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However, Article 12 of the Act provided that Northern Ireland could opt out of the #IrishFreeState provided that it chose to do so within a month.
Predictably, it did so ASAP. On 7 December the Parliament of Northern Ireland unanimously passed a motion a motion to ask the King of the UK […]
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Effectively, Northern Ireland became a devolved govt of an independent Ireland. (OK, the so-called "#IrishFreeState" was technically a "dominion" of the British Crown like Canada and Australia, rather than an independent state, but it was not part of the UK).
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At independence in 1922, #Ireland spun into #CivilWar, with some opposed to peace as the #IrishFreeState since they were stuck in the #Commonwealth. But it was a pointless waste of lives, as on #ThisDayInHistory in 1937 Ireland became a #republic, cutting ties with the monarchy.
Statue of Queen Victoria being removed from Leinster House in 1948
The carpark outside Leinster House, replacing the statue of the "auld bitch" Queen Victoria
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In 1922, #LeinsterHouse became the home of the #Oireachtas, the Parliament of the new #IrishFreeState. There were regular protests at the presence of the #AuldBitch.
In July 1948, as the Republic of Ireland Bill was debated, the statue's 8-week removal […]
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1922, just two days after taking power in #Ireland, the #IrishFreeState executed, without trial, four #IrishRepublicanArmy leaders from the anti-treaty side in the #IrishCivilWar. Alphabetically: #DickBarrett, #JoeMcKelvey, #LiamMellows, and #RoryOConnor.
#ThisDayInHistory holds two related anniversaries. In 1921, the #AngloIrishTreaty was signed, ending the #IrishWarOfIndependence. And in 1922, #IrishFreeState and #NorthernIreland came into existence. #Ireland later rejected Commonwealth & became a republic; NI is still occupied.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1922, the #IrishFreeState executed nine men, including novelist #ErskineChilders (who was killed for owning a pistol while being Protestant). Free State executed at ~3x the rate of the UK during the independence war, contributing to the #IrishCivilWar.
When Ireland unites, it must be as an independent Republic, and not as some sort of satellite of the massively dysfunctional so-called "United Kingdom". We haven't spent a century building an independent Republic just to trade it for some quasi-British 32-county Free State.
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.... the Irish Free State was created as a self-governing Dominion on 6 December 1922. 2/2
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishWarOfIndependence #AngloIrishTreaty #OnThisDay #IrishFreeState #OnThisDay
#Irishdiaspora #IrishFreeState #SaorstÉirean #Éire #Hibernia #Ireland #ROI #RepublicofIreland #Immigration #IrishPassport #Passport #Cloncowley #Longford #CountyLongford
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Michael Collins ‘bouncing’ out through the Chief Secretary’s door after the Handover (Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland).
On 16 January 1922 Michael Collins took control of Dublin Castle from the British authorities on behalf of the new Irish Free State.
#MichaelCollins #DublinCastle #IrishFreeState #Ireland #IrishHistory
In December 1922 a proclamation established the #IrishFreeState. Among loyalists in three border counties of Ulster the sense of betrayal was acute.
⌛ 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲
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August 22nd 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8-... #onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #ireland #civilwar #michaelcollins #irishfreestate #irishcivilwar #cork
