(1) The Irish Free State came into being in 1922.

(2) An Irish Free State soldier crouches behind the window of a bank in O'Connell Street that is under attack from the hotel opposite.

(3) Established as the Irish Free State in 922, Ireland officially became the sovereign state of Eire in 937.

(4) After the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922), the IRA refused to accept a separate Northern Ireland, and the violence continued.

(5) The Irish Free State came into being as a British dominion in 1922.

(6) The Irish Civil War was the direct consequence of the creation the Irish Free State.

(7) The first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in the Irish Free State was held in Dublin in 1931 and was reviewed by the then Minister of Defence Desmond Fitzgerald.

(8) Dominion status was given to Canada (1867), Australia (1901), New Zealand (1907), the Union of South Africa (1910)[Sentence dictionary], and the Irish Free State (1921).

(9) The remaining 26 counties of the island became the Irish Free State, a constitutional monarchy over which the British monarch reigned (from 1927 with the title King of Ireland).

(10) On the 29 December 1937 a new constitution, the Constitution of Ireland, came into force. It replaced the Irish Free State by a new state called simply "Ireland".

(11) 1922 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

(1) The Irish Free State came into being in 1922.