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After the introduction of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 which broke the power of the landlord-dominated "Grand Juries", passing for the first time democratic control of local affairs into the hands of the people through elected Local County Councils, the debate over full Home Rule led to tensions between Irish nationalists and Irish ...
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
The resultant economic slump has deepened the effect of the world recession on Ireland till 2012. Since 2012 unemployment rates and the economy has grown except around Covid. In the global GDP per capita tables, Ireland ranks 4th of 186 in the IMF table and 4th of 187 in the World Bank ranking.
In September 1914, just as the First World War broke out, the UK Parliament finally passed the Government of Ireland Act 1914 to establish self-government for Ireland, condemned by the dissident nationalists' All-for-Ireland League party as a "partition deal". The Act was suspended for the duration of the war, expected to last only a year.
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.
Full date unknown. Pauline Bewick, artist (born in England). Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin party councillor (killed by the Ulster Defence Association in 1991). Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, Irish language activist, poet, writer and publisher. Bob Quinn, filmmaker, writer and photographer.
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 ...
17 April – Ireland's first parachute jump, executed by Joseph Gilmore, is successful. 3 May – in Dáil Éireann the Bill to abolish the Oath of Allegiance is passed. August – The Irish Air Corps' host their first Air Pageant over Phoenix Park, Dublin, including mock aerial combat performed by planes. [1] [2]