Monday, November 5, 2012

Irish Thought for November 5...

Timeline of Ireland

1922-1923

Civil war erupts following the establishment of the Irish Free State as an independent entity within the British Empire, separate from the United Kingdom.  The Free State forces, who represented the provisional government supporting the Anglo-Irish Treaty, defeated the republican opposition, who saw the treaty as a betrayal of the Irish Republic. 

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