Eamon de Valera

The Viceregal throne is the former throne of the Viceroy of Ireland (the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland). A set of thrones, one for the Viceroy and one for his wife, the Vicereine, were used on state occasions in Dublin Castle. The set were photographed on a dias in St. Patrick's Hall in an image in the Lawrence Collection, now owned by the National Library of Ireland. In 1938 the throne, minus the crown which used to decorate its top, and with the Irish coat of arms stitched into the fabric on the chair, was used in the ina ...

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Áras an Uachtaráin (formerly the Viceregal Lodge) is the official residence of the President of Ireland, located in the Phoenix Park on the Northside of Dublin1. Áras an Uachtaráin - Origins. The original house was designed by park ranger and amateur architect Nathaniel Clements, in the mid eighteenth century. It was bought by the administration of the British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to become his summer residence in the 1780s. His official residence was in the Viceregal Apartments ...

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• Áras an Uachtaráin - Residence of the Irish Governor-General
• Áras an Uachtaráin - Residence of the President of Ireland
• Áras an Uachtaráin - The Ghost of Winston Churchill
• Áras an Uachtaráin - Visitors
• Áras an Uachtaráin - Footnotes
• Áras an Uachtaráin - External link

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1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) 1966 - Events. 1966 - January. January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 - Strike of public transportation workers in New York City - ends January 13 January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco January 4 - Military coup in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso).Including:

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Republic of Ireland This article is part of the series: Politics of the Republic of Ireland Oireachtas Dáil Éireann Ceann Comhairle: Rory O'Hanlon Seanad Éireann Cathaoirleach: Rory Kiely President: Mary McAleese Council of State Presidential Commission Government Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern Tánaiste: Mary Harne ...

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Cork Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world by navigational area. A natural harbour and river estuary at the mouth of the River Lee in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. Cork Harbour - Military. Cork Harbour hosts the headquarters of the Irish Navy. Prior to the transfer of the treaty ports, Cork Harbour was an important base for the Royal Navy. The first fortifications were built in Cork Harbour in the 17th century, although these were primarily to protect Cork City. In the 18th c ...

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William Thomas Cosgrave (Irish name Liam Tomás Mac Cosgair; June 6, 1880 – November 16, 1965), known generally as W.T. Cosgrave, was an Irish politician who succeeded Michael Collins as Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government from August to December 1922. He served as the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932. W.T. Cosgrave - Early and Private Life. William Thomas Cosgrave, or W.T. as he was generally known, was born at 174 James's St, Dubli ...

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• W.T. Cosgrave - Anglo-Irish Treaty
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• W.T. Cosgrave - President Cosgrave 1922-1932
• W.T. Cosgrave - Domestic Policy
• W.T. Cosgrave - Foreign Policy
• W.T. Cosgrave - Economic Policy
• W.T. Cosgrave - General Election 1932
• W.T. Cosgrave - Cosgrave in Opposition
• W.T. Cosgrave - Legacy
• W.T. Cosgrave - Death
• W.T. Cosgrave - First Government December 1922-September 1923
• W.T. Cosgrave - Second Government September 1923-June 1927
• W.T. Cosgrave - Changes
• W.T. Cosgrave - Third Government June 1927-October 1927
• W.T. Cosgrave - Changes
• W.T. Cosgrave - Fourth Government October 1927-April 1930
• W.T. Cosgrave - Fifth Government April 1930-March 1932
• W.T. Cosgrave - Political Career
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The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is the largest Protestant Church on the island of Ireland and the second largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland. The church considers itself to be in direct succession to Ireland's ancient Celtic Christianity and the mediaeval Irish Catholic Church. When Henry VIII and the Church of England broke with the Pope, he took the Catholic Church in Irela ...

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• Church of Ireland - The Church of Ireland today
• Church of Ireland - Prominent Irish Anglicans

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Charles Haughey (Irish name Cathal Ó hEochaidh; born on September 16, 1925), was the sixth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, serving three terms in office; 1979 to 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and 1987 to 1992. He was the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil from 1979 until 1992. Charlie Haughey was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a TD for Dublin in 1957, and was re-elected at each election until 1992. Haughey also served as Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1977-1979), Minister for Finance (1966-1970), Min ...

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• Charles Haughey - Arms Crisis
• Charles Haughey - Political Return
• Charles Haughey - Taoiseach 1979-1981
• Charles Haughey - Opposition 1981-1982
• Charles Haughey - Taoiseach 1982
• Charles Haughey - Opposition 1982-1987
• Charles Haughey - Taoiseach 1987-1992
• Charles Haughey - Retirement
• Charles Haughey - Haughey's First Government December 1979-June 1981
• Charles Haughey - Changes
• Charles Haughey - Haughey's Second Government March 1982-December 1982
• Charles Haughey - Changes
• Charles Haughey - Haughey's Third Government March 1987-May 1989
• Charles Haughey - Changes
• Charles Haughey - Haughey's Fourth Government May 1989-February 1992
• Charles Haughey - Changes
• Charles Haughey - Political Career

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August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. It is also the 1st day of Thoth - which is the 1st day of the Egyptian Horoscope. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge. August 29 - Events. 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). 1189- Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian stat ...

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August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. August 24 - Events. 49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle. AD 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash. 410 - The Visigoths under Alar ...

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Patrick Bartholemew Ahern (Irish name: Pádraig Parthalán Ó hEachthairn) (born September 12, 1951), commonly called Bertie Ahern, is an Irish politician. He is, since June 26, 1997, the tenth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, and leader of a Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition government. Ahern has been a Teachta Dála since 1977 and currently represents the constituency of Dublin Central. He has previously served in the governments of Charles J. Haughey and Albert Reynolds as Minister for Labour (1 ...

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• Bertie Ahern - Reynolds succeeds
• Bertie Ahern - Leader of Fianna Fáil
• Bertie Ahern - First Government 1997-2002
• Bertie Ahern - Early problems
• Bertie Ahern - 1997 presidential election
• Bertie Ahern - Peace process
• Bertie Ahern - Economy
• Bertie Ahern - General Election 2002
• Bertie Ahern - Second Government 2002-Present
• Bertie Ahern - The future
• Bertie Ahern - Trivia
• Bertie Ahern - Quotes from Ahern
• Bertie Ahern - Ahern's First Cabinet June 1997-June 2002
• Bertie Ahern - Changes
• Bertie Ahern - Ahern's Second Cabinet June 2002-Present
• Bertie Ahern - Changes
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Brian Lenihan (November 17, 1930 - November 1, 1995) was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. In a long and distinguished political career he served as Minister for Justice (1964-1968), Minister for Education (1968-1969), Minister for Transport & Power (1969-1973), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973, 1979-1981 & 1987-1989), Minister for Forestry & Fisheries (1977-1979), Minister for Agriculture (1982) and Minister for Defence (1989-1990). Lenihan was a Senator in Seanad Éireann on two occasions (1957-1961 and 1973-1977 ...

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• Brian Lenihan - Minister for Justice
• Brian Lenihan - Minister for Education
• Brian Lenihan - Foreign Minister then loses Dáil seat
• Brian Lenihan - Opposition to then implementation of the Anglo-Irish Agreement
• Brian Lenihan - Liver Transplant
• Brian Lenihan - Presidential candidate
• Brian Lenihan - Challenge of John Wilson
• Brian Lenihan - The Lenihan tape
• Brian Lenihan - 'On mature recollection'
• Brian Lenihan - Padraig Flynn's attack on Mary Robinson
• Brian Lenihan - Out of Government
• Brian Lenihan - Death
• Brian Lenihan - Overview and Legacy
• Brian Lenihan - Brian Lenihan Memorial Lecture
• Brian Lenihan - Footnotes
• Brian Lenihan - Quotes
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• Brian Lenihan - Political Career

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Flag of the Commonwealth The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. It was once known as the British Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth, and some still call it by that name, either for historical reasons or to distinguish it from the other commonwealths around the world, such as the ...

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• Commonwealth of Nations - Benefits of membership and contemporary concerns
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• Commonwealth of Nations - Literature
• Commonwealth of Nations - Commonwealth Business Council
• Commonwealth of Nations - List of Commonwealth members

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1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. 1932 - Events. 1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with pia ...

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• 1932 - Nobel Prizes

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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born on February 21, 1946) is an English stage and screen actor. Alan Rickman - Biography. Born in Hammersmith, London to a working-class family; his father was Irish Catholic and his mother was Welsh and a Methodist; there was consequently a religious tug-of-war between his parents. His father died when he was 8 years old, and his mother raised him afterwards. Rickman was a graphic designer before entering the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in the ...

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• Alan Rickman - Filmography partial

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One question sometimes raised is why the first name among the 'signatories' was not Pearse but Tom Clarke, a veteran republican. Had the arrangement of names been alphabetical, Eamon Ceannt would have appeared on top. Clarke's widow suggested that it was because the plan had been for Clarke, as a famed veteran, to become the President of the Provisional Republic. Such an explanation would certainly explain his premier position. However others associated with the Rising dismissed her claims, which she made in her memoirs. Later documen ...

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Easter Proclamation, Easter Proclamation - Principles of the proclamation, Easter Proclamation - The text of the Easter Proclamation, Easter Proclamation - The printing and distribution of the text, Easter Proclamation - The signatories, Easter Proclamation - The document today, Easter Proclamation - Footnotes, Easter Proclamation - Additional reading

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Dev refers to: deV is Eamon de Valera, former President of Ireland Dev is a Bollywood movie dev is a sanskrit word for a Hindu deity. See Deva deity dev is an attribute of an inode in a Unix file system (see stat()). /dev is a directory in the Unix file system. dev. is also an abbreviation of the words developer, development, device. Other re

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In front of assembled members of Dáil Éireann, Seanad Éireann, the government of Ireland, the judiciary, members of local authorities, diplomats and invited guests, and with members of the Council of State on the dias behind them, the President takes the following Declaration of Office: In Irish: I láthair Dia na nUilechumhacht, táimse á ghealladh agus á dhearbhú go sollúnta is go fírinneach bheith i mo thaca agus i mo dhidín do Bhunreacht Éireann, agus dlíthe a chaomhnú, mo dhualgais a chomhlíonadh go d ...

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Inauguration of the President of Ireland, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - Declaration of Office, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - Ritual of the day, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - Religion, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - The Trip to the Castle, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - Dress code, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - Presidential Address, Inauguration of the President of Ireland - End of the day

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Irish neutrality - World War II. During World War II, which the Irish government referred to as The Emergency, Ireland decided to remain neutral. At the time anti-British feeling was still high after the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921, and the government felt it could not aid Britain, who still controlled one-sixth of Ireland and maintain popular support. But neither could the government of Taoiseach Eamon de ...

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In 1290 we find king Edward I of England in possession of Man, and it remained in English hands till 1313, when Robert Bruce took it after besieging Castle Rushen for five weeks. Then, till 1346, when the battle of Nevilles Cross decided the long struggle between England and Scotland in England's favor, there followed a confused period when Man sometimes experienced English rule and sometimes Scottish. About 1333 King Edward III of England granted Man to William de Montacute, 3rd Baron Montacute, (later the 1st Earl of Salisbury), as ...

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History of the Isle of Man, History of the Isle of Man - Brythonic Dominence, History of the Isle of Man - Scandinavian dominance, History of the Isle of Man - Scottish interludes, History of the Isle of Man - English dominance, History of the Isle of Man - Modern Period

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Prince Henry was born on March 31, 1900 at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate. His father was Prince George, Duke of York (later King George V), the second eldest son of Prince Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). His mother was The Duchess of York (later Queen Mary), the eldest daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Teck. In 1898, Queen Victoria had granted letters patent granting the children of the Duke and Duchess of York the style Royal Highness. Thus he was styled Hi ...

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Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Birth, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Army, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Marriage, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Governor-General of Australia, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Later Life, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Titles and honours, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Titles from birth to death, Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester - Honours

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