24th November
Shankill – 1910 – Death of Edward VII
Leighlin – 1911 – The Parliament Act and Home Rule again
Carlow – 1912 – The possibility of Irish partition emerges
Staplestown – 1913 – Sean O’Casey and the Dublin slums
Urglin – 1914 – The war and press censorship
Nurney – 1915 – The Fools, the Fools, the Fools…They have left us our Fenian dead
Bagnelstown – 1916 – Executions after the Rising
Lorum – 1917 – Henry Ford and Cork
Killedmond – 1918 – A dramatic General Election
Borris – 1919 – Alcock and Brown
Goresbridge – 1920 – A bloody year in the War of Independence
25th November
Kilkenny College Chapel – 1921 – The Truce
Augumacart – 1922 – The Treaty split
Durrow – 1923 – Emergence of the Irish Council of Churches
Killermogh – 1924 – Cutting a shilling off the old age pension
Abbeyleix – 1925 – No petty people (Yeats)
Ballinakill – 1926 – The sugar factories begin
Ballyroan – 1927 – Fianna Fáil enters the Dáil
Ballyfin – 1928 – First East West transatlantic flight
Portlaoise – 1929 -Mussolini and the Vatican
Portlaoise Hospital Chapel – 1930 – The case of the Mayo County Librarian
The Rock – 1931 – Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor is published
26th November
Piltown – 1932 – The Economic War
Portlaw – 1933 – The National Anthem
Clonegam – 1934 – Northern Ireland – ‘a Protestant parliament and a Protestant state’
Kilmeadan – 1935 – Events at the Belfast shipyards
Annestown – 1936 – Abolition of the First Seanad
Tramore – 1937 – A new Constitution
Dunmore -1938 – The British leave the Treaty ports
Waterford Cathedral – 1939 – The Emergency
Kilnamanagh – 1940 – Ireland’s own ‘Dad’s Army’
27th November
Fenagh – 1941 – Neutrality – Irish style
Myshall – 1942 – The Tale of The Tailor and Ansty
Aghade – 1943 – An Irish Flora published
Ardoyne – 1944 – The arrival of children’s allowances
Aghold – 1945 -The Bomb
Shillelagh – 1946 – Establishment of Bord na Móna
Mullinacuffe – 1947 – The terrible winter
Tullow – 1948 – The Republic is achieved
Kildavin – 1949 – The last old Dublin trams
Clonegal – 1950 – The Korean war
Bunclody – 1951 – The Wexford Opera Festival begins
Kilrush – 1952 – Adoption legalised in Ireland
