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457 matches to Irish Free State
Anglo-Irish Treaty. 1921. Partitioned Ireland. Irish Free State as Dominion. N. Ireland in UK.
Black and Tans. 1920-22. Brutal British police sent to suppress Irish unrest. Irish Free State.
Collins, Michael. 1890-1922. Led Easter Rebellion. First Prime Minister of Irish Free State 1922. Assassinated by extremists.
De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.
Easter Rebellion. 1916. Ireland. Irish Free State.
Home Rule Bill. 1914 Separate Irish Parliament. 1920 Government of Ireland Act. Irish Free State.
Ireland. 400BC-100 Celts. 432 Christianity. 8-14C Norse/British invade, settle. 1002 Brian Boru. 1573 English plantations. 1801 United Kingdom. 1921 Irish Free State/Northern Ireland.
Ireland, Republic. 1921 Dominion =Irish Free State. 1937 =Eire. 1949 Republic of Ireland. 1949 leaves Commonwealth.
Irish Free State. 1922-37. = Ireland, Republic of.
Irish Home Rule. 1880-1920. Movement for Irish independence from Britain. Home rule granted 1920...Irish Free State.
Irish Partition. 1921. Irish Free State established; 6 NE counties elect to stay British.
Irish War. 1919-21. IRA fights for indepence. Irish Free State.
Lloyd George, David. 1863-1945. British Liberal Prime Minister,1916-22. Unemployment insurance. Irish Free State. War cabinet, 1916.
Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.
United Kingdom. 1801 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1921 -Irish Free State =UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Anglo-Irish Agreement. 1985. Irish Republic gets voice in governing N. Ireland.
Balfour, Arthur. 1848-1930. British Prime Minister 1902-5. Opposed Irish Home Rule. Balfour Declaration.
Beckett, Samuel. 1906-89. English/Irish novelist, dramatist expressing man’s suffering: Waiting for Godot 1952. Endgame.
Berkeley, George. 1685-1753. Irish immaterialist philosopher: reality exists only in the eye of God; for man, only when perceived. Principles of Knowledge 1710.
Brehon Laws. (Feinechus) 8-17C. Irish legal system.
Brigit, St. 453-523. Founded Kildare nunnery. Irish Patron St.
Carson, Edward. 1854-1935. Irish. Formed Ulster Volunteers to resist Home Rule.
Casement, Roger. 1864-1916. Irish. Enlisted German aid for Irish Independence during WWI. Executed.
Clan-na-Gael. 1883- US Irish terrorist organization.
Columba, St. c521-597. Irish monk. Missionary to Scotland.