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1 hour ago · The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC).
- Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann)...
- Black and Tans
Name. The nickname "Black and Tans" arose from the...
- Dunmanway Killings
The Dunmanway killings, also known as the Bandon Valley...
- Irish Revolutionary Period
The revolutionary period in Irish history was the period in...
- Kilmichael Ambush
Background. The Auxiliaries were recruited from former...
- Richard Mulcahy
Archive film shows that Mulcahy, as Minister of Defence, was...
- Treaty Ports
The British soldiers then went aboard the motor-vessel...
- Seán Hogan
Early life. Hogan was born on 13 May 1901, the elder child...
- Irish Republican Army
1 day ago · Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.
1 day ago · In 2001, 91.0% of the population were born in Northern Ireland, 7.2% were born in other parts of the UK and Ireland, and 1.8% were born elsewhere. By 2011, the proportion of immigrants from outside the UK and Ireland had risen to 4.3%, while the proportion born within them (outside Northern Ireland) had fallen to 6.7%.
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
1 day ago · The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. As of 1 January 2024, the British Army comprises 75,166 regular full-time personnel, 4,062 Gurkhas, 26,244 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,557 "other personnel", for a total of 110,029.
- 1 January 1660; 363 years ago
- King Charles III
1 hour ago · Unilever PLC. Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie. It is headquartered in London . Unilever products include baby food, beauty products, bottled water, breakfast cereals ...
1 day ago · According to Lori L. Tharps, hair historian and coauthor of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, the modern understanding of the etymology of "dreadlocks" is that the British, who were fighting the Mau Mau rebellion during colonialism in the 1950s, encountered the warriors' locs and found them "dreadful", thus coining the ...