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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 ...
7 December – The Ireland national rugby union team was beaten by New Zealand and the Irish association football team was beaten by the Netherlands. 16 December – Foynes in County Limerick was chosen to be the European terminal of a transatlantic flying boat air service.
However, aspects of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which had marked the end of the war, led to the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). The aftermath left Ireland with damaged infrastructure and hindered its early development. [4] Éamon de Valera, who had voted against the Anglo-Irish treaty and headed the Anti-Treaty movement during the civil war, came to ...
Part of Kingdom of León civil war and War of Portuguese independence; Location: Iberian Peninsula. County of Portugal Supported by: Kingdom of Galicia: Portuguese rebels Victory. Afonso Henriques takes the leadership of the County of Portugal and paves the way for an independent Kingdom of Portugal. Luso-Leonese War (1130–37) Location ...
Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) Irish Republic [1] United Kingdom: Victory. Anglo-Irish Treaty: [2] Dominion status for 26 counties of Southern Ireland as the Irish Free State; 6 counties of Northern Ireland remain part of UK; United Kingdom retains the Ports of Berehaven, Spike Island and Lough Swilly; Irish Civil War (1922–1923 ...
The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland [a] and finally League of Youth, but best known by the nickname the Blueshirts (Irish: Na Léinte Gorma), was a paramilitary organisation in the Irish Free State, founded as the Army Comrades Association in Dublin on 9 February 1932. [7]
Nine Years' War: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1641–42 Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642–49 Confederate War: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1649–53 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1689–91 Williamite–Jacobite War: Part of the War of the Grand Alliance: 1798 Irish ...
For much of the period, the Irish economy provided cheap raw materials such as timber, beef, vegetables, and marble to the far more industrialised British economy. Ireland underwent major highs and lows economically during the 19th century: from economic booms during the Napoleonic Wars [citation needed] and in the late 20th century (when it ...