Irish History from 1920 - 1925 AD
1920 AD
1st Black and Tans recruited
Sectarian riots in Belfast
Oct. 25: Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence McSwiney dies after force feeding
on hunger strike in prison
Government of Ireland Act sets up six-county Parliament in North but
nothing for the South
1921 AD
Craig succeeds Carson as Ulster Unionist leader
May 25: Dublin Customs House burned down
July 9: Truce between IRA and British Army
Dec. 6: Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed; Ireland receives dominion
status; partition will create Northern Ireland
Dec. 8: Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates treaty 1922
1922 AD
Jan. 7: Dáil Eireann ratifies Treaty
Jan. 9: Griffith elected President
April 7: Special Powers Act passed for Northern Ireland; will be
renewed until 1933 when it is made permanent
April 24: Labour Party commemorates of Easter Rising with general
strike
April: Civil War begins in Ireland
June 16: Irish Free State is established; New Dáil is elected
Oct. 15: Leinster House Act made acts of war against Free State
illegal
Royal Ulster Constabulary formed
1923 AD
May: End of Irish Civil War in Ireland
Aug. 27: General election sees 1st appearance of Cumann na nGaedheal,
which received 409,000 votes against Sinn Féin's 286,000 votes
Sept.: Jim Larkin forms Irish Worker League as alternative to Labour
Party and Communist Party of Ireland
Oct. 13: Mountjoy hunger strike
1924 AD
July 16: Eamon DeValera released from prison
1925 AD
Boundary Commission agrees to maintain existing border
DeValera begins to question abstention policy
Summer: IRA launches weekly newspaper, An Phoblacht |
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Gaelic is the Celtic branch of the Indo-European
family of languages. About one person in five in Ireland can speak
Irish today, but only one in 20 use it daily. In Scotland
approximately 80,000 people speak Gaelic. |
Saint Patrick (about 389-461) is the patron saint of
Ireland. Patrick was born in Britain. |
Ireland, together with Britain, joined
the European Economic Community in 1973. |
The Celts
and Ancient History, Bronze and Iron Age - The ancient
culture of the Celts had settled in many European
countries including Austria, Britain, Ireland, France,
Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Western Germany, Northern
Spain, Turkey and Hungary |
The Irish Government is expected to
call a General Election in Ireland for 2007.
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