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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 ...
25 January – Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain (died 1926). 9 February – James Douglas, journalist (died 1940). 10 April – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (died 1935). 19 April – James Cullen, priest and mathematician (died 1933). 13 May – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (died 1938).
Occupation of southern Iraq; Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Sectarian Violence [58] Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq [59] [60] First Libyan Civil War (2011) Many NATO members acting under UN mandate, including: United States United Kingdom France Denmark Italy Canada and
Kingdom of Ireland Irish Confederate Wars: Irish Catholic Confederation: 1689–91 Kingdom of Ireland Williamite War: Jacobites under James II of England: 1798 Kingdom of Ireland Irish Rebellion of 1798: Society of United Irishmen: 1799–1803 Kingdom of Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (County Wicklow) Michael Dwyer's ...
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 ...
Northern Ireland wants to move forward. But 25 years after the Good Friday accord celebrated by Clinton and Biden, many are mired in a painful past. ... With some 3,600 people killed and many more ...
1988 – 3 people are killed and more than 50 people injured in March when a gunman opens fire during the funeral of Provisional IRA members who died in Gibraltar. [123] Three days later, British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes are killed by the IRA after they drove onto a street where an IRA funeral procession was passing. [124]