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1930 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1930 List of years in Ireland: Events from the year 1930 in Ireland. Incumbents. Governor-General: James McNeill;
Ireland is a predominantly Catholic country and Christmas plays an important role in religious aspects of Irish life, taking the place of the pre-Christian festival on the winter solstice. [4] The earliest account of the Christian celebration of Christmas in Ireland are from 1171, when the excommunicated King Henry II spent Christmas in Dublin.
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.
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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.
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Christmas in Ireland has several local traditions. On 26 December ( St. Stephen's Day ), there is a custom of " Wrenboys " [ 18 ] who call door to door with an arrangement of assorted material (which changes in different localities) to represent a dead wren "caught in the furze", as their rhyme goes.