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History of Ireland guide; Irish History Digitized; Ireland Under Coercion – "The diary of an American", by William Henry Hurlbert, published 1888, from Project Gutenberg; The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless, 1896 (Project Gutenberg) Timeline of Irish History 1840–1916 (1916 Rebellion Walking Tour) A Concise History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce
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 ...
History of Ireland by topic (21 C) * History of the Republic of Ireland (9 C, 4 P) History of Northern Ireland (7 C, 7 P) A. Archaeology of Ireland (15 C, 26 P) E.
3 March – In his Lenten pastoral, Thomas O'Doherty, Bishop of Galway, denounced immodest dress and vulgar films.Membership of Trinity College Dublin was still forbidden for Catholics and membership of the Irish Republican Army and Communist organisations remained mortal sins.
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.
13 October – Orson Welles makes his first professional stage debut, age 16, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, with a leading rôle in an adaptation of Jew Süss. 25 October – Ireland's first all-concrete Art Deco church, the Church of Christ the King, is opened at Turners Cross, Cork, designed by Chicago architect Barry Byrne with sculptor John Storrs.
4 May – In the 1938 presidential election, Douglas Hyde was elected unopposed and was inaugurated on June 25 as Ireland's first president. [ 2 ] 10 May – The Government made an order converting the " Saorstát pound" to the " Irish pound " as part of new constitutional reforms.
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 .