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11 February – abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle. [1]5 March – Fenian Rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare.
After the suppression of the Irish People newspaper in September 1865, disaffection among Irish radical nationalists continued to smoulder, and during the later part of 1866, IRB leader James Stephens endeavoured to raise funds in the United States for a fresh rising planned for the following year. However the rising of 1867 proved poorly ...
The worst of these was the Great Irish Famine (1845–1851), in which about one million people died and another million emigrated. [4] The economic problems of most Irish people were in part the result of the small size of their landholdings and a large increase in the population in the years before the famine. [5]
Great Irish Famine: A potato blight destroys two-thirds of Ireland's staple crop, leading to an estimated 1 million deaths and emigration of a further 1 million people. [27] 1867: 5 March: Fenian Rising. 1879-1882: The "Land War," a period of rural agitation for fair rents and free sale of land to liberate Irish peasants from generations of ...
Following the Irish War of Independence, the partition of Ireland and the creation of the autonomous Irish Free State in twenty-six of Ireland's thirty-two counties in 1922; with the exception of the Irish Civil War, most but not all subsequent insurgent activity in Ireland occurred within the six counties of Northern Ireland, which continued ...
26 May – Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, hanged outside the walls of Newgate Prison in London for his part in the Clerkenwell explosion of 1867. He will be the last person publicly executed in the United Kingdom. [1] 13 July – Representation of the People (Ireland) Act extends the franchise in parliamentary boroughs. [2]
The National Archives of Ireland (Irish: Cartlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is the official repository for the state records of Ireland.Established by the National Archives Act 1986, [1] taking over the functions of the State Paper Office (founded 1702) and the Public Record Office of Ireland (founded 1867).
The local IRA units, for the most part, did not accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiated to end the war -ultimately repudiating the authority of the newly created Irish Free State. After the withdrawal of British troops in early 1922, they took over the military barracks in Cork and the surrounding area.