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Acts of Union 1800

The Acts of Union 1800 were parallel acts of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Adoption of the Constitution of Ireland

The current Constitution of Ireland came into effect on 29 December 1937, repealing and replacing the Constitution of the Irish Free State, having been approved in a national plebiscite on 1 July 1937 with the support of 56.5% of voters in the then Irish Free State.

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Albert Reynolds

Albert Martin Reynolds (3 November 1932 – 21 August 2014) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1992 to 1994.

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Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland

Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum.

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Anglo-Irish Treaty

The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.

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Apportionment (politics)

Apportionment is the process by which seats in a legislative body are distributed among administrative divisions, such as states or parties, entitled to representation.

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Bicameralism

Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Catherine Connolly

Catherine Connolly (born 12 July 1957) is an Irish independent politician who has been serving as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann since July 2020.

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Ceann Comhairle

The italics ("Head of Council"; plural usually Cinn Comhairle) is the chairperson (or speaker) of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of Ireland. Dáil Éireann and Ceann Comhairle are 1919 establishments in Ireland.

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Chamber of Deputies

The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures.

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Committees of the Oireachtas

Committees of the Oireachtas are committees and sub-committees and select committees of Dáil Éireann and Joint Committees of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann, that are small groups of TDs and senators of the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. Dáil Éireann and committees of the Oireachtas are Oireachtas.

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Comptroller and Auditor General (Ireland)

The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) (An tArd-Reachtaire Cuntas agus Ciste) is the constitutional officer responsible for public audit in Ireland.

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Constituency Commission

The Constituency Commission (An Coimisiún um Thoghlaigh) is an independent commission in Ireland which had advised on redrawing of constituency boundaries of Dáil constituencies for the election of members to Dáil Éireann (the house of representatives of the Oireachtas) and European Parliament constituencies prior to the establishment of the Electoral Commission in 2023.

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Constitution (Amendment No. 4) Act 1927

The Constitution (Amendment No. 4) Act 1927 (act no. 5 of 1927, previously bill no. 36 of 1926) was an Act of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State which had been adopted in 1922.

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Constitution of Ireland

The Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) is the fundamental law of Ireland.

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Constitution of the Irish Free State

The Constitution of the Irish Free State (Bunreacht Shaorstát Éireann) was adopted by Act of Dáil Éireann sitting as a constituent assembly on 25 October 1922.

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Convention Centre Dublin

The Convention Centre Dublin is a convention centre in the Dublin Docklands, Ireland.

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Cormac Devlin

Cormac Devlin (born 30 August 1980) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency since the 2020 general election.

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Council of State (Ireland)

The Council of State (an Chomhairle Stáit) is a body established by the Constitution of Ireland to advise the President of Ireland in the exercise of many of their discretionary, reserve powers.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the president of Ireland and a senate called Seanad Éireann. Dáil Éireann and Dáil Éireann are 1919 establishments in Ireland, national lower houses and Oireachtas.

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Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State)

Dáil Éireann served as the directly elected lower house of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937.

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Dáil Éireann confidence motions

If a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach or Government of Ireland is passed by Dáil Éireann, or a motion of confidence is defeated, then the Constitution requires both the Taoiseach and the Government to resign.

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Dáil constituencies

There are 39 multi-member electoral districts, known as Dáil constituencies, that elect 160 TDs (members of parliament), to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV), to a maximum term of five years.

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Dáil Constitution

The Constitution of Dáil Éireann (Bunreacht Dála Éireann), more commonly known as the Dáil Constitution, was the constitution of the 1919–22 Irish Republic.

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Dáil election results

This is a summary of the results of general elections to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament, from 1918 to the present.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dissolution of parliament

The dissolution of a legislative assembly (or parliament) is the simultaneous termination of service of all of its members, in anticipation that a successive legislative assembly will reconvene later with possibly different members.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Elections in the Republic of Ireland

In Ireland, direct elections by universal suffrage are used for the President, the ceremonial head of state; for Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas or parliament; for the European Parliament; and for local government.

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Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 (No. 39) is a law of Ireland which revised Dáil constituencies.

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Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 is a law of Ireland to revise Dáil constituencies and European Parliament constituencies.

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Electoral Commission (Ireland)

The Electoral Commission (An Coimisiún Toghcháin) is an election commission with responsibility for the oversight of all elections in Ireland, including electoral operations, constituency reviews and electoral integrity.

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Electoral district

An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or (election) precinct, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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February 1982 Irish general election

The February 1982 Irish general election to the 23rd Dáil was held on Thursday, 18 February, three weeks after the dissolution of the 22nd Dáil on 27 January by President Patrick Hillery on the request of Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald on the defeat of the government's budget.

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Fianna Fáil

Fianna Fáil (meaning "Soldiers of Destiny" or "Warriors of Fál"), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a political party in Ireland.

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Fine Gael

Fine Gael (English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish" is a liberal-conservative and Christian democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil Éireann. The party had a membership of 25,000 in 2021.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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First Dáil

The First Dáil (An Chéad Dáil) was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 1919 to 1921.

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First-past-the-post voting

First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.

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Fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1968

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1968 was a bill (no. 6 of 1968) to amend the Constitution of Ireland to alter the electoral system for elections to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, from proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) to first-past-the-post (FPTP).

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Government of Ireland

The Constitution of Ireland vests executive authority in the Government of Ireland (Rialtas na hÉireann), which is headed by the italic, the head of government.

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Government of the 33rd Dáil

There have been three governments of the 33rd Dáil to date, being coalition governments of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.

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Head of government

In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.

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Hemicycle

A hemicycle is a semicircular, or horseshoe-shaped, legislative debating chamber where members sit to discuss and vote on their business.

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Hildegarde Naughton

Hildegarde Naughton (born 1 May 1977) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Health since December 2022, and as a Minister of State attending cabinet since June 2020.

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History of the Republic of Ireland

The Irish state came into being in 1919 as the 32 county Irish Republic.

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Home rule

Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Dáil Éireann and house of Commons of the United Kingdom are national lower houses.

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House of Representatives

House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not.

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Independent politician (Ireland)

Independent politicians contest elections without the support of a political party.

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Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting or the alternative vote (AV), combines ranked voting (in which voters rank candidates rather than choosing only a single preferred candidate) together with a system for choosing winners from these rankings by repeatedly eliminating the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and reassigning their votes until only one candidate is left.

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Iris Oifigiúil

Iris Oifigiúil ("Official Journal") is the official gazette of the government of Ireland.

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Irish Free State

The Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish name i, was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

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Irish House of Commons

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Irish Parliamentary Party

The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party) was formed in 1874 by Isaac Butt, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at Westminster within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland up until 1918.

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Irish Republic

The Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann or Saorstát Éireann) was an unrecognised revolutionary state that declared its independence from the United Kingdom in January 1919. Dáil Éireann and Irish Republic are 1919 establishments in Ireland.

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Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.

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Joan Collins (politician)

Joan Collins (born 4 June 1961) is an Irish Right to Change politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency since the 2011 general election.

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John Bruton

John Gerard Bruton (18 May 1947 – 6 February 2024) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1994 to 1997 and Leader of Fine Gael from 1990 to 2001.

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June 1927 Irish general election

The June 1927 Irish general election was to elect the 5th Dáil held on Thursday, 9 June following the dissolution of the 4th Dáil on 23 May 1927.

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Kildare Street

Kildare Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland.

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Labour Party (Ireland)

The Labour Party (Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, literally "Party of the Working People") is a centre-left and social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Law of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has three distinctly different legal systems, each of which derives from a particular geographical area for a variety of historical reasons: English law, Scots law, Northern Ireland law, and, since 2007, calls for a fourth type, that of purely Welsh law as a result of Welsh devolution, with further calls for a Welsh justice system.

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Leader of the Opposition (Ireland)

The Leader of the Opposition (Ceannaire an Fhreasúra) in Ireland is a de facto term sometimes used to describe the politician who leads the largest party in the Parliamentary Opposition in the lower house of the Irish Parliament, Dáil Éireann.

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Leinster House

Leinster House (Teach Laighean) is the seat of the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland. Dáil Éireann and Leinster House are Oireachtas.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Lower house

A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mansion House, Dublin

The Mansion House (Teach an Ard-Mhéara) is a house on 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 from 1919 until 1922.

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Mary Lou McDonald

Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition in Ireland since June 2020 and President of Sinn Féin since February 2018.

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Members of the 1st Dáil

The members of the First Dáil, known as Teachtaí Dála (TDs), were the 101 Members of Parliament (MPs) returned from constituencies in Ireland at the 1918 United Kingdom general election.

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Members of the 2nd Dáil

There were two elections in Ireland on 24 May 1921, following the establishment of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.

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Members of the 3rd Dáil

The 3rd Dáil was elected at the 1922 general election on 16 June and met on 9 September.

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Micheál Martin

Micheál Martin (born 1 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who is serving as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Minister for Defence since December 2022.

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Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (An tAire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta) is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland and leads the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

The Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach is a junior ministerial post in the Department of the Taoiseach of the Government of Ireland who performs duties and functions delegated by the Taoiseach.

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National Assembly

In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together.

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Next Irish general election

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November 1982 Irish general election

The November 1982 Irish general election to the 24th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 24 November, three weeks after the dissolution of the 23rd Dáil on 4 November by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey following a defeat of the government in a motion of confidence.

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Oireachtas

The Oireachtas, sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the bicameral parliament of Ireland.

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Oireachtas (Irish Free State)

The Oireachtas of the Irish Free State (Oireachtas Shaorstát Éireann) was the legislature of the Irish Free State from 1922 until 1937.

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Parliament of Ireland

The Parliament of Ireland (Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until the end of 1800.

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Parliament of Southern Ireland

The Parliament of Southern Ireland was a Home Rule legislature established by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Parliamentary opposition

Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system.

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Parliamentary privilege

Parliamentary privilege is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of certain legislatures, in which legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal liability for actions done or statements made in the course of their legislative duties.

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Parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization.

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Parliamentary system

A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.

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Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (born 12 June 1973) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2020 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Donegal North-East constituency.

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Peadar Tóibín

Peadar Tóibín (born 19 June 1974) is an Irish politician who has served as leader of Aontú since January 2019.

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Politics of the Republic of Ireland

Ireland is a parliamentary, representative democratic republic and a member state of the European Union.

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President of Ireland

The president of Ireland (Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.

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Public Accounts Committee (Ireland)

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) (formally the Committee of Public Accounts) (An Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí) is a standing committee of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament. Dáil Éireann and Public Accounts Committee (Ireland) are Oireachtas.

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Records of members of the Oireachtas

This is a list of records relating to the Oireachtas, the national parliament of Ireland, which consists of the President of Ireland, and two Houses, Dáil Éireann, a house of representatives whose members are known as Teachtaí Dála or TDs, and Seanad Éireann, a senate whose members are known as senators.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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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). Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann are Oireachtas.

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Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (born 17 April 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as the Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann since March 2016.

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Second Dáil

The Second Dáil was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 16 August 1921 until 8 June 1922.

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Senate

A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature.

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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 Tim Healy on the request of President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave.

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Simon Harris

Simon Harris (born 17 October 1986) is an Irish Fine Gael politician serving as Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael since 2024.

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Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote (STV), sometimes mistakenly conflated with proportional ranked choice voting (P-RCV), is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot.

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Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Sinn Féin Front Bench

Sinn Féin is the second largest political party in the Oireachtas and largest in Dáil Éireann.

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In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, (NB. Regula Venske is president of the PEN Centre Germany.) is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Street children

Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village.

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Supreme Court of Ireland

The Supreme Court of Ireland (Cúirt Uachtarach na hÉireann) is the highest judicial authority in Ireland.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Taoiseach

The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland.

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Tánaiste

The Tánaiste is the second-ranking member of the government of Ireland and the holder of its second-most senior office.

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Teachta Dála

A Teachta Dála (plural Teachtaí Dála), abbreviated as TD (plural TDanna in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament).

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1958

The Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1958 was a proposal to amend the Constitution of Ireland to alter the electoral system from proportional representation under the single transferable vote (PR-STV) to first-past-the-post (FPTP).

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Third Dáil

The Third Dáil was elected at the general election held on 16 June 1922.

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Whip (politics)

A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature.

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10th Dáil

The 10th Dáil was elected at the 1938 general election on 17 June 1938 and first met on 30 June 1938.

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11th Dáil

The 11th Dáil was elected at the 1943 general election on 23 June 1943 and met on 1 July 1943.

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12th Dáil

The 12th Dáil was elected at the 1944 general election on 30 May 1944 and first met on 9 June 1944.

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13th Dáil

The 13th Dáil was elected at the 1948 general election on 4 February 1948 and first met on 18 February 1948.

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14th Dáil

The 14th Dáil was elected at the 1951 general election on 30 May 1951 and met on 13 June 1951.

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15th Dáil

The 15th Dáil was elected at the 1954 general election on 14 May 1954 and met on 2 June 1954.

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16th Dáil

The 16th Dáil was elected at the 1957 general election on 5 March 1957 and met on 20 March 1957.

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17th Dáil

The 17th Dáil was elected at the 1961 general election on 4 October 1961 and met on 11 October 1961.

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18th Dáil

The 18th Dáil was elected at the 1965 general election on 7 April 1965 and met on 21 April 1965.

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1918 Sinn Féin election manifesto

The 1918 Sinn Féin election manifesto was that party's manifesto for the 1918 general election.

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1918 United Kingdom general election in Ireland

The Irish component of the 1918 United Kingdom general election took place on 14 December 1918.

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1921 Irish elections

The 1921 Irish elections took place in Ireland on 24 May 1921 to elect members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland.

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1922 Irish general election

The 1922 Irish general election took place in Southern Ireland on Friday, 16 June.

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1923 Irish general election

The 1923 Irish general election to elect the 4th Dáil was held on Monday, 27 August, following the dissolution of the Third Dáil on 9 August 1923.

See Dáil Éireann and 1923 Irish general election

1932 Irish general election

The 1932 Irish general election to the 7th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 16 February, following the dissolution of the 6th Dáil on 29 January by Governor-General James McNeill on the advice of President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave.

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1933 Irish general election

The 1933 Irish general election to the 8th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 24 January following the dissolution of the 7th Dáil on 2 January by Governor-General Domhnall Ua Buachalla on the advice of the Executive Council.

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1937 Irish general election

The 1937 Irish general election to the 9th Dáil was held on Thursday, 1 July, following the dissolution of the 8th Dáil on 14 June by Ceann Comhairle Frank Fahy on the direction of the Executive Council.

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1938 Irish general election

The 1938 Irish general election to the 10th Dáil was held on Friday, 17 June following the dissolution of the 9th Dáil on 27 May 1938 by the Presidential Commission on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

See Dáil Éireann and 1938 Irish general election

1943 Irish general election

The 1943 Irish general election to the 11th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 23 June, having been called on 31 May by proclamation of President Douglas Hyde on the advice of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

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1944 Irish general election

The 1944 Irish general election to the 12th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 30 May, having been called on 9 May by President Douglas Hyde on the advice of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

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1948 Irish general election

The 1948 Irish general election to the 13th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 4 February following the dissolution of the 12th Dáil on 12 January 1948 by the President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

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1951 Irish general election

The 1951 Irish general election to the 14th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 30 May following the dissolution of the 13th Dáil on 7 May by President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach John A. Costello.

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1954 Irish general election

The 1954 Irish general election to elect the 15th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 18 May, following the dissolution of the 14th Dáil on 24 April by President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

See Dáil Éireann and 1954 Irish general election

1957 Irish general election

The 1957 Irish general election to the 16th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 5 March, following a dissolution of the 15th Dáil on 12 February by President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach John A. Costello on 4 February.

See Dáil Éireann and 1957 Irish general election

1961 Irish general election

The 1961 Irish general election to the 17th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 4 October, following the dissolution of the 16th Dáil on 15 September by President Éamon de Valera on the request of Taoiseach Seán Lemass.

See Dáil Éireann and 1961 Irish general election

1965 Irish general election

The 1965 Irish general election to the 18th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 7 April, following the dissolution of the 17th Dáil on 18 March by President Éamon de Valera on the request of Taoiseach Seán Lemass.

See Dáil Éireann and 1965 Irish general election

1969 Irish general election

The 1969 Irish general election to the 19th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 18 June, following the dissolution of the 18th Dáil on 22 May by President Éamon de Valera on the request of Taoiseach Jack Lynch.

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1973 Irish general election

The 1973 Irish general election to the 20th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 28 February 1973, following the dissolution of the 19th Dáil on 5 February by President Éamon de Valera on the request of Taoiseach Jack Lynch.

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1977 Irish general election

The 1977 Irish general election to the 21st Dáil was held on Thursday, 16 June, following the dissolution of the 20th Dáil on 25 May by President Patrick Hillery on the request of Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave.

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1981 Irish general election

The 1981 Irish general election to the 22nd Dáil was held on Thursday, 11 June, following the dissolution of the 21st Dáil on 21 May by President Patrick Hillery on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

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1987 Irish general election

The 1987 Irish general election to the 25th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 17 February, four weeks after the dissolution of the 24th Dáil on 20 January by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

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1989 Irish general election

The 1989 Irish general election to the 26th Dáil was held on Thursday, 15 June, three weeks after the dissolution of the 25th Dáil on 25 May by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

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1992 Irish general election

The 1992 Irish general election to the 27th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 25 November, almost three weeks after the dissolution of the 26th Dáil on 5 November by President Mary Robinson, on the request of Taoiseach Albert Reynolds following a defeat of the government in a motion of confidence.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dáil_Éireann

Also known as Assembly of Ireland, Dáil, Dail Eirrean, Dáil committee, Dála, House of Representatives of Ireland, Irish Dáil, Irish lower chamber, The Dáil.

Dáil Éireann, the Glossary

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