Timeline
Timeline of Irish History
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2011
General Election sees meltdown of Fianna Fáil and major changes in electoral and political landscape.
2010
Irish government accepts the terms of ECB/IMF bailout.
2008
Global financial crisis; credit crunch; Irish government issues state guarantee to the banks.
2002
Introduction of the Euro; Irish Punt is taken out of circulation.
1998
The Good Friday Agreement.
1992
Maastricht Treaty
1987
Single European Act.
1993
Downing Street Declaration.
1985
Anglo-Irish Agreement.
1973
Ireland joins the EEC.
1968
Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland.
1950s
IRA Border Campaign.
1948
The Republic of Ireland Act. Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth (now The Commonwealth).
1939-45
Second World War (also referred to as The Emergency in Éire - Ireland).
1937
Bunreacht na hÉireann enacted.
1930s
Emergence of Fianna Fáil. Also the period of The Blueshirts.
1922/23
Civil War.
1921
Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiated.
1920
Government of Ireland Act.
1919
Dáil Éireann meets for first time.
1918/22
General Election sees Home Rule party wiped out. Sinn Féin emerge as new leaders of nationalist Ireland. Women vote for the first time in a franchise restricted to mainly married women over age of 30 and all men over the age of 21.
War of Independence begins.
1916
Easter Rising.
1914-18
First World War.
1893
Gaelic League founded.
1884
Gaelic Athletic Association founded.
1879-1882
The Land War. Beginning of Land League agitation.
1870
Beginning of Home Rule movement.
1867
Fenian Rising.
1858
Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians) founded.
1848
Young Irelanders Rebellion.
1845-48
The Great Famine.
1829
Catholic Relief Act. Focus shifts to Repeal of the Act of Union.
1823
Beginning of campaign for Catholic Emancipation led by Daniel O'Connell.
1803
Robert Emmet's rebellion.
1801
Acts of Union come into effect on 1st January.
1798
United Irishmen rebellion.
1782
Beginning of period of Grattan's parliament.
1690
Battle of the Boyne.
1649-1653
Cromwellian Conquest.
1641
Rebellion.
1608-1610
Plantation of Ulster.
1607
Flight of the Earls.
1595-1603
Hugh O'Neill's Rebellion.
1541
Henry VIII is King of Ireland.
1534
Revolt of Silken Thomas.
1478-1513
Earl of Kildare's Supremacy.
1347
Bubonic plague arrives in Dublin killing one-third of population.
1169
Norman Invasion.
1014
Battle of Clontarf.
795
First Viking raids.
432
St. Patrick's mission begins. Christianity introduced.
BC
c. 500 BC
Arrival of the Celts.
c. 3200
Neolithic period. Newgrange is built.
c. 4500 - 4000
Agricultural communities in existence. Céide Fields. Sheep, goats, cattle and cereals believed to have imported from the Iberian peninsula.
c. 8000 BC
End of the last Ice Age. Mesolithic Stone Age begins. Earliest inhabitants arrive.
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