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.
The slow birth of a nation. The signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921 saw the end of the War of Independence and the establishment of an Irish state â albeit a truncated one, due to the terms of the treaty that allowed six Ulster counties to remain part of the United Kingdom â for the first time in history.