Rathrobin is a book that keeps on giving. Its 250 Biddulph photographs from the 1870s to 1920s, all carefully captioned, depict the two Irelands – unionis.
Rathrobin is a book that keeps on giving. Its 250 Biddulph photographs from the 1870s to 1920s, all carefully captioned, depict the two Irelands – unionis.
Partition 100 years on: Northern Ireland s path set by first election a century ago
In the latest of his series of articles on the centenary of partition, historian Cormac Moore looks at the first election to the new Northern Ireland Parliament, which took place 100 years ago this week 26 May, 2021 01:00 The slogan vote early and vote often , recorded in this image from The Sphere, captured the atmosphere of the first election to the new Northern Ireland Parliament, held 100 years ago this week. Unionists won 40 of the 52 seats and nationalists - who ran on an abstentionist ticket - 12.
ONE hundred years ago this week, on May 24 1921, the first election was held for the Northern Ireland Parliament, established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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In April 1916, the front pages of America’s newspapers were dominated by headlines about the war on Europe’s western front, where the German and French armies were battling at Verdun, and by reports of German American opposition to President Wilson’s re-election campaign. Then, on Tuesday morning, the 25th, came news of the capture of a German ship that had tried to land arms on Ireland’s west coast, and the arrest of Sir Roger Casement, a retired diplomat. “Daring Invasion of Ireland by Germans Fails,” screamed the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Partisan passions about World War I were running high in the United States, and pro-British papers like The New York Times were quick to circulate the “official” announcement calling Casement “mentally unbalanced,” and the Irish news nothing more than a “madcap adventure.”