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The Fenian Rising of 1867 (Irish: Éirí Amach na bhFíníní, 1867, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲiː əˈmˠax n̪ˠə ˈvʲiːnʲiːnʲiː]) was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).
In September 1914, just as the First World War broke out, the UK Parliament finally passed the Government of Ireland Act 1914 to establish self-government for Ireland, condemned by the dissident nationalists' All-for-Ireland League party as a "partition deal". The Act was suspended for the duration of the war, expected to last only a year.
15 May – Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (died 1945). 17 June – John Robert Gregg, creator of Gregg Shorthand (died 1948). 11 August – Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician (died 1927).
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 ...
Portraits of the Manchester Martyrs – Larkin (left), Allen (centre) and O'Brien (right) – on a shamrock. The Manchester Martyrs (Irish: Mairtirígh Mhanchain) [1] [2] were three Irish Republicans – William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien – who were hanged in 1867 following their conviction of murder after an attack on a police van in Manchester, England, in which a ...
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]
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2023 - Elections for the seventh assembly are held on 21 May returning a majority for Sinn Féin for the first time in the history of Northern Ireland. [ 143 ] [ 144 ] 2024 - On 18 January, over 100,000 workers from the National Health Service , Translink NI and teachers' unions stage the Public Sector Strike over pay in many towns and cities ...