Irish Sun6y
Ireland set to get annual Independence Day after Seanad bill passed — but you won’t be getting a day off
On that day in 1919, the first Dail sat in Dublin’s Mansion House and approved the ­Declaration of Independence, making Ireland a republic. Today's Independence Day legislation was passed by an ...
Irish Central6y
The Irish parliament first met on this day 100 years ago: How did it happen and what did it mean?
When the first Dáil convened on January 21, 1919, independence from Great Britain was declared. On the same day, Irish Volunteers in Co. Tipperary ambushed and killed two members of the Royal ...
Sinn Féin makes request for Belfast City hall to be lit up for ‘Irish National Day’ on July 11
The day commemorates the Irish War of Independence, and all Irish people who died in past wars or UN peace keeping missions ...
RTE Online1mon
Introducing Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War
explains why Ireland remains one of few states without an independence day. Pro-treatyites never convincingly demonstrated that the new state embodied, as W.T. Cosgrave had claimed, an ‘almost ...
Irish Central6y
100 years ago today, the Irish War of Independence began
But his claim to fame might be that he was one of the rebels who started the War of Independence ... event of that day took place at Soloheadbeg where two Royal Irish Constabularies [RIC ...
The Irish Times20d
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: illuminating Ireland pre-independence
In February 1844, not long before The Famine, British Tory MP Benjamin Disraeli offered this brief overview of Ireland: “A dense population, in extreme distress, inhabit an island where there is ...
RTE Online1mon
Introducing Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War
explains why Ireland remains one of few states without an independence day. Pro-treatyites never convincingly demonstrated that the new state embodied, as W.T. Cosgrave had claimed, an ‘almost ...