IRELAND

| Valera, had been eithe the country. re hd Beviblinns participants fled to the United States in April. In spite of these disorders and economic difficulties, the Irish Free governed Ireland sternly, and progre was made in the establish of a stable government. De Valera, June, 1923, finally abandoned further |resistance to the Free State. He was (captured in July, 1923. Northern Ireland.—Under the provisof the Ireland Act of 1920, IN made for the legislative, executive, | judicial departments of Northern | Ireland, comprising six of the counties of Province of Ulster, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Derry. executive power continued to be in the king. Parliament consisted of a Senate of 26 members and a House of Commons, of 52 members, legislature has full executive power, except in matters relating to the Empire. Northern Ireland was given 13 members’ the National Parliament. The Duke Abercorn was appointed governor general of Northern Ireland, in 1922,: The pop. of Ireland, in 1911 (latest), 4,382,951. The cap. is Dublin (pop. 309,272), but the largest town is Belfast 385,492); next come Cork (76,632),