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.

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

In 1935 the Irish Free State was the first to introduce its own citizenship.

* 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.

* 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State and later the Republic of Ireland.

The Government of the Irish Free State rebuilt the city centre and located the new parliament, the Oireachtas, in Leinster House.

Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, it became the capital of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1949 ) and now is the capital of the Republic of Ireland.

It has been the home of the Irish parliament since the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

The Irish Free State government took over the two wings of the building to serve as a temporary home for some ministries, while the central building became the College of Technology until 1989.

* 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

B. M. Hertzog, who had recently insisted on his choice of Lord Clarendon as Governor-General of that country, and the selection of an Irishman as Governor-General of the Irish Free State – both of these appointments were agreed to despite royal disfavour.

Scullin was partially influenced by the precedent set by the Government of the Irish Free State, which always insisted upon the Governor-General of the Irish Free State being an Irishman.

Currently, however, neither the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade had disagreements with the Whigs that prevented them from joining with the Whigs form a government.

When in December of 1852, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his budget to Parliament on behalf of the minority government, the Peelites, the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade were all alienated by the proposed budget.

Following years of political and military agitation for ' Home Rule ' for Ireland, the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 established the Irish Free State ( now the Republic of Ireland ) as a separate state, leaving Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.

It first appeared on the Great Seal of the Irish Free State, which in turn was replaced by the coat of arms, the Irish Presidential Standard and the Presidential Seal in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.

Seventeen months later, on September 6, 1611, an Irish fishing boat sighted the Discovery limping eastward outside Galway Bay.

11. 0 % were of Irish, 7. 2 % English, 6. 9 % Italian, 5. 5 % West Indian and 5. 3 % German ancestry according to Census 2000.

The article " More Britons applying for Irish passports " states that 6 million Britons have either an Irish grandfather or grandmother and are thus able to apply for Irish citizenship.

The 2001 UK Census states that 869, 093 people born in Ireland are living in Great Britain, with over 10 % of the population ( over 6 million ) being of Irish descent.

According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004, Irish Australians are, by religion, 46. 2 % Roman Catholic, 15. 3 % Anglican, 13. 5 % other Christian denomination, 3. 6 % other religions, and 21. 5 % as " No Religion ".

Northern Irish ports handle 10 megatonnes ( Mt ) of goods trade with Britain annually, while ports in the south handle 7. 6 Mt, representing 50 % and 40 % respectively of total trade by weight.

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.

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

In a privately funded study conducted under the auspices of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and based on an owner survey, Irish Wolfhounds in the United States from 1966 to 1986 lived to a mean age of 6. 47 and died most frequently of bone cancer.

* 1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6, 000 people in Lower Canada.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

The top 5 largest ancestries include German ( 23. 4 %), Irish ( 10. 8 %), Polish ( 10. 1 %), English ( 6. 0 %), and French ( 4. 6 %).

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

* December 6 – Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer

* February 6 – Jim Sheridan, Irish film director

* August 6 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman

* November 6 – Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian ( d. 2012 )

* May 6 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer

* October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician

* October 6 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1995 )

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 ''.

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.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

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.

In September 1911, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Irish Guards, and promoted to lieutenant in December 1912.

On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

After the December 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks, which killed 19 and wounded around 140, Gaddafi indicated that he would continue to support the Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army as long as European countries support anti-Gaddafi Libyans.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

It emerged out of the December 1969 split of the Irish Republican Army over differences of ideology and how to respond to violence against the nationalist community.

and are also respectively Irish and Scottish Gaelic names of November, abbreviated forms of Mí na Samhna ( Month of Samhain ), as December is called Mí na Nollag ( Month of Christmas ).

In December 1925, the governments of the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom agreed to accept the existing border.

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.

The war ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 that established the Irish Free State.

Disagreements with Hyndman over Irish Home Rule and a generalized mistrust of Hyndman's personal motives led to the foundation of the breakaway Socialist League in December 1884, encouraged by Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.

* December 11 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player

* December 25 – Shane MacGowan, Irish singer and songwriter ( The Pogues )

* December 11 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.