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Leinster House, n.|ˈlɛnstə(r) ˈhaʊs|
[The name of the former Dublin home of the Dukes of Leinster.]
Used to designate the Irish parliament since it began meeting at Leinster House in 1922.
[1922Times 9 Sept. 8/2 The first Session of the Provisional Parliament will be opened to-morrow at 11 o'clock in the lecture theatre of Leinster House, the headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society.] 1949St. J. Ervine Craigavon Ulsterman iii. x. 418 Some very queer fish have been elected to Stormont,..but Stormont, at its worst, has never declined to the depths of Leinster House. 1979An Phoblacht 29 Sept. 10/4 People can be held for up to forty-eight hours merely on suspicion and the power to intern remains on the Leinster House statute book today. 1987Whitaker's Almanack 1988 858/2 Members of Dáil Éireann are..granted free telephone and postal facilities from Leinster House. |