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  Bríd Rodgers And Martin Mansergh At Lismore Festival Of Travel Writing - Immrama
Martin Mansergh (born 1946) is a British-born, Irish Protestant nationalist politician and a Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad Éireann in the Republic of Ireland.
Martin Mansergh was born in England in 1946, the son of the County Tipperary-born historian Nicholas Mansergh.
Mansergh was a key member of the teams which formed the Fianna Fáil-Labour coalition in 1992 and the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition in 1997.
www.lismoreimmrama.com /seamusmallon.shtml   (328 words)

  
 ireland.com / Today / News in Focus / ELECTION 2002
It was during this tragic period in Irish history that the Mansergh dog was shot by a Black and Tan, thereby permanently unstitching Mansergh loyalty to the crown.
It is all a long time ago, and Martin Mansergh is anxious to point to more recent history, and his achievements as a constituency TD even before he was a constituency TD (remember, the man lives backwards).
One of them, Richard Mansergh, buried one wife, Jane Rosette, in 1830 and a second, Christina, alongside her in 1854, and left them to their own devices for 21 interesting years before his presence was finally required to bring peace to the family tomb.
www.ireland.com /focus/election_2002/atlarge/kmyers0105.htm   (508 words)

  
 Martin Mansergh - Politics.ie Wiki
Senator Dr. Martin Mansergh is a member of Seanad Éireann.
He is the son of Tipperary-born Irish historian Nicholas Mansergh and his wife Diana.
Martin is also a member of the Council of State, appointed by President Mary McAleese.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Martin_Mansergh   (414 words)

  
 Seanad Debate - 11 March 2003
Mansergh: With due respect to my esteemed fellow Senator from County Tipperary, I hope it will be possible to have a reasoned debate on the Bill.
Mansergh: Reference was made by one of the Senators opposite to this being a farce, it is certainly a farce to enter into this type of discussion in relation to section 1, the agreeing of which, regardless of whether one likes what is contained in the Bill, should be a formality.
Mansergh: If we spend this amount of time discussing the section, we will certainly have plenty of time to absorb the report before we reach the sections to which it refers.
www.irlgov.ie /debates-03/s11Mar/Sect2.htm   (6814 words)

  
 Xavier University News
Martin Mansergh, a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas—the parliament of the Republic of Ireland—spoke at the University on Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m.
Mansergh, a key advisor during the Ireland peace process, is speaking on the topic of “The Achievements and Problems on the Road to Peace in Northern Ireland.”
Mansergh abandoned a promising career in the civil service to work for Charles Haughey and Fianna Fáil (The Republican Party and largest political party in Ireland); first in the Ministry of the Taoiseach and later as one of his speechwriters when Fianna Fáil was in and out of government in the 1980s.
www.xu.edu /news/news.cfm?news_id=4118   (249 words)

  
 SAOIRSE Irish Freedom October 2000
Mansergh went on to say that the “constitutional stature of Northern Ireland will not be changed over the heads of the people of Northern Ireland without their agreement and participation”.
Martin Mansergh is saying what Republicans have said down the years.
In the report of his speech the northern editor of the Sunday Tribune said Mansergh “openly cast doubt on one of the articles of faith” in the Stormont Agreement expressed by the Provisionals and said that his close association with the current process and the thinking behind it added weight to his remarks.
homepage.eircom.net /~eirenua/2000/oct00/saoirse.htm   (722 words)

  
 PolicyWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mansergh (a senator and a recent appointment to the Council of State), and other supporters of the Process have said 'You are either with the Process or with the terrorists'.
Mansergh, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the British government have approached Northern Ireland like a fake doctor treating a patient who, himself, is faking an illness.
Mansergh is the leader, the implications of appeasing the IRA.
www.openrepublic.org /policy_watch/2004/20041224.htm   (2366 words)

  
 Why are there 700,000 British Passports in the Republic of Ireland?
Indeed, Martin Mansergh, in much more detailed correspondence with the Reform Movement (of which I am a patron), has teased out, in the context of current Government policy though speaking personally, this issue of minority status.
Mansergh claims that no "self-respecting sovereign Government is going to permit...any of its citizens to hold an allegiance at the same time to another country." Yet half a million do.
Both Martin Mansergh and his team in the Taoiseach's office need to get back to the drawing-board as a matter of urgency, and do a bit more practical research.
www.reform.org /TheReformMovement_files/article_files/articles/passports.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Leaders' questions for week of 13 October 2003
That message would also have been communicated and reinforced directly by Dr. Mansergh in a follow-up meeting during Christmas week in 1998 at the request of the movement in response to his earlier contact at a time when the Real IRA ceasefire had been in existence for three months.
Mansergh put a report of that meeting into the records of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Department of the Taoiseach.
The Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, has stated that there should be counselling arrangements and he assisted from the outset in the establishment of those arrangements.
www.feargalquinn.ie /lead/1310.htm   (6441 words)

  
 Martin Mansergh & The Irish Times - A Polemic
Senator Martin Mansergh (May 3rd) is keen to rebut attacks on Elizabeth Bowen's identity as an Irishwoman.
When Kevin Myers, Martin Mansergh and others designate the novels of Elizabeth Bowen as a part of Irish literature, consciously or not, they are treating Ireland as if it was West Britain.
Mansergh's withdrawal of this particular accusation as that given to his original charge.
www.atholbooks.org /mansergh_polemic.php   (7168 words)

  
 Protestant rules Ulster policy
Martin Mansergh, 50, is an austere intellectual whose whose patrician English accent has not prevented him from being detested by Unionists who see little difference between his views and those of Gerry Adams.
A former Irish civil servant, Mr Mansergh's political career began when he was recruited in 1980 by Charles Haughey, the former Fianna Fail leader and most pro-republican Taoiseach in modern times.
Born in Woking, Surrey, Mr Mansergh's instinctive sympathy with republicanism springs from his father, Nicholas, a historian who was born and reared in Tipperary and became a leading expert on Anglo-Irish settlement of 1920-21.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/06/09/wire209.html   (363 words)

  
 Nationalism and Republicanism - a vision for the future?
Martin Mansergh: Special Adviser to the Taoiseach and Head of Research, Fianna Fail, since 1981.
His father Nicholas Mansergh was well-known historian and leading expert on Anglo-Irish relations, author of The Irish Question and many other books.
Martin Mansergh is a graduate of Oxford, Ph.D. in French 18th century history.
members.tripod.com /meath_peace/talks/talk27.htm   (11309 words)

  
 ireland.com / Today / News in Focus / ELECTION 2002
Dr Mansergh has concentrated his efforts to date on Tipperary town and the west of the county, while his running mate, Minister of State, Mr Noel Davern, focuses on his own base in Clonmel.
Neither is Dr Mansergh considered a threat, at least in this election, to Mr Davern, one of the wiliest political operators around.
Dr Mansergh's problem is that, while he is well respected nationally for his critical role in the peace process, he has no track record in the constituency, despite being a cumann member in his native Tipperary town since 1981.
www.ireland.com /focus/election_2002/constituencies/tipperarysouth.htm   (810 words)

  
 Usurping Democracy - Indymedia Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mansergh’s view is that once a government is elected it is wrong for ordinary people “to second guess… government policy” particularly as these policies, according to Mansergh”…seek to promote the value and ideals of the people”!!
The practicalities of such a stance and their method of communication would no doubt be left by Martin Mansergh to geniuses like our Minister of Injustice.
Mansergh’s notion of governmental authority stands squarely on the entire tradition of political theory that has one principle: ONLY THE ONE CAN RULE.
www.indymedia.ie /article/74658   (1408 words)

  
 Fethard Notes - 31st January 1998
Dr. Mansergh, writer and lecturer on the Peace Process and Irish History, and special advisor to An Taoiseach, was lucky to be able to make it to Fethard to launch the book because of a hectic scedule earlier in the day with Bertie Ahern in Belfast and Derry and he apologised for his delayed arrival.
Dr. Mansergh warmly congratulated Denise Maher on her book which he described as "a considerable achievement" and he felt it was important to be able to record Tipperary's medieval past for posterity in this case through its funery monuments.
Dr. Mansergh praised the supportive attitude of the Government towards heritage preservation and especially the direction of the efforts of Ms.
www.fethard.com /nationalist/1998/19980131.html   (1142 words)

  
 RTE News - Mansergh says meeting was for peace
Senator Martin Mansergh has told the Seanad that everything that he and Fr Alex Reid did, from the time of the Enniskillen bombing to the months following the Omagh bombing, was for the purpose of establishing a lasting peace.
Senator Mansergh was referring to his meeting in 1998 with Michael McKevitt of the so-called Real IRA.
At the time, Senator Mansergh was a Special Advisor on the North.
www.rte.ie /news2/2003/1015/north02.html   (117 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie - 2005/02/03: Mansergh urges IRA not to be 'foolish'
Senator Martin Mansergh, who has been Northern adviser to three premiers, said he felt sorry about the current crisis but excluding Sinn Féin from power-sharing talks would be disastrous.
Mr Mansergh told a student debate in Dublin’s Trinity College, “with tonight’s statement, the IRA seem to be angry and frustrated.
Mr Mansergh was speaking after a second statement from the IRA in less than 24 hours tonight warned the British and Irish Governments not to “underestimate the seriousness” of current difficulties in the peace process.
archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2005/02/03/story187747.asp   (551 words)

  
 Issue 1 of the Con Colbert Cumann Newsletters
Dr Mansergh showed us all why he is one of An Taoiseach’s most influential advisors and also one of the main people behind the Good Friday agreement.
The audience really were on the edge of their seats in a kind of fly by the seat of your pants activity that evolved at the questions and answers, with King and O'Leary trying to shout each other down, over the referee's head.
Mansergh talked about the state of economy, social reform and, about the one reason that everyone came to hear him, Northern Ireland.
www.csn.ul.ie /~ffail/newsletters/010999.htm   (1727 words)

  
 IrishAbroad Book Reviews
You may not have heard of Martin Mansergh, but he has probably affected your life — as a born and bred Northerner he has certainly affected mine.
From his position as special advisor on Northern Ireland to three Fianna Fáil Taoisigh, Mansergh has been able to gain a greater insight into the affairs of our island than most other people, and because of his academic training, has been able to put it in historical context.
But for that, and Mansergh’s thoughts on the Orange Order, Unionism and the significance of the Battle of Kinsale, the book is worthwhile.
www.irishabroad.com /Culture/Books/legacyhistory-mansergh.asp   (265 words)

  
 Mansergh lashes out at 'unpatriotic' tax exiles: ThePost.ie
The influential Fianna Fail senator Martin Mansergh has lambasted Irish businesspeople who flee the country rather than pay their fair share of tax, describing them as unpatriotic.
But Mansergh praised one wealthy individual, whom he did not name, but said that as "a clue to his identity, he runs a successful airline".
However Mansergh said some Irish people did not pay their tax at home because they engage in substantial economic activity in other countries.
archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2004/03/28/story260600004.asp   (514 words)

  
 The Nation
The recent statement by the IRA officially ordered an end to the armed campaign and instructed all volunteers to ?assist in the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means?.
Senator Martin Mansergh, having been involved in the Northern Ireland policy since the early 1980s, is well placed to assess the prospect of lasting peace.
Senator Mansergh is optimistic about the potential for long-term resolution however, and refuses to be deterred by the length of time taken to bring the process to its current position.
www.thenation.ie /page.php4?id=57   (703 words)

  
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East Belfast UUP MLA Michael Copeland has condemned Fianna Fail Senator, Martin Mansergh, for his comments over the arrest of convicted PIRA bomber and murderer, Sean Kelly.
"Mansergh's comments were predictable from a man who has made a career of romanticising Irish Republicanism - and excusing its addiction to violence.
Typical of a section of opinion within the Irish Republic, he seems to think that robust action against SF-IRA criminality and terror is necessary south of the border, but that the same organisation should be treated as if it is above the law in Northern Ireland.
www.uup.org /media/media_22_06_05_copeland_mansergh.htm   (205 words)

  
 History Ireland Feature - Martin Mansergh Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MM: The Manserghs came to Ireland in the seventeenth century, but didn’t come to their present location in Tipperary until the early eighteenth.
My own great-great-great-grandfather, John Southcote Mansergh, was the high sheriff in Tipperary and returning officer when Sir Robert Peel was first elected for the pocket borough of Cashel in 1809.
His son Richard Martin Southcote Mansergh (my great-great-grandfather) was active on the grand jury, and on various committees—railway compensation, workhouse—and established a national school on his land.
www.historyireland.com /magazine/features/12.3FeatA.html   (2890 words)

  
 ::: u.tv :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He revealed that Dr Martin Mansergh met the terror chief - who is now serving a jail term for directing terrorism - in a bid to bringing about a ceasefire.
He said Dr Mansergh had contact with the political wing of the Real IRA (the 32 County Sovereignty Committee) weeks before the Omagh bomb atrocity.
The Taoiseach said Dr Mansergh had put a report of his meeting on record at the justice department and his own department.
u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=38202&pt=   (440 words)

  
 THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
What caused them to display a lack of their normal surefootedness was the awkwardness that comes with having a knowledge others know is there and who are immovable in their determination to make it available to the public.
During Friday’s exchange both Tim Pat Coogan and Martin Mansergh admitted that the piecing together of the peace process jigsaw began many years prior to the Hume-Adams talks.
Friday's Summer Days debate should be measured against an earlier RTE revelation by former British Army operative, Martin Ingram, that when he returned to the North for a second tour of duty in the latter half of the 1980s he was aware of a secret peace process.
lark.phoblacht.net /knackersam.html   (905 words)

  
 Martin Mansergh interview - special report - news - channel4.com
We speak to Martin Mansergh, who negotiated with the IRA for over 20 years on his reaction to their pledge.
The strategy of the British and Irish governments to find a solution to the conflict in northern ireland began in the 90's under the premierships of John Major and Albert Reynolds.
The man in the Irish Taoseach's office who handled the negotiations for over twenty years was the former Irish Foreign Affairs civil servant - now senator - Martin Mansergh - he joins us live from Dublin and tells us what he thinks of the IRA's statement.
www.channel4.com /news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=444   (220 words)

  
 The Kingdom: Liosarda residents join forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The guest speaker on the night was Senator Martin Mansergh, who has been an advisor to several Fianna Fáil leaders including Charlie Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern.
Introducing Senator Mansergh to the large gathering Tony O’Callaghan said: “Words are sometimes inadequate Martin Mansergh is truly a great person; a member of a Tipperary family, he was educated in Oxford in 1982.
According to Martin Crehan, National Spring Clean manager, a good idea is to make your event different - for example hold a competition to see who can collect the most litter, or the biggest, smallest or most unusual piece.
www.the-kingdom.ie /news/story.asp?j=13010   (1255 words)

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