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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 .
15 July – The Beef Tribunal ended after 226 days. 16 September – A new green coloured £10 note was issued depicting the writer James Joyce. 23 October – Shankill Road bombing – Ten people were killed when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded at a fish shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardised with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union. [36] 1881: Stoney units discovered by George Johnstone Stoney. [37] 1883: Method of producing electromagnetic waves discovered by George Francis FitzGerald. [38] 1885: Cream cracker invented by Joseph Haughton.
The conflict was primarily political and nationalistic, being fuelled by historical events. [32] It also had an ethnic or sectarian dimension [33] but despite use of the terms Protestant and Catholic to refer to the two sides, it was not a religious conflict. [14] [34] A key issue was the status of Northern Ireland.
They killed thirty-three civilians and wounded a further 300. This was the highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles". It has been alleged that members of the British security forces were involved. The UVF did not claim responsibility until 15 July 1993. [51] 28 May The Northern Ireland Executive collapsed. As a ...
Timeline of the Troubles in the Republic of Ireland. The following is a timeline of actions during The Troubles which took place in the Republic of Ireland between 1969 and 1998. It includes Ulster Volunteer Force bombings such as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in May 1974, and other loyalist bombings carried out in the 1970s, '80s and '90s ...
History of Ireland. The Irish state came into being in 1919 as the 32 county Irish Republic. In 1922, having seceded from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, it became the Irish Free State. It comprised 26 counties with 6 counties under the control of Unionists which became Northern Ireland in 1921.
1316 – Battle of Skerries (January) 1316 – Second Battle of Athenry (August) 1317 – Battle of Lough Raska (August) 1318 – Battle of Dysert O'Dea (May) 1318 – Battle of Faughart (October) 1328 – Battle of Thomond. 1329 – Braganstown massacre. 1329 – Battle of Ardnocher. 1330 – Battle of Fiodh-an-Átha.