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Ireland was part of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which started a population decline that ...
Irish Rebellion of 1798. Guerrilla activity in counties Antrim until 1800, Wicklow until 1803 and Wexford until 1804. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Turn out, [6] The Hurries, [7] 1798 Rebellion [8]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate ...
Unionist postcard (1912) Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales. The overwhelming sentiment of Ireland's Protestant minority, unionism mobilised in the decades following Catholic Emancipation in 1829 to oppose ...
Climate Case Ireland. Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland[ 1 ] (also known as Climate Case Ireland) [citation needed] was an important climate change case decided by the Irish Supreme Court in 2020. In the case, the Supreme Court quashed the Government of Ireland 's 2017 National Mitigation Plan on the grounds that it ...
Partition of Ireland. The Partition of Ireland (Irish: críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. It was enacted on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
Known as sub-division, this inheritance practice continued by tradition until the middle of the 19th century. The growth of population inevitably caused subdivision. Population grew from a level of about 500,000 in 1000 AD to about 2 million by 1700, and 5 million by 1800. On the eve of the Great Famine the population of Ireland had risen to 8 ...
Ukrainian pioneer. Iwan Pylypiw or Ivan Pylypow (Ukrainian: Іван Пилипiв, September 28, 1859 – October 10, 1936) was one of the first Ukrainian immigrants to Canada in 1891–93, along with Vasyl Eleniak. Pylypow was born in the village of Nebyliv [uk] in Kalush county (povit) in Austrian Galicia (today Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk ...
On 18 April 1918, acting on a resolution of Dublin Corporation, the Lord Mayor of Dublin (Laurence O'Neill) held a conference at the Mansion House, Dublin.The Irish Anti-Conscription Committee was convened to devise plans to resist conscription, and represented different sections of nationalist opinion: John Dillon and Joseph Devlin for the Irish Parliamentary Party, Éamon de Valera and ...