By: Derry Koralek, Ray Collins. Play is the work of children  through play and interaction, children learn how to talk, listen, read, and write. Read about typical behaviors of emergent and beginning readers, and how each of these behaviors relate to reading and writing.
After years of civil war, Ireland became a republic in 1921. At this time, Britain negotiated with Ireland to keep the six counties in the north-east of Ireland. These six counties now make up what is known as Northern Ireland or Ulster. The southern part of the island is the Republic of Ireland, or Eire.
A cartoonistâs view of British prime minister David Lloyd George and the partition. In 1920 the British passed the Government of Ireland Act, an attempt to short circuit and Irish civil war by dividing the island into two constituent parts: Southern Ireland (26 counties) and Northern Ireland (six counties).n December 1920, almost two years into the Irish War of Independence, the British parliament passed the Government of Ireland Act.