Banner headline from Church of Ireland Gazette, 1921.
One hundred years ago this month, the Irish Border was created by the Government of Ireland Act which came into force on 3rd May 1921. Collaborating with the Church of Ireland’s Historical Centenaries Working Group, the RCB Library is marking this anniversary with two back–to–back online Archive of the Month exhibitions in May and June 2021 by historians Dr Ian d’Alton –Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin, and co–editor of Protestant and Irish: the minority’s search for place in independent Ireland (Cork University Press,…
