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Ultimately, the land question was settled through successive Irish Land Acts by the United Kingdom – beginning with the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870 and the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 of William Ewart Gladstone, which first gave extensive rights to tenant farmers, then the Wyndham Land Purchase (Ireland) Act 1903 won by William O ...
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).
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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 .
The Story of Ireland is a five-part documentary series examining the history of Ireland and its impact on the wider world. Over the course of the programmes, Fergal Keane travels across three continents, tracing the events, the people and the influences that shaped modern Ireland. [1] The first episode aired on 20 February 2011.
Ongoing – Great Famine: Potato blight returns and outbreaks of cholera are reported. [1]Early – publication of the first complete parallel-text edition of Annals of the Four Masters begins in Dublin as Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616.
An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine. The chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, lit. ' The Bad Life ') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. [3]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4): The Isle of Slaves - The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland) (2009) McDowell, R. B. Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution, 1760–1801 (1979) Murray, Alice Effie (1903). "After Limerick" . Studies in Irish History, 1649-1775. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd. – via Wikisource.