1916-2016
March is always
for St. Patrick. April is for the Rising. On Easter Sunday in Newark, a group
of men & women commemorate the 1916 Easter Rebellion with a march from
Military Park to St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Frank & Kathie Darcy are honored to carry the banner in the march. A
mass is celebrated in Irish Traditions and the Proclamation is read.
This
year we celebrate 100 years of a free 26 county Ireland. We know the heroes, we
know the story. We would have no Ireland, let’s not forget that. Woodbridge
Irish Remember.
TIME LINE LIST
1916- The rebel
leader Patrick Pearse stands under the portico of Dublin’s General Post Office
to announce the birth of the Irish Republic.
1916-Eamon
deValera comes to prominence as one of the republican leaders in the Easter
Rising.
1916-Patrick
Pearse and his fellow Irish rebel James Connolly are executed by firing squad.
1919-The Sinn
Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin,
The Dail Eireann (Assembly of Ireland),soon declared illegal by Britain.
1919-The armed
supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland’s
war of independence.
1919-Michael
Collins springs deValera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key.
1920-The
Government of Ireland Act provides for separate devolved parliaments in
southern Ireland and the six counties of Ulster.
1920-The brutal
behavior of the British police reinforcements, the Black and Tans, aggravates
the violence in Ireland.
1920-The Ira
and the British security forces clash during a violent ‘Bloody Sunday’ in
Dublin.
1921-The
republican party Sinn Fein is unopposed in southern Ireland’s first general
election and so wins every available seat in the Dail.
1921-The Sinn
Fein members of southern Ireland’s new parliament assemble on their own, under
the name Dail Eireann(Assembly of Ireland).
1921-James
Craig (later Lord Craigavon) begins a 19 year term as prime minister of the new
province of Northern Ireland.
1921-Envoys
sent to London by deValera agree independence for southern Ireland as the Irish
Free State, with Dominion status.
1921-The
Anglo-Irish Treaty, agreed in London, ends the war between the British army and
the IRA.
1921-The
British parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish treaty, but deValera repudiates it
and resigns as president of the Dail.
1922-In
elections to the Dail the pro-treaty faction of Collins and Griffith defeats
the opposition, led by deValera.
1922-Bitter war
breaks out between faction of the IRA supporting and opposing the Anglo-Irish
Treaty.
1922-The Irish
Free State takes stringent measures against rebel terrorism, making possession
even of a pistol a capital offense.
1922-With the
ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the 26 counties of southern Ireland
formally become the Irish Free State.
1922-William
Thomas Cosgrove becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1923-De Valera
and the IRA lay down their arms, bringing to an end the Irish Civil War.
1923-De Valera
and his followers do well in elections to the Dail but decline to take their
seats.
1926-Eamon De
Valera’s faction, Fianna Fail (Warriors of Ireland), enters mainstream Irish
life as a political party.
1927-De Valera
and his party, the Fianna Fail, finally take their seats in the Dail.
1931-The Irish government
classifies the Irish Republican Army as an illegal organization.
1932-Fianna
Fail wins enough seats in the Irish Free State’s election for Eamon deValera to
form a government.
1932-De Valera
withholds farmers’ annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a
trade war.
1933-Fine Gael
is the name given to a new political party in Ireland, formed by the merger of
several smaller groups.
1937-De Valera
introduces a new constitution, changing the name of the Irish Free State to
Eire (Gaelic for Ireland).
1937-De
Valera’s new constitution for Eire lays claim to the six counties of northern
Ireland.
1940-Lord
Craigavon (previously James Craig) dies in office after nineteen years as
Northern Ireland’s prime minister.
1943-Basil
Brooke begins an unbroken 20 year period in office as Unionist prime minister
of Northern Ireland.
1949-Eire is
renamed the republic of Ireland and withdraws from the Commonwealth, severing
the last link with the British crown.
1949-The
British government declares that Northern Ireland will remain British unless
the parliament in Stormont decides otherwise.
1957-DeValera
takes stringent measures against the IRA and Sinn Fein, detaining activists in
an internment camp.
1959-On the
retirement of deValera, Sean Lemass succeeds him as leader of Fianna Fail and
prime minister of Ireland.
1963-Terence
O’Neill succeeds Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) as Northern Ireland’s prime
minister.
1965-Terence
O’Neil and Sean Lemass, prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland, have
two unprecedented meetings.
1968-The first
civil rights march in Northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with
batons and water cannon.
1969-The
Provisional IRA reintroduces the fight for justice in Northern Ireland after
Protestants attack a civil rights march.
1970-The Social
Democratic and Labour Party(SDLP) is formed in northern Ireland as a coalition
of Catholic nationalist and civil rights campaigners.
1971-Ian
Paisley and others in Northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as
the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism.
1971-Gerry
Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of
evidence.
1972-British
paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry killing thirteen in what
becomes known as Bloody Sunday.
1981-The first
of 10 hunger strikers Bobby Sands dies.
1984-Republican
activist Gerry Adams is elected president of Sinn Fein.
1990-Mary
Robinson is elected president of the republic of Ireland, the first woman to
hold the post.
1993-UK and
Irish premiers John Major and Albert Reynolds sign the Downing Street
Declaration, a strategy for peace in Northern Ireland.
1994-The IRA
declares a cease fire in Northern Ireland, a gesture followed a month later by
Protestant paramilitaries.
1998-A proposed
referendum on Northern Irish issues is accepted by all the relevant political
parties in what becomes known as the Good Friday Agreement.
1998-In the
referendum to endorse the Good Friday Agreement, the terms are accepted by
majorities in both the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
1998-The Ulster
Unionist leader David Trimble becomes First Minister of the newly convened
Northern Ireland Assembly.
2003-Ian
Paisley’s hard line Democratic Unionist Party wins in elections to the
suspended Northern Ireland Assembly.
2005-The
Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to
dump all their weapons.
2007-Elections
to the Northern Ireland Assembly bring the same result as in 2003, with
extremist rivals DUP and Sinn Fein the dominant parties.
2007-Long term
enemies Ian Paisley (DUP) and Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) agree to share power in
reconvened Northern Ireland Assembly.
2007-Devolved
government returns to Northern Ireland with Ian Paisley as first minister and
Martin McGuinness as his deputy.
2008-Peter
Robinson, elected unopposed as leader of the DUP succeeds Ian Paisley as First
Minister of Northern Ireland.
2015-The
British government would not allow the Irish to have a St. Patrick’s Day Parade
in Scotland.
Sadly enough, there is still no justice,
no freedom, just hatred, prejudice, false imprisonment and a lot of violence.
Just imagine your Celtic language is not legal to speak, your Gaelic games are
frowned upon, your religious freedom is always in question. Ireland without
question is one country, no partition.
“Ireland unfree shall never be at peace”
Padric Pearse
Caisc shona
duit
Happy Easter
Frank Darcy
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