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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.
Year Date Event c. 16,000 BC: During the Last Glacial Maximum, Ireland is covered in ice sheets: c. 12,000 BC: A narrow channel forms between Prehistoric Ireland and southwest Scotland [1] c. 10,000 BC: Carbon-dating on bear bones indicate the presence of Paleolithic people in County Clare. [2] c. 8000 BC: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrate to ...
The Irish calendar is the Gregorian calendar as it is in use in Ireland, but also incorporating Irish cultural festivals and views of the division of the seasons, presumably inherited from earlier Celtic calendar traditions. Winter - November, December, January (Samhain, Nollaig, Eanáir)
Pages in category "1930s in Ireland" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
1930 in Northern Ireland (3 C, 1 P) P. 1930 in Irish politics (1 C, 2 P) S. 1930 in Irish sport (4 C, 5 P) Pages in category "1930 in Ireland" This category contains ...
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).
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 ...
Political map of the island of Ireland today showing Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland. Negotiations between the British and Irish negotiating teams produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty, concluded on 6 December 1921. The Irish team was led by Michael Collins, who had organised the IRA intelligence during the War of ...