This act also assigned leadership of the program to the Superintendent of Public Documents, who would be under the control of the GPO and added executive documents to the distribution list.

The GPO was the only major rebel post to be physically taken during the week.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

A person caught tapping could be charged with ' abstracting electricity ' from the GPO ( several cases of dishonestly using telephones without paying were prosecuted under this offense ).

By November 1963, Irving was in England when he called the London Metropolitan Police with suspicions he had been the victim of a burglary, perpetrated by three men who had gained access to his Mayfair flat claiming to be General Post Office ( GPO ) engineers.

The Wide Streets Commission had envisaged and realised marching terraces of unified and proportioned facades extending from the river as far north as Princes Street, their simple red brick elevations off-set with a major classical cut stone building near the centre ( later to be the GPO built in 1814-18 ).

The GPO was at first located in a small building on the site of where the Commercial Buildings used to be ( now the Central Bank building ) off Dame Street, and was afterwards removed to a larger house opposite the Bank of Ireland building on College Green.

W. T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State ( prime minister ) from 1922 to 1932 and a deeply religious Catholic, suggested that the burnt out shell of the General Post Office, the location of the 1916 Rising, be turned into a cathedral, but the idea was not acted on, and the GPO was restored for use as a post office.

Therefore licences to commence test wireless broadcasts had to be obtained from the GPO and initially, some companies in Britain were successful in obtaining a licence for limited times and purposes.

However, the main source of its income was from the sale of radio receiving sets and transmitters manufactured by its shareholding member companies as well as from a portion of the government ( GPO ) license fee that had to be purchased by BBC listeners.

Perhaps, already expecting that the Rising would ultimately fail and that the reaction to the Rising and what Pearse called their " blood sacrifice ", rather than the Rising itself, would reawaken Irish nationalism and produce independence, they did not seek to use the building for fear that it, like the GPO, would be destroyed in the British counter-attack.

Regulation of this service currently resides in parts 1 and 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations ( CFR ), Subtitle 47 on Telecommunications, and may be researched or ordered through the Government Printing Office ( GPO ).

The GPO, the Easter Proclamation and the tricolour ( which later came to be seen as the flag of the republic, replacing the original green flag, which is now on display in the National Museum of Ireland ) are the three most identifiable symbols of the Easter Rising, alongside the leaders, Thomas J. Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett.

Wood considered reconstituting the whole of the GPO, changing it from a government department to what would later be called a quango, and he set up an independent committee to advise him on this.

Since 1970 the Summer Isles Philatelic Bureau has been issuing stamps of the islands for tourists who place them on mail to be carried to the nearest GPO Post Box on the mainland.

However, as the GPO had extensive experience of step-by-step switching, it favoured the Director system which would have much in common with the existing non-director exchanges, and which would be manufactured in Britain from the outset.

Off island communications continued to be operated by the GPO.

GPO Access is currently undergoing a renovation and will eventually become FDsys ( GPO ’ s Federal Digital System ), which will allow digital information to be handled more effectively and will help GPO manage documents from all branches of the Federal government.

Hans Richter's animated shorts, Oskar Fischinger's abstract films, and Len Lye's GPO films would be excellent examples of more abstract European avant-garde films.

When the post of solicitor to the General Post Office ( GPO ) became vacant in 1881 Fawcett decided that Hunter would be the best choice for the position.

Not to be outdone, the GPO immediately announced a 1200 / 75 baud videotext service under the name Prestel.

The present GPO building used to be the old tobacco house, and the building to its right was the Government Mint.

By the end of the week, the rebels had been forced to abandon the GPO, which was burning, and held out in Moore Street until they surrendered.

This approach was not possible in the United Kingdom due to the tight legal controls of state monopoly held by the GPO.

* August 1-A huge protest rally over events in Northern Ireland is held outside the GPO.

" 96 percent of all acute-care hospitals and 98 percent of all community hospitals held at least one GPO membership.

He subsequently met W. H. Auden, who was also working for the GPO Film Unit ; together they worked on the films Coal Face and Night Mail.

In the aftermath of the events, consideration was given to knocking the surviving facade, as were various plans proposed for the site such as a new Catholic cathedral for the city ; in the end a new GPO was built behind the 1818 facade.

The power of the GPO covered letters delivered by the Post Office, newspapers, books and their printing presses, the encoding of messages on lines used to supply electricity ; the electric telegraph, the electric telephone ( which was originally deemed an electronic post office ); the electric wireless telegraph and the electric wireless telephone which became known as " telephony " and later wireless broadcasting.

Wood was a strong believer in publicity ; he set up an advertising campaign for the telephone system which dramatically increased the number of subscribers, and he established the GPO Film Unit which gained a high aesthetic reputation as well as raising the GPO's profile.

The old financial rules, by which all the GPO's surplus revenue was surrendered to the Treasury had long prevented reinvestment in the business ; Wood negotiated a new arrangement under which the GPO would pay an agreed annual sum to the Treasury and keep the remainder of its revenue for investment.

To address this situation the GPO called a meeting with War Office " to consider and report as to the relations between the postal and telegraph services and the Army ; and as to the organizations already in existence or proposed for giving effect to those relations.

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Many of Dublin's finest buildings were destroyed at this time ; the historic General Post Office ( GPO ) was a bombed out shell after the 1916 Rising ; James Gandon's Custom House was burned by the IRA in the War of Independence, while one of Gandon's surviving masterpieces, the Four Courts had been seized by republicans and bombarded by the pro-treaty army.

2 ( Wash., D. C .: Bureau of American Ethnology ; GPO 1899 )

The House and Senate had separate printers until 1861, when the GPO was established ; its first superintendent was John D. Defrees.

Washington, D. C .: GPO, 1902 ; reprint, Washington, D. C .: Center of Military History United States Army, 1993. p-972

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This was exceptional ; more typical was the General Post Office ( GPO ), where Pearse insisted that most of them ( excluding Carney, who refused to leave the injured James Connolly ) leave at noon on Friday, 28 April.

The committee recommended that the GPO should remain a department of state but adopt a more commercial approach.

GPO Melbourne stocks Australian and overseas clothing retailers and many more.

Kathleen got the biggest surprise when Jones professed his love for her and proposed in front of more than a hundred people, including his parents, at the GPO Bar in Brisbane.

As a result, more health care industry GPOs are collecting ' bonus ' payments from suppliers, which amount to kickbacks for the GPO.