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The Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement was signed on 25 April 1938 by Ireland and the United Kingdom. [1] It aimed to resolve the Anglo-Irish Trade War which had been on-going from 1933.
The Anglo-Irish Trade War (also called the Economic War) was a retaliatory trade war between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1938. [1] The Irish government refused to continue reimbursing Britain with land annuities from financial loans granted to Irish tenant farmers to enable them to purchase lands under the Irish Land Acts in the late nineteenth century, a provision ...
The Conscription Crisis of 1918 stemmed from a move by the British government to impose conscription (military draft) in Ireland in April 1918 during the First World War. Vigorous opposition was led by trade unions, Irish nationalist parties and Roman Catholic bishops and priests. A conscription law was passed but was never put in effect; no ...
Operation Motorman, the military operation for the surge, was the biggest military operation in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. [146] In total, almost 22,000 British forces were involved. [146] In the days before 31 July, about 4,000 extra troops were brought into Northern Ireland. [146]
Bruce campaign in Ireland. The Bruce campaign was a three-year military campaign in Ireland by Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce. It lasted from his landing at Larne in 1315 to his defeat and death in 1318 at the Battle of Faughart in County Louth. It was part of the First War of Scottish Independence against England ...
The economic history of the Republic of Ireland effectively began in 1922, when the then Irish Free State won independence from the United Kingdom. [2] The state was plagued by poverty and emigration until the 1960s when an upturn led to the reversal of long term population decline. However, global and domestic factors combined in the 1970s and ...
1316 – Battle of Skerries (January) 1316 – Second Battle of Athenry (August) 1317 – Battle of Lough Raska (August) 1318 – Battle of Dysert O'Dea (May) 1318 – Battle of Faughart (October) 1328 – Battle of Thomond. 1329 – Braganstown massacre. 1329 – Battle of Ardnocher. 1330 – Battle of Fiodh-an-Átha.
By 1897, it was the largest trades council in Ireland, representing 17,500 members in 56 affiliates, and that year, it sponsored six successful candidates for the Belfast Corporation. [4] The council led opposition to conscription during World War I, organising a meeting of 20,000 people on the issue. It was particularly prominent during the ...