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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.
Leigh's new pocket road-book of Ireland: Published by Leigh & Son 1836 Dublin Street Directory Map with engravings of the principal buildings in Dublin Published by Baldwin & Cradock of SDUK: Published under the superintendence of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Colour map. Google Map interface; 1837 Dublin Environs Drawn by B ...
Winifred Mary Letts published Songs from Leinster. Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan produced his play Rope Enough. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha's story An Baile S’Againne was published. Katharine Tynan's Irish Poems was published. [7] W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" was published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out (8 September). [8]
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 .
Ireland was a separate kingdom ruled by King George III of Britain; he set policy for Ireland through his appointment of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or viceroy. In practice, the viceroys lived in England and the affairs in the island were largely controlled by an elite group of Irish Protestants known as "undertakers."
A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (2004) 548 pp; Brown, Archie. The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009), global; Buchanan, Tom. Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present (Blackwell History of Europe) (2012) Cook, Bernard A. Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia (2 vol; 2001), 1465 pp; Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple ...
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.