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The Irish influence is reflected in the unique place Liverpool occupies in UK and Irish political history, being the only local outside Ireland to elect a member of parliament from the Irish Parliamentary Party to the British parliament in Westminster. T.P. O'Connor represented the constituency of Liverpool Scotland from 1885 to 1929.
Liverpool Free Public Library [27] and sailors' home [4] open. Hebrews' Educational Institution founded. [12] A quarter of the city's population is Irish, a legacy of the Great Irish Famine. 1854 – St George's Hall built. [4] 1855 February: Economic unrest. [17] Liverpool Daily Post begins publication. 1856 – Lewis's shop in business.
By 1750 Liverpool was the pre-eminent slave trading port in Great Britain. Thereafter Liverpool's control of the industry continued to grow. [6] In the period between 1793 and 1807, when the slave trade was abolished, Liverpool accounted for 84.7% of all slave voyages, with London accounting for 12% and Bristol 3.3%. [7]
Very rapid population growth from rural England, and especially from Ireland firing the famine years 1847-1852, led to severe overcrowding and very poor sanitation. The city faced several cholera outbreaks. Housing in Liverpool was dark, poorly ventilated, damp and overcrowded, with no provision for human or horse waste.
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy.These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land.
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 .
The docks are central to Liverpool's history, eventually, they would stretch seven miles along the Mersey and at their widest be 0.5 miles deep. [78] Traffic into the docks went from 4.7 million tons in 1865 to 12.4 million by 1900. [79]
Military history of Liverpool (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "History of Liverpool" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.