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.Since 1922, it is a complex of buildings, of which the former ducal palace is the core, which house Oireachtas Éireann, its members and staff.The most recognisable part of the complex, and the "public face" of …

Duke of Leinster (/ ˈ l ɪ n s t ər /; Irish: Diúc Laighean) is a title in the Peerage of Ireland and the premier dukedom in that peerage. The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Leinster are: Marquess of Kildare (1761), Earl of Kildare (1316), Earl of Offaly (1761), Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham (1747), Baron of Offaly (c. 1193), Baron Offaly (1620) and Baron ...

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 and sunk by the German submarine UB-123, which was under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Robert Ramm, on 10 October 1918, while bound for Holyhead. She sank just outside Dublin Bay at a point 4 nautical …

Leinster Gardens is a street in Bayswater, London. It is lined with tall, ornate, mid-Victorian terraced houses, many of which are listed buildings. Layout. Leinster Gardens is mostly made up of a half-lined avenue lined with tall ...

Leinster [ˈlɛnstə] (irisch Cúige Laighean, /ˌkuːg´ə ˈlai ə n/, „Fünftel (des Stammes) der Laigin“) ist eine der vier historischen Provinzen Irlands und befindet sich im östlichen und südöstlichen Teil der Republik Irland.Im Nordosten grenzt Leinster an die nordirischen Grafschaften Armagh und Down, die zu Ulster gehören, im Osten an die Irische See, im Süden und Südwesten ...

Leinster (/ ˈ l ɛ n s t ər / LEN-stər; Irish: Laighin [ˈl̪ˠəinʲ] or Cúige Laighean [ˌkuːɟə ˈl̪ˠəinˠ]) is one of the provinces of Ireland, situated in the southeast and east of Ireland.The province comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Meath, Leinster and Osraige.Following the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ireland, the historic "fifths" of Leinster and Meath gradually merged ...

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge) [ˈɡeːlʲɟə], also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of ...

Background. Leinster was the son of Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare, and Lady Mary, daughter of William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin. [citation needed]Career. Leinster was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy from 1741 before succeeding his father as 20th Earl of Kildare in 1743. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1746 and in 1747, on the …

Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster (27 May 1914 – 3 December 2004) was the premier Duke, Marquess and Earl in the Peerage of Ireland. Family and background. Gerald FitzGerald was the only child of Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, and his first wife, May Juanita ...

Leinster (en irlandés: Laighin) es la provincia oriental de Irlanda, que comprende los condados de Carlow, Dublín, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford y Wicklow. Leinster posee la mayor población de las cuatro provincias de Irlanda. Su bandera tradicional muestra un arpa dorada sobre un fondo verde.