Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, Joseph Larmor, Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind these equations since 1887.

Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement that the coalition under Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British Government of Margaret Thatcher.

Fine Gael, having gambled that former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald would run as its candidate ( even though he had insisted for two years that he would not run for office ) then approached another senior figure, Peter Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested.

It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.

The fifth edition, which contained only minor changes from the fourth, was edited after his death on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left.

By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles, which had increasingly involved low-budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming ; Omega Doom, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot ; and New World Disorder, opposite Tara FitzGerald.

Similar results had been found by George FitzGerald and Walter Kaufmann.

She is associated with the MacCarthy dynasty of Desmond, who adopted her as their fairy woman, and the O ' Keeffes and FitzGerald dynasty, with whom she has had amorous affairs ( MacKillop 1998 ; Monaghan 2004 ).

It had been owned by the Clares, descended from Richard FitzGerald, before passing to the Batchworths by 1235.

FitzGerald and Forsaith had no official titles, however, and New Zealand had not yet obtained self-rule.

Under Article 13. 2. 2., if Hillery refused FitzGerald's request for a dissolution, FitzGerald would have had to resign.

The national debt had doubled under Fitzgerald so the government introduced budget cuts in all departments, the cuts were much more severe and effective than when FitzGerald was in power.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has said that he had the potential to be one of the best Taoisigh that the country ever had, had his preoccupation with wealth and power not clouded his judgement:

In the interview Lenihan confirmed what he had previously confirmed to other writers over eight years, that on 27 January 1982 he, along with party leader Charles Haughey and a colleague, Sylvester Barrett, had repeatedly phoned Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland, to try to put pressure on the President, Patrick Hillery, to refuse a dissolution of parliament to the Taoiseach ( prime minister ), Dr Garret FitzGerald.

Grattan had married in 1782 Henrietta Fitzgerald, the daughter of Nicholas Fitzgerald of County Mayo ( d. 1761 ), a son of John FitzGerald and Elizabeth Browne.

FitzGerald gave the Rubaiyat a distinct fatalistic spin, although it has been claimed that he softened the impact of Khayyam's nihilism and his preoccupation with the mortality and transience of all things.

Desmond FitzGerald had been active in Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence, and had been one of the founders of Cumann na nGaedheal.

When he got there, he was informed that a series of telephone calls had been made by senior opposition figures ( and some independent TDs ), including Fianna Fáil leader ( and ex-Taoiseach ) Charles Haughey, Brian Lenihan and Sylvester Barrett demanding that the President, as he could constitutionally do where a Taoiseach had ' ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann ', refuse FitzGerald a parliamentary dissolution, forcing his resignation as Taoiseach and enabling the Dáil to nominate someone else for the post.

FitzGerald has been scathing of the record of the Fianna Fáil led Government since 1997 on the economy and the national finances.

There has been a call for Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 to be renamed the " Garrett FitzGerald Terminal " after the former Taoiseach in light of his early career and lifelong interest in aviation.

Similar results had been found by George FitzGerald and Walter Kaufmann.

According to Thomas Moore, Lord Edward FitzGerald was the only one of the numerous suitors of Sheridan's first wife, Elizabeth Ann Linley whose attentions were received with favour ; and it is certain that, whatever may have been its limits, a warm mutual affection subsisted between the two.

Since the arrests at Bond's, FitzGerald had been in hiding, but had twice visited his wife in disguise and was himself visited by his stepfather.

FitzGerald has been appointed multiple roles during his career, including:

He soon clashed with Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, the most powerful of the Anglo-Irish nobility, whose father had been largely allowed by the English Crown to govern Ireland as he pleased.

Noonan has been a minister in every Fine Gael-led government since 1982, serving in the cabinets of Garret FitzGerald, John Bruton and Enda Kenny.

Because of this contribution, it has been suggested to rename these resonances as Schumann – FitzGerald resonances.

John Fitz-Thomas FitzGerald, by virtue of his royal seigniory as a Count Palatine, created three of his sons by the second marriage, knights ; and their descendants have been so styled in acts of parliament, patents under the great seal, and all legal proceedings, up to the present ( 1910 ) time.

There has been some speculation that there is an heir male of the body needing to prove their claim to the title, surviving through the 24th Knight of Glin, Lt. Col. John Fraunceis FitzGerald's second son Edmond Urmston McLeod FitzGerald, who was born in 1817 at Glin Castle and who married Ellen Sullivan, born in Ireland, 1822, died in Ogdensburg, New York, United States, in December 1895.

The barony had been in abeyance for over a century when Charlotte Boyle Walsingham ( who was later to marry Lord Henry FitzGerald, a son of the 4th Duke of Leinster ) petitioned King George III to terminate the abeyance in her favour in 1790.

Within decades of the league's foundation, through the efforts of William O ' Brien and George Wyndham ( a descendant of Lord Edward FitzGerald ), the 1902 Land Conference produced the Land ( Purchase ) Act 1903 which allowed Irish tenant farmers buy out their freeholds with UK government loans over 68 years through the Land Commission ( an arrangement that has never been possible in Britain itself ).

In particular, FitzGerald used some equations that had been derived a short time before by his friend the electrical engineer Oliver Heaviside.

Since this was a loss of supply, FitzGerald travelled to Áras an Uachtaráin to ask for a parliamentary dissolution.

FitzGerald, no longer having a majority in the Dáil, went to Áras an Uachtaráin to advise President Hillery to dissolve the Dáil and call a general election.

FitzGerald aggressively challenged Lenihan, saying " I was in the Áras, Brian, and I know how many calls there were.

Viewing his defeat as a loss of support FitzGerald headed to Áras an Uachtaráin to request an immediate Dáil dissolution from the President, Patrick Hillery.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

The speed of light and other EMR predicted by Maxwell's equations did not appear unless the equations were modified in a way first suggested by FitzGerald and Lorentz ( see history of special relativity ), or else otherwise it would depend on the speed of observer relative to the " medium " ( called luminiferous aether ) which supposedly " carried " the electromagnetic wave ( in a manner analogous to the way air carries sound waves ).

* Essay on the Rising, by Garret FitzGerald

Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.

over several years, and became known as the FitzGerald-Lorentz explanation of the Michelson-Morley null result, known early on through the writings of Lodge, Lorentz, Larmor, and FitzGerald.

Maxwell himself proposed several mechanical models of aether based on wheels and gears, and George FitzGerald even constructed a working model of one of them.

Some critics informally refer to the FitzGerald's English versions as " The Rubaiyat of FitzOmar ", a nickname that both recognizes the liberties FitzGerald inflicted on his purported source and also credits FitzGerald for the considerable portion of the " translation " that is his own creation.

But the manuscript was never produced, and British experts in Persian literature were easily able to prove that the translation was in fact based on Edward Heron Allen's analysis of possible sources for FitzGerald ’ s work.

* January 27 – The Garret FitzGerald government of the Republic of Ireland is defeated 82 – 81 on its budget ; Fitzgerald announces his resignation.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has blamed Ireland's dire economic state in 2009 on a series of " calamitous " government policy errors.

He remained on as a TD until 1969 when he retired from politics, being succeeded by Garret FitzGerald as Fine Gael TD for Dublin South – East.

The campaign was enhanced and hyped up by a live debate on RTÉ between Haughey and the Fine Gael leader, Garret FitzGerald, over the major issues.

In October 1990, in the midst of the presidential election, FitzGerald was to be a guest, alongside Lenihan, on RTÉ1's Questions and Answers political debate programme.

When it was first built in 1745 – 48 by James FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, it was located on the unfashionable and isolated south side of the city, far from the main locations of aristocratic residences, namely Rutland Square ( now Parnell Square ) and Mountjoy Square.

At the time of his death, FitzGerald was the President of the Institute of International and European Affairs, had a column in The Irish Times and made occasional appearances on television programmes.

Although a senior figure on the " pro-treaty " side of Ireland's political divide, Desmond FitzGerald had remained friendly with anti-Treaty republicans such as Belfast man Seán MacEntee, a minister in Éamon de Valera's government, and father-in-law of Conor Cruise O ' Brien.

FitzGerald in 1973 met Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli and proposed to further modify the Republic's Constitution to remove laws with overtly Catholic foundations, such as the bans on divorce and contraception, as well as to relax the public stigmas in Northern Ireland towards mixed religious marriages and integrated education.

FitzGerald was elected Taoiseach on 30 June 1981.

After that FitzGerald wrote a weekly column every Saturday in The Irish Times, and lectured widely at home and abroad on public affairs.