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1919
 
   
Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland      
1919
 
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The Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin, the Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland), soon declared illegal by Britain       
1919
 
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The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence       
1919
 
    
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos       
1919
 
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Michael Collins springs de Valera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key       
1919
 
    
Returning from active service with the Royal Navy, Erskine Childers devotes his energies to Sinn Fein and Irish independence       
1919
 
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Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, dedicated to opposing the Socialist party       
1919
 
   
Edward Elgar completes his last great work, the Cello Concerto in E minor      
1919
 
   
More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar      
1919
 
    
H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English