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The Lord Mayor of Dublin is the head of Dublin City Council and first citizen of Dublin. The title was created in 1229 as Mayor of Dublin. It was elevated to Lord Mayor in 1665. The date of the election is the end of June, and the term of office is one year.
President John F. Kennedy meets in the Oval Office with Lord Mayor of Dublin Robert Briscoe (1962) Briscoe retired from the 17th Dáil before the 1965 election, being succeeded by his son, Ben who served for a further 37 years. In 1956, Briscoe became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, [36] [37] although he was not the first Jewish Mayor in ...
1229 – Richard Muton becomes first Lord Mayor of Dublin. 1230 – Dublin Castle built. 1283 – Fire. [5] 1348 – Black Death. [7] 1394 - Richard II of England enters Dublin with 30,000 bowmen, 4000 cavalry and the Crown Jewels. [1] 1446 – Weavers' Guild chartered. [8] 1466 - Ireland's first public clock was installed on the tower of the ...
The Lord Mayor resides in the eighteenth-century Mansion House on Dawson Street. A privilege enjoyed by the Lord Mayor is to receive the first car registration number in Dublin for each new year. [2] Since 2018, each new Lord Mayor is presented with an official bicycle by the Dublin Cycling Campaign. Nial Ring was the first recipient. [3]
From 1661, he was one of a group that sought a patent to issue coinage in Ireland and that was granted the office of alnage of cloth in 1662. He was knighted on 30 September 1662 at Dublin Castle. He served a term as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1665 to 1666 and was the first holder of the office to use the prefix "lord". [2]
In 1841, O'Connell became the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin since Terence MacDermott in the reign of James II. In breaking the Protestant monopoly of corporate rights, he was confident that town councils would become a "school for teaching the science of peaceful political agitation". [60]
The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided over the assembly. This office had existed since 1665. The first City Council was elected in October 1841 when Daniel O'Connell became the first Lord Mayor. Since 1 January 2002, the functions of local government have been transferred to Dublin City Council. [5]
B. Bartholomew Ball; Nicholas Ball (alderman) Robert Ball (mayor) Walter Ball (alderman) John Barrington (Lord Mayor of Dublin) Sir Daniel Bellingham, 1st Baronet