Fine Gael won 19 seats in Seanad Éireann following the 2011 election, a gain of four from the previous election in 2007.

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.

While Fine Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of President.

His third book, and second novel, A Fine Balance ( 1995 ), won the second annual Giller Prize in 1995, and in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.

He lost the 1969 general election to the incumbent Jack Lynch, but won the 1973 general election and became Taoiseach in a Fine Gael-Labour Party government.

In 1965, when James Dillon retired as Fine Gael leader after the 1965 general election loss, Liam Cosgrave, as a senior party figure and son of the first parliamentary leader of Fine Gael, easily won the leadership.

The Progressive Democrats won some 14 seats mainly from Fine Gael.

He stood again for Fine Gael in the 1981 general election in the expanded constituency of Kildare, where he won a seat in the 22nd Dáil.

Their early works including " A Fool in Love ", " It's Gonna Work Out Fine ", " I Idolize You " and " River Deep-Mountain High " became high points in the development of soul music while their later works were cited for wildly interpretive re-arrangements of rock songs such as " I Want to Take You Higher " and " Proud Mary ", the latter song for which they won a Grammy Award.

All 4 of the extra seats won by the Green Party were at the expense of Fine Gael, as were 3 out of 4 of the Progressive Democrats ' gains.

Fianna Fáil's political dominance was broken in 1948-51 and in 1954-1957, when coalitions led by Fine Gael ( descendants of Cumann na nGaedheal ), and including the Labour Party and Clann na Poblachta won elections and formed the government.

While Fine Gael's decline had been halted, its future was still in doubt, at least until the non Fianna Fáil parties realised they had won a majority.

Tim Schafer and Double Fine Executive Producer & COO Caroline Esmurdoc also won the award for Best New Studio.

This successful string earned him an invitation to the tournament at Semmering – Baden 1937, which he won with 9 / 14 (+ 6 = 6 − 2 ), ahead of Fine, José Raúl Capablanca, Reshevsky, and Erich Eliskases.

Keres won on tiebreak because he beat Fine 1½ – ½ in their individual two games.

Following Fraser's move to Washington, D. C., to become supervising architect for the U. S. Treasury Department, the two younger men formed a partnership in 1871, and soon won the design competition for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ( 1871 – 76 ).

On being elected, he resigned his Dáil seat and a by-election was held on 10 November 1994, which was won by Fine Gael.

In July 2011, Gay Mitchell won Fine Gael's.

Before that, Cox was " pleased " to help prepare Fine Gael's first-100-day strategy after it won the Irish general election, 2011.

George Lee of Fine Gael won the subsequent by-election.

DC threatened both artist and the Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts gallery with legal action if they did not cease selling the works and demanded all remaining art, as well as any profits derived from them.

In 1808 all Godoy's property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile, and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as ' obscene ', returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

While there are a number of political parties in the state, the political landscape has been dominated for decades by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, historically opposed and competing entities, which both occupy the traditional centre ground.

At this point a transfer pact was decided upon between Fine Gael and Labour, as both parties were normally preferred partners for each other in general elections.

Top-line studios such as Olympic Studios in London, Fine Recording in New York City, United Western Recorders, and Musart in Los Angeles quickly became among the most sought-after recording facilities in the world, and both these studios became veritable " hit factories " that produced many of the most successful pop recordings of the latter 20th century.

Philip himself would devote a chapter to both The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath in his book A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner ( 1981 ), which was based on his earlier Ph. D thesis awarded by the University of London the previous year.

Yet during these sessions they were still capable of recording the single " I Feel Fine " and its B-side, " She's a Woman " ( both written by Lennon – McCartney, and not included on the album ).

In the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 Gregory C. McIntosh examines Hapgood's claims for both maps and states that " they fall short of proving or even strongly suggesting that the Piri Reis map and the Fine map depict the actual outline of Antarctica.

After a spell as an apprentice mason, Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers.

Fine examples of Colonial architecture are represented by the Episcopal churches of Ware ( 1690 ) and Abingdon ( 1755 ), where both presidents Washington and Jefferson worshipped.

Fine hand sewing is a characteristic of high-quality tailoring, haute couture fashion, and custom dressmaking, and is pursued by both textile artists and hobbyists as a means of creative expression.

This art studio allowed the College to reinvigorate its Associate in Fine Arts Degree and offer both university transfer classes as well as adult community interest classes in painting, drawing, and sculpting.

Donald Kagan has said of him that "... his entire career reveals him to be a patriot and a true moderate, sincerely committed to a constitution granting power to the hoplite class, whether in the form of a limited democracy or a broadly based oligarchy ", while John Fine has noted that " like many a person following a middle course, he was hated by both political extremes.

While both sought to gain further military education, they were barred as foreigners from enrolling in any French military academy, and instead enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sculpture.

Fine both in design and colour, it is carried out with a supple dexterity of hand which has scarcely been equalled in the British school since the death of Gainsborough.

The faculty delivers both Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes of study across the following schools – Architecture & Landscape, Art & Design History, Fine Art, Surveying & Planning, 3D Design and Communication Design.

In both shows, Holloway presented new monologues, and The Times thought a highlight of Fine and Dandy was a parody of the BBC radio programme The Brains Trust, with Holloway " ponderously anecdotal " and Henson " gigglingly omniscient ".

Renovated by the Santa Monica-based firm Daly Genik Architects, it houses the graduate Fine Art and the Media Design programs and studios, exhibition space for both of those programs, a print shop, a letterpress studio, a full range of public programs ( Art Center at Night, Art Center for Kids, Design-Based Learning Lab ), as well as a unique exhibition space known as the Wind Tunnel, which is currently the home of the Media Design program.

He declined both and instead went on to become Director of the Economic Society and Director of San Carlos University's Fine Arts department.

According to Fine both Radoslav and Anna retired into monastic life following their deposition.

He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Brown University and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Rhode Island College, both in 2000.

Kenny and Merkel have close political ties because Merkel's CDU party and Fine Gael are both members of the centre-right European People's Party ( EPP ) and seating at EPP meetings is arranged by alphabetical order of surname.

Enrollment increased and the following buildings were constructed: Leland Speed Library, Aven Fine Arts Building ( both of which were begun before Nelson retired ), B. C. Rogers Student Center, Hederman Science Building, Latimer-Webb Residence Hall, Whittington Residence Hall, Self Hall and Hendrick House ( President's home ).

He was reappointed by the Fine Gael government in 1995 and, on both of these occasions, served in the social affairs portfolio.

Prince's Paisley Park Studios was used both by Prince and for outside music production by artists such as Madonna, Boy George, the Fine Young Cannibals and Paula Abdul.