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The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster is formed by non-subscribing Presbyterians. T. & A. Mulholland open the 8000-spindle York Street flax mill in Belfast. [3] Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. At closure in 2016 it will be the world's oldest independent department store. [4]
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 .
From the late 19th century, the majority of people living in Ireland wanted the British government to grant some form of self-rule to Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) sometimes held the balance of power in the House of Commons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a position from which it sought to gain Home Rule, which would have given Ireland autonomy in internal affairs ...
Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...
A New History of Ireland. Vol. 8: A Chronology of Irish History to 1976: A Companion to Irish History, Part 1. Oxford U. Press, 1982. 591 pp; Newman, Peter R. Companion to Irish History, 1603–1921: From the Submission of Tyrone to Partition. Facts on File, 1991. 256 pp; ÓGráda, Cormac. Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780–1939.
Britain suffered over 54,000 casualties; the Ulster Division alone had 5,700 killed or wounded (over 10% of the total losses). [77] The UUC mandates that their goal in September to have the six northeast counties of Ulster be an exclusion zone from Home Rule. [citation needed] 1918 - World War I ends in an armistice on 11 November. [78]
The King of Ulster (Old Irish: Rí Ulad, Modern Irish: Rí Uladh) also known as the King of Ulaid and King of the Ulaid, was any of the kings of the Irish provincial over-kingdom of Ulaid. The title rí in Chóicid , which means "king of the Fifth", was also sometimes used.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston played the dominant role in shaping British foreign-policy as Foreign Secretary (1830–1834, 1835–1841 and 1846–1851) and as prime minister (1855–1858, 1859–1865). [70] He served as Secretary at War in Tory governments for two decades, but switched over to the Whig coalition in 1830. The ...