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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 ...
Great Irish Famine: A potato blight destroys two-thirds of Ireland's staple crop, leading to an estimated 1 million deaths and emigration of a further 1 million people. [27] 1867: 5 March: Fenian Rising. 1879-1882: The "Land War," a period of rural agitation for fair rents and free sale of land to liberate Irish peasants from generations of ...
Ireland as a result experienced sharp emigration of around 50,000 per year during the decade and the population of the state fell to an all-time low of 2.81 million. [52] The policies of protectionism and low public spending which had predominated since the 1930s were widely viewed to be failing.
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.
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
The curve on the timeline shows the summarized values for all countries over time. The timeline is also a year slider, allowing the user to select year for the map. If the user marks an interval of several years on the timeline, the map colors indicate how the value has changed between the first and last year in the interval.
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".
1930 elections in the Irish Free State (2 P) / 1930 disestablishments in Ireland ... Pages in category "1930 in Ireland" This category contains only the following page.