On paper, there were 100, 000 or so Volunteers enrolled after the conscription crisis of 1918.

The Irish Volunteers and Sinn Fein were proclaimed “ dangerous organisations ” in certain areas ( 3 July 1918 ), with meetings banned except under permit, and West Cork was declared a Special Military Area in late September.

The National Volunteers ceased to exist after the Armistice in 1918 when their battalions were disbanded in 1922 under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

In its aftermath, and especially after the Conscription Crisis of 1918 in which the British Cabinet had planned to impose conscription in Ireland, the National Volunteers were eclipsed by the Irish Volunteers, whose membership shot up to over 100, 000 by the end of 1918.

After the Armistice in November 1918, around 100, 000 Irishmen, including the surviving members of the National Volunteers who had enlisted, were demobilised from the British Army.

* 11th ( Service ) Battalion ( St. Helens Pioneers ), The Prince of Wales's Volunteers ( South Lancashire Regiment ) ( until June 1918 )

In politics he was until 1918 a firm supporter of John Redmond ; he joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914.

The political controversies of Irish independence came to the Crescent in the early 1920s, and Fr William Hackett established and publically drilled the ' Crescent Volunteers ' in 1918 in defiance of the authorities, which was closely observed by the local Constablary.

* Image of Fr William Hackett and the Crescent Volunteers, 1918

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

* 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian ( d. 2002 )

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

* 1918 – Joyce Redman, Irish actress

In December 1918, republicans ( then represented by the Sinn Féin party ) won 73 Irish seats out of 105 in the 1918 General Election to the British Parliament, on a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence.

* 1918 – Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter ( d. 1999 )

From 1916 to 1918, the two dominant nationalist movements, Sinn Féin and the Irish Parliamentary Party, fought a tough series of battles in by-elections.

Sinn Féin MPs elected in 1918 fulfilled their election promise not to take their seats in Westminster but instead set up an independent " Assembly of Ireland ", or Dáil Éireann, in the Irish language.

* 2012 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Peter O ' Sullevan, Irish horse racing commentator

Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA ( 1890 – 1969 ), who was serving in the British Indian Army.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

* January 28 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter ( b. 1918 )

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It comprises Sinn Féin members elected in the 1918 general election who, in accordance with their manifesto, have not taken their seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom but chosen to declare an independent Irish Republic.

Republicans and some independent Nationalists who led opposition to the idea of compulsory military service for Irish men in the conscription crisis of early 1918.

In the December 1918 general election, a large majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won by Sinn Féin, with 73 of 105 constituencies returning Sinn Féin members.

In calling the 1917 – 18 Irish Convention he attempted to settle the outstanding Home Rule for Ireland issue, but then his attempt to extend conscription to Ireland in April 1918 was disastrous, leading to the wipeout of the old Irish Home Rule Party at the December 1918 election.

* 1918 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.

The previous Belarusian National Republic of March 1918 to 1919 did not have time to create armed forces in its brief existence, although attempts to create a military have been documented.

In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing, some objects were evacuated to a Postal Tube Railway at Holborn, the National Library of Wales ( Aberystwyth ) and a country house near Malvern.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

* Great Union Day, celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918 ; since 1990, National Day ( Romania )

First National film poster from 1918

A delegation sent by a postwar Albanian National Assembly that met at Durrës in December 1918 defended Albanian interests at the Paris Peace Conference, but the conference denied Albania official representation.

Distribution of races in the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor in 1918 ( National Geographic )

In 1918, the ICR and NTR were merged by the federal government into the newly formed Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) system.

Mathilde Roth Schechter ( 1857 – 1924 ) was the American founder of the U. S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918.

Between 1848 and 1918, numerous institutions ( including theatres and publishing houses, as well as political, financial and cultural organisations ) were founded in the so-called Slovene National Awakening.

Following the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire in the aftermath of the World War I, a National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs took power in Zagreb on 6 October 1918.

The territory claimed by the Belarus National Republic, 1918

At the end of World War I, when Belarus was still occupied by Germans, according to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the short-lived Belarus National Republic was pronounced on March 25, 1918, as part of the German Mitteleuropa plan.

* Jerzy Ogonowski, Uprawnienia językowe mniejszości narodowych w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918 – 1939 ( The Language Rights of National Minorities in the Second Republic of Poland, 1918 – 1939, Polish with an English summary ), Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warsaw, 2000

The period in German history from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here because the capital, Berlin, with its street rioting after the 1918 German Revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to use it as a meeting place.

At his Nuremberg trial, reflecting the traditional anti-Semitic bias of the German middle class and naval officers of his generation, he argued that after the experience of 1917 and 1918, " International Jewry " had " gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs ", and " one could not be surprised that the National Socialist government tried to loosen and, as far as possible remove this large and oppressive influence.

On October 31, 1918, local military and political elites establish the " Banat National Council ", together with representatives of the region's main ethnic groups: Hungarians, Romanians, Serbs and Germans.

* Belarusian National Republic ( 1918 – 1919 ) – Part of the German Empire's plan of Mitteleuropa.

The first of these races, in 1916, was called the Racecourse Association Steeplechase, and in 1917 and 1918 the race was called the War National Steeplechase.

In April of 1918, Hu published a second article in New Youth, this one titled " Constructive Literary Revolution-A Literature of National Speech ".

Waddon Aerodrome opened in 1918, adjoining National Aircraft Factory No. 1, to serve aircraft test flights.

* 1916, 1917, 1918: During World War I the racecourse hosted the Grand National.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this athletic facility was a gift of Alva Crocker, in 1918, to the City Of Fitchburg ’ s school children.