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  Encyclopedia: Unilateral Declaration of Independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (1835) - This was a declaration of the independence of the Maori tribes.
Declaration of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (1973) - Guinea-Bissau, formerly Portuguese Guinea, declared independence from Portugal.
Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (1983) - The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was proclaimed in northern Cyprus in 1983.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Unilateral-Declaration-of-Independence   (1565 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Declaration of independence
A declaration of independence is a proclamation of the independence of a newly formed or reformed independent state from a part or the whole of the territory of another, or a document containing such a declaration.
In international law, unilateral declarations of independence are generally frowned upon, since preservation of territory is one of the few things that the countries of the world universally agree upon.
Declaring independence or supporting such a declaration is seen as a hostile act, that may easily lead to war.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Declaration_of_Independence   (1668 words)

  
 Declaration of Independence (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Declaration of Independence was a document adopted by Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary parliament of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic, at its first meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 21st January, 1919.
The Irish Republic was intended to encompass the whole island of Ireland but loyalists in the northeast resisted its influence.
By the Declaration of Independence the Dáil claimed to "ratify" the earlier Easter Proclamation of 1916.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Declaration_of_Independence   (272 words)

  
 Irish
Irish Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence was a document adopted by French.
Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Act of Union.
Irish Leader of the Opposition The Irish Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the lar...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/irish.html   (4356 words)

  
 Leila Waddell - Scarlet Woman
The Declaration of Independence of the Irish Republic
The free and independent spirit of the people of Ireland is weary of the continued crimes of the English tyrants; and, seeing no end possible but the success of the oppressors in their systematic annihilation of the people, dares the desperate alternative of revolt.
That, we do hereby declare war upon England until such time as our demands being granted, our rights recognized, and our power firmly established in our own country, from which we are now exiled, we may see fit to restore to her the blessings of peace, and to extend to her the privileges of friendship.
www.leilawaddell.com /Leila-Waddell-press/press.htm   (2400 words)

  
 Independence Forever: The 225th Anniversary of the Fourth of July   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Declaration of Independence and the liberties recognized in it are grounded in a higher law to which all human laws are answerable.
What is revolutionary about the Declaration of Independence is not that a particular group of Americans declared their independence under particular circumstances but that they did so by appealing to--and promising to base their particular government on--a universal standard of justice.
This was the object of the Declaration of Independence.
www.heritage.org /Research/AmericanFoundingandHistory/BG1451.cfm   (2781 words)

  
 Art Gallery at the WorldWide Irish Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thrill to the declaration of Irish independence, as proclaimed by Pádraig Pearse outside O'Connell Street GPO at the start of the Easter Rising in 1916.
Read the ringing declaration of Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken and their Societies of the United Irishmen at the start of the rebellion of 1798.
Feel for the victims of the Irish famine and the coffin ships, so many of whom have no known memorial, and whose only commemoration in this world is in the hearts of their compatriots.
members.aol.com /IrishWorld/art.html   (256 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: IRISH
Natives of Ireland were among the first settlers in Spanish-ruled Texas, and the story of the Irish in Texas is in many ways coincident with the founding of the republic and the development of the state.
The heritage of the Irish seems in retrospect to have peculiarly suited their migration to a new land, for the English dominance of Ireland must have been to the new colonists in Texas a close parallel to the oppression they eventually found in the new country.
Irish colonists in Texas endured the same problems of education, farming, and economic hardship as did other settlers, though perhaps with better success, considering their proximity to hostile forces.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/II/pii1.html   (747 words)

  
 Journal Volume8, Number1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
and Int'l L. This is a speech focusing on the similarities between the American Declaration of Independence, the Irish Easter Proclamation and the Irish Declaration of Independence.
It draws parallels between the fight for freedom from the tyranny that both countries suffered under the rule of the British Crown.
The speaker gives the history that led to each of the Declarations and examines the impact that each has had on the countries' pasts and present day situations.
www.utulsa.edu /law/ilj/vol8no1.htm   (803 words)

  
 W3Perl - Histoire - Irlande - Independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1920 the British government reinforced the Irish police with ex-soldiers known as Black and Tans, wearing a mixture of police and army uniforms, and later with ex-officers known as Auxiliaries.
Though unhappy with the treaty, he rightly believed it opened the way to greater freedom and independence, and his views were substantially endorsed in a general election.
De Valera still refused to accept the treaty, however, and the inauguration of the Irish Free State was marked by a civil war which lasted until the anti-treaty republicans conceded defeat in May 1923.
www.w3perl.com /www/histoire/irlande/independence.html   (630 words)

  
 Aireacht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Aireacht or Ministry was the cabinet of the 1919-1922 Irish Republic.
The number of ministers was increased and, while as established in 1919 the Irish Republic had no explicit head of state, in 1921 the head of the Ministry was renamed as 'President of the Republic'.
In December 1922, when the Irish Free State came into being, both the Aireacht and the Provisional Government were abolished and superseded by the Executive Council of the Free State.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Aireacht.htm   (360 words)

  
 The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
That we do hereby Declare ourselves free and independent people; that we are, and of a right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing people under the power of God and the*General Congress; to the maintenance which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes and our scared honor.
The Declaration was entrusted to the hands of the secretary of the committee, Mr.
Gainsayers of the Declaration say that it was the May 31st Resolves and not a Declaration that was signed by the representatives.
hometown.aol.com /mcknit1775/declar/1775.htm   (1811 words)

  
 Ireland - becoming a free state
Independence of Ireland and announced the establishment of a provisional government of the Irish Republic.
Irish liberation from British rule was achieved as the result of a struggle extending over several centuries and marked by numerous rebellions.
The new constitution, which abolished the Irish Free State and established Éire as a 'Sovereign independent democratic state,' was approved by the voters in a plebiscite conducted simultaneously with the election.
www.iol.ie /~dluby/history.htm   (2932 words)

  
 Declaration of Independence: The Declaration and Its Importance
Declaration of Independence: The Declaration and Its Importance
The stirring closing paragraph is the formal pronouncement of independence and is borrowed from the resolution of July 2.
The Declaration of Independence as a Basic Document of the State of Israel.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0857706.html   (466 words)

  
 publications
Particular attention is paid in the volume to Irish policy at the League of Nations from the state’s admission to the League in September 1923 and Irish policy towards the Commonwealth, particularly at the 1923 Imperial Conference.
The result was a widespread reform of Dominion status in which the Irish increasingly took the initiative through the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930.By 1932, when Cosgrave's Cumann na nGaedheal government left office, Ireland was infull control of her internal and external affairs and the British Empire had given way to the Commonwealth.
It also looks at Irish relations with the Holy See in the run-up to the 1932 Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, the views of Irish diplomats on the collapse of Weimar Germany and problems such as selling Ireland as a tourist destination in the United States and the development of trade with Europe.
www.ria.ie /projects/difp/publications.htm   (1982 words)

  
 Padraig Pearse
Writer, essayist, poet, educator, philosopher, revolutionary, Padraig Pearse is one of the founders of the modern Irish nation.
One of the early modern proponents of the Irish language and culture as a political device against English subjection, Pearse was the author of many works, including "The Murder Machine," a stinging critique of English education in Ireland.
He was executed on May 3, 1916 with fourteen other rebels and signatories of the Irish Declaration of Independence, a document largely written by Pearse.
faculty.roosevelt.edu /Fallon/padraig_pearse.html   (174 words)

  
 Irish Page of John David Brett
Its three equal stripes illustrate the Irish political landscape as accurately today as in 1848, the year the flag was first unfurled (However, it was not adopted as the national flag of Ireland until independence from Britain on December 6, 1921).
The colour orange is associated with Northern Irish Protestants because of William of Orange, the King of England who in 1690 defeated the deposed King James II, a Roman Catholic, in the fateful Battle of the Boyne near Dublin.
The white in the center signifies a lasting truce between the "Orange" and the "Green," and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of the Irish Protestant and the Irish Catholic may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood.
homepage.eircom.net /~dbrett/HomePage3.html   (536 words)

  
 Spirited Ireland - Declaration of Independence - Irish Music and Images of Ireland
We claim for our national independence the recognition and support of every free nation in the world, and we proclaim that independence to be a condition precedent to international peace hereafter.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
www.spirited-ireland.net /articles/declaration-of-independence   (657 words)

  
 Goliad Declaration of Independence 1835
The first and most formal regional declaration was the Goliad Declaration of Independence, sometimes referred to as the "Mecklenburg of Texas." [The Mecklenburg Declaration of May 1775 produced at a regional convention of North Carolinians in Mecklenburg contained wording similar to that of the American Declaration of Independence of 1776].
The declaration was transmitted to the Provisional Government of Texas at San Felipe, printed and distributed in handbills.
Conceivably, the symbol was suggested by Irish colonists or those with close contact with the Irish colonists from the Powers and Hewetson or McMullen and McGloin ventures in the region.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/consultations5.htm   (2171 words)

  
 SAOIRSE Fenian Notes April 1999
Paine went on: “The laying of a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling...
American, and modern Irish revolutionists, use guerrilla tactics, usually indigenous military units operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids.
Well the Irish and British “peace” processors came again to Washington to join their partitionist Irish American colleagues to have a celebration of something.
homepage.eircom.net /~eirenua/apr99/fenian.htm   (1636 words)

  
 The Scottish Covenanting Struggle, Alexander Craighead, and the Mecklenburg Declaration
Perhaps readers are aware that two Declarations were written, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May 21, 1775 and the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776.
A careful examination of the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Mecklenburg Resolves with the Declaration of Independence and Articles shows marked similarities in words and ideas between the two documents.
The result was a flood of resolutions, the most important of which was the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence which became a pattern for our national Declaration of Independence.
members.aol.com /Lettermen2/craig.html   (5357 words)

  
 The History of Ireland
It has been proven that the traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in all western Europe and that they are the longest settled on their own land.
The indigenous Irish, supported by their allies and naturalized Normans fought valiantly against the invaders but were thwarted by superior military ingenuity.
The Irish branch of the Fenians became known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
www.globalserve.net /~bobbo/history.htm   (7866 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The goals of the IRA can be summed up by this excerpt of the Irish Declaration of Independence, written in 1919: "We solemnly declare foreign government in Ireland to be an invasion of our natural right which we will never tolerate, and we demand the evacuation of our country by the English Garrison" (Dail Eireann.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army was originally formed as a faction of the Irish Republican Army in 1969.
In September of that year, an independent commission set up to oversee the disarmament process reported that the IRA had in fact scrapped their arsenal.
www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=55   (1246 words)

  
 CALIFORNIA YANKEE: Declaration Of Independence Banned
At Ramblings' Journal, Michael King posts the very audacity to eliminate the Declaration of Independance from a school curriculum is unconscionable.
The California school's efforts to prohibit a teacher from passing out copies of the Declaration of Independence and other historical documents to his students is, as one would expect, getting quiet the treatment in the blogosphere.
I can't count the times I've heard a "Christian" argue that the mere mention of "Creator" in the Declaration of Independence is proof that the Founding Fathers intended a religious government (to one degree or another).
cayankee.blogs.com /cayankee/2004/11/declaration_of__1.html   (3815 words)

  
 Dublin GPO Ireland, O'Connell Street Photographs
The Irish Declaration of Independence - the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was first announced there by Pádraig Pearse in April 1916.
During the insurrection the building was shelled by British artillery and a gunboat on the Liffey, It remained gutted and in a derelict state for several years afterwards.
The GPO building was restored during the 1920's when Ireland became a Free State and secured Independence from Britain in 1922.
www.irelandposters.com /dublin/dublin_gpo.html   (134 words)

  
 Irsk historie i oversigtsform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Easter Rising of 1916 was the defining event in the history of Irish republicanism.
It declared an independent Republic and pledged republicans to ''equal rights and equal opportunities'' for all the Irish people.
In the Irish Republic about 90 per cent of the population are Roman Catholics.
www.lemvig-gym.dk /ba/irskhist.htm   (501 words)

  
 World History Compass, European History
In Ireland, the "Penal Laws" is the name given to the code of laws passed by the Protestant Parliament of Ireland which regulated the status of Roman Catholics through most of the eighteenth century.
The aim of this project is to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum.
A guide to Irish archaeology both for the interested layman and the professional archaeologist.
www.worldhistorycompass.com /europe3.htm   (2227 words)

  
 The Plough and the Stars (1936 b 67')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An Irish army officer declares Ireland is a free nation and calls on them to fight.
The Irish Republican Army marches into the post office and raises their flag.
This movie barely touches on O'Casey's concern that care for the poor should take precedent over the violent struggle for independence which caused a patriotic riot when the play was first presented in 1926.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1936/PloughandStars.html   (455 words)

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