As noted in previous chapters—in addition to the general lack of awareness among Iranians (to this day) of the place of ‘Iran’ in certain corpus of Irish-nationalist antiquarian and other range of historical, folklore, literary, and/or more narrowly political writing during the time period covered in this book—, in the early twentieth century Iranian nationalists continued to to be apathetic toward Irish nationalist politics (until the Easter Rising of 1916), notwithstanding fervent Irish nationalist expressions of solidarity with the Iranian constitutionalist-nationalist struggle of 1906–11 and subsequently. By the turn of the twentieth century, at least educated Iranians following world events were not entirely ignorant of Irish political developments in general. Since the latter decades of the nineteenth century, summary coverage of Irish nationalist activities had appeared in a spectrum of Iranian publications. The topics covered in these reports ranged from Home Rule campaigns to agitation for land reform or armed republican activities. The delayed Iranian nationalist expressions of support for their Irish counterparts appears all the more confounding given the rapidly multiplying Iranian condemnations after 1907 of British imperial domination of India and Egypt. As discussed below, the Iranian neglect of the Irish Question prior to 1916 appears to have been considerably due to Ireland's somewhat ambiguous position as an English colonial entity. Notably, other than being England's oldest substantial colonial territory outside mainland Britain, as well as being a European colony, Ireland had its own separate parliament from 1264 to 1800 and was later incorporated into the new territorial-administrative amalgam of the United Kingdom in 1801. It was around this time that the British Empire emerged as a major outside player in Iranian affairs and attracted increasing Iranian diplomatic, military, commercial, historical, and cultural attention, with also a small (albeit gradually increasing) number of Iranian travelers visiting England during the nineteenth century, but rarely venturing into Ireland.