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Galway city played a relatively minor role in the upheaval in Ireland from 1916 to 1923. In 1916, during the Easter Rising , Liam Mellows mobilised the local Irish Volunteers in the area to attack the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Oranmore , just outside Galway, however they failed to take it and later surrendered in Athenry .
The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [1] is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [3] [4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
The Republic of Ireland Act abolishes the statutory functions of the British monarch in relation to Ireland and confers them on the President of Ireland. 1955: 14 December: Ireland joins the United Nations along with sixteen other sovereign states. 1969: August: Troops are deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the start of the ...
MV Alta is an abandoned merchant vessel currently located in Ireland. [1] Constructed in 1976 with the name Tananger , Alta was abandoned at sea in October 2018 and washed ashore in Ireland in February 2020, where her wreckage remains.
15 May – Irish Oak (Irish Shipping) torpedoed and sunk by U-607, 700 miles west of Ireland: crew rescued by Irish Plane eight hours later. 2 June – S.S. City of Bremen (Saorstat & Continental Steam Ship Company) bombed by a Junkers Ju 88 and sunk in the Bay of Biscay: all eleven crew rescued by a Spanish fishing trawler.
31 December – 1979 was the worst year ever for industrial disputes in Ireland, costing the economy over 1,460,000 working days. Undated – The Central Bank of Ireland postponed the issue of a new £20 note, blue in colour, bearing an image of the poet W. B. Yeats until January 1980, due to financial problems.
16 March – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. asked the United States Congress to support a United Ireland. 27 April – Republican revolutionary, suffragette, and actress Maud Gonne MacBride died at her home in Dublin aged 88. 1 May – The first television transmitter in Ireland was brought into service by the BBC at Glencairn. [1]