Coalitions are typically formed of two or more parties always consisting of one of the two biggest parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and one or more smaller parties or independent members of parliament.

The current government consists of Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

Irish coalition governments have traditionally been based on one of two large blocs in Dáil Éireann: either Fianna Fáil in coalition with smaller parties or independents, or Fine Gael and the Labour Party in coalition, sometimes with smaller parties.

The Government of the 31st Dáil, though a traditional Fine Gael – Labour coalition, resembles a grand coalition, due to the collapse of Fianna Fáil to third place among parties in Dáil Éireann.

Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right-wing political parties that defied categorization: the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ; Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland ; and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

Fine Gael ( – meaning " Family " or " Tribe of the Irish ") is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland.

The party has a membership of over 35, 000, and is presently the senior partner governing in a coalition with the Labour Party, with the Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny serving as Taoiseach.

Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933 following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard, popularly known as the " Blueshirts " ( a name still used colloquially to refer to the party ).

Fine Gael is generally considered to be more on the political right in comparison to its more centrist rival, Fianna Fáil, but Fine Gael has never governed Ireland without the Labour Party, a social-democratic party on the centre-left of Irish politics.

Fine Gael describes itself as a " party of the progressive centre " conforming strongly to the ideals of Christian democracy and compassionate centrism, and is often seen as being moderate on social issues but conservative as regards economics.

The party's youth wing, Young Fine Gael, was formed in 1977, and has approximately four thousand members.

Fine Gael is a founding member of the European People's Party and a member of the Centrist Democrat International.

Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins, founding father of the pro-Treaty movement that would become Fine Gael.

Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.

As the descendant of the pro-Treaty factions in the Irish Civil War, Fine Gael has a strong affinity with Michael Collins and his legacy.

Fine Gael has, since its inception, portrayed itself as a party of fiscal rectitude and minimal government interference in economics, advocating pro-enterprise policies.

In spite of this perceived opposition to Fine Gael from the left of the Irish political spectrum, the party, due to Dáil arithmetic, has never entered into national government without the backing of the Labour Party.

The release of equity through the sale of the various state resources, including electricity generation services belonging to the ESB, Bord na Móna and Bord Gáis, in combination with use of money in the National Pensions Reserve Fund, is the means by which Fine Gael is proposing to fund its national stimulus package.

The plan is a seen at being the basis of a Fine Gael program for government.

Fine Gael is seen as being a constitutional party, with members and public representatives always showing considerable deference to the institutional organs of the Irish state.

Former Fine Gael logo until April 2009. Fine Gael was traditionally conservative in social matters for most of the twentieth century, due to the conservative Christian ethos of Irish society during this time.

The firm has maintained a long-standing pro bono relationship with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Houston Ballet, and Houston Grand Opera, and supports numerous other arts, civic, and charitable organizations in communities where V & E has offices.

The Master of Fine Art in Studio Arts at MECA has 30 students supports artists and independent curators who are engaged in transdisciplinary research and studio experimentation at a mature level.

One collection is the Fine Arts Library, which serves students and faculty in the History of Art department, and supports the teaching, research, and curatorial functions of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archeology.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

Working with independent studios such as the now-shuttered Fine Line, Artisan ( which was absorbed into today's Lionsgate ), and USA Films ( now Focus Features ), gave Altman the edge in making the kinds of films he has always wanted to make without studio interference.

In 1954 he was given the Venice Biennale print making prize, in 1958 the Guggenheim International Award, and in 1980 he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts from King Juan Carlos of Spain.

It consists of 16 departments, making it the fourth largest school at East Carolina University, after the College of Education, the College of Technology and Computer Science, and the College of Fine Arts and Communication.

In that, he was supported by the then Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, whom he consulted before making the decision, and the leaders of the main opposition parties, Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael and Frank Cluskey of the Labour Party.

* Ansco: Fine Grain Positive for Television Purposes, for making direct positive recordings with 16 mm kinescope cameras.

Many of the development staff involved in the making of these games moved on to form new companies, continuing to produce similar games at studios such as Telltale Games and Double Fine Productions.

" King performed an analogous stunt with a version of " He's So Fine " by The Chiffons arranged in the style of George Harrison's " My Sweet Lord ," making a cheeky reference to the plagiarism suit over the similarities between the two songs.

Other courses on Textile Technology ( weaving ), Furniture making and Fine Arts were started later.

Three weeks before his death, Ben donated his entire set of priceless Napoleonic artifacts, over 60 pieces in all, to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, making it one of the largest collections of its kind in the world.

Higgins announced that he would " put up a principled opposition to the Fine Gael-Labour coalition which is most likely ", since they are " going to carry on with the same policies as Fianna Fáil, making working class people pay for the bankers ' bad gambling debts ".

Sloan worked several jobs in draughtsmanship, etching, and making commercial artwork before he attended The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied under Thomas Pollock Anshutz.

" Altman used his clout to persuade Fine Line Features and Miramax-two studios he was making films for-to team up, with the former releasing Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle domestically and the latter handling foreign distribution.

On March 5, 1890 he published a landmark article entitled " Waverly Oaks " to defend a stand of virgin trees in Belmont, Massachusetts, in the process making a plea for preservation of the oaks and outlining a strategy for conserving other areas of scenic beauty in the same way that the Boston Public Library held books and the Museum of Fine Arts pictures.

The Three Stooges ( Curly Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard ) had been making short comedies for Columbia Pictures since 1934.

At its most recent national conference, it carried motions supporting the Fine Gael position on making Irish optional in the Leaving Cert, to allow gay couples to adopt, to introduce a cap on welfare payments at the average industrial wage, and for a complete renegotiation of the promissory note requiring the state to pay the debts of Anglo-Irish bondholders.

Grace Kingsley found Talmadge in her dressing room at the Fine Arts Studio, in Los Angeles, in the midst of making up for some new shots.

He worked on a newspaper, then studied engraving and art in Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and — after making a tour of the South Seas — in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens.