Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

The office of Lord Lieutenant, like the English and British government in Ireland was generally unpopular with Irish nationalists, though it was supported with varying degrees of enthusiasm by the Irish unionist community. Some Lords Lieutenants did earn a measure of popularity in a personal capacity among nationalists. From the early nineteenth century, calls were made frequently for the abolition of the office and its replacement by a Secretary of State for Ireland. Though on one occasion, a Bill was even introduced by one government to make thi ...

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Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland - Official Residence, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland - Role in Government, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland - Irish Attitudes towards the Lord Lieutenant

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Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years, longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, she was also the first monarch to use the title Empress of India. The reign of Victoria was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. The Victorian Era was at ...

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• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Early life
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Early reign
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Marriage
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Early Victorian politics
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Ireland
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Middle years
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Widowhood
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Gladstone and Disraeli
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Later years
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Legacy
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Style and arms
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Surname
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Trivia
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Children
• Victoria of the United Kingdom - Cultural references

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The Duke of Devonshire The Most Noble William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG (c. 1720 – 2 October 1764) was a British Whig statesman who eventually became titular Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was elected MP for Derbyshire in 1741 and 1747, but left the House of Commons for the Lords in 1751 by a writ of acceleration as Baron Cavendish of Hardwick. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 2 April 1755 until 3 January 1757, when his successor John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford enter ...

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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (December 31, 1738 – October 5, 1805) was a British military commander and colonial governor. In America, he is most remembered for his role in the American Revolutionary War, and in India, for promulgating the Permanent Settlement. He was the eldest son of Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis (later 1st Earl Cornwallis) and was born in London even though his family's estates were in Kent. Cornwallis had all the advantages that money and family connections could bring. His famil ...

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• Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis - India

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This article is on the gubernatorial title. For the butterfly, see viceroy butterfly. For the cigarettes, see Viceroy cigarettes. A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province as a substitute for the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and French roi, meaning king. A vicereine is a woman in a viceregal position (rare, as it usually include ...

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• Viceroy - Under the monarchs of Spain
• Viceroy - British Empire and Commonwealth
• Viceroy - Other colonial viceroyalties
• Viceroy - Other Viceroys in personal union
• Viceroy - Exotic counterparts
• Viceroy - China
• Viceroy - Informal use
• Viceroy - Sources and references

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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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A United Ireland is the common demand of Irish nationalists, envisaging that the island of Ireland (currently divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) be reunited as a single political entity. Nationalists have suggested many different models for unification, including federalism, and joint sovereignty, as well as a unitary state. Although nationalists and republicans wish for the reunification of Ireland, the island of Ireland has never existed as a single sovereign political state in the modern sense. Howeve ...

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• United Ireland - Kings and High Kings
• United Ireland - Confederate Ireland 1642-1649
• United Ireland - 1653-1921
• United Ireland - 1922-1998
• United Ireland - Present day

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Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (May 15, 1797 - July 28, 1863) was a politician and author of the United Kingdom. He was the son of Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (1755-1831) and great-grandson of Sir Constantine Henry Phipps (1656-1723). He studied at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the second President of the Cambridge Union Society, then sat for the family borough of Scarborough when he attained his majority. However after dissenting from the family politics, such as by speaking in ...

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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 - Origins
• Áras an Uachtaráin - Murder
• 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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Eamon de Valera[1] (born Edward George de Valera, sometimes Gaelicised Éamon de Bhailéara; October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975), was an Irish politician, best known as a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th Century, and the Republican ...

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• Eamon de Valera - Childhood
• Eamon de Valera - Early political activity
• Eamon de Valera - Easter Rising
• Eamon de Valera - President of Dáil Éireann
• Eamon de Valera - President of the Republic
• Eamon de Valera - The Treaty
• Eamon de Valera - Civil War
• Eamon de Valera - Entry into the Free State Dáil: the 'empty formula'
• Eamon de Valera - President of the Executive Council
• Eamon de Valera - De Valera's new Constitution - Bunreacht na hÉireann
• Eamon de Valera - Neutrality in World War II
• Eamon de Valera - Characteristics
• Eamon de Valera - Analysis
• Eamon de Valera - De Valera and Churchill clash on radio
• Eamon de Valera - Post-War Period
• Eamon de Valera - President of Ireland
• Eamon de Valera - Overview
• Eamon de Valera - Notes
• Eamon de Valera - First Cabinet March 1932-February 1933
• Eamon de Valera - Second Cabinet February 1933-July 1937
• Eamon de Valera - Changes
• Eamon de Valera - Third Cabinet July 1937-June 1938
• Eamon de Valera - Changes
• Eamon de Valera - Fourth Cabinet June 1938-July 1943
• Eamon de Valera - Changes
• Eamon de Valera - Fifth Cabinet July 1943-June 1944
• Eamon de Valera - Sixth Cabinet June 1944-February 1948
• Eamon de Valera - Changes
• Eamon de Valera - Seventh Cabinet June 1951-June 1954
• Eamon de Valera - Eighth Cabinet March 1957-June 1959
• Eamon de Valera - Changes
• Eamon de Valera - See Also

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William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (April 14, 1738 - October 30, 1809) was a British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. Lord Titchfield, the eldest son of the 2nd Duke of Portland, was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford and was elected to Parliament in 1761 before entering the Lords when he succeeded his father as Duke of Portland the next year. Associated with the aristocratic Whig party of Lord ...

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• William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke of Portland - The Duke of Portland's First Ministry April - December 1783
• William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke of Portland - The Duke of Portland's Second Ministry March 1807 - October 1809

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1575 - Events. February 13 - Henry III of France is crowned at Reims February 14 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont June 28 - Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsuyori in the battle of Nagashino, which has been called Japan's first 'modern' battle. August 5 - Henry Sidney is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. October 10 - Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.< ...

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1700 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1700 - Events. January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. January 1 - in around this year, Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, in ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1852 (MDCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). 1852 - Events. January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the TransvaalIncluding:

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Michael John "Mick" Collins was born in Sam's Cross, near Clonakilty, in County Cork, Ireland in 1890. Although most biographies list his date of birth as October 16, 1890, his tombstone lists his date of birth as October 12, 1890. His family, muintir Uí Choileáin, had once been the lords of Uí Chonaill, near Limerick, but like many Irish gentry, had become dispossessed and reduced to the level of ordinary farmers. Yet their farm of 145 acres (0.9 km²) made them wealthier and more comfortable than most Irish farmers of late ...

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Michael Collins Irish leader, Michael Collins Irish leader - Early life, Michael Collins Irish leader - The Easter Rising, Michael Collins Irish leader - The First Dáil, Michael Collins Irish leader - Minister for Finance, Michael Collins Irish leader - The Treaty, Michael Collins Irish leader - The Triple Approval, Michael Collins Irish leader - The Provisional Government, Michael Collins Irish leader - Sexual rumours, Michael Collins Irish leader - Collins' legacy, Michael Collins Irish leader - The film Michael Collins, Michael Collins Irish leader - Footnotes, Michael Collins Irish leader - See Also

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Born at the Palace of Placentia at Greenwich, Henry was the third child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Only three of Henry's six siblings, Arthur (the Prince of Wales), Margaret and Mary, survived infancy. His Lancastrian father acquired the throne by right of conquest, his army defeating and killing the last Plantagenet king Richard III, but further solidified his hold by marrying Elizabeth, the daughter of the Yorkist king Edward IV. In 1493, the young Henry was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. ...

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Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII of England - Early life, Henry VIII of England - Early reign, Henry VIII of England - The King's Great Matter, Henry VIII of England - Religious upheaval, Henry VIII of England - Birth of a Prince, Henry VIII of England - Major Acts, Henry VIII of England - Later years, Henry VIII of England - Death and succession, Henry VIII of England - Legacy, Henry VIII of England - Style and arms, Henry VIII of England - Issue, Henry VIII of England - Trivia

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Under the Irish Republic's Dáil Constitution adopted in 1919, Dáil Éireann continued to exist after it had ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty. In protest at the ratification, De Valera resigned the presidency of the Dáil then sought re-election from among its members (to clarify his mandate), but Arthur Griffith defeated him in the vote and assumed the presidency. (Griffith called himself President of Dáil É ...

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Provisional Government of Southern Ireland, Provisional Government of Southern Ireland - Overview, Provisional Government of Southern Ireland - List of ministers, Provisional Government of Southern Ireland - First cabinet 16 Jan.–30 Aug 1922., Provisional Government of Southern Ireland - Second cabinet 30 Aug.–6 Dec. 1922

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The Ministers and Secretaries Act in Section (1) Part (ix) defined the Department's role as follows The Department of Posts and Telegraphs which shall comprise the administration and business generally of public services in connection with posts, telegraphs, and telephones, and all powers, duties and functions connected with the same, and shall include in particular the business, powers, duties and functions of the branches and officers of the public services specified in the Eighth Part of the Schedule to this Act, and of w ...

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Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Ireland, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Ireland - Creation and origins, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Ireland - Legal definition, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Ireland - Responsibilities reform and abolition, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Ireland - Minister for the Post Office 1922-1924, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Ireland - Minister for Posts & Telegraphs 1924-1984

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Upon his return to Ireland in 1879 Davitt found the west was once again experiencing near famine conditions. It was one of the wettest years on record and the potato crop had failed for the third successive year. At a large meeting attended by Davitt in Irishtown, County Mayo on April 20 plans were made for a huge campaign of agitation to reduce rents. The target was a local Catholic priest, Canon Ulick Burke, who was forced to reduce hi ...

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Michael Davitt, Michael Davitt - Early years, Michael Davitt - Fenians, Michael Davitt - The Land War, Michael Davitt - Achievements, Michael Davitt - See Also, Michael Davitt - Notes

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Main article: Parliament of Ireland This body consisted of the King of Ireland and two chambers: the Irish House of Commons and the Irish House of Lords) which existed in Lordship of Ireland (1171-1541) and the Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1800). This parliament operated under major restrictions, including Poyning's Law and the Penal Laws, imposed by the English and British Crown, by the English and British Parliament and by the King-in-Council. Many of these restrictions were removed in 1782, producing what became known as the Con ...

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Historical Irish legislatures, Historical Irish legislatures - Parliament of Ireland, Historical Irish legislatures - Dáil Éireann 1919-1922, Historical Irish legislatures - Parliament of Southern Ireland 1920-1922, Historical Irish legislatures - Oireachtas of the Irish Free State 1922-1937, Historical Irish legislatures - Oireachtas Éireann 1937-present, Historical Irish legislatures - Legislatures in Northern Ireland, Historical Irish legislatures - Additional reading

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