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A fundamentalist cartoon portraying modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan. The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Bottigheimer, Karl S. Ireland and the Irish: A Short History. Columbia U. Press, 1982. 301 pp. Bourke, Richard, and Ian McBride, eds. The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (Princeton University Press, 2016) Boyce, D. George and Alan O’day. The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy 1996 online edition
31 March – In the second reading debate in the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the Government of Ireland Bill, Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson opposed the division of Ireland, seeing it as a betrayal of Unionists in the south and west. [4] 2 April – Canadian-born lawyer Sir Hamar Greenwood was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.
1920: Government of Ireland Act 1920 establishes Partition of Ireland into two home rule jurisdictions: unionist-dominated Northern Ireland and the stillborn Southern Ireland; 1920-1922: The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922) saw "savage and unprecedented" communal violence between Protestants and Catholics in newly formed Northern Ireland. [16]
The quest for modern Ireland: the battle for ideas, 1912–1986 (Irish Academic Press, 2008). Girvin, Brian. "Beyond Revisionism? Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Modern Ireland." English Historical Review 124.506 (2009): 94–107. Gkotzaridis, Evi. Trials of Irish History: Genesis and Evolution of a reappraisal (Routledge, 2013 ...
The Republic of Ireland Act abolishes the statutory functions of the British monarch in relation to Ireland and confers them on the President of Ireland. 1955: 14 December: Ireland joins the United Nations along with sixteen other sovereign states. 1969: August: Troops are deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the start of the ...
The 1920 Government of Ireland Bill created the state of Northern Ireland, which consisted of the six northeastern counties of Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Antrim, Down and Armagh. [62] From 1921 to 1972, Northern Ireland was governed by a Unionist government, based at Stormont in east Belfast.
The military conflict produced only a handful of killings in 1919, but steadily escalated from the summer of 1920 onwards with the introduction of the paramilitary police forces, the Black and Tans and Auxiliary Division into Ireland. From November 1920 to July 1921, over 1000 people died in the conflict (compared to c. 400 until then).