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The Act granted (separate) Home Rule to two new institutions, the northeasternmost six counties of Ulster and the remaining twenty-six counties, both territories within the United Kingdom, which partitioned Ireland accordingly into two semi-autonomous regions: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, coordinated by a Council of Ireland.
15 April – Thomas Drummond, military surveyor and Under-Secretary for Ireland (born 1797 in Scotland). 21 April – Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland (born 1766). 12 June – Gerald Griffin, novelist, poet and playwright (born 1803).
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
Timeline of Irish History 1840–1916 (1916 Rebellion Walking Tour) A Concise History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce; Sources: A National Library of Ireland database for Irish research; The Ireland of Yesterday Archived 5 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by Life magazine; Irish history stories recalled on dvd, free web videos online
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy.These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land.
6 June – 1841 census of Ireland: the first thorough census is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.2 million. [1] 1 November – Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries. [2] 3 November – foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; See also: 1850 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1850 List of years in Ireland: Events from ...
Young Ireland (Irish: Éire Óg, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲə ˈoːɡ]) was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly The Nation , it took issue with the compromises and clericalism of the larger national movement, Daniel O'Connell 's Repeal ...