Independence & After · event 14 of 15

2018

The Eighth Amendment is repealed. A second referendum liberalises abortion law by a two-thirds majority. Together with 2015 it marks the end of the Church’s authority over Irish social legislation, a century after the state was founded on it.

The Independence & After era

  1. 24 April 1916
  2. 3 May 1916
  3. 21 January 1919
  4. 6 December 1921
  5. 16 January 1922
  6. 1932
  7. 1963
  8. 1974
  9. 1979
  10. 1988
  11. 1995
  12. 2008
  13. 2015
  14. 2018
  15. 2020

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