The Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 29) (DORA) was passed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 1914, four days after the country entered...
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The film takes its title from the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, passed in the United Kingdom at the start of the First World War, which gave the government...
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of the United Kingdom parliament Defence of the Realm Act 1914, an act of the United Kingdom parliament Defence of the Realm Act 1915, an act of the United...
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Government, the Act made permanent the powers of the war-time Defence of the Realm Acts. The Act did not apply to Ireland, where due to the War of Independence...
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that Purpose". Defence of the Realm Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 c 55) Defence of the Realm Act 1806 (46 Geo. 3 c 90) Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5...
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delivery practices SS Dora, the name of several ships Dora (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA), British war legislation...
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Preceding legislation: Defence of the Realm Act 1914 Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920 Emergency Powers Act 1920 Emergency Powers Act (Northern Ireland)...
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shortfalls, the government passed legislation such as the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, to give it new powers. The war saw a move away from the idea of "business...
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Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) (category Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood)
Daly was court martialled under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 and executed by firing squad on 4 May 1916, at the age of 25. Bray railway station in County...
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punishment in the United Kingdom High treason in the United Kingdom Defence of the Realm Act 1914 Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 Defence Regulations...
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Acts by way of regulation. Noting that the British House of Lords, in R v Halliday, had held in 1917 that the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 possessed similar...
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Socialist Standard (redirect from The Socialist Standard)
was Robert Elrick. The Socialist Standard has also carried translations of continental writers. Under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, it was placed on...
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The Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 62) was emergency legislation passed just prior to the outbreak of World War II by the Parliament...
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De Keyser's Royal Hotel (category Demolished hotels in the United Kingdom)
Defence of the Realm Act 1914 replaced the royal prerogative, and that compensation was due under the Defence Act 1842. The hotel never reopened. The...
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Society. At the Beaumaris Police Court on Saturday 4 September 1915, Rimington was charged with a breach of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, for making...
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Seán Mac Diarmada (category Signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic)
County Galway, under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 for giving a speech against enlisting into the British Army during the First World War. Following...
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wartime legislation – the Defence of the Realm Act 1914. The plans were stated to be designed to suit the considerable needs of long-range bombers, such as...
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Willie Gallacher (politician) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
The Worker, was prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 for an article criticising the war. Gallacher and the editor John Muir were both found...
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Easter Rising (redirect from Seizure of the Dublin General Post Office (GPO))
weren't – who thereafter quickly reorganised the movement. Under Regulation 14B of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 1,836 men were interned at internment camps...
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Frongoch internment camp (category Internment camps of the British Empire)
the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA regulations) after its republican editor, Frank Gallagher, accused the British authorities of lying about the...
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humorously highlight some of the bizarre regulations of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (known as DORA), drawn up during the First World War, but still...
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Matthew Nathan (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
members of the Irish Volunteers. He used the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 to suppress newspapers that he considered seditious, against the advice of the IPP...
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politics and the press, as an excessive attempt by Lloyd George to control the press, as was political use of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914. Wrangling...
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Additional Forces Acts 1803 (redirect from Defence of the Realm (England) Act 1803)
A set of three Additional Forces Acts of July 1803 created an Army of Reserve for the defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against...
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Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth of Nations that has Charles III as its monarch and head of state. All the realms are independent...
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Charles Edward Troup (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
regulations under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, and then the period of police strikes in 1918-19. He became a Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB) in...
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Billie Carleton (category Actors from the London Borough of Camden)
Regulation 40b of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, which had been passed in 1916 and made possession of both cocaine and opium illegal for the first time...
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Drug prohibition (redirect from Counterculture and the War on Drugs)
and use of all narcotic drugs, except for medical and scientific purposes. In the UK the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, passed at the onset of the First...
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1923 Irish hunger strikes (category History of Ireland (1801–1923))
1920 the special powers (searching of individuals/property and internment) given to the military were cancelled (see Defence of the Realm Act 1914). Those...
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because of his lack of a fellowship, he was dismissed from Trinity College following his conviction under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914. He later described...
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