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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 .
In 1886, with the introduction of the first Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons, the term the Anglo-Irish quarrel [4] gained favour and became more acceptable than the implied condescension of the Irish question. The Irish question affected British politics in much the same way that the nationalities problem affected Austria-Hungary. Normal ...
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 ...
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]
1840s; 1850s; 1860s; See also: 1849 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1849 List of years in Ireland: Events from the year 1849 in Ireland. ... at Queen's College, ...
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