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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin.[citation needed] Leinster was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy from 1741 before succeeding his father...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • partition parliament of Leinster House. The majority of delegates to a recent IRA convention purported to accept the Leinster House partition parliament...
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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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    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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    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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  • case abstain from taking up any seats won in Stormont, Westminster or Leinster House. After the June 2017 UK general election, which resulted in a hung parliament...
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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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    government departments and addresses such as Leinster House, Government Buildings, and the Mansion House. The borders of Dublin 2 are the Liffey in the...
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  • Westminster, and likewise, four members of Sinn Féin were elected to Leinster House in the 1957 Irish general election. In December 1956, at the beginning...
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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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    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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    Dukes of Leinster. The Dukes of Leinster dominated the political and social scene of 18th century Dublin, from their ducal palace of Leinster House (later...
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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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    not participating in the Dáil if elected. The 4th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 19 September to nominate the President of the Executive Council and...
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