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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 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.
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 ...
Year Date Event c. 2000 BC: Bronze Age technologies start to arrive in Ireland, including the moulding of Ballybeg-type flat axes, and the beginnings of copper mining at Ross Island, Killarney and Mount Gabriel. [3] c. 500 BC: During the Iron Age in Ireland, Celtic influence in art, language and culture begins to take hold. [4] c. 300 BC
The Conservatives, for example, won a majority in the 1859 general election in Ireland. A significant minority also voted for Unionists , who resisted fiercely any dilution of the Act of Union. In the 1870s a former Conservative barrister turned nationalist campaigner, Isaac Butt , established a new moderate nationalist movement, the Home Rule ...
24 October – start of Wall Street crash; Ireland's economy suffers. Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue banknotes in sterling. Primary Certificate introduced, but optional, at end of primary education. Fordson tractor production is moved to Cork from the United States. Inishtrahull is depopulated (other than lighthouse keepers).
Banned books were listed in the Government publication Iris Oifigiúil, and the list, or a selection, was usually published in the Irish Times. Among Irish books or authors whose book(s) were banned were Liam O'Flaherty (1930), Seán Ó Faoláin (1932), Francis Stuart (1939), Oliver St. John Gogarty (1942), The Tailor and Ansty by Eric Cross ...
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