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The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.
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.
They controlled most of what is now the barony of Murrisk in South-West County Mayo and recognized as their nominal overlords Mac William Íochtar Bourkes, who controlled much of what is now County Mayo ( the Bourkes were originally Anglo-Irish but by her lifetime completely gaelicised ).
It satirises Anglo-Irish landlords and their overall mismanagement of the estates they owned at a time when the English and Irish parliaments were working towards formalising their union through the Acts of Union.
Since 1932, under the provisions of the Statute, some of the articles of the original Constitution which were required by the Anglo-Irish Treaty, had been dismantled by Acts of parliament.
The Irish Oath of Allegiance was a controversial provision in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which Irish TDs ( members of the Irish parliament ) and Senators were required to take, in order to take their seats in Dáil Éireann ( Chamber of Deputies ) and Seanad Éireann ( Irish Senate ).
Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting churches, such as the Methodist church.
Thus, in Behan's understanding, the Anglo-Irish were Ireland's leisure class.
Some of the most prominent British scientists of the 19th century, including William Rowan Hamilton, George Gabriel Stokes, and John Tyndall, were Anglo-Irish.
Protestants in Ireland, and the Anglo-Irish class in particular, were by no means universally attached to the cause of continued political union with Great Britain: for instance, author Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745 ), a clergyman in the Church of Ireland, vigorously denounced the plight of ordinary Irish people under British rule.
Although the Unionist parties spurned his invitation to join, and the Forum ’ s conclusions proposing various forms of association between Northern Ireland and the Republic were rejected outright by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Forum provided the impetus for the resumption of serious negotiations between the Irish and British governments, which culminated in the Anglo-Irish Agreement of November 1985.
He played a part in the process that undermined his own Anglo-Irish caste ; within two decades absentee landlords were almost unknown in Ireland.
His four grandparents were Irish, German, Italian, and Anglo-Irish, but Smith identified with the Irish American community and became its leading spokesman in the 1920s.
The name refers ultimately to the Fitzwilliam family, prominent members of the Anglo-Irish nobility, whose ancestral seat Milton Hall is located to the north of Cambridge and who, as students and benefactors, have been associated with the university for several hundred years ; more directly, it refers to the Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library, art collection and personal fortune of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam and situated directly opposite the original headquarters of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, and also to the adjacent Fitzwilliam Street, where many of the non-collegiate students were housed.
On 14 April 1922 they were occupied by Republican forces led by Rory O ' Connor who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
The top 19 entries were people of English origin ( though Sir Ernest Shackleton and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, were both born into Anglo-Irish families when what is now the Republic of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom ).
From then on all were referred to as " Unionists " until the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922, after which they became Conservatives again.
His departure weakened the hardliners in the cabinet who were opposed to negotiating with the Irish Republican Army, and the Anglo-Irish War ended in the summer.
Beginning with the " Saint Patrick's Day declaration " in 1977, denouncing violence in Northern Ireland and culminating with the Irish aid package upon the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, the " Four Horsemen " as they were called, convinced both Carter and Reagan to press the British government on the subject.
Although Anglo-Irish relations were at an all-time low Collins opposed the act of aggression by the Argentine government at United Nations and EEC levels.
During the late 19th century a number of Anglo-Irish families were prominent in the town, however their estate-houses were burned out during the 1920s troubles, and after they fled their land was redistributed to the former tenants.

Anglo-Irish and also
In addition, the archaic French ( more specifically, Norman ) prefix fitz ( cognate with the modern French fils, meaning " son "), appears in England's aristocratic family lines dating from the Norman Conquest, and also among the Anglo-Irish.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty itself also gave the Irish much more freedom than many other dominions.
St. Patrick's Flag | St. Patrick's cross, a flag historically associated with Ireland under British rule, and therefore also with the Church of Ireland and the Anglo-Irish ruling class.
Besides abolishing the Oath of Allegiance, a requirement of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Act also expressly repealed the provisions both of the constitution proper and of the Constitution of the Irish Free State ( Saorstát Éireann ) Act 1922 that required compliance with the Treaty.
This became critical when the Isle of Man was recaptured by English-backed Scots from King Robert's control in January 1315, thereby threatening the south and south-west of Scotland and also reopening up a potential source of aid to the English from the Anglo-Irish and native Irish.
Ó Néill had been troubled by Anglo-Irish incursions to the south-east ( the de Verdons ), the east ( tenants of the Earl of Ulster ) and west ( also by the Earl of Ulster ) of Tír Eógain and in order to retain his lands, he and some twelve of his vassals and allies jointly asked for aid from Scotland.
In the course of their pursuit of economic independence, Fianna Fáil also provoked what is known as the Anglo-Irish Trade War with Britain in 1933, by refusing to continue paying back " Land Annuities "-money that Irish farmers had borrowed from the British government since the 1903 Wyndham Act in order to buy their own land.
He also became the first joint chairman of the Anglo-Irish Inter-Governmental Conference which was established by the Irish and British governments.
The thirties also saw the onset of a period of extreme economic stagnation brought about by the Anglo-Irish Trade War.
He also served as the Chairman of the Defence ( 1987 – 1992 ) and Northern Ireland ( 2001 – 2005 ) select committees and chaired the All-Party Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Group.
The opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty also opposed the new Senate, and 37 of the senators ' homes were burnt to the ground.
Glubbdubdrib ( also spelled Glubdubdrib or Glubbdubdribb in some editions ) was an island of sorcerers and magicians, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satire Gulliver's Travels by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift.
The term was applied mainly to Roman Catholics, as Protestants were expected to be naturally unionist ( although this was not automatic, since there were, and are, also Anglo-Irish Protestants favouring Irish republicanism ( see Protestant Irish nationalism ).
In 1932-38 he had also conducted the Anglo-Irish Trade War.
David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill also met Percival in 1921, when he was called as an expert witness during an inquiry into the Anglo-Irish War.
Scofield's notes teach futurism and dispensationalism, a theology that was in part conceived in the early nineteenth century by the Anglo-Irish clergyman John Nelson Darby, who like Scofield had also been trained as a lawyer.
After the Irish War of Independence the lough was also one of the Treaty Ports specified in the Anglo-Irish Treaty until its final handing over at Fort Dunree in 1938.
Relatively enlightened, socially progressive, and professedly committed to the welfare and improvement of the people and county of Monaghan, he also provided for the erection in Castleblayney of the current church buildings of the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches, being tolerant in religion if traditionalist in politics and strongly supportive of Empire and the Anglo-Irish ascendancy.
It also fully supports the Belfast Agreement, and supported the Anglo-Irish agreement.
The opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty also opposed the new Seanad, and 37 of the senators ' homes were burnt to the ground.

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