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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.
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Literary magazine Ireland Today, edited by Frank O'Connor, begins publication (June 1936 – March 1938). The Dawn is released; directed by Tom Cooper, it is the first sound film made in Ireland by an Irish company.
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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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 ...
Film of the year 2012: When Ali Came to Ireland: Ross Whitaker: Muhammad Ali, Alvin Lewis, Cathal O'Shannon: Documentary: Describes Muhammad Ali's first visit to Ireland in July 1972, and his fight there against Al Lewis. Eliot & Me: Fintan Connolly: Ella Connolly, Renée Weldon, David Wilmot and Gerard Mannix Flynn: Family: King of the ...