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Searc's Web Guide to 19th Century Ireland
Chronology
1800 Act of Union passed (with effect from January 1, 1801)
1801 Ireland looses its Parliament and is governed directly by Westminister.
1803 Robert Emmet rising afterwhich Emmet is tried and executed.
1823 Catholic Association founded by Daniel O' Connell.
1828 O'Connell elected a Member of Parliament for Clare.
1829 Catholic Emancipation Act passed.
1837 Accession of Queen Victoria.
1840 Daniel O' Connell founds Repeal Association.
1842 *The Nation* magazine is founded. The Young Ireland Movement is led by Thomas Davis.
1843 O'Connell's 'Monster Meetings' for Repeal of the Union. Clontarf meeting banned.
1845-49 The Great Famine occurs when the potato crops fail four years in a row. Millions starve or are forced to emigrate while food continues to be exported from Ireland by the English administration.
1847-48 Young Ireland Rising.
1856 James Stephens returns to Ireland from France.
1858 Stephens founds Fenian Brotherhood in Ireland (later to become Irish Republican Brotherhood).
1859 Irish Republican Brotherhood founded by John O'Mahony in America.
1861-65 Stephens, John Devoy and others organize the Fenian rising.
1863 Newspaper *Irish People* founded.
1865 Arrest of Editorial Board of *Irish People*.
1866 Stephens first urges then calls off Rising, deposed by American Fenians US Civil war veteran Kelly becomes 'Chief Organizer of Irish Republic' and sails with others to Ireland, from New York.
1867 Abortive raid on Chester Castle. Fenian Rising in Ireland. Rescue of Kelly from police van in Manchester. Execution of the 'Manchester Martyrs' Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien.
1869 Gladstone disestablishes Protestant Churches in Ireland.
1870 Gladstone's first Land Act.
1875 Charles Stewart Parnell elected MP for County Meath.
1875-85 The Land War: Charles Stewart Parnell encourages boycott of rents. Five hundred thousand are evicted from their homes and farms.
1881 Gladstone's second Land Act. Parnell imprisoned in Kilmainham.
1882 Kilmainham 'Treaty'Parnell is released. Phoenix Park murders.
1886 First Home Rule Bill.
1890 December Meeting deposes Parnell from Irish party leadership.
1891 Parnell loses three bye-elections in Ireland. Parnell dies in October.
1893 Second Home Rule Bill. Gaelic League founded.
1899 Arthur Griffith founds United Irishmen newspaper.
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Act of Union to Catholic Emancipation
Robert Emmet (1778-1803)
Anne Devlin (1778-1851)
Robert Holmes (1765-1859)
Peter Finerty (1766-1822)
Walter Cox (1770-1837)
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847)
Eneas MacDonnell (1783-1858)
The Famine 1845-1850
The Irish Famine - 1845-50
Young Irelanders
William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864)
Bicentenary of William Smith O'Brien
Charles Gavin Duffy (1816-1903)
James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849)
John Martin (1812-1875)
John Mitchel (1815-1875)
Michael Joseph Barry (1817-1889)
Thomas Clarke Luby (1821-1901)
Richard D'Alton Williams (1822-1862)
Fenians
Thomas Francis Meager (1823-1867)
Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823-1905)
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868)
Stephen Joseph Meany (1825-1888)
James Stephens (1827-1901)
Timothy Daniel Sullivan (1827-1914)
Charles J.Kickham (1828-1882)
Alexander Martin Sullivan (1830-1884)
John O'Leary (1830-1907)
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1831-1915)
Edward O'Meager Condon (1841-1915)
Anonymous Nineteenth Century (1869)
John Devoy (1842-1928)
John Boyle O'Reily (1844-1890)
John Keegan Casey (1846-1870)
The Land League
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891)
Issac Butt (1813-1879)
Michael Davitt (1846-1906)
Michael Davitt Brief biography of the 19th Century founder of the Land League.
Fighting Irish Corcoran 155th NY Volunteer Infantry
Irish womens' emigration from 19th Century Ireland Annotated bibliography by Helen Fallon of Dublin City University.
Mary Anne Sadlier An exhaustive archive of material on and by the writer Mary Anne Sadlier who emigrated from Ireland to American in the middle of the 19th Century and who wrote extensively on Irish women's experiences in the United States.
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent site, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English).