A banana republic with nukes: 2026

President Donald Trump holds a press conference following a U.S. strike on Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured on January 3, 2026.

Relating to China, Iran and Russia's involvement in the oil industry in Venezuela,  Trump said, "All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy, dating back more than two centuries."

"All the way back, dated to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine is a significant development, but it has been superseded substantially."

"They now call it the Donroe Doctrine," Trump said. 

Ireland's Foreign—Born Population at 26% in the year of centerary of 1926 Census

National Archives: The 1926 Census with over 700,000 individual household returns

The first Census of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann)

The first census of the Irish Free State, taken on April 18, 1926, recorded a total population of 2,971,992 persons. 

This figure represented a population decrease of 5.3% from the last all-Ireland census in 1911, under British rule. The data from the 1926 census provides a detailed snapshot of the newly independent nation, with statistics on various aspects of life.

The 1922 establishment of the Irish Free State marked the first significant self-rule for most of Ireland since the English conquest, following centuries of domination, culminating in defeat at Kinsale in 1601 during the Nine Years' War, which ended Gaelic Ireland's last major resistance against English rule, paving the way for English colonisation.

It was 321 bitter years of English/British rule over the Irish, spanning from the defeat at Kinsale to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Kinsale, Ireland, became a medieval walled town in the 13th century under Anglo-Norman control, strategically built around a sheltered harbour for trade, defence, and customs collection.

"On 21 September 1601, a Spanish fleet of twenty-eight sail occupied the Irish port at Kinsale with about 3,300 men, disembarking in a badly victualled and furnished condition under the maestro de campo general, Don Juan del Águila....Lord Deputy Mountjoy’s response was rapid and decisive; he arrived in Cork on 27 September with a small force, leaving his main army to follow. He locked up the Spaniards in Kinsale, seized the forts around the harbour and sealed off the haven. But in doing so, he weakened his forces in the north and left the Pale unprotected....."`

The Battle of Kinsale, 1601

In 1926, the first Census of the Irish Free State recorded a Foreign—Born population of approximately 67,076 people, representing 2.5% of the total population.