September

1867:
Manchester
Martyrs-

Ireland Timeline
1869: The Irish
1868: William Church ActEwart
Disestablishment,
Gladstone
Disendowment +
becomes
Compromise
Prime Minister Bill passed
through House of
Commons and
after Queen's
persuasion,
passed through
House of Lords

1871:Coercian
Act passedConcilliation +
Coercian and
Reform and
Repression

1870

1866

1866:
Fenians form in
the USA.
Offices of the
Irish People in
Dublin raided
and the
newspaper was
shut down

December
1867: LondonClerkenwell
Prison- terrorists
blew up part of
the wall in order
to release the
Fenian prisoners

1870:
First Irish Land
Act- The Ulster
Custom,
Eviction, Land
Purchase,
Rents
Gladstone
releases Fenian

1872: Secret
ballot box
introduced

1880

1881:
1873:
The Second Land
1879:
The Irish Universities
1000 families turned off their Act-the 3 Fs
Bill- nonland- landlords not receiving Davitt is arrested
denominational
uproar in House of
rents
Gladstone loses 88%
WHOLE ECONOMY SUFFERS Commons
votes
February
Land War begins- Davitt
Defeated by House of
Coercian Act March
forms the Irish National Land
Commons in 1873 by 1876:
3
Parnell put into
Fenians
League
votes
Kilmainham Jail in
withdraw
Gladstone resigns
October
support from
Home Rule League Home Rule
Parnell issues 'No
gains increasing
Rent Manifesto'
League
support
1880:
General Election1874:
Increase in
April Liberals won a
1877:Parnell
rural violence
resounding victory
elected
Results of the
and Gladstone
president of
General
becomes Prime
Home Rule
ElectionMinister
Confederation
1877-1879:Series Parnell elected leader
number of
of GB
of agricultural
Liberal MPs
of the Irish
depression and poor
representing
Parliamentary Party
harvests- issue as
Ireland fell
(IPP)
Ireland was an
Compensation for
from 66 in

1890

1882:
1886/7:
Kilmainham
Agricultural
Treaty Aprileconomydeteriorated+
1886: The first Home
Parnell
Land leaguereRule bill is rejected by
released, relax
established
the British parliament
of Coercion act:
October 1886- launched
Irish National
'Plan of Campaign' to
League formed
1884:The Gaelic
force rents down through
Athletic
collective action- only
Association is
used in 203 states
founded

May 1882:
Land Act amended
tenants in arrears
'slates wiped
clean'
Phoenix Park
murders
Crimes Act was
passed-allowed

1885: Ashbourne
Purchase Act, loans
are given to tenant
farmers to buy
their land. The
loans are to be
repaid at low rates
of interest

1890:
Michael Collins is
born
Oscar Wilde
publishesThe
Picture of Dorian
Gray
Parnell is named
as co-respondent

1910

1900

1914:
1898: The Irish Local
20th March - Curragh Incident Government Act gives Ireland
British Army refuse to fight
local government similar to
against the UVF if home rule is
the English system
passed.
1891: Another
1900:
25 May - Irish Home Rule Bill
Land Act makes
Oscar
passed in the House of
more money
Wilde dies
Commons
1909:
The
Irish
available to tenant

24
July - Buckingham Palace
Transport
and
farmers to buy
conference
General Workers
land
Union is founded
1905:
1893:
Sinn
The Gaelic League is
Fein is
founded
founded
The second Home Rule bill is
passed by the British House 1903: A final Land
of Commons but is rejected Act makes it still
by the House of Lords
easier for tenant
Another Land Act makes it farmers to obtain
easier for tenant farmers to loans and buy their
borrow money to buy their land. As a result
land
millions of acres

1913:
The Ulster Volunteer
Force is founded
Tram strike in Dublin
A third Home Rule bill is
passed by the British
parliament. However
the act is put on hold in
September because of
the outbreak of the

1916

1915:
4 April - 25,000
National Volunteers
assemble at the
Phoenix Park
26 December - The
Irish Republican
Brotherhood Military
Council decides to
stage an Easter
Rising in 1916.

11 May: During a debate in the

Parliament of the United Kingdom on
the Irish crisis, John Dillon of the Irish
Parliamentary Party calls on the
British government to end the
executions of the Easter Rising
21 December: In the
British House of
25leaders
April: Martial
Commons, it is
law is declared in
announced that all Irish
Dublin for a
prisoners are to be
period of one
released.
month.

May: Following their courts

martial, Patrick Pearse,
1916:
Thomas MacDonagh and
Eamon de Velera
Thomas J. Clarke are
sentenced to life
executed at Kilmainham
imprisonment 24 April: The
Gaol.
Irish
Easter Rising
Sen Mac Diarmada and
Conscription Actbegins in Dublin.
James Connolly are
The Irish
proposed
executed. Connolly,
Volunteers and the
who was wounded in
Irish Citizen Army
the fighting, is strapped
occupy the

16 May: David LloydGeorge, announces

immediate Home Rule for
the 26 counties. 6 northeastern counties are to
be excluded for a period
of five years.

10 March: The Ulster

Unionist Council
accepts the
Government's plan for
a Parliament of
Northern Ireland.

1920

1919

1918

1917

1918:
Conscription
1917: Eamon de
proposed for
Velera released
28 December:
Ireland
under general
Sinn Fin have a
amnesty
landslide victory in
10 July: amon de
the general
Valera of Sinn Fin
election, winning 73
beats Patrick Lynch
of the 105 seats in
Ireland

3 February:
amon de Valera
and two other
prisoners escape
25 March: British
from Lincoln Prison
20 April: The
recruits to the RIC begin
Irish
to arrive in Ireland. They
Parliamentary
become known from
Party holds a
their improvised
meeting in
uniforms as the "Black
Dublin to oppose
and Tans".

7 September: David
Lloyd George
summons a meeting of
the Cabinet of the
United Kingdom at
Inverness to discuss an
independent Ireland's
relationship with the

9 January: amon
de Valera fails to be
re-elected as
President of the
Irish Republic

1923

1922

1921

10 July: Bloody
19 May: The Irish Republican Army,
Sunday: Clashes
with Collins's covert support,
between Catholics
attempts to launch a "Northern
and Protestants in
Offensive" in Ulster
Belfast result in 16
8 September: David Lloyd
deaths
George's final offer is
delivered to amon de
Valera. Sinn Fin is invited to
discuss the proposals which
would grant limited
sovereignty within the British
Empire

5 August: amon
de Valera is
arrested at an
election meeting in
Ennis, County
Clare.