2012 Event Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis' archive, which inclues manuscripts and a letter from W. H. Auden are donated to Oxford University's Bodelian Library by Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis 1973 Death Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 1921 Event Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 Event Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland 1888 Birthday Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish, male, writer, House of Children