	Wikinfo \| Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ireland, it became itself the source of major planting of Scottish settlers from the Flight of the Earls (when the native governing and military nationalist elite left en masse) onwards.
		Northern Ireland became, in the words of Nobel Peace Prize joint-winner, Ulster Unionist Leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble, a "cold place for catholics." Towns and cities were gerrymandered to rig local government elections to ensure Protestant control of town councils.
		In the 1960s, moderate unionist prime minister Terence O'Neill (later Lord O'Neill of the Maine) tried to reform the system, but was met with wholesale opposition from extreme fundamentalist protestant leaders like Rev. Ian Paisley.
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