John MacBride - John MacBride Major John MacBride (7 May, 1865 - 5 May, 1916) was an Irish republican who was executed for his leading role in the Easter Rising of 1916. John MacBride was born on 7 May 1865 in Westport, County Mayo. He studied medicine, but gave it up and began working with a chemist firm instead. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and became friends with Michael Cusack, who founded the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Beginning in 1893, MacBride was termed a "dangerous nationalist" by the British government. In 1896 he went to the United States on behalf of the IRB. On his return he emigrated to South Africa. He took part in the Boer war, where he was commissioned with the rank of major.
Seán MacBride - Seán MacBride Seán MacBride (26 January, 1904, 15 January, 1988) was an Irish politician, revolutinary & statesman. He served as Irish Minister for External Affairs, founded a small Irish republican party called Clann na Poblachta and was a winner of both the Nobel Peace Prize (1974) and the Lenin Peace Prize . MacBride was born in Paris. He was the son of Major John MacBride and Maud Gonne. His first language was French but he was sent to school in County Wexford in Ireland. He joined the Irish Volunteers and was an active member of the War of Independence and supported the Republican side after the Treaty. MacBride was imprisoned several times and went on the run to London and Paris. He returned to Ireland in 1936.
Roger MacBride - Roger MacBride Roger MacBride was the first presidential elector to cast a vote for a woman when, in 1972, he voted for the Libertarian Party candidates John Hospers for President and Theodora Nathan for Vice President. MacBride went on to be the Libertarian Party candidate for President in 1976..
Jim Mitchell - from 2001 until 2002. Jim Mitchell began his political involvement at the age of 11 when he supported Sean MacBride, leader of the radical republican Clann na Poblachta in the 1957 general election. He joined Fine Gael in 1967, becoming that party's candidate in a by-election in 1970. He sought a party nomination to run in the 1973 Irish general election. However he agreed not to contest the seat to allow Declan Costello, a senior figure in his party and son of former Taoiseach John A. Costello, to be elected. Costello went on to serve as Attorney-General in the 1973-1977 National Coalition of Fine Gael and Labour. Mitchell was elected to Dublin Corporation in 1974. In 1976, aged 29, he became the youngest ever Lord Mayor of Dublin. In 1976 Mitchell.
Ireland in the 20th Century - The All-Ireland Champions are London (hurling) and Dublin (football) 1902 Archbishop Croke, patron of the GAA, dies at the age of 78. Waterford City confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond. The centenary of the Christian Brothers is celebrated. The UK Liberal Party stops its support for Home Rule. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Dublin (football) 1903 St. Patrick's day becomes a national holiday in Ireland. Erskine Childers publishes The Riddle of the Sands. The Wyndham Land Act is passed - it solves the land purchase problem. The Independent Orange Order is founded in Belfast. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Kerry (football) 1904 The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin June 10 - Bloomsday. James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle for the first time. The All-Ireland.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan - been murdered by his wife. It stars Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, John Emery, Donald MacBride, Don Costello, Halliwell Hobbes and Benny Rubin. The movie was adapted by Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall. It was directed by Alexander Hall. It won Academy Awards for Best Writing, Original Story and Best Writing, Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Robert Montgomery), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (James Gleason), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Director and Best Picture. Here Comes Mr. Jordan was followed up in 1947 by Down to Earth, in which many of the same characters and actors reprised their roles. It was remade several times, with different titles:.
U.S. presidential election, 1972 - 17 28,901,598 37.5% Democrat R. Sargent Shriver of Maryland (17) John Hospers of California 1 3,676 0.0% Libertarian Theodora Nathan of Oregon (1) Other 0 1,374,584 1.8% Total 538 77,718,514 100.0% Other elections: 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register George McGovern ran on a platform of ending the Vietnam War and instituting guaranteed minimum incomes for the nation's poor. Between difficulties with his running-mate, Thomas Eagleton (who he eventually dropped and replaced with Sargent Shriver), and the Republicans' successful campaign to paint him as unacceptably radical, he suffered a landslide defeat of 61%-38% to sitting President Richard Nixon. The Watergate burglary to steal Democratic Party information during the election laid the seeds for Nixon's later downfall. Conservative congressman John G. Schmitz of the.
Glasnevin Cemetery - monuments and the occasional contemporary shabbiness that evokes a third-world air in the middle of the burgeoning Celtic Tiger capital. Glasnevin Cemetery reminds us how very recent Ireland's rise to economic power really is. As yet, the boom town Dublin has not found the time to prettify its past as it is represented at Glasnevin. Broken coverstones through which one may peer into the walled crypts make Glasnevin a memento mori that can no longer be found in most of the developed world's garden cemeteries that aim to pacify, hide and obliterate, not remember, death. Famous people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery Daniel O'Connell - dominant Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s. Charles Stewart Parnell - dominant Irish political leader from 1875 to 1891. Sir John Grey - Irish 19th century.
Government of the 13th Dáil - Government of Ireland - (18 February 1948-13 June 1951) John A. Costello, FG - An Taoiseach William Norton, LAB - An Tánaiste and Minister for Social Welfare Seán MacBride, CnaP - Minister for External Affairs Patrick McGilligan, FG - Minister for Finance Daniel Morrissey, FG - Minister for Industry & Commerce (to: 7.3.1951) Minister for Justice (from: 7.3.1951) Timothy J. Murphy, FG - Minister for Local Government (died : 29.4.49) Noel Browne, CnaP - Minister for Health (11.4.1951: resigned) James Dillon,FG - Minister for Agriculture Richard Mulcahy, FG - Minister for Education Seán MacEoin, FG - Minister for Justice (to: 7.3.1951) Minister for Defence (from: 7.3.1951) Thomas F. O'Higgins, FG - Minister for Defence (to: 7.3.1951) Minister for Industry & Commerce (from: 7.3.1951) James Everett, FG - Minister for Posts &.
Éire - Affairs were signed in the name of King George. De Valera did have a history of making statements on constitutional matters that were legally questionable. His belief that the Governor-General's post had been abolished by a constitutional amendment in December 1936 was privately rejected by his own Attorney-General, James Geoghegan, Secretary to the Executive Council (ie, the state's main civil servant and his own closest advisor), Maurice Moynihan, the Parliamentary Draftsman's Office (which drafted legislation) and other leading legal figures in the government. To sort out what was privately seen as a legal mess, de Valera had had to introduce a second enactment, the Executive Power (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which he retrospectively backdated to the original date of the supposed abolition in December 1936. In 1947, de Valera's new Attorney-General,.
Three Laws of Robotics - orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict the First or Second Law. Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell from a conversation made on December 23, 1940. However, Campbell claims that Asimov had the Laws already in his mind, and they simply needed to be stated explicitly. Although Asimov pins the Laws creation on one date, their appearance in his literature happened over a period of time. Asimov wrote two stories without the Three Laws mentioned explicitly ("Robbie" and "Reason"); Asimov assumed, however, that robots would have certain inherent safeguards. "Liar", Asimov's third robot story makes the first mention of the First Law, but none of the others. All three laws finally appeared together.
Clann na Poblachta - party founded by former IRA Chief of Staff Sean MacBride in (1946). In 1946 Sean MacBride founded a new political party - Clann na Poblachta. The party appealed to disillusioned young urban voters, and republicans who had lost hope of achieving anything through violence. Many had become alienated from Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil, the main republican party in Ireland but which in the view of extreme republicans had betrayed republicans during World War II by executing IRA prisoners, in part due to IRA connections with german Nazis. Clann na Poblachta party drew support from young people who were tired of the old nationalist policies and wanted more concern for social issues. In post-war Europe many people blamed the social evils of uneployment, poor housing, poverty and disease for the rise.
Philip K. Dick Memorial Award - Artificial Things Robert Charles Wilson A Hidden Place 1987 Patricia Geary Strange Toys Mike McQuay Memories Richard Bowker Dover Beach Pat Cadigan Mindplayers K. W. Jeter Dark Seeker Rebecca Ore Becoming Alien Lucius Shepard Life During Wartime 1988 Paul J. McAuley (tie) Four Hundred Billion Stars Rudy Rucker (tie) Wetware Roger MacBride Allen Orphan of Creation Marc Laidlaw Neon Lotus David Alexander Smith Rendezvous 1989 Richard Paul Russo Subterranean Gallery Dave Wolverton On My Way to Paradise Barry B. Longyear Infinity Hold James Luceno A Fearful Symmetry Rebecca Ore Being Alien Susan Shwartz Heritage of Flight 1990 Pat Murphy Points of Departure Raymond Harris The Schizogenic Man Gregory Feeley The Oxygen Barons Elizabeth Hand Winterlong Allen M. Steele Clarke County, Space 1991 Ian McDonald (tie) King of Morning, Queen of Day.
William Butler Yeats - dramatist and mystic. He served as an Irish Senator in the 1920s. Born in Dublin, in 1865, the firstborn of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats. In 1877, W.B. entered Godolphin school, which he attended for four years, after which he continued his education at Erasmus Smith High School, in Dublin. For a time (from 1884 - 1886), he attended the Metropolitan School of Art. In 1885, Yeats' first poems were published, in the Dublin University Review. In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, a young heiress who was beginning to devote herself to the Irish nationalist movement. Gonne admired Yeats' early poem The Isle of Statues and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with Gonne, and she was to have a significant effect on his poetry and.
Nobel Peace Prize - 1923-1924 : Not awarded. ; 1925 : Sir Austen Chamberlain (UK) for the Locarno Treaty. : Charles Gates Dawes (USA), chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission and originator of the Dawes Plan. ; 1926 : Aristide Briand (France) for the Locarno Treaties. : Gustav Stresemann (Germany) for the Locarno Treaties. ; 1927 : Ferdinand Buisson (France), founder and president of the League for Human Rights. : Ludwig Quidde (Germany), delegate to numerous peace conferences. ; 1928 : Not awarded. ; 1929 : Frank B. Kellogg (USA) for the Briand-Kellogg Pact. ; 1930 : Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Söderblom (Sweden), leader of the ecumenical movement. ; 1931 : Jane Addams (USA), international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom : Nicholas Murray Butler (USA) for promoting the Briand-Kellogg.
Maud Gonne - Maud Gonne Maud Gonne MacBride (1865-1953), Irish revolutionary and actress. Maud Gonne was born in Hampshire in England in 1865. Her mother died while Maud was still a child, and so she was sent to France to be educated. In 1882 her father, an army officer, was posted to Dublin. She accompanied him and remained with him until his death. She returned to France after a bout of tuberculosis and fell in love with a politician. They agreed to fight for Irish freedom and the regaining of Alsace and Lorraine for France. She returned to Ireland and worked tirelessly for the release of Irish political prisoners from jail. In 1890 she returned to France where she once again met the politician Lucien Millevoye. Between 1893 and 1895 the couple had.
List of science fiction authors - K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Lynn Abbey (born 1948) Edwin Abbot (1838-1926) Kobo Abe (1924-1993) Robert Abernathy (1924-1990) Forrest J. Ackerman (born 1916) Douglas Adams, (1952-2001) Jerry Ahern, (born 1946) Brian Aldiss, (born 1925) Lloyd Alexander, (born 1924) Roger MacBride Allen, (born 1957) Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995) Colin Anderson Kevin J. Anderson (born 1962) Poul Anderson, (1926-2001) Piers Anthony, (born 1934) Catherine Asaro, (born 1955) Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992) Janet Asimov, (born 1926) Robert Asprin, (born 1946) B Kage Baker, (born 1952) J.G. Ballard, (born 1930) Iain M. Banks, (born 1954) John Barnes, (born 1957) Steven Barnes, (born 1952) T. J. Bass, (born 1932)(Thomas J. Bassler) L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919) Stephen Baxter, (born 1957) Greg Bear, (born 1951) Charles Beaumont, (1929-1967).
List of Irish people - extent of Irish emigration, talented people of Irish birth or descent have become known throughout the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Art 1.1 Architecture 1.2 Actors 1.3 Music 1.4 Dance 1.5 Writing 2 Politics 3 Science and technology 4 Sport 5 Other Art Francis Bacon, painter Robert Ballagh, painter, Aosdána John Behan, sculptor, Aosdána John Coll, sculptor Pauline Bewick, Aosdána Louis le Brocquy, Saoi of Aosdána, painter Dorothy Cross, various media, Aosdána Edward Delaney, sculptor, Aosdána Evie Hone stained glass Gene Lambert, painter, Aosdána Sir William Lavery painter Daniel Maclise Anne Madden, Aosdána William Orpen Patrick Pye, sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, Aosdána Camille Souter, painter, Aosdána Imogen Stuart, sculptor, Aosdána Jack B Yeats Patrick Collins, Saoi of Aosdána Tony O'Malley, Saoi of Aosdána Architecture Eileen Gray James Hoban.
List of Irish Foreign Ministers - party to which he minister belonged is bold italicised. Eamon de Valera 1933-1948 (d.1975) Fianna Fáil1 Sean MacBride 1948-1951 (d.1988) 1st Inter-Party Government (Fine Gael, Labour, National Labour, Clann na Poblachta, Clann na Talmhan, independents) Frank Aiken 1951-1954 (d.1983) Fianna Fáil Liam Cosgrave 1954-1957 2nd Inter-Party Government (Fine Gael, Labour) Frank Aiken 1957-1969 (d.1983) Fianna Fáil Patrick Hillery 1969-1972 Fianna Fáil Brian Lenihan 1972-1973 (d.1995) Fianna Fáil Garret FitzGerald 1973-1977 National Coalition (Fine Gael, Labour) Michael O'Kennedy 1977-1979 Fianna Fáil Brian Lenihan 1979-1981 (d.1995) Fianna Fáil John M. Kelly 1981 (acting)2 (Fine Gael, Labour) Senator James Dooge 1981-1982 (Fine Gael, Labour) Gerard Collins 1982 Fianna Fáil Peter Barry 1982-1987 (Fine Gael, Labour) Peter Barry 1987 3 Fine Gael Brian Lenihan 1987-1989 (d.1995) Fianna Fáil Gerard Collins 1989-1992 Fianna Fáil, Progressive Democrats.
List of Irish Politicians - Minister for Health (1948-1951) Cathal Brugha, Minister for Defence in the 1st Dáil John Bruton, FG, Taoiseach (1994-1997) Richard Bruton, FG, Former Minister for Industry & Commerce (1994-1997) Ray Burke, FF, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs (1997) Erskine Hamilton Childers, FF, Tánaiste (1969-1973) & Fourth President of Ireland (1973-1974) Frank Cluskey, LAB, Irish Labour Party leader (1977-1981) George Colley, FF, Tánaiste (1977-1981) Gerard Collins, FF, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Collins, Minister for Finance in the 1st Dáil Brendan Corish, LAB, Tánaiste (1973-1977) Liam Cosgrave, FG, Taoiseach (1973-1977) W. T. Cosgrave, CnaG & FG, President of the Executive Council (1923-1932) John A. Costello, FG, Taoiseach (1948-1951 & 1954-1957) Mary Coughlan, FF, Minister for Social & Family Affairs (2002-present) Brian Cowen, FF, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2000-present) Martin Cullen, PD, Minister.
