These can be thought of as micro-oases sitting on top of the seamount oasis. For the most part though, a guyot summit is where sediment-dwelling animals call home. These include shrimps, isopods, crabs, sea stars, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea pens, and worms of various kinds (Figure 3).
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. It was in 1922 that 26 counties of Ireland gained independence from London following negotiations which led to the other six counties, part of the province of Ulster, remaining in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Partition was followed by a year of civil war.
The Irish Free State, comprising four-fifths of Ireland, is declared, ending a five-year Irish struggle for independence from Britain. Like other autonomous nations of the former British Empire, Ireland was to remain part of the British Commonwealth, symbolically subject to the king. The Irish Free State later severed ties with Britain and was renamed Eire, and is now called the Republic of Ireland. English rule over the island of Ireland dates back to the 12th century, and Queen Elizabeth I of England encouraged the large-scale immigration of Scottish Protestants in the 16th century.