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Save Dublin’s Moore Street – Last Battlefield of 1916 Rising

By Robin Mary Heaney, Guest Blogger
February 13, 2012

February 13, 2012 by By </a>Robin Mary Heaney</a>, Guest Blogger<br/></a>February 13, 2012 20 Comments

The last battlefield of the 1916 Rising's heroes must be preserved. Moore Street, Dublin – for years the bustling site of flower markets and fruit sellers, but today the object of a fight to preserve Ireland’s heritage and the genesis of its nationhood. Sometimes called the “Alamo of Ireland,” the laneways and streets surrounding Moore Street are some of the most historic in … [Read more...] about Save Dublin’s Moore Street – Last Battlefield of 1916 Rising

December 5, 1921

Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. The Anglo-Irish treaty split many and on this day in 1921 Prime Minister David LLoyd-George said that rejection by the Irish would result in “immediate and terrible war.”

Save Dublin’s Moore Street – Last Battlefield of 1916 Rising

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