National and Local
The Local Government Archivists and Records Managers in association with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government have produced this booklet outlining the events of the local elections in 1920.
These were the first elections in Ireland to use Proportional Representation (PR) and the elections were undertaken while Ireland was still gripped by the War of Independence.
Irish Volunteers launched at Rotunda Rink, Dublin
Location Dublin Date Monday, 25 November 1913 The Irish Volunteers launched at Rotunda Rink, Dublin, in response to MacNeill’s article Post Views: 108
Publication of Eoin MacNeill’s article ‘The North Began’ in the Gaelic League organ An Claidheamh Soluis, advocating formation of nationalist equivalent to UVF
Date Friday, 1 November 1913 Publication of Eoin MacNeill’s article ‘The North Began’ in the Gaelic League organ An Claidheamh Soluis, advocating formation of nationalist equivalent to UVF. From Century Ireland: Read ‘The North Began’. Post Views: 91
Imprisonment of James Larkin for use of seditious language
Date Monday, 27 Oct 1913 Post Views: 103
Meeting of Protestants hostile to Ulster Unionist resistance to Home Rule takes place in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.
Date Thursday, 24 Oct 1913 Post Views: 83
In a letter to the Freeman’s Journal, Archbishop Walsh of Dublin denounces a plan to evacuate the children of Dublin workers to Britain
Date Monday, 21 Oct 1913 Post Views: 156
George Russell (AE) publishes open letter in Irish Times in response to the Dublin Lockout: ‘To the masters of Dublin’
Date Monday, 7 October 1913 Post Views: 98
Sir Edward Carson announces that an Ulster ‘Provisional Government’ will be formed should Home Rule be implemented
Date Saturday, 7 Sept 1913 Post Views: 120
Collapse of tenement houses on Church Street Dublin, resulting in the deaths of 7 people
Date Monday, 2 September 1913 The Church Street disaster, September 1913 In 1891 the RSAI initiated a photographic collection, which today consists of over 20,000 photographs, negatives and lantern-slides. Perhaps the best-known images are from a relatively small collection known as the ‘Darkest Dublin’ photographs. Read More>>> Post Views: 89
Riots and disturbances in Dublin following police baton-charges on Sackville (O’Connell) Street
Date Saturday, 31 August – Sunday, 1 September 1913 Inquest verdict: James Nolan killed by police baton Fund to support families of dead strikers The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Lorcan Sherlock, presided over a meeting in the Mansion House last night to establish a fund to support the families of James Nolan and John Byrne….