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Ireland was a largely agrarian economy, trading almost exclusively with the UK, at the time of the Great Depression. Beef and dairy products comprised the bulk of exports, and Ireland fared well relative to many other commodity producers, particularly in the early years of the depression. [16] [17] [18] [19]
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The Conservatives, for example, won a majority in the 1859 general election in Ireland. A significant minority also voted for Unionists , who resisted fiercely any dilution of the Act of Union. In the 1870s a former Conservative barrister turned nationalist campaigner, Isaac Butt , established a new moderate nationalist movement, the Home Rule ...
Ireland as a result experienced sharp emigration of around 50,000 per year during the decade and the population of the state fell to an all-time low of 2.81 million. [52] The policies of protectionism and low public spending which had predominated since the 1930s were widely viewed to be failing.
The Republic of Ireland Act abolishes the statutory functions of the British monarch in relation to Ireland and confers them on the President of Ireland. 1955: 14 December: Ireland joins the United Nations along with sixteen other sovereign states. 1969: August: Troops are deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the start of the ...
John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London. [1] 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant. [2]
The Anglo-Irish Trade War (also called the Economic War) was a retaliatory trade war between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1938. [1] The Irish government refused to continue reimbursing Britain with land annuities from financial loans granted to Irish tenant farmers to enable them to purchase lands under the Irish Land Acts in the late nineteenth century, a provision ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; ... Other events of 1932 List of years in Ireland: Events from the year 1932 in Ireland. Incumbents