On April 18, 1949, The Republic of Ireland Act came into force. Newsreel from the historic day is now available to stream for free via the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player. The new ...
DUBLIN -- Irish troops marched down famed O'Connell St. today in an independence parade celebrating the birth of a free Irish republic after nearly eight centuries of British rule. A crowd of nearly ...
Should Ireland have a national holiday to commemorate the day the country became the Republic of Ireland, free from British authority? Ireland's path to freedom and independence was a gradual one, ...