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    Leinster House (Irish: Teach Laighean) is the seat of the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland. Originally, it was the ducal palace of the Dukes of Leinster...
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    Leinster (/ˈlɛnstər/ LEN-stər; Irish: Laighin [ˈl̪ˠəinʲ] or Cúige Laighean [ˌkuːɟə ˈl̪ˠəinˠ]) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the southeast...
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    eldest son and heir of the Duke of Leinster is Marquess of Kildare. The Duke of Leinster is the head of the House of Kildare. The 3rd Duke of Schomberg...
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    Neoclassical style. Hoban modeled the building on Leinster House in Dublin, a building which today houses the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. Constructed...
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    a senate called Seanad Éireann. The houses of the Oireachtas sit in Leinster House in Dublin, an eighteenth-century ducal palace. The directly elected...
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    returned to Fitzgerald's native Ireland, first residing at Leinster House then Carton House. Their marriage was reportedly a happy one, despite Lord Kildare's...
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    Amschel, founder of the House of Rothschild. The present-day seat of the Irish Parliament Dáil Éireann is housed in Leinster House, which was first built...
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    remove the Taoiseach (head of government). Since 1922, it has met in Leinster House in Dublin. The Dáil took its current form when the 1937 Constitution...
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    Kildare House (later renamed Leinster House), built for The 20th Earl of Kildare (later created The 1st Duke of Leinster) between 1745 and 1751. In 1741...
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    created Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and took his seat in the British House of Lords that same...
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    Carton House is a country house and surrounding demesne that was the ancestral seat of the Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster for over 700 years. Located...
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  • for a "sterile area" around Leinster House to avoid future disruptions to politicians movement in and out of Leinster House and said that the protest was...
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    The Kingdom of Leinster (Irish: Ríocht Laighean) was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland which existed in the east of the island from the Irish Iron Age until...
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    The current parliament building is Leinster House. In the 17th century, parliament settled at Chichester House, a townhouse in Hoggen Green (later College...
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    parliaments of Northern Ireland (Stormont) or the Republic of Ireland (Leinster House), so the party does not register itself with them. The party emerged...
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  • ramming his van into the gates of Áras an Uachtaráin, the Custom House, Leinster House, Government Buildings and the Attorney General's Office in the early...
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  • laboratory in Leinster House, they were unable to find one. The first Spring Show was held in April 1831 on the grounds of Leinster House, Kildare Street...
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    Murray Leinster (/ˈlɛnstər/) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly...
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    Dublin (category Leinster)
    Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains...
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    Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State) (category Defunct lower houses)
    of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. Both the Dáil and Seanad sat in Leinster House. Under the Free State constitution, membership of Dáil Éireann was open...
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    Seanad Éireann (category National upper houses)
    introduce new legislation. Since its establishment, it has been located in Leinster House. Under Article 18 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann consists of 60...
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    51.512611; -0.18361 Leinster Gardens is a street in Bayswater, London. It is lined with tall, ornate, mid-Victorian terraced houses, many of which are...
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    houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House...
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    including: the residence of the President of Ireland, Áras an Uachtaráin; Leinster House, the seat of the Irish parliament, when parliament is in session[citation...
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    is named after James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster and 20th Earl of Kildare, who built Leinster House. The street was previously known as Coote Street...
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    questioned by it. Per Bunreacht na hÉireann, when addressing a committee in Leinster House, contributors are protected by limited parliamentary privilege, but...
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    defeating the outgoing Fine Gael–Labour government. The 21st Dáil met at Leinster House on 5 July to nominate the Taoiseach for appointment by the president...
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    travelling Ireland and internationally including Greenland. The museum in Leinster House opened to the public two days a week from 1832, having been previously...
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    Terryglass The Book of Leinster (Middle Irish: Lebor Laignech [ˈl͈ʲevər ˈlaɣʲnʲəx], LL) is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled c. 1160 and now kept in...
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    RMS Leinster was an Irish ship operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She served as the Kingstown-Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed...
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