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The Irish Free State (6 December 1922 – 29 December 1937), also known by its Irish name Saorstát Éireann (English: / ˌsɛərstɑːt ˈɛərən / SAIR-staht AIR-ən, [4] Irish: [ˈsˠiːɾˠsˠt̪ˠaːt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]), was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.
Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, it became the capital of the Irish Free State (1922–1937) and now is the capital of Ireland. One of the memorials to commemorate that time is the Garden of Remembrance.
By 1923, Dublin was the capital of the Irish Free State, an all but independent Irish state, governing 26 of Ireland's 32 counties.
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Dublin had never had an industrial revolution like most British cities, or even Belfast, but still according to the census of 1911 employed 73,000 manual workers. The docks were crowded with ships exporting and importing. The Anglo-American Oil Company had built large storage tanks on the docks in 1897 and the Great Southern and Western railway bui...
In the eighteenth century Dublin had been a Protestant city, but due to rural migration Catholics had become the majority by the early 19thcentury. Catholic nationalists, first O’Connellite ‘Repealers’ and later Parnellite ‘Home Rulers’ had taken over control of the city’s Corporation as far back as the 1840s when the voting system was reformed to ...
In response to nationalists political advances, many Protestant and unionists had moved out of the city proper and set up their own autonomous townships at places like Rathmines and Pembroke. Later their children moved further out of the city again to the ‘railway townships’ of Kingstown, Blackrock, Dalkey and Killiney. Dublin Corporation only mana...
‘At the bottom of the heap’, Todd Andrews thought, were the inhabitants of the slums who were ‘seldom above the poverty line and many of them far below it’. According to Andrews, they ‘supplied the rank and file of the [British regiment] Dublin Fusiliers’ and found their only entertainment in the pubs or on the terraces of the city’s football (socc...
In 1922, for the first time since the Act of Union in 1801, Dublin was again on the brink of becoming a capital city. Its last period as the political centre of Ireland had seen the construction of most of its grandest buildings – the Four Courts, the Custom House, the Parliament building (now the Bank of Ireland) and City Hall with their distincti...
Joseph Brady, Dublin at the Turn of the Century in Dublin Through Space and Time, P256 Brady p 303-312 Hill, Jacqueline. The Protestant Response to Repeal, the case of the Dublin working class in Ireland Under the Union(Lyons and Hawkins eds), Clarendon 1980. pp.45-46 See Lee, Joseph, The Modernisation of Irish Society. Irish Times Thursday, July 1...
Nov 7, 2022 · So it is appropriate to mark the centenary of the establishment of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922 with a closer look at the uproar into which Dublin – then the second most important capital of the Empire – and the counties that surround it were plunged.
The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) was the name of Ireland from 1922 to 1937. It replaced both the Irish Republic and Southern Ireland. The government was called the Executive Council, and it was headed by the President of the Executive Council, instead of a Prime Minister.
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The Irish Free State was officially founded on December 6th 1922. But the birth of the new state was a complicated affair.
