Irish Free State

“If I were asked what exactly the Republican ideal could do for this old, beloved Ireland and for these poor that could not be done under the constitution of the Irish Free State, I would not have quite known how to say it.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Britain and Ireland spent decades in frosty opposition following Ireland's 1919-21 war of independence and the creation in 1922 of the Irish Free State.

Queen lands in Ireland; police defuse pipe bomb 2011

“If I were asked what exactly the Republican ideal could do for this old, beloved Ireland and for these poor that could not be done under the constitution of the Irish Free State, I would not have quite known how to say it.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

It demolishes the exaggerations about the robust nation that emerged with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 — the Irish were as helpless as any nascent country, with no treasury and puny resources.

Five Best Frank Delaney 2010

It demolishes the exaggerations about the robust nation that emerged with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 — the Irish were as helpless as any nascent country, with no treasury and puny resources.

Five Best Frank Delaney 2010

It demolishes the exaggerations about the robust nation that emerged with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 — the Irish were as helpless as any nascent country, with no treasury and puny resources.

Five Best Frank Delaney 2010

England acted justly and in fulfillment of a plain and grave moral obligation when she forbade Suttee in India; the Irish Free State will act justly and in fulfillment of a plain and grave moral obligation in refusing to legalise absolute divorce and remarriage among ourselves.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

An Irish Free State soldier, engaged in dangerous service for his Government, said to me that all the philosophy a man needed was in Berkeley.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

The parallel with the Irish Free State may cause some disquiet with unionists.

Neutering the Assembly Dylan Jones-Evans 2009

It's a fairly well-known fact that Timothy Healy, when he was made Seanascal Governor-general of the Irish Free State, received secret instructions from the Westminster Government to withhold Royal Assent from the Irish Government's legislation under certain circumstances.

Neutering the Assembly Dylan Jones-Evans 2009