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Many were absentee landlords based in England, but others lived full-time in Ireland and increasingly identified as Irish. (See Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 ). During this time, Ireland was nominally an autonomous Kingdom with its own Parliament; in actuality it was a client state controlled by the King of Great Britain and supervised by his ...
The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13% and 20% of the 1740 population of 2.4 million people, which was a proportionately greater loss than during the Great Famine of 1845–1852.
The Irish poor laws were a series of acts of Parliament intended to address social instability due to widespread and persistent poverty in Ireland. While some legislation had been introduced by the pre-Union Parliament of Ireland prior to the Act of Union , the most radical and comprehensive attempt was the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 ( 1 ...
The Flight of the Earls: The departure from Ireland of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell. 1609: Plantation of Ulster by Scottish Presbyterians begins on a large scale. 1641: 22 October: Irish Rebellion of 1641: Phelim O'Neill leads the capture of several forts in the north of Ireland. 1642
From 1945 to 1960 Ireland missed out on the European economic boom across Europe, and 500,000 people emigrated. A major policy change followed the issue of TK Whitaker's economic model in 1958, and the Republic slowly embraced the industrial world. Most Irish exports continued to go to Britain until 1969.
The loan funds in Ireland by the early 1840s were very diverse in nature, and included private pawnbrokers and reorganized Mont-de-Piétés. By 1843 there were 300 loan funds operating in over half the baronies in Ireland. About 300,000 borrowers received almost 500,000 loans a year, with a standard term of 20 weeks.
In 1805 Sir John Carr in his Tour of Ireland described the workhouse as "A gloomy abode of mingled want, disease, vice and malady, where lunatics were loaded with heavy chains and fallen women bound and logged"; [9] and Parliament believed the House of Industry was a failure and "completely worthless". [10]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Other events of 1700 List of years in Ireland: Events from the year 1700 in Ireland. Incumbent