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1925 Seanad
The 1925 Seanad was the part of the Seanad of the Irish Free State (1922–1936) in office from the 1925 Seanad election to the 1928 Seanad election. Elections to the Seanad, the Senate of the Oireachtas (parliament of the Irish Free State), took place on a triennial basis, with senators elected in stages. The 1925 Seanad included members nominated and elected in 1922, members elected in the 1925 Seanad election, and members elected to fill vacancies. It sat as a second chamber to the 4th Dáil elected at the 1923 general election, the 5th Dáil elected at the June 1927 general election, and the 6th Dáil elected at the September 1927 general election. The Seanad of the Irish Free State was not numbered after each election, with the whole period later considered the First Seanad. Composition of the 1925 Seanad There were a total of 60 seats in the Free State Seanad. 19 Senators were elected at the 1925 Seanad election, which was the only Seanad popular election. In 1922 ...
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Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State)
Seanad Éireann (; ''Senate of Ireland'') was the upper house of the Oireachtas (Irish Free State), Oireachtas (parliament) of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1936. It has also been known simply as the Senate, First Seanad, Free State Senate or Free State Seanad. The Seanad was established under the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State. A number of constitutional amendments were made to change the manner of its election and its powers. It was eventually abolished in 1936 when it attempted to obstruct constitutional reforms favoured by the government. It sat, like its modern successor, in Leinster House. Powers The Seanad was subordinate to Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State), Dáil Éireann (the lower house) and could delay but not veto decisions of that house. Nonetheless, the Free State Senate had more power than its successor, the modern Seanad Éireann, which can only delay normal legislation for 90 days. As originally adopted the constitution provided that the Free Sta ...
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4th Dáil
The 4th Dáil was elected at the 1923 general election on 27 August 1923 and met on 19 September 1923. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Irish Free State, are known as TDs. It was one of two houses of the Oireachtas, sitting with the First Seanad constituted as the 1922 Seanad and the 1925 Seanad. Although Cumann na nGaedheal did not have a majority it was able to govern due to the absence of Republicans (Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin) who refused to attend. The 4th Dáil was dissolved by Governor-General Tim Healy on 23 May 1927, at the request of the President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave. The 4th Dáil lasted . Composition of the 4th Dáil Cumann na nGaedheal, denoted with bullet (), formed the 2nd executive council of the Irish Free State. Graphical representation This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 4th Dáil from September 1923. This was not the official seating plan. The Rep ...
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Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl Of Mayo
Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo (; ; 2 July 1851 – 31 December 1927) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Lord Naas (; ) from 1867 to 1872, who served as an List of Irish representative peers, Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords (1890–1921) and member of the Senate of Southern Ireland (1921–1922) and Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State), Seanad Éireann (1922–1927). Life He succeeded as Earl of Mayo on the death of his father Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo in 1872. He was educated at Eton College, Eton, and was an officer in the 10th Hussars and the Grenadier Guards. In 1890 he was elected as an List of Irish representative peers, Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 3 February 1905. He was one of the four landlord representatives during the 1902 Land Conference. Between 1921 and 1922 he served in the Senate of Southern Ireland. He was nominated by W. T. Co ...
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Martin Fitzgerald (politician)
Martin Thomas Fitzgerald (9 November 1865 – 9 March 1927) was an Irish politician. Born on Main Street, Charlestown, County Mayo, he moved to Dublin at an early age. He was an independent member of Seanad Éireann Seanad Éireann ( ; ; "Senate of Ireland") is the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (defined as the house of representatives). It is commonly called the Seanad or ... from 1922 to 1927. He was nominated to the Seanad by the President of the Executive Council in 1922 for 12 years. He died in office in 1927. He was the last owner of the '' Freeman's Journal''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzgerald, Martin 1865 births 1927 deaths Politicians from County Mayo Independent members of Seanad Éireann Members of the 1922 Seanad Members of the 1925 Seanad People from Charlestown, County Mayo ...
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Stephen O'Mara (senator)
Stephen O'Mara (26 December 1844 – 26 July 1926) was an Irish nationalist politician and businessman from Limerick. Personal life O'Mara's father James O'Mara was an early supporter of Isaac Butt, and owned a bacon factory in Limerick. Stephen entered the family business. His brother Joseph O'Mara became an opera singer. Stephen married Ellen Pigott in 1867. They had 12 children, of whom the first three died of diphtheria in 1872. Sons James and Stephen, Jnr became prominent Irish republicans and radicalised their father's later political views. A daughter Ellen, was also a nationalist, and she and her husband started the most prolific Irish Silent film company, Film Company of Ireland. Political career O'Mara joined Limerick Corporation in 1881, becoming the first Nationalist Mayor of Limerick in 1885. He served again the following year, and headed a campaign to raise funds for an organ for the Limerick Athenaeum. In a by-election in February 1886, he was returned un ...
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Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl Of Dunraven And Mount-Earl
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, soldier, sportsman and Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Salisbury from 1885 to 1886 and 1886 to 1887. He also successfully presided over the 1902 Land Conference and was the founder of the Irish Reform Association. He recruited two regiments of sharpshooters, leading them in the Boer War and later establishing a unit in Ireland. He held the office of a Senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1926. A big game hunter, in 1874 Dunraven claimed 15,000 acres in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, determined to make the area a game park. He built a tourist hotel there but sold the land in the early 20th century, as he was under continuous pressure from settlers trying to encroach on his holdings. Early years Lord Dunraven was born a ...
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Faber And Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originated in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror''. The Gwyers' desire t ...
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President Of The Executive Council Of The Irish Free State
The president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State () was the head of government or prime minister of the Irish Free State which existed from 1922 to 1937. He was the chairman of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, the Free State's cabinet (government), cabinet. The president was appointed by the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, governor-general, upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State), Dáil Éireann (the lower house of parliament) and had to enjoy the confidence of the Dáil to remain in office. The office was succeeded by that of taoiseach, though subsequent Taoisigh are numbered from the first president of the Executive. Appointment The president of the Executive Council was nominated by the Dáil and then formally appointed by the governor-general, though the governor-general was bound by constitutional convention (political custom), constitutional convention to honour the Dáil's choice. On paper, executive (government), exe ...
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Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State)
Dáil Éireann () served as the directly elected lower house of the Oireachtas (Irish Free State), Oireachtas of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937. The Constitution of the Irish Free State, Free State constitution described the role of the house as that of a "Chamber of Deputies". Until 1936 the Free State Oireachtas also included an upper house known as the Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State), Seanad. Like its modern successor, the Free State Dáil was, in any case, the dominant component of the legislature; it effectively had authority to enact almost any law it chose, and to appoint and dismiss the President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, President of the Executive Council (prime minister). The Free State Dáil ceased to be with the creation of the modern 'Dáil Éireann' under the terms of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. Both the Dáil and Seanad sat in Leinster House. Composition Under the Constitution of the Irish Free State, Free State constitut ...
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Universal Suffrage
Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the " one person, one vote" principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion of the young and non-citizens (among others). At the same time, some insist that more inclusion is needed before suffrage can be truly universal. Democratic theorists, especially those hoping to achieve more universal suffrage, support presumptive inclusion, where the legal system would protect the voting rights of all subjects unless the government can clearly prove that disenfranchisement is necessary. Universal full suffrage includes both the right to vote, also called active suffrage, and the right to be elected, also called passive suffrage. History In the first modern democracies, governments restricted the vote to those with property and wealth, which almost always meant a minority of the male population. In some jurisdiction ...
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September 1927 Irish General Election
The September 1927 Irish general election to the 6th Dáil was held on Thursday, 15 September, following the dissolution of the 5th Dáil on 25 August by Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Governor-General Tim Healy (politician), Tim Healy on the request of President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave. The 6th Dáil met on 11 October 1927 to nominate the president and Executive Council of the Irish Free State, Executive Council of the Irish Free State for appointment by the Governor-General. Cosgrave was re-appointed leading a 4th Executive Council of the Irish Free State, new minority government of Cumann na nGaedheal with the support of the Farmers' Party (Ireland), Farmers' Party. Campaign The second general election of 1927 followed tight political arithmetic within Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State), Dáil Éireann. Only three seats separated the two largest parties in the 5th Dáil, Cumann na nGaedheal ...
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6th Dáil
The 6th Dáil was elected at the September 1927 general election on 15 September 1927 and met on 11 October 1927. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Irish Free State, are known as TDs. It was one of two houses of the Oireachtas, sitting with the First Seanad constituted as the 1925 Seanad, the 1928 Seanad and the 1931 Seanad. The 6th Dáil was dissolved on 29 January 1932 by Governor-General James McNeill, at the request of the President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave. The 6th Dáil lasted . Composition of the 6th Dáil Government party denoted with bullet () Graphical representation This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 6th Dáil from October 1927. This was not the official seating plan. Ceann Comhairle On 11 October 1927, Michael Hayes (CnaG), who had been Ceann Comhairle The (; "Head of heCouncil"; plural usually ) is the chairperson (or speaker) of , the lower hous ...
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