Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/December 29

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Could someone change Image:Tomwindo.JPG to Image:Tomwindo.png? --evrik 16:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. -- PFHLai 19:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Error re: 1937 Ireland (Moved from Talk:Main Page)

This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG:

    • 1937 - A new state called the Republic of Ireland replaced the Irish Free State when a new constitution was adopted.


NO new state called the Republic of Ireland replaced the Irish Free State on 29 December 1937. A new CONSTITUTION for the Irish Free State took effect on 29 December 1937 and changed the name of the country to "Eire" - or in English, "Ireland" - but it remained a dominion of the British Empire until 1949. The other important innovation in 1937 was the replacement of the Governor General, appointed on the advice of the Irish Prime Minister to represent King George VI, with an elected president - who still represented George VI. The accrediting of ambassadors to Ireland was still done by the King, not by the president.

The Republic of Ireland came into existence on 18 April 1949, when the Republic of Ireland Act - passed in 1948 - came into force. The Republic of Ireland Act, 1948, severed the link between Ireland and the British monarch, as well as severing Ireland's official links with the Commonwealth of Nations.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.244.43.2 (talk • contribs) 05:54, 2006 December 29 (UTC).