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The General Post Office ( GPO ) () in Dublin is the headquarters of the Irish postal service, An Post, and Dublin's principal post office.
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General Post Office ( Dublin ) | The GPO on O ' Connell Street was at the centre of the 1916 Easter Rising.
General Post Office, Dublin.
The rebel headquarters was located at the General Post Office ( GPO ) where James Connolly, overall military commander and four other members of the Military Council: Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, Seán Mac Dermott and Joseph Plunkett were located.
A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script
* The 1916 Rising by Norman Teeling a 10-painting suite acquired by An Post for permanent display at the General Post Office ( Dublin )
The major shopping street in the CBD is Elizabeth Street, with the pedestrianised Elizabeth Mall and the General Post Office.
The leaders seized the General Post Office ( GPO ), raising two flags: a green flag bearing the legend " Irish Republic " and the Tricolour, and proclaiming independence for Ireland.
Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).
On 1 January 1912 the National Telephone Company was nationalised and merged into the General Post Office by the Telephone Transfer Act 1911.
In 1922, the General Post Office offered to sell the island's telephone service to the Manx government, but the offer was not taken up.
Historically, the telephone system on the Isle of Man had been run as a monopoly by the British General Post Office, and later British Telecommunications, and operated as part of the Liverpool telephone district.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
** United States Post Office Loop Station – General Post Office, Chicago
* 1861: in London with the London Pneumatic Despatch Company providing services from Euston railway station to the General Post Office and Holborn
In Commonwealth countries, many of the larger post office buildings in capital cities used the official title of General Post Office.
The first independent evidence for Chalmers ' claim is the essay and proposal he submitted for adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838.
Having failed to interest the Italian government, the 22-year-old inventor brought his telegraphy system to Britain and met William Preece, a Welshman, who was a major figure in the field and Chief Engineer of the General Post Office.
The project was a joint one between the General Post Office of the UK, the American Telephone and Telegraph company, and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation.
The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local city councils, but by 1912 – 13 all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the General Post Office.
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Taylor won and Lincoln hoped to be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office, but that lucrative patronage job went to an Illinois rival, Justin Butterfield, considered by the administration to be a highly skilled lawyer, but in Lincoln's view, an " old fossil ".
The Anglican Communion Office is headed by its Secretary General, the Reverend Canon Kenneth Kearon.
He introduced the secret ballot ; advised the creation of the Supreme Court of Canada ; the establishment of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston in 1874 ; the creation of the Office of the Auditor General in 1878 ; and struggled to continue progress on the national railway.
AA receives proceeds from books and literature that constitute more than 50 % of the income for its General Service Office ( GSO ).
Although the German General Staff was also abolished by the treaty, it nevertheless continued to exist as the Truppenamt or " Troop Office ", supposedly only an administrative body.
* Chief of the General Staff Office: Colonel Milan Šeiner
The 1841 Census, conducted by the General Register Office, was the first to record the names of everyone in a household or institution.
The General Register Office for Scotland ( GROS ) conducts its own census, while the census in Northern Ireland is carried out by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ).
* General Office
* 3 General Bishops, heading the Patriarchal Secretary Office of the Patriarchate.
A committee that was headed by psychiatrist Brigadier General William C. Menninger developed a new classification scheme called Medical 203 that was issued in 1943 as a War Department Technical Bulletin under the auspices of the Office of the Surgeon General.
Government Buildings house the Department of the Taoiseach, the Council Chamber, the Department of Finance and the Office of the Attorney General.
The General Minister and President ( GMP ) is the designated leader for the General Church, but does not have the administrative authority to direct any of the general church agencies other than “ The Office of General Minister and President .” The GMP has influence that derives from the respect of the church much as the pastor of a local church leads a local congregation.
* Office of the General Minister and President
By November the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson agree on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.
In June 1992, the General Accounting Office released a report that members of Congress had requested two years earlier estimating the costs associated with the ban on gays and lesbians in the military at $ 27 million annually.
* General Telecomunications Office in El Salvador
With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).
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The first use of OCR in Europe was by the British General Post Office ( GPO ).
Marconi, in July 1924, entered into contracts with the British General Post Office ( GPO ) to install high speed shortwave telegraphy circuits from London to Australia, India, South Africa and Canada as the main element of the Imperial Wireless Chain.
Statue of " The Dying Cuchulain " by Oliver Sheppard ( 1911 ), now at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | GPO, Dublin
A bronze sculpture of the dead Cú Chulainn by Oliver Sheppard stands in the Dublin General Post Office ( GPO ) in commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916.
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.
* General Pico Airport, Argentina ( IATA code: GPO )
1660 saw the establishment of the General Letter Office, which would later become the General Post Office ( GPO ).
President Seán T. O ' Kelly, An Tóstal, 1954. Outside the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | GPO, President O ' Kelly receives the salute from the new Garda recruits during the Tostal celebrations of 1954.
The centre of the street is dominated by the imposing presence of the 1818 General Post Office ( GPO ) with its hexastyle Ionic portico projecting over the west pavement, and the 120 m ( 393 ft ) Spire of Dublin, a needle-like self supporting sculpture of rolled stainless steel erected in 2003.
The Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish republicans seized the General Post Office ( GPO ) and proclaimed the Irish Republic, led to the street's bombardment for a number of days by the gunboat Helga of the Royal Navy and several other artillery pieces which were brought up to fire on the north of O ' Connell Street.
The audience in the United Kingdom originally listened to their radio sets by permission of a Wireless License issued by the British General Post Office ( GPO ).
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.
In Britain prior to 1922, the General Post Office ( GPO ) retained exclusive rights given to it by government, to manage and control all means of mass communication with the exception of the printed word for which authority had devolved to another governmental entity.
During the Easter Rising in 1916 Ryan was the medical officer in the General Post Office ( GPO ).
Marconi, in July 1924, entered into contracts with the British General Post Office ( GPO ) to install high speed shortwave telegraphy circuits from London to Australia, India, South Africa and Canada as the main element of the Imperial Wireless Chain.
Following his first animated film Tusalava, Lye began to make films in association with the British General Post Office, for the GPO Film Unit.
The General Post Office ( GPO ) representative from WA on the Nomenclature Committee, objected saying that Cununurra was too close in name to the town of Cunnamulla and that could cause postal confusion.
* 1660: General Post Office ( GPO ) officially established by Charles II.
The reading of the proclamation by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office ( GPO ) on Sackville Street ( now called O ' Connell Street ), Dublin's main thoroughfare, marked the beginning of the Rising.
They were constructed by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and operated by the General Post Office ( GPO ).
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