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Bottigheimer, Karl S. Ireland and the Irish: A Short History. Columbia U. Press, 1982. 301 pp. Bourke, Richard, and Ian McBride, eds. The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (Princeton University Press, 2016) Boyce, D. George and Alan O’day. The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy 1996 online edition
Timeline of Irish History 1840–1916 (1916 Rebellion Walking Tour) A Concise History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce; Sources: A National Library of Ireland database for Irish research; The Ireland of Yesterday Archived 5 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by Life magazine; Irish history stories recalled on dvd, free web videos online
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
Full date unknown. William Abraham, Irish Nationalist MP (died 1915). Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (died 1904). Timothy H. O'Sullivan, photographer in the United States (died 1882)
6 June – 1841 census of Ireland: the first thorough census is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.2 million. [1] 1 November – Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries. [2] 3 November – foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid ...
Ongoing – Great Famine: Potato blight returns and outbreaks of cholera are reported. [1]Early – publication of the first complete parallel-text edition of Annals of the Four Masters begins in Dublin as Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616.
12 September – James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland (died 1924). 8 October – Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, Nationalist politician, barrister and journalist (died 1933). 22 December – Thomas O'Shaughnessy, lawyer and judge (died 1933). Full date unknown
The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849.. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848, also known as the Springtime of Nations.