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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 ...
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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.
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.
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).
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
20 July – Ronan Keane, Chief Justice of Ireland. [8] 2 August – Peter O'Toole, actor (died 2013). 14 August – Denis Faul, monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplain to prisoners in Maze Prison during 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (died 2006). 21 August – Gene Fitzgerald, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (died 2007).
Ireland's economic history starts at the end of the Ice Age when the first humans arrived there. Agriculture then came around 4500 BC. Iron technology came with the Celts around 350 BC. From the 12th century to the 1970s, most Irish exports went to England. During this period, Ireland's main exports were foodstuffs.