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The United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798 (which sought to end British rule in Ireland) failed, and the 1800 Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland into a combined United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [4] In the mid-19th century, the Great Famine (1845–1852) resulted in the death or emigration of over two million people. At the time ...
Forced settlement of newly conquered land and inequitable laws defined life for the Irish under British rule. England had previously conquered Scotland and Wales, leaving many people from western Scotland to seek opportunity in settling about 500,000 acres of newly seized land in Ireland.
According to The Times, the "Imperial Conference proposed that, as a result of the establishment of the Irish Free State, the title of the king should be changed to 'George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.'" [6] The change did not mean ...
Ireland faces weeks of coalition talks before it gets a new government, as the country’s two major center-right parties work to form a stable administration. With all 174 legislative seats ...
Britain and Ireland: from home rule to independence (Routledge, 2014). Smith, Jeremy. The Tories and Ireland 1910–1914: Conservative Party Politics and the Home Rule Crisis (2001) Townshend, Charles. The British campaign in Ireland, 1919–1921: the development of political and military policies (Oxford UP, 1975). Vincent, J. Gladstone and ...
After passage of the Acts of Union 1800, Ireland was merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Resistance to the Union and desire for local self-governance led to the Irish War of Independence. Following the war, the island of Ireland was partitioned into two parts.
In light of these changes, the British state was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 12 April 1927 with the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act. The modern-day United Kingdom is the same state, that is to say a direct continuation of what remained after the Irish Free State's secession, as opposed to being an ...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sovereign state created in 1801, combining the former Kingdom of Great Britain with Ireland, separated by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921; Great Britain and Ireland, the two largest islands in the British Isles; The present-day United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, two sovereign states