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Local Enough?

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Learn at your own pace, with an explanation after every answer. No score, no leaderboard – and not preparation for a citizenship test: just to know the country and your neighbours a little better.

State & history

What did the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State decide about voting rights?

  • A Only men who owned land could vote
  • B Only people who spoke Irish could vote
  • ✕ Women could vote only after the age of 40 Your answer
  • ✓ Men and women over 21 had equal voting rights

Not quite.

The 1922 Constitution gave men and women equal voting rights from the age of 21. In the UK in 1918, women had only been able to vote from the age of 30.

Source: Constitution of the Irish Free State (1922), Article 14; oireachtas.ie

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