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Historical Events

b 1900: The Gaelige Athletic Association, The Irish cultural revival plan is going strong. *

b 1916: The Easter Rising. *

b 1921: the First Irish Dáil is held in the Mansion House. Éammon De Valera was President with Michael Collins minister for defence.

b 1922: Michael Collins is shot in Beal Na Blath in Co. Cork. This is one of the last acts of violence in the Irish civil war. After this people started to turn to politics.

b1926: Irelands First Radio Station 2RN (meant to sound like Éireann) was set up this later became known as RTÉ.

b 1939: The Emergency. The Irish nation prepares for the worst during Word War Three. Rations are brought in and petrol is limited.*

b 1940 –51: Living Conditions in Ireland improve thanks to Dr. Noel Browne. He helped wipe out T.B. by opening special hospital to deal with it.

b 1945: the rural electrification scheme helps bring electricity to rural houses and farms. The idea is to making farming more efficient so that production would rise.

b 1961: Jan 1^st RTÉ makes its first transmission to anyone who has a TV, later the famous and controversial TV show, The Late Late show, starts in 1968.

b 1966:Free Education is brought in by Donal O’ Malley. He also tried to bring in free transport to and from school for people in rural areas.

b 1973: Ireland joins the EEC.

b 1998: Good Friday Agreement.

1900: Ireland is part of the Great British Empire. The Official Head of State is King Edward VIII. Laws for all these countries were made in the Parliament in Westminster. The Gaelige Athletic Association is in full swing and is there is a team in nearly every parish. The Anglo-Irish Literary Movement was also set up. These foundations helped people realise their need for independence.

1916: The Rising. On a sunny Easter Monday morning Volunteers marched out to seize buildings around Dublin. Because of the cancellation, only 1,500 turned up, almost all of them in Dublin. As they set out, Connolly said, “We are going to be slaughtered”

The rebels set up their headquarters in the GPO in O’ Connell Street. From the steps of the GPO, Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic while the Tricolour was raised above the building. Many other buildings were over taken during the rising, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Jacobs Factory, the Four Courts, Boland’s Mill.

1919: The first Irish Dáil is Held in The Mansion House in Dublin. Éammon De Valera was President, Michael Collins was Minster of Finance, and Countess Markevich is Minster for Labour.

1921: Michael Collins is Shot in Beal na Bláth in Cork. This is one of the last acts of violence connected with the Irish Rebellion. After this people started to turn to Politics.

1926: First Irish Radio Station 2RN (meant to sound like Éireann) is set up this later became

1939: On the 1^st of September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. On the very next day nearly all of Europe’s heads of state declared a state of emergency. Éammon De Valera declared Ireland a state of emergency. This means that rations were brought in and strict censorship laws were brought in. Newspapers and radios had to just give the facts about the news and couldn’t give any opinion.

1940-1951: the war helped open peoples eyes to better health conditions. The invention of new drugs and better treatment gave people a better chance of life. The Minster for Health Dr. Noel Browne helped People to wipe out T.B.

1966: Donagh O’ Malley introduces Free education for secondary schools. He also set up Free transport to and from school. This enabled people to get a better education and allowed them to get better jobs.

1973: Ireland Joins the E.E.C. The E.U. is an organisation is set up to give Europe an equal standard of living, health, travel and education. Since 1973 Ireland has received many grants. From these we have build such things as the M50 and the Ballymun Rejuvenation plan.

1998: The Good Friday Agreement: This gave some hope to the people of Northern Ireland. The Agreement brought them a lot closer to peace. The main point of the agreement was the power-sharing executive. Both John Hume and David Trimble agreed on this. Later they got a noble peace prize for their efforts.

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