... he was still recognised as the Head of Commonwealth. This abolition, imposed via the External Relations Act, coincided with the abdication of King Edward 8th so that Britain did not have time to object to it. In 1937 de Valera introduced a new constitution, replacing the one ... government was increasingly preoccupied by the situation in the North Ireland during the 1970s. In 1973 Prime Minister Cosgrave participated in talks with Edward heath, Prime Minister of Britain, and representatives of North Ireland, resulting in the Sunningdale Agreement. This accord recognized that the North's...

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... 1534 the Earl was in open rebellion against the king. Henry VIII had tried to curb Kildare's power in the 1490s, replacing him as Chief Governor of Ireland with sir Edward Poynings, the author of the celebrated Poynings Law of 1494 which made Acts of the Irish Parliament subject to English approval (This Act was not so important in a land riven ... properly established, almost the entire Directory was arrested in one swoop in March 1798 thanks to a network of informers that the Government had established within the organisation. The leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, escaped but was soon a...

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... essentially a law-cost labor reservation as far as textile production was concerned. There were also developments in the ship building industry, especially with the Harland and Wolff dockyards. Entrepreneurs, namely Edward Harland, invested in Ulster as Belfast imported coal and iron and most of its goods were sold in British markets. An English visitor commentated that 'it needs but a glance ... ...

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... Dail , finally secured passage of legislation abolishing the Saenad. The Dail functioned as a unicameral legislature for the remainder of its term. In connection with the events surrounding the abdication of Edward VIII, king of Great Britain, the Dail enacted a bill that deleted all references to the king from the constitution of the Free State and abolished the office of a governor-general ... ...

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... spring and summer of 1846, since nearly 3 million pounds worth of potatoes had been lost in the first year of the famine (TGF). In the spring of 1846, under Charles Edward Trevelyan's control, the British attempted to implement a large-scale public works program for Ireland's unemployed, which proved to not have very much success (TFI). A quote from vice-guardian (British government ... ...

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... successful passing of the third Home Rule bill in 1913, an unofficial army comprising northern Ireland Protestants called the Ulster Volunteers was formed. The Ulster Volunteers were led by Sir Edward Carson and were financed and supplied with weapons by the British. The Protestant Ulstermen were happy with Ireland as it was and were proud of its British government. In the ... ...

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... Government or Army and a fresh wave of hatred, for the British Goverment, spread over Northern Ireland. To put the situation into another political context, the British Government, under Prime Minister Edward Heath, realised that something needed to be done. So the Government responded to the public out cry which followed these shootings by announcing the setting up of a Tribunal of Inquiry ... ...

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