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For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which started a population decline that continued for almost a century.
17 November – Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of the University of Dublin (d.. 28 December – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (died 1895). Full date unknown. William Abraham, Irish Nationalist MP (died 1915). Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (died 1904).
1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle. 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated. [1]1707 - The original Custom House opens on Custom House Quay, Dublin.; 1708 – The Registry of Deeds is established by an Irish Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for the Publick Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements or ...
The governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement. 1990: 3 December: Mary Robinson becomes the first female President of Ireland. 1995: Ireland enters the Celtic Tiger period, a time of high economic growth which continues until 2007. 1998: April
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]
William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848, Robert Sloan, Four Courts Press 2000; Irish Mitchel, Seamus MacCall, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1938. Ireland Her Own, T. A. Jackson, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd 1976. Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell, T. C. Luby, Cameron & Ferguson. Young Ireland, T. F. O'Sullivan, The Kerryman Ltd. 1945.
The beginning of mass emigration from Ireland can be traced to the mid-18th century, when some 250,000 people left Ireland over a period of 50 years to settle in the New World. Irish economist Cormac Ó Gráda estimates that between 1 million and 1.5 million people emigrated during the 30 years between 1815 (when Napoleon was defeated in ...
Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852). George Boole appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork. [8] William Thompson begins publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland with the first volume on birds.