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    Lord Mayor of Dublin (Irish: Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the honorary title of the chairperson (Irish: Cathaoirleach [ˈkahiːɾˠl̠ʲəx]) of Dublin City...
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  • The Lord Mayor of Dublin is the head of Dublin City Council and first citizen of Dublin. The title was created in 1229 as Mayor of Dublin. It was elevated...
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  • Lord mayor is a title of a mayor of what is usually a major city in a Commonwealth realm, with special recognition bestowed by the sovereign. However...
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    served as Lord Mayor of Dublin since June 2024. Born in Ranelagh, Dublin, Geoghegan is a son of Hugh Geoghegan and Mary Finlay Geoghegan, both of whom served...
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    Dawson Street, Dublin, which has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin since 1715, and was also the meeting place of the Dáil Éireann...
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    Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is...
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    Hazel Chu (category Lord Mayors of Dublin)
    first Irish-born person of Chinese descent elected to political office on the island of Ireland. She served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2020 to 2021, and...
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    a unicameral assembly. The name Dublin City Council was adopted for the unicameral assembly. The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided over the assembly. This...
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    31 December 2001. The long form of its name was The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Dublin. Dublin Corporation was established under...
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    evacuation that was later commended by members of the emergency services as well as the Lord Mayor of Dublin at the time, Peter Paul McSwiney. He is quoted...
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  • terms as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1904 to 1906. In 1877, he founded the Irish National Foresters' Benefit Society. He was Sheriff of Dublin City in 1896...
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  • member of Dublin Corporation, and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1947 to 1948. He was an unsuccessful Fine Gael candidate for the Dublin South constituency...
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    Spire of Light, was chosen from a large number of submissions in an international competition by a committee chaired by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Joe Doyle...
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    Daithí de Róiste (category Lord Mayors of Dublin)
    who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2023 to 2024. De Róiste graduated with a BA in History from University College Dublin and a Masters in Public...
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    of the state Jane Dowdall (1959), first female Lord Mayor of Cork Gerald Goldberg (1977), first Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork Lord Mayor of Dublin Lord Mayor...
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  • businessman who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1865 (the first time a Quaker held the office) and again in 1879. He was a member of the Irish Conservative...
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  • member of Dublin Corporation, and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1910 to 1911. He was High Sheriff of Dublin in 1909. "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021"...
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  • elections. He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1984 to 1985. He did not contest the 1991 local elections. While Lord Mayor, he led a campaign to Save...
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    allocation of €4.4 million to buy additional vehicles for the Gardaí. Former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Nial Ring, said he spoke to parents and children of the school...
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  • the Irish War of Independence Robert Briscoe, member of the Irish Republican Army during the Anglo-Irish War and twice Lord Mayor of Dublin (1956 and 1961)...
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    in Dublin, Ireland, which has become its unofficial anthem. A statue representing Molly Malone was unveiled on Grafton Street by then Lord Mayor of Dublin...
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    Benjamin Guinness (category Lord Mayors of Dublin)
    000-worth of Irish railway stock (worth over £135m in 2013 values, taken as a share of GDP). In 1851 he was elected the first Lord Mayor of Dublin under the...
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    Nial Ring (category Lord Mayors of Dublin)
    is a Dublin city councillor, who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from June 2018 to June 2019. An independent politician who was formerly a member of Fianna...
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    Tomás Mac Giolla (category Lord Mayors of Dublin)
    politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers' Party from 1962 to 1988 and President of Sinn Féin from 1962 to...
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    Dublin postal districts have been used by Ireland's postal service, known as An Post, to sort mail in Dublin. The system is similar to that used in cities...
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    Ireland. In 2020 Hazel Chu of the Green Party became the first Irish-born person of Chinese ethnicity to become Lord Mayor of Dublin. In doing so she was also...
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  • Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, although he was not the first Jewish Mayor in Ireland. That title belongs to William Annyas, who was elected Mayor of Youghal...
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  • Ben Briscoe (category Lord Mayors of Dublin)
    "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2020" (PDF). Dublin City Council. June 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2023. "Ben Briscoe Follows Father to Become Dublin's 2nd...
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    given Lord Mayor status, making it one of only three cities on the island of Ireland having a Lord Mayor, the other two being Cork and Dublin. In 1929...
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    Kingdom of Dublin that it reached its peak, in the 11th century. Early medieval legal texts provide a wealth of knowledge on the practice of slavery....
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