Oh, wow, this is nuts.

In 1999, #NorthernIreland secretaries were issues documents on how to correctly refer to #Ireland and #Britain. The article describes it as being written for #PeterMendelson, but it sounds like a standard document issues to all secretaries.

Apparently as late as 1999, #NI Secretaries had to be specifically advised not to refer to the #RepublicOfIreland as the #IrishFreeState, a political entity that had not existed since 1937.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0824/1401391-northern-ireland-briefing-papers/

A ceasefire in the Irish War of Independence began on 11 July 1921. The post-ceasefire talks led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921. This ended British rule in most of Ireland and, after a ten-month transitional period overseen by a provisional government, the Irish Free State was created as a self-governing Dominion on 6 December 1922.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishWarOfIndependence #AngloIrishTreaty #OnThisDay #IrishFreeState #OnThisDay

The whole application process is so ugly, with Sean T O'Kelly writing to try to get help for Thomas Bryan's people, and Desmond Fitzgerald and Jennie Power of the Irish Farm Produce being stingy and paternalistic about this family in terrible poverty #shudder #IrishFreeState

#TodayInHistory The Declaration of Independence in 1919, by the Irish parliament Dail, begins the Ireland War of Independence, lasting for 2 years, that would ultimately see the formation of the Irish Free State.
#ireland #irishfreestate

On 16th January 1922 Michael Collins took control of Dublin Castle from the British authorities on behalf of the new Irish Free State.

https://mylesdungan.com/2015/01/16/on-this-day-drivetime-michael-collins-takes-possession-of-dublin-castle-16-january-1922/

#MichaelCollins #DublinCastle #IrishFreeState #Ireland #IrishHistory

Today in Labor History December 29, 1937: The Irish Free State adopted a new constitution making it the modern independent Republic of Ireland. The Irish Free State was created on December 6, 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty after the Irish War of Independence. It was a nominally autonomous part of the British Commonwealth. However, its representatives still had to swear an oath to the king of England. Consequently, many of its elected leaders never took their seats in office.

#ireland #irishfreestate #colonialism #independence #workingclass #LaborHistory

News of Deputy Seán Hales' assassination as he left the Dáil in Dublin #OTD 1922 reported in French paper 'Le Temps'

Also reports of anti-Treaty force attack on national army troops in #Cork and news from #Belfast's new parliament

Source: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k244948n/f2 #IrishCivilWar #IrishFreeState #newspaperarchives

RT @davidtorrance@twitter.com

Finally, I’ve updated my @commonslibrary@twitter.com briefing paper on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which covers the events of a century ago in much greater depth. It now includes a few illustrations and links to some recent research from me and others: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9260/ #irishfreestate

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/davidtorrance/status/1600070064564076544

100 years ago today the #IrishFreeState was established. A stepping stone, they said. Freehold and Fertilised, a #poem I wrote 1 year ago tomorrow, somehow apt again today.

The first leader of the Irish Free State was W.T. Cosgrave

You check out the material held by British Pathé about the Free State here: https://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/df699ffd537d4e0c74710ad015dfd64d/IzYOu5tx #IrishHistory #irishfreestate

Today marks 100 years since the founding of the #IrishFreeState

The beginning of the end of the British Empire,

I hope this century will see the end of sectarian division in N. Ireland and the re-unification of Ireland as a secular Republic.

Éirinn go Brách ☘️

"On 6 December 1922, the Constitution of the Irish Free State came into effect. It was endorsed by both the Dáil and the British parliament in Westminster.

"The endorsement was not a formality. It meant that the new Irish Free State could begin to govern itself, by rules and laws it had written itself."

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/1205/1340161-free-state-constitution/

#IrishFreeState

"On 6 December 1922, the Constitution of the Irish Free State came into effect. It was endorsed by both the Dáil and the British parliament in Westminster.

"The endorsement was not a formality. It meant that the new Irish Free State could begin to govern itself, by rules and laws it had written itself."

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/1205/1340161-free-state-constitution/ via @rte

#IrishFreeState

When people ask when was the Irish state founded, I usually respond "it's complicated".
For example: could claim the signing of the 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty which ended the War of Independence. That immediately split the country triggering civil war. During the civil war, #100YearsAgo the Constitution came into effect on 1922-12-06.
Then the civil war ended in 1923. The Irish Free State ended with a new constitution in 1937 when we officially became #Ireland
#IrishFreeState #FreeStateConstitution

That moment when you think about emigrating to #Ireland after your #apprenticeship. To join the fight for an #irishworkersrepublic.
A rogue who thinks bad about it. #communism #socalism #orthodoxmarxism #irishrepublican #irishrepublicanally #irishfreestate