This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.

In the 1885 general election this party won the balance of power in the House of Commons, and demanded Irish Home Rule as the price of support for a continued Gladstone ministry.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

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.

The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.

In general, it is regarded by locals as tourist orientated with false " ye olde Irish " pretensions.

* 2011 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffers the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

A series of forts was already being built, starting around 280, to defend the coasts, but these preparations were not enough when a general assault of Saxons, Irish and Attacotti, combined with apparent dissension in the garrison on Hadrian's Wall, left Roman Britain prostrate in 367.

Guest expressed the general opinion in a poem titled " Speaking of Greenberg ," in which he used the Irish ( and thus Catholic ) names Murphy and Mulroney.

In general, counties were made by amalgamating various smaller Irish territories which suited the colonial administration at the time and had little basis in older tribal boundaries.

The Greens became part of the Irish government for the first time following the Irish general election, 2007, having agreed upon a programme for government in coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.

The Green Party had six seats in the Irish government but lost them all in the 2011 general election.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

In general, commercial and manufacturing towns and cities voted Whig, save for strongly Democratic precincts in Irish Catholic and German immigrant communities ; the Democrats often sharpened their appeal to the poor by ridiculing the Whigs ' aristocratic pretensions.

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.

* June 15 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil party, led by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, fails to win a majority.

Irish nationalist reaction was mixed, Unionist opinion was hostile, and the election addresses during the 1886 election revealed English radicals to be against the bill also.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

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.

* 1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.

One year later, however, Labour approached her about the Irish presidency, for which an election was to be held.

When Éamon de Valera led Fianna Fáil to victory in the Irish Free State election of 1932, he began removing the monarchical elements of the constitution, beginning with the Oath of Allegiance.

Immigrant groups who had made up an important part of the Democratic coalition, such as ethnic Germans and Irish, also voted for Harding in the election in reaction to their perceived persecution by the Wilson administration during World War I.

After the 1880 election, he formed his second ministry, which saw crises in Egypt ( culminating in the death of General Gordon in 1885 ), and in Ireland, where the government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers.

He was increasingly involved in the Irish republican movement, joining Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann in 1964, after being radicalised by the Divis Street riots during that year's general election campaign.

Current League Champions and the first Irish side to reach the group stages of a European competition: 2011 – 12 UEFA Europa League group stage Shamrock Rovers play at Tallaght Stadium in South Dublin, play at Richmond Park, and play their home games at the UCD Bowl in Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, while is based at Tolka Park.

* The Irish women were also National Champion runner-ups in 2011 and 2012

As of June 2011 Northern Irish and Scottish customers are unable to shop online, although some Scottish customers may get items delivered via IKEA Edinburgh.

* 1935 – Oliver Napier, Irish politician ( d. 2011 )

In 2011 he released Route Irish, an examination of private contractors working in the Iraqi occupation.

* May 21 – Brian Lenihan, Irish politician ( d. 2011 )

* May 2011, Irish Hills Meat Company of Michigan, a Tipton, Mich., establishment is recalling approximately 900 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157: H7.

In 2010, Adams announced that he would be seeking election as a TD ( member of Irish Parliament ) for the constituency of Louth at the 2011 Irish general election.

Following the announcement of the Irish general election, 2011, Adams wrote to the House of Commons to resign his seat.

According to the 2011 Census, 17, 132 say they can speak Irish in the County Donegal Gaeltacht.

The Irish Green Party were in government from 2007 until January 2011 when the party withdrew their support for the ruling coalition.

* Peter Murphy ( broadcaster ) ( 1923 – 2011 ), Irish radio and television broadcaster

Sheen maintains links with Galway and " heartily " supported Michael D. Higgins in the Irish presidential election, 2011, having become a " dear friend " of Higgins while studying there.

The last of Crozier's crosswords was published in the Irish Times on 22nd October 2011.

According to the Irish Census 2011 there are 20, 040 daily speakers outside the education system in the province.

In April 2011, The Last Picture Show was re-released in UK and Irish cinemas, distributed by Park Circus.

It won 40 % of the vote in the Clare constituency in the 2011 Irish general election.

The borough has a population of 8, 711, however the majority of the population live outside the borough boundary, the 2011 Irish Census gives the total population of the Borough & Environs as 24, 423.