100 Years Ago

23 July 1921 Éamon de Valera returned to Dublin and announced to a large crowd at the Mansion House that

23 June 1921 The King and Queen visited Belfast to formally open the Parliament of Northern Ireland, with the day

22 June 1921 The King and Queen left for Holyhead to board the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert en route

21 June 1921 Thomas Watters Brown was elected unopposed as the MP for North Down, following his appointment as the

10 June 1921 The press reported that it was expected that the Delegate Conference of the Miners’ Federation would adopt

4 June 1921 The Miners’ Executive rejected the Government’s proposals to end the coal mining strike. The executive rejected a

3 June 1921 The Financial Resolutions for the Railway Bill was passed in the House of Commons, which aimed to

2 June 1921 A proposal to give MPs free rail passes from London to their constituencies was rejected following a

1 June 1921 The National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport Workers’ Federation announced that they had decided to remove

28 May 1921 David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, met at the Board of Trade with coal-mine owners and coal