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===Historical governance=== [[File:Maynooth Castle 1885.jpg|thumb|[[Maynooth Castle]], 1885]] Maynooth was a long-term centre for the [[Geraldines|Geraldine]] or FitzGerald family, which dominated Irish affairs during the Anglo-Norman and Tudor periods.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} From 1932 to 1937, the town was the unofficial home to the King's representative in Ireland, Governor General [[Domhnall Ua Buachalla]], who declined to take up official residence in the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, and whose family operated a hardware store in the town until 2005.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
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