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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Irish Free State"”.
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Legal Translation and Terminology in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
… Government Translation section - on English-Irish legal translation and terminology, with particular focus on the period 1922-1937; a period bookended by the establishment of the Irish Free State and the enactment of Bunreacht na hÉireann (the Constitution of Ireland) in 1937. It aims to …
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Farmers, agriculture and politics in the Irish Free State area, 1919-1936
… of agriculture in the early years of the Irish Free State, it is surprising that the development of organisations representing farmers has not received the attention it deserves from historians. While the issues of government agricultural policy and the land question have been extensively …
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The Irish Republicanism of Peter C. Yorke of San Francisco 1916-1922
<p>Ireland’s struggle to obtain freedom and nationhood had been watched with considerable and sympathetic interest in the United States by many Americans of Irish birth and descent, particularly during the critical period from 1916 to 1922. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the career of …
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The impact of Irish nationalism on central Scotland, 1898-1939
The impact of Irish nationalism on central Scotland, 1898 – 1939 The years 1898 to 1939 were momentous ones for both Irish and Scottish history. The rise of Sinn Fein, the impact of the First World War and the Easter Rising, followed by the formation of the Irish Free State in 1921 and Eire in 1937 …
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The Naval Forces of the Irish State, 1922-1977
… examine the history of the naval forces of the Irish state since its independence and identify those factors, events and decisions which shaped their development while also providing an overview of the naval history of the state. Since the foundation of the Irish Free State and the civil war …
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Cavan Protestants in an age of upheaval, 1919-22
… that, while Cavan’s Protestants accepted the Irish Free State, they remained a specific cultural/political group within the county as those beliefs that had given them their unionist tendencies were not put to rest, despite the great weakening of Irelands relationship with Great Britain.
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The divided political landscape of County Cavan 1912-1922
… it was the northern frontier of the newly formed Irish Free State. Between the years of 1912 and 1922 Ireland experienced two simultaneous revolutions. The Catholics of Ireland were on the main nationalists and their long struggle toward self determination and independence rapidly gathered pace …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
… only mental health facility constructed in the Irish Free State period. Until this time, patients from County Louth were accommodated in the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum in Dublin. This thesis argued that the Local Government (Ireland) Act (1898) reinvented the political, economic and moral …
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To undo the conquest: nationalism, socialism and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1936
… and structures that produced and shaped the Irish Revolution and the subsequent modern Irish state. The project essentially asks: what accounts for limited socioeconomic change during and after the Irish Revolution? It argues that nineteenth-century Ireland emerged as a partial colony, that …
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The Political Career of Erskine Hamilton Childers, 1905-74
… Robert Erskine Childers, who was executed by the Irish Free State in 1922. Childers was totally dedicated to all his portfolios, he was named Minister of the Year in 1970 by Newsweek magazine. This thesis explores Childers political contribution and examines a number of key issues and themes …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
… and considers its role in the culture of the Free State in the 1930s and 1940s. There has hitherto been no extensive examination of Devenport’scomplete work. I ask how her writing and artistic status within her social milieu represents her cultural and political position, or more specifically, …
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County Cork: the experience of members of the establishment whose houses were burned in the IRA arson campaign, 1920-23
… by this method in Cork than in any other Irish county in the same timeframe. The establishment were targeted by the IRA for their political, military and social persuasions that were essentially in opposition to the nationalist movement. The motivations behind these burnings is examined, …
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Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
… of his responsibilities to become the Trust's Irish representative is traced. In 1917 the trustees established an Irish advisory committee, and from 1921 financed experimental county library schemes. The first two schemes, in Counties Donegal and Antrim, are described in detail. Acts of …
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The Impact of Ex British Soldiers on The Irish Volunteers And Free State Army 1913-1924
… the service of ex-British soldiers in the Irish Army and to examine some of their experiences during the period 1913-1924 with particular emphasis on the Irish Civil War. There was a constant utilisation of ex-British servicemen for their skills and also their intimidation by republicans …
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Southern Irish Unionism during the revolutionary and post-Independence periods, 1912-1932
This research focuses on the role of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy and commercial interests from the southern 26 counties of Ireland in determining southern unionist policies and political strategies in the early 20th century. The specific time frame under examination extends from the beginning of the …
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Irish-Soviet diplomatic and friendship relations, 1919-80
This thesis offers a contribution to Irish historiography with a study of Ireland’s diplomatic and friendship relations with the Soviet Union in the ‘short Soviet twentiethcentury’. To date no such study has been produced. The study has as its central focus developments surrounding the …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… longer at home in the familiar world of nation-states. </p><p>A discontentment with the parameters of late modernity was already apparent in the high modernists, many of whom responded by embracing political positions on the radical right or left. However, the catastrophic political experiments …
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Minorites, military service, and the legacies of post-war reconstruction in the British Isles, 1918-1939
… ex-service organisations by Jewish and Irish veterans of the Great War.
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Recovering children’s reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children’s Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922–1939
… is concerned with advancing our knowledge of Irish children’s reading in the first two decades of the independence era. It establishes that the type of reading material in circulation by the public library of the Irish Free State’s second-largest city was substantially in conflict with the …