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1928 Seanad
The 1928 Seanad was the part of the Seanad of the Irish Free State (1922–1936) in office from the 1928 Seanad election to the 1931 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 1928 Seanad included members nominated in 1922, and members elected at the 1922, 1925 and 1928 Seanad elections. It sat as a second chamber to 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 1928 Seanad There were a total of 60 seats in the Free State Seanad. In 1928, 17 Senators were elected. The previous Seanad election in 1925 was a popular election. However, at the 1928 and subsequent Free State Seanad elections, the franchise was restricted to Oireachtas members. 19 Senators had been elected at the 1925 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Browne
Kathleen Anne Browne (1 October 1878 – 9 October 1943) was an Irish politician, farmer, writer, historian and archaeologist. She was arrested after the Easter Rising and held in Kilmainham Gaol. During the Civil War, she was Pro-Treaty and joined Cumann na nGaedheal. She was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1929 to 1936. She was a fluent speaker of Yola, an Anglic language of Wexford. Early life Browne was born on 1 October 1878 to Michael Browne, a farmer, shopkeeper and local politician, and Mary Eleanor Stafford. She was the eldest of five children. Her father's family was of Norman extraction and had lived at Rathcronan Castle since the 13th century. Her mother's family lived in Baldwinstown Castle, County Wexford. Michael Browne was a poor law guardian and a member of Wexford's first County Council. He supported Home Rule and had worked with Charles Stewart Parnell. Browne was educated at a convent school in Wexford. As a child, she shared her father's interest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick W
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Bryan Mahon
Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, (2 April 1862 – 29 September 1930) was an Irish general of the British Army, a senator of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland, and a member for eight years of the Irish Free State Senate until his death. Military career Bryan Thomas Mahon was born at Belleville, County Galway, on 2 April 1862. After having served in the Galway Militia, into which he had been commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1879, he transferred to the 21st Hussars in January 1883, before finally transferring to the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars in February 1883. He was promoted to captain in April 1888. After being seconded for service with the Egyptian Army in January 1893, he served in Sudan in the Dongola Expedition in 1896 as a staff officer to Major General Sir Herbert Kitchener, and was present at the Battle of Ferkeh and the operations at Hafir. He was promoted to major in October 1897. In 1899, he took part in the final defeat of the Khalifa as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nugent Everard
Sir Nugent Talbot Everard, 1st Baronet (24 October 1849 – 12 July 1929) was an Irish senator nominated to the 1922 Seanad Éireann. He was born 24 October 1849 in Torquay, Devonshire, England, the eldest son of Captain Richard Nugent Everard, officer in the British army, and his wife Barbara Everard (née O'Reilly) of Ballinlough Castle, County Westmeath. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA 1875). In 1863, at the age of 13, he had inherited the family estate in Ireland at Randlestown, near Navan, County Meath. About 1870 he settled at Randlestown. He took up farming on the estate, at that time containing 2,311 acres. In the general election of 1892 he stood as unionist candidate in the West Cavan constituency, but was not elected. In 1902 he was one of the landlord representatives during the 1902 Land Conference. He was commissioned as a supernumerary Lieutenant in the part-time Royal Meath Militia (later the 5th Battalion, Prince of Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess Of Lansdowne
Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, Distinguished Service Order, DSO, Royal Victorian Order, MVO (14 January 1872 – 5 March 1936), styled Earl of Kerry until 1927, was a British soldier and politician. Background Lansdowne was the son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and his wife, Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, Maud, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Louisa Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, Lady Louisa Russell. Military career Lord Kerry was originally commissioned into a volunteer battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, but transferred to the regular army as a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 14 August 1895, and was promoted to Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant on 2 March 1898. He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War, where he was fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Stopford Green
Alice Stopford Green (30 May 1847 – 28 May 1929) was an Irish historian, nationalist, and member of the first Seanad Éireann. Early life She was born Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford in Kells, County Meath. Her father Edward Adderley Stopford was Rector of Kells and Archdeacon of Meath. Her paternal grandfather was Edward Stopford, the Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath, and she was a cousin of Stopford Brooke and Mother Mary Clare. From 1874 to 1877, Alice Stopford lived in London where she met the historian John Richard Green. They were married in Chester on 14 June 1877. He died suddenly in 1883 and left his widow a substantial income and a network of important contacts who helped her launch her own career as an historian and author. One of those contacts, John Morley, commissioned her first solely written historical work, ''Henry the Second'', published in 1888. Political engagement In the 1890s, Stopford Green became interested in Irish history and the nationalist move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sears (politician)
William Frederick Sears (1868 – 23 March 1929) was an Irish Sinn Féin and later Cumann na nGaedheal politician. Sears was born in Neale, County Mayo in 1868. He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for the Mayo South constituency at the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though Sears did not attend as he was in prison. He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Mayo South–Roscommon South constituency at the 1921 elections. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted for it. He was re-elected unopposed for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, this time as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TD. He was elected as a Cumann na nGaedheal Cumann na nGaedheal (; ) was a political party in the Irish Free State, which formed the government from 1923 to 1932. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
