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The Last September

The Last September: The Rules of Ascendancy

By Joseph McBride
June / July 2000

March 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment

The spirit of Chekhov hovers over the Irish countryside in The Last September. Director Deborah Warner and screenwriter John Banville bring a powerfully elliptical sense of inevitable loss to this film about the waning days of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Based on the 1929 novel by Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September is set on a country estate in Cork in 1920 … [Read more...] about The Last September: The Rules of Ascendancy

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June 2, 1949

The Ireland Act, which recognized the special relationship of Irish citizens to the U.K., is passed by parliament on this day in 1949. When passed and officially enacted on April 18 of that same year, the Ireland Act ended Ireland’s status as a British dominion, therefore ending Ireland’s membership to the British Commonwealth. This also had an affect on Irish citizens, who would no longer be recognized as British subjects, but they would not be treated as simply “foreigners.” This act also declared that Northern Ireland would remain a part of the U.K., within the Commonwealth.

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