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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-10-31 23:31:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-10-31 23:31:37 -0700 |
| commit | abc78b2de091972224db8ba63422b54f75c8c1ac (patch) | |
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* europe: Add Countess Markievicz's take on the Summer Time Act, 1916.
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@@ -290,6 +290,14 @@ # "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." # -- James Joyce, Ulysses +# "Countess Markievicz ... claimed that the [1916] abolition of Dublin Mean Time +# was among various actions undertaken by the 'English' government that +# would 'put the whole country into the SF (Sinn Féin) camp'. She claimed +# Irish 'public feeling (was) outraged by forcing of English time on us'." +# -- Parsons M. Dublin lost its time zone - and 25 minutes - after 1916 Rising. +# Irish Times 2014-10-27. +# http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-lost-its-time-zone-and-25-minutes-after-1916-rising-1.1977411 + # From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): # Irish laws are available online at <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie>. # These include various relating to legal time, for example: |