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  Stormont
Stormont is a suburb of the city of Belfast, in which the Northern Ireland Parliament building is located.
Stormont is a general term used to describe a system of government produced by the unionist-dominated Parliament of Northern Ireland that governed the Northern Ireland state from 1921 to 1972.
Stormont is a general term used to describe the Parliament Building in Northern Ireland, which is located in the Stormont area of Belfast.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stormont.html   (174 words)

  
 History of the Northern Ireland Parliament
Also on the Parliamentary estate are Stormont Castle, which served as the headquarters of the Cabinet, and Stormont House which was the residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons.
Stormont was given power to legislate over almost all aspects of Northern Ireland life, with only a few matters excluded from its remit: succession to the Crown, making of peace or war, armed forces, honours, naturalization, some central taxes and postal services were the most important (for a full list see s.
The reason Stormont emulated Westminster was not so much that its Members had decided to use a set-up they were knowledgeable about and experienced with (though some of the initial Members in 1921 were Westminster MPs), nor was it a declaration of allegiance with the United Kingdom.
www.election.demon.co.uk /stormont/intro.html   (1512 words)

  
 Stormont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stormont, Virginia, a settlement South of Urbanna in Middlesex County, Virginia
Lord Stormont was ambassador in France in the 18th century
Viscount Stormont is a title in the Peerage of Scotland; it was created in 1621 by James VI for Sir David Murray who had saved him from the attack of Earl Gowrie in 1600.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stormont   (174 words)

  
 Carleton University - Canada's Capital University
Stormont has both coed and single gender floors and each floor is equipped with a TV Lounge, Study Lounge and microwave.
Stormont and Dundas are known for their unique architecture; the buildings are joined in a "horseshoe" fashion.
The College of the Humanities Area is located in Stormont House and students enrolled in the College are usually accommodated together on the fourth floor.
www.carleton.ca /housing/residences/stormont.html   (194 words)

  
 G.A.R. Indiana Department Commander, Gilbert R. Stormont
Stormont was engaged in teaching for awhile, but it is not necessary for the reader to make any deductions as to qualifications from the foregoing paragraph.
Stormont sold the Journal plant and returned to Princeton, and, in 1877, he bought the Princeton Clarion, which he continued to publish for nearly twenty-five years.
Stormont has for many years been numbered among the leading citizens of Gibson county, and is a worthy representative of a family which, from the pioneer period, has been closely identified with the history of this section of the state.
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 Stormont
The present Stormont estate is superimposed upon a modest demesne, established, as a result of an advantageous marriage and reputedly ill-gotten gains, by the Rev. John Cleland in the early years of the nineteenth century.
The 1830 house, Storm Mount, described just after it was built as a '...large plain house with very little planting about it', was eventually enhanced by an orchard and a shelter belt of trees growing to the south-west.
The house was saved from demolition by pressure of local opinion and was utilised from 1922 until 1940 as the official residence of the first Prime Minister, Sir James Craig, and subsequently as offices for the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Office.
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 Stormont Estate (Northern Ireland)...: 10 Feb 2006: House of Lords debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
However, it is worth making the point that when the Stormont Parliament building itself was built it contained the Northern Ireland government and all their officials and civil servants.
Before I respond to the order, I am sure that the whole House will be delighted to welcome the news about the US philanthropy award for the noble Baroness, Lady Blood, who is now out in Texas.
Security within the Stormont Estate is of primary concern, and NICS will retain control of security for the majority of the estate unaffected, including parkland.
www.theyworkforyou.com /lords/?id=2006-02-10b.893.0   (2489 words)

  
 Stormont Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It is clear, however, that Turner's design for Stormont is not derived from Prince Albert's work there between 1853 and 1855, but from a set of drawings still preserved in the Public Record Office for Northern Ireland.
On September 20th that Parliament resolved that '"Stormont Castle demesne shall be the place where the new Parliament House and Ministerial Buildings shall be erected, and as the place to be determined as the seat of the Government of Northern Ireland as and when suitable provision has been made therefore.
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).
www.nics.gov.uk /castle/castle.htm   (1933 words)

  
 Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921-1972
Elections to the Northern Ireland House of Commons were not on the whole great historical events, apart perhaps from the very first one in 1921 and the very last in 1968.
The Northern Ireland Parliament sat at a new building near Stormont Castle in East Belfast from 1932, and is often referred to simply as 'Stormont'.
The last election ever held to the Northern Ireland House of Commons took place for the Belfast St Anne's seat in November 1970 after the death of an anti-reform official Unionist, and resulted in the victory of his son, who is now a UUP life peer.
www.ark.ac.uk /elections/hnihoc.htm   (2478 words)

  
 Old Boys' Reunion - 1906   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The house is lighted with electricity, is well heated and also provided with the best sanitary conveniences.
The house is provided with fine, large, airy bed rooms; ladies' and public parlors, while in the dining room you will always get the best of everything that is going and every attention shown you.
The stabling accommodation is not excelled by any house in Cornwall.
www.sensato.com /reunion/re114.html   (330 words)

  
 Stormont House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was designed by Ralph Knott, an architect best known for his work on County Hall in London.
For part of the time it was actually lived in by a number of Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland in preference to their own official residence, Stormont Castle, which was used primarily as offices.
The Social Security Agency Building shares its grounds with Stormont House, however is sealed from the main building by a fence.
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Abstentionism from Leinster House and Stormont -- following the creation by the British in 1920 of parliaments of 'Northern' and 'Southern' Ireland -- was the logical extension of the principle applied to the Westminster parliament by Sinn Féin from its inception in 1905 and continued when it was reconstituted as a Republican organisation in 1917.
Leinster House and Stormont were both created by British acts of parliament to implement the British interest in Ireland, making Ireland one of the first countries to be partitioned by Westminster.
For 50 years under the Stormont regime Republican candidates were debarred from public office because of their refusal to take such oaths.
www.rsf.ie /election.htm   (1199 words)

  
 Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stormont Castle served as the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and was the meeting place for the Northern Ireland cabinet.
Another residence, Stormont House served as the official residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.
The original House of Commons of Northern Ireland was designed in the standard adversarial form, with the government and opposition facing each other in parallel blue benches across a central aisle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parliament_Buildings_(Northern_Ireland)   (1368 words)

  
 Welcome to Stormont-Vail HealthCare
SVHC was formed with the merger of Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center and Cotton-O’Neil Clinic in 1995.
Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center is the first and only hospital in its region to use a new cardiovascular digital imaging system in its Cardiac Catheterization Lab and the only hospital in Shawnee County with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The health center is serviced by an in-house pharmacy 24 hours a day and offers extensive pathology and clinical laboratory services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
www.stormontvail.org /Facilities/SVRHC.html   (305 words)

  
 The Stormont Estate (Northern Ireland) Order 2006
The text of this Internet version of the Statutory Instrument which is published by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament has been prepared to reflect the text as it was Made.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c.1) and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:–
(2) Sections 1 to 4 of the 1933 Act (which regulate the Stormont Estate) cease to apply in relation to that land; and any regulations for the time being in force under section 1 of the 1933 Act cease to apply in relation to that land.
www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2006/draft/20060018.htm   (801 words)

  
 THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
Senior Unionist sources at Stormont are adamant a deal was hatched between Bertie Ahern's Dublin government and the IRA leadership FOUR years ago to set up a Leinster House-style administration in the North in return for complete Provo decommissioning.
House of Haunted Hill was the name of William Castle's 1958 classic horror tale about the unspeakable things which happened at the fictitious Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane.
Mysteriously, Stormont sources maintain that planning permission for the Leinster House-style complex was applied for in May 2002 during the then UUP leader David Trimble's 'political watch' – five months before the power-sharing Northern Executive was suspended amid republican spy ring allegations at Stormont involving the now murdered top Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson.
lark.phoblacht.net /JC2008067g.html   (1092 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The recommendations which were made were two in number: (a) That the relationship with "other radical groups" involving co-operation for the achievement of limited objectives be now brought a stage further; that it be formalised into an alliance to be known for the sake of convenience as the 'National Liberation Front'.
The underlying issue was the uncompromising stand of Kerry in refusing recognition to Westminster, Leinster House and Stormont.
We find absolutely incomprehensible from any Republican stand-point the campaigning in favour of retaining the Stormont parliament in August, September and October last when it was in danger of being abolished altogether by the British government.
irelandsown.net /republicanis2.htm   (3626 words)

  
 The Badger's Sett
By his participation in the Free State assembly in Leinster House he is a part of the body that murdered them.
The Stormont Agreement of five years ago has only strengthened British rule in Ireland and yet we see these traitors who profess to be Republicans breaking their necks to make sure it works.
The Stormont Agreement of 1998 had faltered and floundered because of the contradiction at its core.
radio.weblogs.com /0100730/categories/saoirse/2003/05/02.html   (1855 words)

  
 CAIN: Issues: Abstentionism: Speech by Ruairi O’Bradaigh opposing the motion on abstentionism (Resolution 162), Sinn ...
And it says here, and this is a document which I take seriously, because I’ve worked on it for many, many years, and for many Ard Fheiseanna in between, and it says first the allegiance of Irish men and Irish women is due to the sovereign Irish republic proclaimed in 1916.
The fundamental principle, that every thing is a tactic, but outstanding on this document it says it’s a fundamental principle, but secondly that the sovereignty and unity of the republic are inalienable and non-renunciable.
Once you go in there, you sign the roll of the House and accept the institutions of the state.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/docs/sf/rob021186.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Stormont   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But before it was built in the 1900's, Stormont Castle was the main building in the Estate.
It was at Storm Mount as it was then known, that about 1830, Cleland created "a plain house." It was a mid or late Georgian house in the shape of a plain rectangle.
Recently the grounds of Stormont have been used for more public orientated functions such as an open air concert venue and the location for International sporting events.
www.infj.ulst.ac.uk /~roy/soft-ware-2002/other-stormont.html   (310 words)

  
 Accommodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This is a Double Room in Stormont House.
It was built in 1991 and is generally used for School, Tour and Conference Groups.
Prescott House is almost identical except it has single beds.
www.carleton.ca /housing/tourandconf/Accomodation.htm   (274 words)

  
 Northern Ireland House of Commons Election Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Maps of constituency boundaries for the Northern Ireland House of Commons.
All Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.
Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.
www.election.demon.co.uk /stormont/stormont.html   (194 words)

  
 Stormont: An Alternative Northern Ireland Assembly
Don't vote for all the other bad parties- just vote for us and we'll make all your decisions for you because you can't be trusted to think for yourselves in case you slip back into your neanderthal sectarian ways.
Ireland is to sit on his or her arse and get paid for doing nothing.
With verbatim reports from the 'Preparation for Preparation for Doing Nothing' committee, plus exclusive blog posts from the key players/ wasters, this is the place to be if you want to know exactly what isn't happening in Northern Irish politics.
stormont.blogspot.com   (657 words)

  
 Welcome to Stormont-Vail HealthCare
The Total Joint Center is located on the third floor, south tower of Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center.
During the open house, visitors will enjoy a tour, have a snack and meet the expert staff, including nursing staff, physical therapy staff and occupational therapy staff.
Media interviews will be available at the open house.
www.stormontvail.org /media/jointreplace.html   (155 words)

  
 ::: u.tv :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Stormont building in which the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast could be sold by the British government, it was revealed tonight.
However Castle Buildings - which housed the Northern Ireland Office when the Agreement was signed - and other office blocks could be hived off as part of a drive to save the taxpayer £100 million.
The buildings concerned, all tucked away in a corner of the Stormont estate are all of 1960s or 1970s design and build - the sort of building the Prince of Wales would call a carbuncle on the estate.
u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=61231   (719 words)

  
 The Badger's Sett
As we forecast five years the 'Stormont Agreement' is doomed to failure because of its inherent contradictions, promising Nationalists on the one hand that it would lead to a free and independent Ireland and Unionists on the other that it would strengthen the 'union'.
Following its signing five years ago RSF warned that due to its inherent contradictions, promising Nationalists on the one hand that it would lead to a free and united Ireland whilst on the other promising Unionists that it would strengthen the 'union' with Britain, it was doomed to failure.
The 'Stormont Agreement' has failed the people of Ireland, for Nationalists their nightmare continues, with an increase in pipe bomb attacks and shootings, Unionists have been left in a vacuum of fear and uncertainty.
radio.weblogs.com /0100730/categories/saoirse   (6017 words)

  
 Stormont & Co. Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Stormont and Co., Inc., General Contractor • Home Builders on the Outer Banks, North Carolina
We aim to relieve some of the anxieties associated with custom home building.
We strive to relieve "pre-construction anxiety." Building your house should be a pleasurable experience; however, many people become overwhelmed when they consider the many factors to consider.
www.stormontandcompany.com /philosophy.html   (268 words)

  
 Toby Harnden: Northern Ireland: Archive
For those who believed that the Stormont agreement was the writing on the wall for terrorism, the message is becoming clear that former IRA members are still active.
As such, he is one of the seven men whose attitude towards the Stormont agreement will dictate whether the IRA will continue the almost relentless war it has waged against the British state for the past 30 years.
Leaving Carolyn, six, and Stuart, two, in the house with a policewoman, she was driven to the hospital in an armoured car.
www.tobyharnden.com /ni_archive_docs2.htm   (9164 words)

  
 Educational Solardomes - Attractive pre-fabricated buildings for schools - extra class room
Stormont House School, below designed their own garden of Eden for science and art lessons.
A dome can enhance your playground, and are built to last due to the non-corrosive materials and the natural strength of the geodesic dome.
Stormont House School recieved funding from Creative Partnerships Arts Council.
www.solardome.co.uk /25   (698 words)

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