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unusual facts about Leinster House


Charleston County Courthouse

It was a likely model for Hoban's most famous building, The White House and both buildings are modelled after Leinster House, the current seat of the Irish Parliament in Dublin.


Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster

In London on 7 February 1747, at age fifteen, she married the immensely wealthy James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare, and went to live in Ireland, firstly at Leinster House and then at Carton House.

Fallout of the 2009 Irish government budget

A series of demonstrations ensued amongst teachers and farmers, whilst on 22 October 2008, at least 25,000 pensioners and students descended in solidarity on government buildings at Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin.

James McNeill

When Éamon de Valera was nominated as President of the Executive Council in 1932, McNeill opted to travel to Leinster House, the parliament buildings, to appoint de Valera, rather than to require that he go to the Viceregal Lodge, the Governor-General's residence and the former seat of British Lords Lieutenants, to avoid embarrassing de Valera, who was a republican.

Michael Healy-Rae

It was revealed that Healy-Rae had received 3,636 votes from a phone in Leinster House at a cost of €2,600 to the Irish taxpayer, the premium-rate calls being charged on a tariff designed to raise money for charity.

Seán McCool

Speaking in Leinster House, seat of the Irish Oireachtas, Roddy Connolly (veteran of the Tan War and Civil War, Labour Party T.D. and son of James Connolly) raised McCool's plight when discussing the effects that censorship implemented by the Fianna Fáil government were having on McCool's election campaign, namely that the Fianna Fáil government had censored one of McCool's election advertisements.

Tonight with Vincent Browne

After airing an interview with Fianna Fáil politicians Charlie O'Connor and Darragh O'Brien, recorded outside Leinster House following the vote of confidence in then Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Browne popped up onscreen back in the studio and remarked: "God, it would do your head in, wouldn't it?".


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Duke of Leinster

After nearly a century as the headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society, which held its famed Spring Show and Horse Show in its grounds, Oireachtas Éireann, the two chamber parliament of the new Irish Free State, rented Leinster House in 1922 to be its temporary parliament house.

Queen Victoria Building

This statue stood outside the legislative assembly of the Republic of IrelandDáil Éireann in Leinster House, Dublin, – until 1947, when it was put into storage and was given to the people of Sydney by the Government of the Republic of Ireland in the 1980s.