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History of Ireland guide; Irish History Digitized; Ireland Under Coercion – "The diary of an American", by William Henry Hurlbert, published 1888, from Project Gutenberg; The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless, 1896 (Project Gutenberg) Timeline of Irish History 1840–1916 (1916 Rebellion Walking Tour) A Concise History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce
20 January – George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (born 1865). 26 January – Francis O'Neill, police officer in America and collector of Irish traditional music (born 1848). February – Harry Corley, cricketer (born 1878). 20 March – Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (born 1859).
1885: Cream cracker invented by Joseph Haughton. [39] 1886: Graphophone invented by Chichester Bell. 1888: Gregg shorthand invented by John Robert Gregg. [40] 1889: Length contraction discovered by George Francis FitzGerald. [41] 1891: 'Electron' coined by George Johnstone Stoney. [42] 1894: Cohesion-tension theory discovered by Henry Horatio ...
Republic of Ireland portal; History portal; ... 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; ... 1930s elections in the Republic of Ireland (2 C)
13 October – Orson Welles makes his first professional stage debut, age 16, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, with a leading rôle in an adaptation of Jew Süss. 25 October – Ireland's first all-concrete Art Deco church, the Church of Christ the King, is opened at Turners Cross, Cork, designed by Chicago architect Barry Byrne with sculptor John Storrs.
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 ...
9 April – W. W. McDowell, US Minister to Ireland, dies at a State banquet in his honour at Dublin Castle, between President Éamon de Valera and Mrs. Sinéad de Valera. [3] 2 May – an application to obtain permission for deposed Soviet leader Leon Trotsky to live in Ireland has failed. August–October – newspaper strike in Dublin.
2 May – Douglas Goodwin, cricketer. 13 May – Patrick Dineen, cricketer. 15 June – Mary Turner, trade unionist in Britain (died 2017). 2 July – John McDonnell, head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team. (died 2021) 15 July – Andy McEvoy, association football player (died 1994).