In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

Following the signing in 1921 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the War of Independence, a split occurred within the IRA.

In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) men are killed in an ambush at Soloheadbeg in Tipperary.

During the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ), most of the IRA units in Cork sided against the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Lloyd George presided over the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which established Northern Ireland in May 1921, during the Anglo-Irish War, which led to the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921 with Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins and the formation of the Irish Free State.

* Anglo-Irish War ( War of Irish Independence ) fought between the Irish Republican Army and the Black and Tans / Auxiliaries.

The bitterness of the fighting in the Anglo-Irish War precluded them from remaining in territory now controlled by their former enemies.

( 2006 ) The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1913 – 1922.

Following the signing of the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty, which brought the Irish War of Independence to an end, the single chamber Dáil became the lower house of a new bicameral Oireachtas, the parliament of the newly established Irish Free State.

Against the background of the Great Depression, he and de Valera engaged in the Anglo-Irish Trade War which lasted from 1933 until 1938, causing severe damage and hardship to the Irish economy and the cattle industry.

During the Anglo-Irish War the Castle was the nerve centre of the British effort against Irish separatism.

The Anglo-Irish Treaty (), officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the secessionist Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.

One of its most important acts was to bring an end to the War of Independence by ratifying the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty.

During the Irish War of Independence ( 1919 – 1921 ), many Anglo-Irish landlords left the country due to attacks on their family homes.

Had All-Ireland home rule evolved earlier, there would most likely have been no Easter Rising, no Anglo-Irish War, no independent twenty-six county Free State and no ensuing civil war.

Just prior to the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in March 1922, the Freeman's Journal printing machinery was destroyed by Anti-Treaty IRA men under Rory O ' Connor for its support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Every year on the National Day of Commemoration – the Sunday nearest July 11-the anniversary of the Truce that ended the Anglo-Irish War – the President of Ireland, in the presence of members of the Government of Ireland, members of Dáil Éireann and of Seanad Éireann, the Council of State, the Defence Forces, the Judiciary and the Diplomatic Corps, lays a wreath in the courtyard in memory of all Irishmen and Irishwomen who have died in past wars and on service with the United Nations.

In January 1919 a Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the provisional Sinn Féin First Dáil proclaimed an Irish Republic, later abolished in 1921 after the Anglo-Irish War under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which agreed on the Partition of Ireland and established the Irish Free State with its parliament the Dáil Éireann ( in the Irish Language ), the ' Assembly of Ireland '.

Oliver Coogan notes in his Politics and War in Meath 1913 – 23 that Bruton's granduncle was one of the farmers in south Meath who prevented the traditionally Anglo-Irish ascendency hunt from proceeding in the area during the Irish War of Independence.

Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, in 1887, the fourth child of nine, to an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest, the Reverend Henry Montgomery, and his wife, Maud ( née Farrar ).

It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.

On his mother's side, Cleveland was descended from Anglo-Irish Protestants and German Quakers from Philadelphia.

Under the terms of the Anglo-Irish agreement of 6 December 1921, which ended the war ( 1919 – 1921 ), Northern Ireland was given the option of withdrawing from the new state, the Irish Free State, and remaining part of the United Kingdom.

This partition was entrenched in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was ratified in 1922, by which Ireland left the United Kingdom with Northern Ireland rejoining two days later.

The advisory and consultative role of the government of Ireland in the government of Northern Ireland granted by the United Kingdom, that had begun with the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, was maintained.

The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.

In Moore v Attorney-General of the Irish Free State AC 484 ( PC ) the right of the Oireachtas to abolish appeals to the Privy Council was challenged as a violation of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Laurence Sterne ( 24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

The Irish Free State ( ) ( 6 December 1922 – 1937 ) was the state established as a dominion under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand.

Ussher was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a well-to-do Anglo-Irish family.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE, FRGS ( 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922 ) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

His father's family was Anglo-Irish, originally from Yorkshire, England.

Partly this was in search of better professional prospects for the newly qualified doctor, but another factor may have been unease about their Anglo-Irish ancestry, following the assassination by Irish nationalists of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the British Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1882.

Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists.

He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and apart from saying " Níl " (" No " in English ) when the vote was called, did not participate in any substantial way in the Dáil treaty debates.

John Nelson Darby ( 18 November 1800 – 29 April 1882 ) was an Anglo-Irish evangelist, and an influential figure among the original Plymouth Brethren.

Due to its seclusion, it was used as a discreet meeting place for high-ranking politicians and diplomats and the agreement to create the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed there.

His father, Isaac Wayne, had emigrated from Ireland, and was part of a Protestant Anglo-Irish family.

The initial aim of Ulster Resistance was to bring an end to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

As late as the 19th century the instrument was still commonly associated with the Anglo-Irish, e. g. the Anglican clergyman Canon James Goodman ( 1828 – 1896 ) from Kerry, who interestingly had his uilleann pipes buried with him at Creagh ( Church of Ireland ) cemetery near Baltimore, County Cork.

It was created in 1620 for the Anglo-Irish politician Richard Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle.