100 Years Ago

25 MARCH 1923 The press reported that the Government was under pressure to leave Iraq as the cost of maintaining

24 MARCH 1923 The German authorities arrested a number of nationalist plotters. A debate took place in the Dáil Éireann,

23 MARCH 1923 Lord Newton led a debate in the House of Lords regarding a reduction in the size of

22 MARCH 1923 A debate took place in the House of Lords on the country’s preparedness in the matter of

21 MARCH 1923 Following opposition from the Government, Earl Beauchamp withdrew his Parliamentary Election Bills which would have introduced the

20 MARCH 1923 A new political organisation was established in the Irish Free State which sought to support the Government.

19 MARCH 1923 Andrew Bonar Law, the Prime Minister, responded to a deputation that met him that there would be

18 MARCH 1923 The French Government confirmed that around 40 soldiers were killed in a railway crash in the occupied

17 MARCH 1923 In a bid to prevent the growing number of acts of sabotage on the railways in the

16 MARCH 1923 Rupert Sackville Gwynne was appointed as the new Financial Secretary to the War Office. The Criminal Justice