| 6000 B.C. |
Fir Bolg (man of the belly) Tuath De Dannan (tribe of Dannan) |
| 2nd C B.C. |
Arrival of the Gaels |
| 5th C A.D. |
Arrival of Christianity no written culture until 6th C A.D. |
| 795-1014 |
Viking invasions |
| 841 |
Vikings found Dublin |
| 1014 |
Battle of Clontarf--Brian Boru defeats Vikings |
| 1169 |
Normans invade Ireland at the invitation of Diarmaid MacMorrough, King
of Leinster, who ran off with O'Rourke's wife Dervogilla. |
| 1366 |
Statute of Kilkenny (designed to halt integration of Normans) |
| 1601 |
Battle of Kinsale |
| 1607 |
Flight of the Earls (end of Gaelic order) |
| 1609 |
Plantation of Ulster |
| 1649-50 |
Siege of Cromwell |
| 1689 |
Siege of Derry |
| 1690 |
Battle of the Boyne (Wm of Orange defeats James II) |
| 18th C |
Penal Code |
| 1782 |
Grattan's Parliament |
| 1795 |
Foundation of the Orange Order |
| 1798 |
United Irishmen Rebellion (Tone) |
| 1801 |
Act of Union (merged parliaments) |
| 1803 |
Emmet's uprising |
| 1829 |
Catholic Emancipation, Daniel O'Connell |
| 1846-50 |
Potato famine |
| 1848 |
Young Irelanders rebellion (Thomas Davis) |
| 1858 |
IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) founded |
| 1867 |
Fenian Uprising |
| 1879-91 |
Land League, Davitt and Parnell (died 1891) |
| 1884 |
GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) founded |
| 1886 |
First Home Rule bill introduced (defeated in Commons) |
| 1891 |
Irish Literary Society founded in London by W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, AE
and others. The next year a Dublin branch was founded. The society published
books, organized lecture tours and circulating libraries to promote Irish
writing |
| 1893 |
Gaelic League founded Second Home Rule bill defeated in House of Lords
|
| 1899 |
Yeats founded the Irish Literary Theatre with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn,
and AE. The Countess Cathleen controversy. |
| 1902 |
Yeats founded Irish National Theatre with Lady Gregory and the Fay brothers
(Irish actors) |
| 1904 |
Yeats founded Abbey Theatre with gift of Miss Horniman; produced Synge's
Riders to the Sea |
| 1908 |
Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Fein |
| 1912 |
Ulster Solemn League and Covenant Third Home Rule introduced; passed by
Commons but delayed for two years by House of Lords, then suspended in 1914
for the duration of World War I. |
| 1916 |
Easter Uprising |
| 1918 |
Sinn Fein victory in general election leads to formation of Dail Eireann |
| 1919 |
Anglo-Irish War begins |
| 1921 |
Treaty partitioning Ireland ends Anglo-Irish War |
| 1922 |
Irish Free State formed (with present political boundaries) |
| 1922-23 |
Irish civil war (won by pro-treaty Free Staters over anti-treaty die hards) |
| 1937 |
Constitution approved (claimed NI, pos. of Catholic Church) |
| 1949 |
Republic of Ireland declared |
| 1968 |
Civil rights marches, beginning of Northern troubles |
| 1970 |
IRA split into Officials and Provisionals |
| 1971 |
Internment introduced in Northern Ireland |
| 1972 |
Bloody Sunday Stormont suspended, direct rule instituted |
| 1973 |
Northern Ireland Assembly established and Sunningdale Agreement sets up
Northern Ireland power-sharing executive |
| 1974 |
UWC strike forces collapse of power-sharing executive |
| 1981 |
IRA hunger strikes |
| 1985 |
Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 1993 |
Downing Street Declaration (Dec) |
| 1994 |
IRA Declares Cease Fire (August 31) |
| 1996 |
IRA Cease Fire rescinded (Feb 9) Elections held for Northern Ireland Forum
(May 30) Talks begin (June 10) |
| 1997 |
IRA cease fire restored (July 19) |
| 1998 |
Belfast Agreement signed on Good Friday (April 10) Omagh bombing (August
15) |