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March 22 - The Irish Government
leases a residence in the Phoenix Park to the United States
government for a period of 99 years. It will be the residence of
the U.S. ambassador.
April 29 - Major de Courcy Wheeler, the man who accepted the
surrender of Patrick Pearse in 1916, presents
President Seán T. O'Kelly with Pearse's revolver
at a special function at Áras an Uachtaráin.
May 3 - The British
Government passes an act guaranteeing the position of Northern
Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of
its citizens want it to be. The government also recognises the
existence of the Republic of Ireland.
May 10 - The Oireachtas motion calls a "Protest Against
Partition" because of the Ireland Act
provisions.
August 24 - TánaisteWilliam Norton tells the European
Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg that Ireland
would not agree to a customs union of western European states.
November 8 - Street names in any language other than English
are prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern
Ireland.
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