* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

Irish bankruptcy law has been the subject of significant recent comment, from both government sources and the media, as being in need of reform.

The CIRA is an illegal organisation under UK ( section 11 ( 1 ) of the Terrorism Act 2000 ) and Irish law due to the use of ' IRA ' in the group's name in a situation analogous to that of the Real Irish Republican Army ( RIRA ).

The report, published on 26 June, was critical of the Dublin administration, saying that " Ireland for several years had been administered on the principle that it was safer and more expedient to leave the law in abeyance if collision with any faction of the Irish people could thereby be avoided.

Irish firearms law is based on several Firearms Acts, each of which amends those Acts which were issued previously.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

Following the Brophy case, some 300 pistols were licenced in Ireland, ranging from new Olympic air pistols ( which are firearms under Irish law ) to reclaimed pre-1972 pistols to new centerfire pistols.

This includes Irish citizens who have emigrated abroad and their children, who are Irish citizens by descent under Irish law.

* In 2004 there was controversy about an Irish law restricting the maximum size of a retail outlet to 6, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >.

The Minister for the Environment was criticised for allegedly changing the law to suit one company and other agencies protested the law change as damaging to small businesses while the government defended their decision stating that the move was a positive one for Irish consumers.

* Irish nationality law, determining who can become an Irish citizen

* 1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.

* Irish tort law ( see Irish Citizens Information Board )

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

In addition to showing an Irish Setter throughout the year, she also scored with an Afghan.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.

While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

Carney also ties Beowulf to Irish literature through the Táin Bó Fráech story.

Bronski also remixed the track " Flowers in the Morning " by Northern Irish electronic band, Electrobronze in 2007, changing the style of the song from classical to Hi-NRG disco

This term Lá Buidhe Bealtaine is also used in Irish and is translated as ' Bright May Day '.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

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.

There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.

It has also been suggested that 19th-century bunyip lore was reinforced by imported European memories, such as that of the Irish Púca.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

" Boudica has also been the primary subject of songs by Irish singer / songwriter Enya, Dutch soprano Petra Berger, Scottish singer / songwriter Steve McDonald, English metal band Bal-Sagoth, Faith and the Muse and Dreams in the Witching House.

Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

Lennon, who was of Irish descent, also spoke at a protest in New York in support of the victims and families of Bloody Sunday.

Paul McCartney ( also of Irish descent ) issued a single shortly after Bloody Sunday titled " Give Ireland Back to the Irish ", expressing his views on the matter.

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band, wrote a song also called " Sunday Bloody Sunday " about the event.

The Irish Republican political party, Sinn Féin is also known to have close political links to the Cuban government.

In 2004, as a result of the Chen case Ireland revoked, in a referendum, a clause in the constitution added in 1998 that any born in Ireland was automatically an Irish citizen, although this definition of citizenship remains in ordinary law.

It inserted a new section in Article 9 of the constitution stating that, " notwithstanding any other provision of Constitution ", no-one would be automatically entitled to Irish citizenship unless they had at least one parent who was ( or was entitled to be ) an Irish citizen.

Since Irish peers were not automatically entitled to representation in the Lords, individuals could be created Irish peers so as to honour them without further swelling the numbers of the House of Lords.

He argued that if an individual was not entitled to attend the House of Lords, but nonetheless received a writ of summons ( as the remaining Irish representative peers did following the formation of the Irish Free State ), then such individuals were automatically granted a new peerage.

Citizens of countries in the European Economic Area ( other than British and Irish citizens ) and Swiss citizens obtain permanent residence status automatically after five years ' residence in the United Kingdom exercising Treaty rights rather than ILR.

The historian Ronald Hutton however cautioned against automatically equating all Irish and Welsh mythological figures as former deities, noting that whilst some characters " who appear to be human, such as Medb or St. Brighid, probably were indeed once regarded as divine … the warriors who are the main protagonists of the stories have the same status as those in the Greek myths, standing between the human and divine orders.

* is automatically an Irish citizen if he or she is not entitled to the citizenship of any other country ; or

* automatically an Irish citizen if he or she was not entitled to the citizenship of any other country.

* automatically an Irish citizen if born:

* entitled to be an Irish citizen if born in Northern Ireland and not automatically an Irish citizen.

His or her parent would have automatically been an Irish citizen and their own citizenship can be secured by registering themselves as in the Foreign Births Register.

The only limitations to which were that anyone born in Northern Ireland was not automatically an Irish citizen but entitled to be an Irish citizen and, that a child of someone entitled to diplomatic immunity in the state would not become an Irish citizen.

As a result of the British Nationality Act 1948, Irish citizens (" citizens of Eire ") lost British-subject status automatically on 1 January 1949 if they did not acquire citizenship of the UK & Colonies or that of another Commonwealth country, notwithstanding that Ireland did not cease to be one of His Majesty's dominions until 18 April 1949.

An Irish citizen who naturalises as a British citizen does not automatically lose their Irish citizenship.

Irish citizens are automatically deemed by British law to be " settled " in the United Kingdom.