- Southern Ireland (Irish: Deisceart Éireann, pronounced [dʲɛʃcəɾˠtˠ ˈeːɾʲənˠ]) was the larger of the two parts of Ireland that were created when Ireland was partitioned...
- The High Courts of Justice for Southern and Northern Ireland had already been split along the lines of the 1920 Act and this continued until December 1922.
- The term "Southern Ireland", although only having legal basis from 1921 to 1922, is still seen occasionally, particularly in Britain.
- 3 In southern Ireland, it is the Protestant population that is most closely associated with loyalism, that is a preference for the maintenance of British rule in Ireland...
- The Northern Ireland parliament was convened for the first time in June 1921. ... 5. When Southern Ireland re-formed as the Irish Free State in December 1922...
- However, the conflict began to intensify towards the end of 1919, when the IRA launched a series of attacks on RIC barracks across southern Ireland.
- Many Irish republicans saw this treaty as a betrayal and in June 1922 clashes between these extremists and the new government in Southern Ireland led to war.
- It was replaced in the South by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 which founded the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.
- A war of independence followed that ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which partitioned Ireland between the Irish Free State, which gained dominion...
- In 1921, a cease-fire was declared, and in January 1922 a faction of Irish nationalists signed a peace treaty with Britain, calling for the partition of Ireland, with...
