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Kent Family Of Bawnard
The Kents were a family of prominent Irish nationalists and republicans from Castlelyons, County Cork active from the 1870s until the 1930s. Land War Eviction of the Rice family At the time of the Land War the Kent family, comprising David Kent, his wife Mary (née Rice), and their nine children (seven sons & two daughters), lived in an Irish-speaking household at Bawnard House, Coole, Castlelyons, County Cork (William Kent, "For generations our family had farmed 200 acres at Bawnard"). David Kent died in 1876 (the year after his youngest child Richard was born); he was 44 years old. Mary Kent (née Rice) had grown up in nearby Towermore and had family living in the locality. In 1887 her nephews Austin and Richard Rice were evicted from their farm for non-payment of rent and this began a series of events which would bring the Kents to national prominence. The Rices had initially leased the farm from the Peard family but in July 1888, it was sold to Orr McCausland, a Belfast-b ...
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Irish Nationalist
Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of cultural nationalism based on the principles of Self-determination, national self-determination and popular sovereignty.Sa'adah 2003, 17–20.Smith 1999, 30. Irish nationalists during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries such as the Society of United Irishmen, United Irishmen in the 1790s, Young Irelanders in the 1840s, the Fenian Brotherhood during the 1880s, Fianna Fáil in the 1920s, and Sinn Féin styled themselves in various ways after French left-wing Radicalism (historical)#France, radicalism and republicanism. Irish nationalism celebrates the culture of Ireland, especially the Irish language, literature, music, and sports. It grew more potent during the period in which all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire ...
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Easter Rising
The Easter Rising (), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War. It was the most significant List of Irish uprisings, uprising in Ireland since the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798 and the first armed conflict of the Irish revolutionary period. Sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed starting in May 1916. The nature of the executions, and subsequent political developments, ultimately contributed to an increase in popular support for Irish independence. Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days. Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined b ...
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September 1927 Irish General Election
The September 1927 Irish general election to the 6th Dáil was held on Thursday, 15 September, following the dissolution of the 5th Dáil on 25 August by Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Governor-General Tim Healy (politician), Tim Healy on the request of President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave. The 6th Dáil met on 11 October 1927 to nominate the president and Executive Council of the Irish Free State, Executive Council of the Irish Free State for appointment by the Governor-General. Cosgrave was re-appointed leading a 4th Executive Council of the Irish Free State, new minority government of Cumann na nGaedheal with the support of the Farmers' Party (Ireland), Farmers' Party. Campaign The second general election of 1927 followed tight political arithmetic within Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State), Dáil Éireann. Only three seats separated the two largest parties in the 5th Dáil, Cumann na nGaedheal ...
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1922 Irish General Election
The 1922 Irish general election took place in Southern Ireland (1921–1922), Southern Ireland on Friday, 16 June. The election was separately called by a resolution of Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann on 19 May and by an order of the Provisional Government of Ireland (1922), Provisional Government on 27 May. The body elected was thus both the Third Dáil and provisional parliament replacing the parliament of Southern Ireland, under the provisions of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty to elect a constituent assembly paving the way for the formal establishment of the Irish Free State. From 6 December 1922, it continued as the Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State), Dáil Éireann of the Irish Free State. The election was held under the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. It was the first contested general election held in the jurisdiction using the STV system. The election was held in the 128 seats using the Government of Ir ...
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Anglo-Irish Treaty Dáil Vote
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London on 6 December 1921 and Dáil Éireann voted to approve the treaty on 7 January 1922, following a debate through late December 1921 and into January 1922. The vote was 64 in favour, 57 against, with the Ceann Comhairle and 3 others not voting. The Sinn Féin party split into opposing sides in the aftermath of the Treaty vote, which led to the Irish Civil War from June 1922 to May 1923. Background Two elections took place in Ireland in 1921, as a result of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to establish the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. The election was used by the Irish Republic as the basis of membership of the 2nd Dáil. The general election to the Northern Ireland House of Commons occurred on 24 May. Of 52 seats, forty were won by unionists, six by moderate Irish nationalists and six by Sinn Féin. No actual polling took place in the Southern Ireland constituencies, as all 128 ...
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Anglo-Irish Treaty
The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the government of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. It provided for the establishment of the Irish Free State within a year as a self-governing dominion within the "community of nations known as the British Empire", a status "the same as that of the Dominion of Canada". It also provided Northern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, an option to opt out of the Irish Free State (Article 12), which was exercised by the Parliament of Northern Ireland. The agreement was signed in London on 6 December 1921, by representatives of the British government (which included Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was head of the British delegates, and Winston Churchill, w ...
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Irish War Of Independence
The Irish War of Independence (), also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliary Division, Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). It was part of the Irish revolutionary period. In April 1916, Irish republicanism, Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, British rule and Proclamation of the Irish Republic, proclaimed an Irish Republic. Although it was defeated after a week of fighting, the Rising and the British response led to greater popular support for Irish independence. In the 1918 Irish general election, December 1918 election, republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide victory in Ireland. O ...
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East Cork (UK Parliament Constituency)
East Cork, a division of County Cork, was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Until the 1885 United Kingdom general election in Ireland, 1885 general election the area was part of the County Cork (UK Parliament constituency), County Cork constituency. From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. Boundaries This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Cork, consisting of the barony of Imokilly and that part of the barony of Barrymore not contained within the North East Cork (UK Parliament constituency), North East Cork constituency. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in ...
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1918 Irish General Election
The Irish component of the 1918 United Kingdom general election took place on 14 December 1918. It was the final United Kingdom general election to be held throughout Ireland, as the next election would happen following Irish independence. It is a key moment in modern Irish history, seeing the overwhelming defeat of the moderate Irish nationalism, nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), which had dominated the Politics of Ireland, Irish political landscape since the 1880s, and a landslide victory for the radical Sinn Féin party. Sinn Féin had never previously stood in a general election, but had won six seats in List of United Kingdom by-elections (1900–1918), by-elections in 1917–1918. The party had vowed in Sinn Féin Manifesto 1918, its manifesto to establish an independent Irish Republic. In Ulster, however, the Irish Unionist Alliance, Unionist Party was the most successful party. In the aftermath of the elections, Sinn Féin's elected members refused to attend th ...
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HM Prison Pentonville
HM Prison Pentonville (informally "The Ville") is an English Category B men's prison, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Pentonville Prison is not in Pentonville, but is located further north, on the Caledonian Road in the Barnsbury area of the London Borough of Islington, north London. The prison today Pentonville is a local prison, holding Category B/C adult males remanded by local magistrates' courts and the Crown Court, and those serving short sentences or beginning longer sentences. The prison is divided into these main wings: * A wing: Early days Centre * J wing: Enhanced wing (Drug free) * C wing: Remands and Convicted Prisoners * D wing: Vulnerable Prisoners * E wing: Remands and Convicted (Care & Separation Unit) * F wing: Detoxification Unit (F1, F2,F3) and Remands and Convicted Prisoners (F4, F5) * G wing: Remands and Convicted Prisoners * G1: Neurodiversity wing G wing has an education department, a library and workshops. There are problems with drugs a ...
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Cork Prison
Cork Prison () is an Irish penal institution on Rathmore Road, Cork City, Ireland. It is a closed, medium security prison for males over 17 years of age. As of 2022, it had a bed capacity of 296 and the daily average number of resident inmates was 262. It is immediately adjacent to Collins Barracks and near the Glen area of the city. While the current prison facility was built and opened as a €45m development in 2016, it replaced an existing 19th century prison facility on the same road. History Detention Barracks (1806) In 1806 a military barracks was opened by the British Government on Rathmore Road, Cork City, the new complex included a Detention Barracks for use by the military. In 1916, during a round-up following the Easter Rising, the RIC went to arrest the nationalist Kent family at their home in Castleyons, County Cork. The family resisted and in an ensuing shoot-out, Richard Kent and Constable William Rowe were killed. The following week Thomas Kent was convic ...
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