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The quest for modern Ireland: the battle for ideas, 1912–1986 (Irish Academic Press, 2008). Girvin, Brian. "Beyond Revisionism? Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Modern Ireland." English Historical Review 124.506 (2009): 94–107. Gkotzaridis, Evi. Trials of Irish History: Genesis and Evolution of a reappraisal (Routledge, 2013 ...
The closest Rome got to conquering Ireland was in 80 AD, when, according to Turtle Bunbury from the Irish Times, [27] "Túathal Techtmar, the son of a deposed high king, who is said to have invaded Ireland from afar in order to regain his kingdom at about this time".
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 ...
In the first major investigation into political corruption in Ireland since the formation of the Free State, the "Wicklow Gold Inquiry" cleared the Minister for Industry and Commerce Seán Lemass of wrongdoing in the granting of mining licences in County Wicklow to Fianna Fáil party politicians. [6]
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.
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.
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.
Ireland portal; History portal; ... Pages in category "1930s in Ireland" ... 1930 in Ireland; Irish Free State; 0–9. 1931 in Ireland; 1932 in Ireland;