Tag: Irish Free State

NEW BOOK: VYING FOR VICTORY – The 1923 General Election in the Irish Free State

IASIL News, New Publications

by ELAINE CALLINAN, MEL FARRELL and THOMAS TORMEY | University College Dublin Press After 11 arduous months, on 24 May 1923, the guns fell silent, and the Irish Civil War finally came to an end. Twelve weeks later, all adults aged 21 or over – regardless of social status or gender – cast their vote in the State’s first general

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CFP: IRISH WRITERS OF THE 1930S: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION

Call for Papers, Other Conferences

International Conference to be held at the University of Almería (Spain), 16-17 March 2023 Conference website: http://www2.ual.es/sb-st/ The conservative measures implemented by successive governments of the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1940, including the banning of divorce and widespread censorship of printed materials, have projected an image of Ireland in the 1930s as opposed to the contemporaneous (artistic and)

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