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Two days before the protest, the two Catholic families who had been squatting in the house next door were removed by police. [88] Currie had brought their grievance to the local council and to Stormont, but had been told to leave. The incident invigorated the civil rights movement. [89] A monument to Northern Ireland's first civil rights march
A Catholic army led by Garret Barry is defeated by English Protestant forces near Liscarroll, Cork. October 24, the Confederate Catholic Association of Ireland is established, with its own constitution and capital at Kilkenny. In November it strikes its own coinage It will govern most of Ireland as a de facto sovereign state until 1648.
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 .
There were widespread protests in Britain and Ireland following the deaths. 25 March Castlerock killings – the UDA, using the covername "Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF), claimed responsibility for shooting dead four Catholic civilians and a PIRA volunteer at a building site in Castlerock , County Londonderry.
In late February the Official IRA bombed the Aldershot headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, but only succeeded in killing six support staff and a Catholic chaplain. In May, they also kidnapped and shot dead a Derry man who was home on leave from the British Army. The following day 500 women marched to the Republican Club offices in protest. [13]
Plantation and the Catholic Question 1603–1623 in A New History of Ireland, Volume 3: Early Modern Ireland 1534–1691. OUP. ISBN 978-0199562527. Corish, Patrick J. (2009). The Rising of 1641 and the Catholic Confederacy 1641–1645 in A New History of Ireland, Volume 3: Early Modern Ireland 1534–1691. OUP. ISBN 978-0199562527.
The Catholic Committee was a county association in late 18th-century Ireland that campaigned to relieve Catholics of their civil and political disabilities under the kingdom's Protestant Ascendancy. After their organisation of a national Catholic Convention helped secure repeal of most of the remaining Penal Laws in 1793, the Committee dissolved.