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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
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The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography (2001) McBride, Ian, History and Memory in Modern Ireland (2001) McCarthy, Mark, ed. Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity (2005) McCarthy, Mark, ed. Ireland's 1916 Rising: Explorations of History-making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times (2012)
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.
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]