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Twenty-first century

2011
2011 in Ireland
Events during the year 2011 in Ireland.-January:* 1 January** The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect allowing civil partnerships where hetero- and homosexual cohabiting couples have the same rights....

2010
2010 in Ireland
This is a summary of 2010 in Ireland.-January:*4 January—Met Éireann says Ireland is experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963....

 - 2009
2009 in Ireland
2009 in Ireland has seen the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank, the loss of thousands of jobs at the Dell plant in Limerick and the Waterford Crystal plant in Waterford as unemployment breaks state records and extreme weather conditions disrupt schools, air and road traffic but not students who...

 - 2008
2008 in Ireland
-Incumbents:* President – Mary McAleese* Taoiseach – Bertie Ahern , Brian Cowen* Tánaiste – Brian Cowen , Mary Coughlan* First Minister – Ian Paisley , Peter Robinson* Deputy First Minister – Martin McGuinness-January:...

 - 2007
2007 in Ireland
-Incumbents:* President – Mary McAleese* Taoiseach – Bertie Ahern* Tánaiste – Michael McDowell , Brian Cowen* Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – Peter Hain , Shaun Woodward* First Minister – office suspended , Ian Paisley...

 - 2006
2006 in Ireland
- Incumbents :* President – Mary McAleese* Taoiseach – Bertie Ahern* Tánaiste – Mary Harney ; Michael McDowell * Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – Peter Hain* First Minister – office suspended...

 - 2005
2005 in Ireland
-Incumbents:* President – Mary McAleese* Taoiseach – Bertie Ahern* Tánaiste – Mary Harney-January:*1 January – The Health Service Executive is established along with the HSE National Ambulance Service....

 - 2004
2004 in Ireland
-Events:*1 January – Ireland takes over as President of the European Commission.*1 January – Scouting Ireland was founded.*28 February – Five people are killed in a bus crash at Wellington Quay, Dublin....

 - 2003
2003 in Ireland
-Events:*January 21 – The Spire of Dublin on O'Connell Street is officially completed.*February 16 – 100,000 people in Dublin, and 30,000 in Belfast march to express their opposition to the imminent invasion of Iraq....

 - 2002
2002 in Ireland
-Events:*1 January – The Euro is introduced across the European Union. The people of Ireland adapt without any major confusion.*9 January – Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev receives the Freedom of Dublin....

 - 2001
2001 in Ireland
-Events:*1 January – Ireland celebrates the first day of the 21st century.*22 March – Ireland confirms its first case of Foot-and-mouth disease.*7 June – Irish voters reject the Nice Treaty in a referendum....


Twentieth century

2000
2000 in Ireland
-Events:* 3 February – John Gilligan's extradition from the UK to Ireland on drug trafficking and murder charges is completed.* 11 February – The British government suspends devolution in Northern Ireland....

 - 1999
1999 in Ireland
-Events:* 4 January – The Euro makes its debut on European financial markets.* 13 January – Derek Hill becomes the eleventh honorary citizen of Ireland....

 - 1998
1998 in Ireland
-Events:*1 January – The VECs of the towns of Bray, Drogheda, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford are abolished.*14 January – The Planning Tribunal opens in Dublin Castle....

 - 1997
1997 in Ireland
-Events:*January 8 - Russia seeks to widen its ban on the importation of Irish beef due to BSE.*February 27 - The law providing for divorce comes into effect today.*March 6 - Michael Lowry resigns as a member of the Fine Gael Party....

 - 1996
1996 in Ireland
-Events:*January 24 - The international body proposes six principles of democracy and non-violence as conditions for entry to all-party talks in Northern Ireland....

 - 1995
1995 in Ireland
-Events:*January 27 - Taoiseach, John Bruton, and Gerry Adams hold their first formal discussions.*February 2 - President Mary Robinson addresses a joint session of the Houses of the Oireachtas....

 - 1994
1994 in Ireland
-Events:*April 14 - The Central Bank issues a new £5 note.*April 30 - Ireland wins the 39th Eurovision Song Contest with the song Rock 'n' Roll Kids....

 - 1993
1993 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - The Single European Market comes into effect.*January 12 - Albert Reynolds is elected Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann. A Fianna Fáil-Labour Party coalition government comes to power....

 - 1992
1992 in Ireland
-Events:*January 20 - Peter Brooke offers to resign as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following criticism of his singing on The Late Late Show only hours after an IRA bomb explodes....

 - 1991
1991 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - Limerick City celebrates 300 years of the Treaty of Limerick.*January 6 - The Irish Government and the EC Commission meet in Dublin to officially launch the Irish EC Presidency....

1990
1990 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - The Northern Ireland Fair Employment Act becomes law.*April 3 - There is all-party support for the Government bill to abolish the death penalty for capital murder and replace it with lengthy prison sentences....

 - 1989
1989 in Ireland
-Events:*January 2 - Dundalk, County Louth celebrates its 1200 year heritage.*February 12 - Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead by loyalists,*March 21 - Three Irish soldiers on United Nations duty are killed in a landmine explosion in southern Lebanon....

 - 1988
1988 in Ireland
-Events:*11 January - John Hume and Gerry Adams have a surprise meeting in Belfast.*6 March - The British SAS kills three unarmed members of the IRA in Gibraltar....

 - 1987
1987 in Ireland
-Events:*January 20 - Labour ministers resign from the government over a disagreement over budget proposals.*February 19 - A general election returns a Fianna Fáil minority government with Charles Haughey as Taoiseach....

 - 1986
1986 in Ireland
-Events:*2 January - The national offices of the Progressive Democrats are officially opened.*4 January - Phil Lynott, lead singer with Thin Lizzy, dies aged 35.*11 February - Ireland's new soccer team manager, Jack Charlton, arrives in Dublin....

 - 1985
1985 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - Cork City celebrates 800 years as a chartered city.*February 26 - Former minister Desmond O'Malley is expelled from the Fianna Fáil Party.*February 28 - The IRA kills nine Royal Ulster Constabulary officers in a mortar attack at Newry station....

 - 1984
1984 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1** Department of Posts and Telegraphs split into An Post and Telecom Éireann.** Galway City begins celebrations marking its mayoral status granted by King Richard III in 1484....

 - 1983
1983 in Ireland
-Events:*19 January - The government confirm that the Gardaí were involved in the bugging of politicians and journalists' telephones.*8 February - A motion calling for the resignation of Charles Haughey as leader fails after a 12 hour Fianna Fáil meeting....

 - 1982
1982 in Ireland
-Events:*January 21 - Kildare TD, Charlie McCreevy, is expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party for criticising Charles Haughey.*February 1 - Corporal punishment is banned in schools in the Republic....

 - 1981
1981 in Ireland
-Events:*14 February - Forty-eight young people die in a fire at the Stardust Ballroom in Artane, Dublin.*1 March - Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Long Kesh prison in Belfast.*5 March - The petrol strike ends as 800 tanker drivers resume work....

1980
1980 in Ireland
-Events:* January 9 - Charles Haughey addresses the nation by television on the matter of its worsening finances.* March 25 - CIÉs first bus lane comes into operation on Parliament Street in Dublin....

 - 1979
1979 in Ireland
-Events:*January 2 - The lowest temperature recorded in Ireland in the 20th century, -18.8C at Lullymore, Co. Kildare. See 1881 for the lowest on record ....

 - 1978
1978 in Ireland
-Events:*January 18 - The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland.*January 19 - The Fianna Fáil government dismisses the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey...

 - 1977
1977 in Ireland
-Events:*January 29 - Seven Irish Republican Army bombs explode in the West End of London, but there are no fatalities or serious injuries.*February 4 - British police discover an IRA bomb factory in Liverpool....

 - 1976
1976 in Ireland
-Events:*January 5 - Former Taoiseach, John A. Costello, dies in Dublin aged 84.*March 18 - Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave and Mrs Cosgrave are greeted by President Gerald Ford and Mrs Betty Ford at the White House....

 - 1975
1975 in Ireland
-Events:*January 7 - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.*January 30 - Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.*February 18 - Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform....

 - 1974
1974 in Ireland
-Events:*January 2 - The Northern Ireland Executive enjoys its first day in office.*February 15 - A 600 lb bomb explodes in Dungannon.*April 24 - The ESB announces that Carnsore Point on the Wexford coast will be the site of its nuclear power station....

 - 1973
1973 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - Ireland joins the European Economic Community along with Britain and Denmark.*January 6 - Patrick Hillery is appointed Social Affairs Commissioner in the European Economic Community....

 - 1972
1972 in Ireland
-Events:*January 22 - Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, sign the Treaty of Accession to the European Communities....

 - 1971
1971 in Ireland
-Events:* February 15 - Decimalisation: The Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom both switch to decimal currency.*March 20 - Maj. James Chichester-Clark resigns as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. He is succeeded on March 23 by Brian Faulkner....

1970
1970 in Ireland
- January - March :*January 10 - Huge anti-apartheid demonstrations take place as Ireland play South Africa in rugby union.*January 10 - Éamon and Sinéad de Valera celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary....

 - 1969
1969 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - The People's Democracy civil rights march leaves Belfast for Derry.*January 4 - Militant loyalists, including off-duty B-Specials, attack the civil rights marchers in County Londonderry....

 - 1968
1968 in Ireland
-Events:*8 January - Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meet for talks in Dublin.*10 March - Minister for Education Donogh O'Malley collapses and dies while campaigning in County Clare....

 - 1967
1967 in Ireland
-Events:*9 January — Demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association caused major chaos when farm machinery blocked many roads.*4 April — The Fianna Fáil party made a presentation to former Taoiseach Seán Lemass....

 - 1966
1966 in Ireland
-Events:*13 February - The Bishop of Clonfert protests over the content of The Late Late Show, taking exception to a woman telling host Gay Byrne that she didn't wear a nightie on her wedding night....

 - 1965
1965 in Ireland
-Events:*January 14 - Taoiseach Seán Lemass travels to Belfast for an historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.*January 21 - Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits Taoiseach Seán Lemass in Dublin....

 - 1964
1964 in Ireland
-Events:*January 3 – Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon arrive in Ireland for a seven-day visit.*January 28 – Families from Springtown Camp make a silent march through Derry to demand rehousing....

 - 1963
1963 in Ireland
-Events:*January 17 - Thomas Johnson, first parliamentary leader of the Irish Labour Party, dies aged 91.*January 24 - The Minister for Justice, Charles Haughey, announces that the government proposes to abolish the death penalty....

 - 1962
1962 in Ireland
-Events:*March 13 - Irish artists leave Dublin Airport for the Congo to entertain United Nations troops there.*March 17 - President Éamon de Valera and Mrs...

 - 1961
1961 in Ireland
See also:1960 in Ireland,other events of 1961,1962 in Ireland-----Events:*January 6 - Lieutenant-General Seán Mac Eoin flies out of Dublin en route to the Congo. He is taking up his new post as General Commanding Officer of the United Nations....

1960
1960 in Ireland
-Events:*13 January - The Broadcasting Authority Bill proposes to establish an authority to provide the new national television service.*16 January - A 103-year old shipping service between Cork and Glasgow ends....

 - 1959
1959 in Ireland
-Events:*January 7 - Dáil Éireann debates a motion that Éamon de Valera's position as controlling director of the Irish Press could be regarded as incompatible with his duties as Taoiseach....

 - 1958
1958 in Ireland
-Events:*6 February - Dublin's Liam Whelan is among the dead when a plane carrying the Manchester United team crashes in Munich.*18 March - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.*20 March - Work begins...

 - 1957
1957 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an IRA attack on an RUC barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh. The two men become part of republican folklore.*January 24 - Sir Alfred Chester Beatty becomes the first honorary Irish citizen....

 - 1956
1956 in Ireland
-Events:*15 February - Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington introduces a motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish national schools.*2 April - President Seán T...

 - 1955
1955 in Ireland
This article list notable things that happened in Ireland in 1955.-Events:*January 6 - 1,200 people meet in Dublin to form the National Farmers' Association....

 - 1954
1954 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - 1954 is the first Marian year. There are many events and devotions to Our Lady and shrines and statues are erected in public places.*January 11 - The Irish Council of the European Movement is formed in Dublin....

 - 1953
1953 in Ireland
-Events:*January 18 - Sinn Féin decides to contest all 12 constituencies in the next Westminster elections in Northern Ireland.*March 15 - Up to 10,000 civil servants march down O'Connell Street, Dublin demanding a just wage....

 - 1952
1952 in Ireland
-Events:*January 9 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.*January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew...

 - 1951
1951 in Ireland
-Events:*February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.*April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned....

1950
1950 in Ireland
-Events:* 12 March - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales.* 12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.* 1 July -- Sir Gilbert...

 - 1949
1949 in Ireland
-Events:* March 22 — The Irish Government leases a residence in the Phoenix Park to the United States government for a period of 99 years. It will be the residence of the U.S. ambassador.* April 17 — At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth...

 - 1948
1948 in Ireland
-Events:*8 January - The Council of State meets for the first time when President Douglas Hyde test the constitutionality of the Offences Against the State Bill.*15 January - Gas rationing ends in Dublin for the first time since 1942....

 - 1947
1947 in Ireland
-Events:*30 January - The internationally known labour leader Jim Larkin dies in Dublin aged 72.*18 May - The 21st anniversary of the founding of Fianna Fáil is celebrated in the Capitol Theatre, Dublin....

 - 1946
1946 in Ireland
-Events:*3 January - William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, is hanged in Wandsworth Prison for treason.*7 January - The Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, announces that because refugee children who arrived in Ireland during the war do not have a sufficient knowledge of the Irish language they...

 - 1945
1945 in Ireland
-Events:* January 1 - Most public transport in the Republic of Ireland comes under the control of Córas Iompair Éireann.* January 12 - The people of Ireland donate £100,000 to the starving people of Italy....

 - 1944
1944 in Ireland
-Events:*January 26 - W. T. Cosgrave officially resigns as leader of no Fine Gael.*March 10 - The United States alleges that Ireland's neutrality is operating in favour of the Axis Powers....

 - 1943
1943 in Ireland
-Events:*February 1 - The Central Bank of Ireland is established; it is not, however, given all then powers expected of a central bank.*February 23 - 35 children lose their lives to fire in St Joseph's Orphanage, Main Street Cavan. Verdict criticises the Poor Clare nuns.*February 23 - S.S...

 - 1942
1942 in Ireland
-Events:*March 3 - Due to the The Emergency the rationing of gas is introduced.*March 5 - It is announced that Ireland is to have a new Central Bank replacing the old Currency Commission....

 - 1941
1941 in Ireland
-Events:*January 2 - Three Carlow women are killed in a night of bombing in parts of Leinster.*January 13 - The poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Switzerland.*January 24 - Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire....

1940
1940 in Ireland
-Events:*January - The Irish Naval Service acquires the first of its six Motor Torpedo Boats, M1.*January 17 - Enid of neutral Norway sailing from Steinkjer to Dublin, 10 miles north of Shetland, goes to assist SS Polzella which had been torpedoed by . U25 then shells and sinks Enid.*February 7 -...

 - 1939
1939 in Ireland
-Events:*January 11 - The INTO Congress in Galway calls on the government to abolish the ban on married women teachers.*February 12 - The Department of External Affairs announces that it recognises the government of General Francisco Franco....

 - 1938
1938 in Ireland
-Events:* January 17 - The Ford Motor Works in Cork City produces its 25,000th car to be built there.* April 13 - The Department of Local Government & Public Health reports that cases of typhoid and diphtheria have reduced, however, infant deaths have increased....

 - 1937
1937 in Ireland
-Events:*January 22 - The National Council of Women of Ireland is agitating to form a women's police force.*April 8 - All political parties and Church leaders gather at the Mansion House, Dublin to pay tribute to the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herzog, who is leaving to take up the new post of Chief Rabbi of...

 - 1936
1936 in Ireland
-Events:*February 9 - Brian de Valera, third son of Éamon de Valera, dies in a riding accident, aged 21.*March 5 - Five hundred delegates attend the Fine Gael - United Ireland Party Árd-Feis in Dublin. W. T...

 - 1935
1935 in Ireland
-Events:*January 3 - An Anglo-Irish Coal-Cattle Pact is signed between the governments of Britain and the Irish Free State.*January 20 - 40 men from the Connemara Gaeltacht travel to County Meath to inspect the area which is to be settled by residents of the Gaeltacht.*January 27 - Relics and...

 - 1934
1934 in Ireland
-Events:*January 12 - Republican Press Ltd. takes a High Court action against the Garda Síochána over the seizure of the An Phoblacht newspaper.*January 20 - The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast....

 - 1933
1933 in Ireland
-Events:*February 4 - Fianna Fáil, led by Éamon de Valera, win their first overall majority in Dáil Éireann. He is welcomed in his own constituency in County Clare where 77 horsemen and 77 torchbearers who light 77 tar barrels in honour of the 77 seats won by the party.*February 21 -...

 - 1932
1932 in Ireland
-Events:*January 29 - Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General, James McNeill. It brings ten years of Cumann na nGaedheal rule to an end.*March 7 - Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London....

 - 1931
1931 in Ireland
-Events:*12 February - Sixteen members of the Ennis Dalcassian Gaelic Athletic Association club are expelled for attending the Ennis-Nenagh rugby match....

1930
1930 in Ireland
-Events:*15 January – Ireland's new Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Robertson, presents his credentials to the Governor-General at the Vice-Regal Lodge in the Phoenix Park.*28 August – A painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, found in an Irish cottage, is authenticated....

 - 1929
1929 in Ireland
-Events:*January 17 - All cats from abroad, except Great Britain, are to be kept in quarantine for a period of six months to avoid rabies.*February 8 - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.*February 20 -...

 - 1928
1928 in Ireland
-Events:*January 29 - In Belfast, members of the nationalist opposition protest at the Ulster Unionist Party government's plan to abolish Proportional representation.*January 31 - The outgoing Governor-General, T. M. Healy leaves the Vice-Regal Lodge...

 - 1927
1927 in Ireland
-Events:*April 6 - Dan Breen proposes a Bill in the Dáil that Article 17 of the Irish Free State Constitution be removed. President W. T. Cosgrave opposes the removal of the Oath of Allegiance....

 - 1926
1926 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 - Douglas Hyde officially opens the Irish Free State broadcasting service, 2RN, in Dublin.*January 4 - The country's first Aeroplane Club is formed in Dublin....

 - 1925
1925 in Ireland
-Events:*February 11 - In the Dáil a resolution is passed making it illegal for any citizen to secure a divorce with the right to re-marry in the State....

 - 1924
1924 in Ireland
-Events:*January 15 - The last internee at Kilmainham Gaol, Ernie O'Malley, is transferred to St. Bricin's Military Hospital.*April 20 - Sinn Féin commemorates the anniversary of the events of the 1916 Easter Rising....

 - 1923
1923 in Ireland
-Events:*January 13 - Beechpark, the residence of President W. T. Cosgrave in Dublin, is set on fire.*January 10 - An order is signed creating the Revenue Commissioners....

 - 1922
1922 in Ireland
-Events:*January 2 - The first edition of the newspaper Poblacht na hÉireann is published. It is established by republican opponents to the Anglo-Irish Treaty who declare their fealty to the Irish Republic....

 - 1921
1921 in Ireland
-Events:*February 5 - In Brighton, England, the widow of Charles Stewart Parnell, Katherine Parnell, dies aged 76.*March 5 - Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier General Cumming....

1920
1920 in Ireland
-Events:*27 February - The text of the Home Rule Bill to be introduced in the British House of Commons is published. It provides for the establishment of a 128-member parliament in Dublin and a 52-member parliament in Belfast....

 - 1919
1919 in Ireland
-Events:*21 January - Dáil Éireann meets for the very first time in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin. An independent Irish Republic is declared. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary men are killed in Tipperary....

 - 1918
1918 in Ireland
-Events:*January 18 - Count Plunkett, Seán T. O'Kelly and others protest at the forcible feeding of Sinn Féin prisoners in Mountjoy Prison.*March 2 - In Skibbereen, County Cork Ernest Blythe is arrested for non-compliance with a military rule directing him to reside in Ulster.*March 6 - In the...

 - 1917
1917 in Ireland
-Events:*3 February - Count George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, wins Roscommon North on abstentionist Sinn Féin platform.*7 March - David Lloyd-George announces that Britain is ready to confer self-government to the parts of Ireland that wants it. The north-eastern part will not...

 - 1916
1916 in Ireland
-Events:*January 14 - Michael Collins quits his job in London and returns to Ireland.*February 14 - John Redmond is re-elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Dublin.*February 29 - The week long Derry Feis opens in the city....

 - 1915
1915 in Ireland
-Events:*April 4–25,000 National Volunteers assemble at the Phoenix Park. John Redmond takes the salute from under the statue of Charles Stewart Parnell on Sackville Street....

 - 1914
1914 in Ireland
-Events:*17 January - Edward Carson inspects a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteers.*20 February - The Fethard-on-Sea life-boat capsizes on service off the County Wexford coast: nine crew are lost....

 - 1913
1913 in Ireland
-Events:*30 January - At Westminster the House of Lords rejects the Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.*7 July - The Home Rule Bill is once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by Bonar Law to obstruct it....

 - 1912
1912 in Ireland
-Events:*9 April - 250,000 Orangemen converge on Balmoral Showground, declaring that under no circumstances will they accept Home Rule.*11 April - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Herbert Asquith introduces the Home Rule Bill in the British House of Commons....

 - 1911
1911 in Ireland
-Events:*5 January - Protestant church leaders condemn the Ne Temere Papal decree on mixed marriages.*2 April - The national census is taken.*27 May - The first issue of the Irish Worker is published...

1910
1910 in Ireland
-Events:*8 January - Sinéad Flanagan marries Éamon de Valera in Dublin.*21 February - Irish Unionist members of the Westminster Parliament elect Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long....

 - 1909
1909 in Ireland
-Events:*31 October - The Royal University of Ireland is dissolved.*14 December - In the large hall of the National University in Dublin, Ernest Shackleton delivers a lecture entitled 'Nearest the South Pole.'...

 - 1908
1908 in Ireland
-Events:*19 May - Work begins on a monument to Charles Stewart Parnell in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.*31 July - Irish Universities Act receives Royal Assent in the Parliament of the UK. This ultimately leads to the establishment of the National University of Ireland and Queen's University of...

 - 1907
1907 in Ireland
-Events:*2 January - A new system of rail cars running from Amien Street in Dublin to Howth is introduced.*5 January - The first motor show, under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club, opens in the RDS Dublin....

 - 1906
1906 in Ireland
-Events:*January 4 - Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament, William O'Brien, calls on nationalists to extract the maximum concessions for Ireland from every English government ....

 - 1905
1905 in Ireland
-Events:*9 January - The Lillebonne, the largest vessel ever constructed in Dublin, is successfully launched in the North Wall Yard.*6 March - The obligation of the Post Office in regard to letters addressed in Irish is raised in the British House of Commons...

 - 1904
1904 in Ireland
-Events:*26 April - King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra arrive at Kingstown. The royal couple attend the Punchestown Races for the day.*2 May - The King and Queen travel to Waterford where they stay at Lismore Castle, home of the Duke of Devonshire....

 - 1903
1903 in Ireland
-Events:*3 January - The Norwegian ship, Remittant, is towed into quarantine in Queenstown . The entire crew are suffering from beriberi.*3 February - The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett is discussed in Rome....

 - 1902
1902 in Ireland
-Events:*7 January - Waterford Corporation passes a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond.*8 January - The Great National Convention takes place in the Round Room of the Rotunda in Dublin...

 - 1901
1901 in Ireland
-Events:*January 1 — The centenary of the Act of Union is celebrated by British forces in Ireland.*January 3 — Despite some opposition Drogheda Corporation votes to confer the freedom of the town on President Kruger of the Boers....


Nineteenth century

1900
1900 in Ireland
-Events:*January 16 — Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter go on view at Dublin Zoo.*January 17 — The different sections of the Nationalist Party meet in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity....

 - 1899
1899 in Ireland
-Events:*6 September - The foundation stone of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury.*The Second Boer War begins in South Africa...

 - 1898
1898 in Ireland
-Events:*6 July - Guglielmo Marconi conducts a test radio telegraph transmission for Lloyd's between Ballycastle, County Antrim, and Rathlin Island.*12 August - James Connolly launches the first issue of the Workers' Republic newsletter....

 - 1897
1897 in Ireland
-Arts and literature:* Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is published for the first time.* Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.-Football:*International*Irish Cup-Births:*1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer ....

 - 1896
1896 in Ireland
-Events:* James Connolly founds the Irish Republican Socialist Party.* John Dillon assumes the leadership of the anti-Parnellite wing of the Home Rule Party.* An extension is made to Arthur Balfour's Land Act...

 - 1895
1895 in Ireland
- Events :*3 April - Oscar Wilde launches a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry. During the trial he collapses under cross-examination by Edward Carson, and is eventually found guilty and imprisoned for two years on homosexuality charges.*23 December - Grand Opera...

 - 1894
1894 in Ireland
-Events:* The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom William Ewart Gladstone retires from politics. In his career he introduced land reform to Ireland and also attempted to grant Home Rule.* The first meeting of the Irish Trade Union Congress takes place....

 - 1893
1893 in Ireland
-Events:*February - Prime Minister Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons, where it is passed.*26 April - Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple...

 - 1892
1892 in Ireland
-Events:*June - Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention in Belfast at which they solemnly swear that "We will not have Home Rule"..*1 July - Edward Carson sworn in as Solicitor-General for Ireland....

 - 1891
1891 in Ireland
-Events:*June - Charles Stewart Parnell marries Kitty O'Shea in Sussex.*6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell dies. Up to 200,000 people attend the funeral of the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland.'...

1890
1890 in Ireland
-Events:*20 June - The newly covered St George's Market in Belfast is opened to the public.*17 November - Captain Willy O'Shea divorces his wife, Kitty, and wins custody of their children...

 - 1889
1889 in Ireland
-Events:*June — Edward Carson becomes the youngest QC in Ireland .*16 July — Ballymena and Larne Railway taken over by Belfast and Northern Counties Railway....

 - 1888
1888 in Ireland
-Events:*March — The Pan-Celtic Society is founded by William Butler Yeats.*April — Pope Leo XIII issues a decree denouncing the "Plan of Campaign" as the Holy Office issued a rescript to the Bishops of Ireland to boycott the Campaign...

 - 1887
1887 in Ireland
-Events:*29 January - The Dublin newspaper The Union is founded. The Unionist newspaper's goals are stated in its first edition as "A Journal devoted to the maintenance of the Union in the three kingdoms."...

 - 1886
1886 in Ireland
-Events:*January - Ulster Protestant Unionists begin to lobby against the Irish Home Rule Bill, establishing the Ulster Loyal Anti-Repeal Union in Belfast.*March - Prime Minister William Gladstone announces his support for Irish Home Rule....

 - 1885
1885 in Ireland
-Events:*The Munster & Leinster Bank begins operations following the collapse of the Munster Bank - see Allied Irish Banks.*The Railway Tavern in Belfast is renovated and reopened as the Crown Liquor Saloon....

 - 1884
1884 in Ireland
-Events:*October - Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway taken over by Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.*22 October - The first woman receives a degree from an Irish university...

 - 1883
1883 in Ireland
-Events:*April - The narrow gauge Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway opens in County Tyrone.*1 November - Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast admits its first patients.-Soccer:*International*Irish Cup-Births:...

 - 1882
1882 in Ireland
-Football:*International*Irish Cup-January to June:*17 January - Henry George Farmer, musicologist .*2 February - James Joyce, writer and poet .*9 February - James Stephens, novelist and poet ....

 - 1881
1881 in Ireland
-Events:*16 January - The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, -19.1C at Markree, County Sligo.*3 February - Arrest of Michael Davitt.*William Ewart Gladstone's second Land Act secures the three"f"s ....

1880
1880 in Ireland
-Events:*2 February - Charles Stewart Parnell addresses the United States Congress.*March - April - General election.*27 April - Charter founding the Royal University of Ireland.*17 May - Parnell elected chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party....

 - 1879
1879 in Ireland
-Events:*20 April - First of many "monster meetings" of tenant farmers held in Irishtown near Claremorris, County Mayo.*8 June - Charles Stewart Parnell at Westport, County Mayo meeting.*16 August - Land League of Mayo founded at Castlebar....

 - 1878
1878 in Ireland
-Events:* August 24 - The narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts passenger operations in County Antrim, the first on the Irish 3 ft narrow gauge.-January to June:*8 January - Frederic Charles Dreyer, Royal Navy Admiral ....

 - 1877
1877 in Ireland
-Events:* May - Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland .* 1 September - The narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic.* 14 August - National Museum of Ireland...

 - 1876
1876 in Ireland
-Events:*1 April - Great Northern Railway formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.-Births:*21 January**James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD ....

 - 1875
1875 in Ireland
-Events:May - Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway opens, with services between Ballymena and Retreat in County Antrim.-Births:*14 March - Patrick McLane, Democratic member of the U.S...

 - 1874
1874 in Ireland
-Events:*February — General election in which 59 professing Home Rulers were returned.*Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, after the province of Connaught.-January to June:...

 - 1873
1873 in Ireland
-Events:*February - Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain founded at Manchester.*March - Gladstone's University Bill defeated.-Sport:* October - Foundation of County Carlow Football Club, Rugby Union Club-January to June:...

 - 1872
1872 in Ireland
-Events:*Party Processions Acts repealed.*Summer - About 30,000 Nationalists hold a demonstration at Hannahstown in Belfast, campaigning for the release of Fenian prisoners, but leading to another series of riots between Catholics and Protestants in the city....

 - 1871
1871 in Ireland
-Events:*1 January - Church of Ireland disestablished.*J. P. Mahaffy appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at Trinity College, Dublin at the age of 32.*16 June - The Westmeath Act is enacted allowing arrest and detention without trial.-Births:...

1870
1870 in Ireland
-Events:* 19 May — The Home Government Association is established by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union.*The building of Belfast Castle is completed, to a design by Charles Lanyon and his son....

 - 1869
1869 in Ireland
-Events:The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passes the Irish Church Act 1869.-Births:*16 March - Peter Maher, boxer .*27 March - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State ....

 - 1868
1868 in Ireland
-Events:*26 May - Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, publicly executed outside the walls of Newgate Prison, for his part in the Clerkenwell bombing of 1867.-Births:*2 February - Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown, peer ....

 - 1867
1867 in Ireland
-Events:*11 February – Abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle.*5 March – Fenian rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare....

 - 1866
1866 in Ireland
-Events:*22 June - Archbishop Cullen is elevated to the cardinalate as the first Irish Cardinal.*14 October - St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, is dedicated, although the building is incomplete.-Births:...

 - 1865
1865 in Ireland
-Events:*Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.-Births:*6 February — Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer ....

 - 1864
1864 in Ireland
-Events:* 30 January - Opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.* Foundation of the Munster Bank later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank. See Allied Irish Banks.-Births:...

 - 1863
1863 in Ireland
-Events:*The Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.*28 November - First edition of The Irish People.-Births:*1 February - George Carew, 4th Baron Carew ....

 - 1862
1862 in Ireland
-Full date unknown:*The Dublin Fire Brigade was established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.-Births:*10 June - John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy .*11 June - Violet Florence Martin, author .*14 June - John J...

 - 1861
1861 in Ireland
-Arts and literature:*Sheridan Le Fanu becomes the editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine.-Births:*23 January - Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet ....

1860
1860 in Ireland
-Events:*Deasy's Land Act, intended to reform tenants' rights.*Construction began on St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.*11 November: Kildare Street Club, Dublin, destroyed by fire.-Births:*1 January - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter ....

 - 1859
1859 in Ireland
-Events:* Irish general election.* The Irish Times is founded.* Ulster Hall, concert venue in Belfast, is built.-Births:*3 January - Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP .*30 January - Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player ....

 - 1858
1858 in Ireland
-Births:*13 February - James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor .*6 March - Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist .*2 May - Edith Anna Somerville, novelist .*19 May - Mike Cleary, boxer ....

 - 1857
1857 in Ireland
-Events:*April - General election.*12 July - In Belfast, confrontations between crowds of Catholics and Protestants turn into 10 days of rioting, with many of the police force joining the Protestant side...

 - 1856
1856 in Ireland
-Events:* M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan.-Births:...

 - 1855
1855 in Ireland
-Events:*5 April - Opening of Boyne Viaduct at Drogheda by the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway completes permanent through rail communication between the two principal cities of Ireland....

 - 1854
1854 in Ireland
-Events:*18 May - Catholic University of Ireland formally established in Dublin with John Henry Newman as first rector; lectures commemce on 3 November.*Quarrel between Tenant League and Archbishop Cullen; League appeals to Rome....

 - 1853
1853 in Ireland
-Births:*30 January - Leland Hone, cricketer .*6 February - Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast .*7 February - Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter .*30 March - Frank O'Meara, artist ....

 - 1852
1852 in Ireland
-Events:*January 5 The troopship Birkenhead boarded British Army recruits at Queenstown. It had insufficient lifeboats.*February 26 The Birkenhead foundered...

 - 1851
1851 in Ireland
-Events:*Construction of MacNeill's Egyptian Arch, a railway bridge near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed.*Potato crop fails.-Births:*8 January - William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, peer .*14 March - Paddy Ryan, boxer -Events:*Construction of MacNeill's Egyptian Arch, a...

1850
1850 in Ireland
-Events:* March 31 - The paddle steamer , bound from Cork to London, sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board.* Crumlin Road Courthouse in Belfast is completed.-Births:...

 - 1849
1849 in Ireland
-Events:* 12 July — Battle of Dolly's Brae: Up to 1400 armed Orangemen march from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1000 armed Ribbonmen gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed....

 - 1848
1848 in Ireland
-Events:* Thomas Francis Meagher flies the Irish Tricolour in Waterford, the first recorded usage of the flag which is now the national flag of the Republic of Ireland.*12 May - Kilkenny railway station opened....

 - 1847
1847 in Ireland
-Events:*13 January - Irish Confederation established.*February - Soup kitchens system established; famine at its height.*March - 400 people die in the Doolough Tragedy*15 May - Death of Daniel O'Connell.*June - Poor Law Amendment Act....

 - 1846
1846 in Ireland
-Events:*Potato blight affects the country putting farmers in distress.*13 March - Ballinglass Incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass during the Irish Potato famine....

 - 1845
1845 in Ireland
-Events:*Devon Commission reports to the British government on the poor living conditions of the Irish population: "in many districts their only food is the potato"....

 - 1844
1844 in Ireland
-Events:*29 March - Official opening of the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway.*15 December - Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is dedicated by Dr William Crolly, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland....

 - 1843
1843 in Ireland
-Events:*January - Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".*31 January - Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.*21 February - Repeal debate in Dublin Corporation....

 - 1842
1842 in Ireland
-Events:*15 October - The Nation newspaper is founded in Dublin.*The Ulster Canal is completed.-Births:*6 February - Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile .*10 February - Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer ....

 - 1841
1841 in Ireland
-Events:*3 November - Foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid .*First thorough census is completed and population is calculated to be just under 8.25 million....

1840
1840 in Ireland
-Events:*The Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is completed, constructed by Richard Turner of Dublin. It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse in the world.-Births:...

 - 1839
1839 in Ireland
-Events:*The Ulster Railway began construction of a railway line between Belfast and Lisburn.*Marquess of Donegall lays the foundation stone for the Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens....

 - 1838
1838 in Ireland
-Events:*Foundation of a temperance society in Cork known as the Knights of Father Mathew by Theobald Mathew, a capuchin friar.*Tithe Act.*Poor Law Act....

 - 1837
1837 in Ireland
-Events:* Shaw's Bank merges with the Royal Bank of Ireland .* August - Following a very cold summer there is widespread failure of the potato crop, as in 1836, leading to famine later in the year.-Births:...

 - 1836
1836 in Ireland
-Events:*February, foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast*Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland see Allied Irish Banks.*August following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.-Births:...

 - 1835
1835 in Ireland
-Events:* August 28 - Castleknock College is founded by the Vincentian order in Dublin.*Drenagh House in Limavady, County Londonderry is completed for the McCausland family...

 - 1834
1834 in Ireland
-Events:* 17 December - The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin, and Kingstown.-Births:*15 July - John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council ....

 - 1833
1833 in Ireland
-Events:* The school which would eventually be called Castleknock College was opened in Dublin by the Vincentian community.-Births:*21 January - Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea ....

 - 1832
1832 in Ireland
-Births:*6 May - Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace .*10 May - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York ....

 - 1831
1831 in Ireland
- Events :* January - Agrarian unrest breaks out in counties Clare and Limerick.* The first statistics for religion in Ireland are gathered in this year's Census.* Sisters of Mercy established in Dublin.* 1 September - Zoological Gardens Dublin opens....

1830
1830 in Ireland
-Events:*10 May - Dublin Zoo opens. The first exhibit is a wild boar.*February - First Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among then Daniel O'Connell and Richard More O'Ferrall ....

 - 1829
1829 in Ireland
-Events:*13 April - Catholic Emancipation Act becomes law, thanks to Daniel O'Connell and the Catholic Association..*12 July - Orange Institution parades in Belfast are banned, leading to demonstrations and serious rioting in Belfast...

 - 1828
1828 in Ireland
-Events:*In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association.*Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.-Births:...

 - 1827
1827 in Ireland
-Births:*5 February - Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia .*5 May - Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island ....

 - 1826
1826 in Ireland
-Events:*In the General Election four counties elected supporters of Catholic Emancipation.*The Landlord and Tenant Act 1826 is passed.*First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow.-Births:*March - James P...

 - 1825
1825 in Ireland
-Events:*The Unlawful Societies Act proscribed both the Catholic Association and the Orange Order.*Foundation of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, see Allied Irish Banks-Births:*13 April - D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician in Canada, assassinated ....

 - 1824
1824 in Ireland
-Births:*23 April - William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India .*28 May - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association ....

 - 1823
1823 in Ireland
-Events:*Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic Emancipation.*Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast.-Births:*1 January - Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia ....

 - 1822
1822 in Ireland
-Events:* 21 September HMS Confiance was wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head. All 100 aboard were lost-Births:*16 February - James Thomson, engineer and physicist ....

 - 1821
1821 in Ireland
-Events:*28 December - Sandycove Lifeboat disaster - four lifeboatmen drowned attempting to rescue Ellen of Liverpool-Births:*20 January - Dennis Mahony, one of the founders of the Dubuque Herald , a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa .*20 February - Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial...

1820
1820 in Ireland
-Births:*31 May - Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 .*3 June - Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and President of Queen's College Galway ....

 - 1819
1819 in Ireland
-Births:*January - William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand .*31 March - Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 ....

 - 1818
1818 in Ireland
-Births:*28 January - Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician .*4 April - Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist .*April - Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet .*24 May - John Henry Foley, sculptor ....

 - 1817
1817 in Ireland
-Births:*6 January - J. J. McCarthy, architect .*26 May - Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator, biographer .*19 September - Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec ....

 - 1816
1816 in Ireland
-Events:* The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people * Belfast Savings Bank founded .*Templemore Market House is built, County Tipperary* The Ha'penny Bridge is built over Dublin's River Liffey...

 - 1815
1815 in Ireland
-Events:* March 28 - Laying of the foundation stone of the Metropolitan Chapel , Marlborough Street, Dublin.* March - Poet William Drennan work " Fugitive pieces in verse and prose is published in Belfast....

 - 1814
1814 in Ireland
-Events:*Apprentice Boys of Derry organisation is formed, although the Siege of Derry had been celebrated from the 17th century.-Births:*10 January - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic .*9 May - John Brougham, actor and dramatist ....

 - 1813
1813 in Ireland
-Events:*26 July - Battle of Garvagh, . Four hundred Catholic Ribbonmen attempt to destroy a tavern in Garvagh where the Orange Lodge meet and are repelled by Protestants with muskets....

 - 1812
1812 in Ireland
-Events:*1 October - James Sadler, an English balloonist, started a balloon flight from Belvedere House near Mullingar in an attempt to cross the Irish Sea...

 - 1811
1811 in Ireland
-Births:*21 January - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland .*10 March - Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer .*11 November - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa ....

1810
1810 in Ireland
-Births:*3 January - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer .*10 March - Samuel Ferguson, poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant .*3 June - Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor ....

 - 1809
1809 in Ireland
-Births:*1 May - Samuel Blackall, soldier, politician and second Governor of Queensland, Australia .*James Duffy, author and publisher .-Deaths:*8 October - Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician ....

 - 1808
1808 in Ireland
-Events:* 2 February - Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founds the Patrician Brothers.* 15 August - Seven men, including Edmund Rice, take religious promises under Bishop John Power of Waterford as the Presentation Brothers....

 - 1807
1807 in Ireland
-Births:*7 March - John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto .*10 March - James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer .*27 September - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St...

 - 1806
1806 in Ireland
-Births:*21 January - William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago .*25 July - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer .*1 August - Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician ....

 - 1805
1805 in Ireland
-Births:*2 January - John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri .*4 August - William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer .-Full date unknown:...

 - 1804
1804 in Ireland
-Births:*7 April - James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller .*25 December - Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer .*26 December - Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland ....

 - 1803
1803 in Ireland
-Births:*2 March - Mary Frances Clarke, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary .*29 April - Paul Cullen, Cardinal and Catholic Primate of Ireland .*1 May - James Clarence Mangan, poet ....

 - 1802
1802 in Ireland
-Events:*First Christian Brothers' school founded by Edmund Rice in Waterford.*Linen Hall Library moves into permanent premises in the White Linen Hall in Belfast.-Births:...

 - 1801
1801 in Ireland
-Events:* January 1 - Legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....


Eighteenth century

1800
1800 in Ireland
-Births:*6 January - Anna Maria Hall, novelist .*16 January - Robert Bell, journalist and writer .*17 March - James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary ....

 - 1799
1799 in Ireland
-Births:*1799 Joseph M. Hawkins, Alamo Defender .*28 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder .*9 August - Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer .*12 August - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor .-Deaths:...

 - 1798
1798 in Ireland
-Events:* March - Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the 1798 Rebellion. * 19 May - Rebel leader Lord Edward FitzGerald is arrested in Dublin....

 - 1797
1797 in Ireland
-Events:*General Lake's disarming of Ulster.*Henry Grattan retires from parliament.-Births:*2 June - Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist .*John Doyle, artist ....

 - 1796
1796 in Ireland
-Events:*1 February - Theobald Wolfe Tone arrives in France.*12 July - First Orange parade held to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne.*Yeomanry Corp formed; Insurrection Act.*15 December - French expedition sailed from Brest....

 - 1795
1795 in Ireland
-Events:*5 June - The Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.*21 September...

 - 1794
1794 in Ireland
-Events:*4 May - Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.*Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.-Births:*9 January - Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools ....

 - 1793
1793 in Ireland
-Events:* Roman Catholic Relief Act relieves Catholics of certain political, educational and economic disabilities.-Births:*3 April - Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer .*12 August - James Muspratt, chemical manufacturer in Britain ....

 - 1792
1792 in Ireland
-Events:*Belfast Reading Society, becomes the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, later to become the Linen Hall Library.-Births:*30 January - John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America...

 - 1791
1791 in Ireland
-Births:*6 March - John McHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer .*17 August - Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator .*14 December - Charles Wolfe, poet .-Full date unknown:...

1790
1790 in Ireland
-Events:*Armagh Observatory founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh.-Births:*June - Arthur Jacob, Ophthalmologist .*Theobald Mathew, aka Father Mathew, temperance reformer .-Deaths:...

 - 1789
1789 in Ireland
-Births:*26 March – Edward Ffrench Bromhead, mathematician .*24 September – Richard Henry Wilde, lawyer and Congressman in USA .*3 October – Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong ....

 - 1788
1788 in Ireland
-Events:*Belfast Reading Society is established in Belfast, later to become the Linen Hall Library.-Births:*12 September - Alexander Campbell, religious leader in Britain and the United States ....

 - 1787
1787 in Ireland
-Births:*19 January - Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity .*9 March - Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, politician .-Full date unknown:*Edward Eagar, lawyer and criminal transported to Australia, politician ....

 - 1786
1786 in Ireland
-Events:* The last reliably recorded wolf in Ireland is hunted down and killed near Mount Leinster, County Carlow, for killing sheep.-Births:*1 April - William Mulready, painter ....

 - 1785
1785 in Ireland
-Events:* Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon from Ranelagh Gardens to Clontarf.-Births:*24 June – Alexander Porter, United States Senator for Louisiana ....

 - 1784
1784 in Ireland
-Events:*The Old Bushmills Distillery became an officially registered company*The post of Postmasters General of Ireland established-Births:*12 May - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor ....

 - 1783
1783 in Ireland
-Events:* 17 April - The Renunciation Act, is passed by Westminster. It acknowledges the exclusive right of the Parliament of Ireland to legislate for Ireland.* Full date unknown - First Waterford Crystal glassmaking business established.-Births:...

 - 1782
1782 in Ireland
-Events:* 'Constitution of 1782', the collective legal changes which restore legislative independence to the Parliament of Ireland, giving rise to "Grattan's Parliament"....

 - 1781
1781 in Ireland
-Births:*6 February - John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British Army Lieutenant-General .-Deaths:*26 September - Andrew Lewis, pioneer and surveyor, soldier from Virginia ....

1780
1780 in Ireland
-Births:*January - William Henry Fitton, geologist .*13 April - Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse .*17 August - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine ....

 - 1779
1779 in Ireland
-Births:*28 May - Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer .*17 August - William Corbet, member of the United Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief to French forces in Greece ....

 - 1778
1778 in Ireland
-Events:*Papists Act provides a measure of Catholic Relief.*Public Library founded in Armagh by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby.*Charles Vallancey surveys West Cork.-Births:...

 - 1777
1777 in Ireland
-Births:*4 May - Richard Bourke, soldier and Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1831 to 1837 .*22 June - William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy .-Deaths:*3 February - Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet ....

 - 1776
1776 in Ireland
-Births:*3 July - Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. .*1 August - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America ....

 - 1775
1775 in Ireland
-Events:*Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.*Henry Grattan enters the Irish Parliament and becomes leader of the "patriot party".-Births:*3 March - Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician ....

 - 1774
1774 in Ireland
-Births:*7 May - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale .*11 July - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman ....

 - 1773
1773 in Ireland
-Births:*23 July - Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland .*19 August - Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician ....

 - 1772
1772 in Ireland
-Births:*1 May - Lowry Cole, soldier, politician and MP for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, Governor of Mauritius and Cape Colony .*16 July - William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley, politician ....

 - 1771
1771 in Ireland
-Events:* William James of Bailieborough emigrated to the U.S., made a great fortune in Albany, New York and was the father of Henry James Sr.-Births:*Edward Kernan, Bishop of Clogher, 1824-1844 ....

1770
1770 in Ireland
Events from the year 1770 in Ireland.-Births:*30 November - Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer .-Full date unknown:*William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners ....

 - 1769
1769 in Ireland
-Births:*1 May - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman .*May - Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher ....

 - 1768
1768 in Ireland
-Births:*7 May - Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe .*9 May - Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and Whig MP .-Full date unknown:*Edward Donovan, writer, traveller and amateur zoologist...

 - 1767
1767 in Ireland
-Births:*1 January - Maria Edgeworth, novelist .*14 March - Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council .*19 May - Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP ....

 - 1766
1766 in Ireland
The year 1766 in Ireland is characterised by certain events, arts and literature occurrences, births and deaths. For a fuller date context the year should be termed 1766 AD in Ireland.-Arts and literature:...

 - 1765
1765 in Ireland
-Deaths:*29 December - John Alexander, minister and writer .*31 December - Samuel Madden, clergyman and writer ....

 - 1764
1764 in Ireland
-Births:*15 February - Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa .*24 April - Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician, member of United Irishmen ....

 - 1763
1763 in Ireland
-Births:*20 June - Theobald Wolfe Tone, leading figure in the United Irishmen, died from self-inflicted wound after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 ....

 - 1762
1762 in Ireland
-Births:*1 June - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist, founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers .-Full date unknown:*Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer ....

 - 1761
1761 in Ireland
-Births:*20 July - Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician .*17 September - Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star .-Full date unknown:...

1760
1760 in Ireland
-Events:*21–26 February - Battle of Carrickfergus: A force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated in a naval action in the Irish Sea on 28 February.*25 October - George III...

 - 1759
1759 in Ireland
-Events:*Restrictions on import of Irish cattle into England are removed.*Henry Flood enters the Irish parliament as member for Kilkenny.*Arthur Guinness opens his brewery in St...

 - 1758
1758 in Ireland
-Births:*26 March - Samuel Greg, entrepreneur and pioneer of the factory system at Quarry Bank Mill .*Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye ....

 - 1757 - 1756
1756 in Ireland
-Births:*30 June - Charles FitzGerald, 1st Baron Lecale, politician .*July - John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, politician ....

 - 1755
1755 in Ireland
-Events:*The Spanish Arch in Galway partially destroyed by a tsunami generated by the Lisbon earthquake-Births:*8 July - James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician ....

 - 1754
1754 in Ireland
-Births:*15 January - Richard Martin, "Humanity Dick", politician and animal rights activist .-Full date unknown:*William Drennan, physician, poet, educationalist and one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen ....

 - 1753
1753 in Ireland
-Births:*16 November - James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War .*22 November - Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia .-Full date unknown:*Gilbert...

 - 1752
1752 in Ireland
-Births:*30 July - Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer .*Leonard Macnally, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen ....

 - 1751
1751 in Ireland
-Births:*September - William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, peer and MP .*19 October - Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine, soldier in France .*30 October - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman .-Full date unknown:...

1750
1750 in Ireland
-Births:*7 February - Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada .*24 July - John Philpot Curran, orator and wit, lawyer and MP .-Full date unknown:*John Connolly, second bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York ....

 - 1749
1749 in Ireland
-Births:*Robert Barber, quartermaster on HMS Adventure during Captain Cook's Second Voyage .*Thomas Burke, artist ....

 - 1748
1748 in Ireland
-Events:* Leinster House in Dublin completed as a residence for James, Earl of Kildare by Richard Cassels.-Births:*Alexander Macomb, Sr., merchant and land speculator with Macomb's Purchase in New York .*John Ramage, artist .-Deaths:...

 - 1747
1747 in Ireland
-Births:*8 April - William Hales, clergyman and scientific writer .*Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway .-Deaths:*27 May - Bernard MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh ....

 - 1746
1746 in Ireland
-Births:*3 July - Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament .*Thomas Hussey, diplomat, chaplain, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore .-Deaths:...

 - 1745
1745 in Ireland
-Births:*14 April - Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician .*24 December - William Paterson, jurist in the United States .-Deaths:*19 October - Jonathan Swift, cleric, satirist, essayist and poet ....

 - 1744
1744 in Ireland
-Births:*11 July - Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S...

 - 1743
1743 in Ireland
-Births:*16 April - William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies, Anglo-Irish clergyman -Births:*16 April - William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies, Anglo-Irish clergyman -Births:*16 April - William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies, Anglo-Irish clergyman (d.1819.*16 June - Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge, and United...

 - 1742
1742 in Ireland
-Events:* c. March - Newry Canal opened.* 13 April - First performance of Handel's Messiah staged in Dublin....

 - 1741
1741 in Ireland
-Births:*23 June - William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman .*4 October - Edmond Malone, Shakespeare scholar and literary critic .*11 October - James Barry, painter .-Deaths:...

1740
1740 in Ireland
-Births:*7 April - Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff .*22 October - Philip Francis, politician and pamphleteer .-Full date unknown:*Richard Barrett, poet and United Irishman ....

 - 1739
1739 in Ireland
-Births:*27 September - Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician .*31 October - James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America .-Full date unknown:...

 - 1738
1738 in Ireland
-Births:*2 December - Richard Montgomery, soldier, major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War .-Deaths:*Turlough O'Carolan, blind, itinerant harpist, sometimes styled "The Last of the Bards" ....

 - 1737
1737 in Ireland
-Events:* The News Letter is first published in Belfast, making it the world's oldest existing English language newspaper.-Births:*2 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782-1783 .*14 May - George Macartney, 1st Earl...

 - 1736
1736 in Ireland
-Births:*October - Boyle Roche, politician .*John Alexander, minister and writer .-Deaths:*10 March - William Cosby, British royal governor of New York ....

 - 1735 - 1734
1734 in Ireland
-Births:*25 July - Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, politician .*Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam .-Deaths:*28 September - James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn .*Richard Cantillon, economic theorist ....

 - 1733
1733 in Ireland
-Births:*11 June - Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada .*1 August - Richard Kirwan, scientist .-Deaths:*Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, poet.*Edward Lovett Pearce, architect ....

 - 1732
1732 in Ireland
-Births:*15 May - John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere, soldier and politician .*25 November - Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim, politician .-Deaths:*2 December - Constantia Grierson, editor, poet and classical scholar ....

 - 1731
1731 in Ireland
-Events:* 25 June - The Royal Dublin Society , or Cumann Ríoga Bhaile Atha Cliath in Irish, was founded to "to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland"...

1730
1730 in Ireland
-Births:*10 November - Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician...

 - 1729
1729 in Ireland
-Births:*12 January - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher .-Deaths:*May - William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author ....

 - 1728
1728 in Ireland
-Births:*18 August - James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 ....

 - 1727
1727 in Ireland
-Events:* 11 June - George II becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of George I....

 - 1726
1726 in Ireland
-Births:*April - Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician .*20 May - John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician .-Full date unknown:*Isaac Barré, soldier and politician ....

 - 1725
1725 in Ireland
-Births:*24 September - Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family ....

 - 1724
1724 in Ireland
-Births:*20 October - Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, peer .*Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright ....

 - 1723 - 1722
1722 in Ireland
-Births:*29 May - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, politician .*Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, politician .-Deaths:*11 March - John Toland, philosopher ....

 - 1721
1720
1720 in Ireland
-Events:*The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act 1719 [that is, 1719 Old Style, meaning 1720 in New Style dating]....

 - 1719 - 1718
1718 in Ireland
-Births:*2 March - John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly, politician and peer .*Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters .-Deaths:*24 October - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet ....

 - 1717
1717 in Ireland
-Births:*Lewis Nicola, officer in the American army during the American Revolutionary War ....

 - 1716 - 1715
1715 in Ireland
-Births:*Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York .*Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata, and successful landowner.-Deaths:...

 - 1714
1714 in Ireland
-Events:* 1 August - George I becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of Anne.* Charles Spencer was appointed English Lord Lieutenant of Ireland...

 - 1713
1713 in Ireland
-Deaths:*2 January - Lady Mary Butler, younger daughter of 2nd Duke of Ormonde and Jonathan Swift’s "greatest favourite" ....

 - 1712
1712 in Ireland
-Births:*22 October - James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn, politician .*Bartholomew Mosse, surgeon, impresario, founded the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin ....

 - 1711
1711 in Ireland
-Events:An anti-Catholic Penal law, the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 passed by the British Government....

1710
1710 in Ireland
- Ireland's Oldest Brewery Founded :Smithwick's is an Irish red ale style beer from Kilkenny in Ireland. Smithwick’s was originally brewed in St. Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny, known as 'Smithwicks Brewery' until c.2000. The brewery is situated on the site of a Franciscan abbey where monks had...

 - 1709
1709 in Ireland
-Births:*13 October - John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence, politician .*Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and founder of the Armagh Observatory .-Deaths:...

 - 1708
1708 in Ireland
-Events:*The original wooden Belfast Castle, the home of Sir Arthur Chichester, baron of Belfast, is burned down.*An act of parliament was passed, dividing the parish of St. Nicholas Without in Dublin, and giving part of it the denomination of St...

 - 1707 - 1706
1706 in Ireland
-Arts and literature:* April 8 - George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London. -Births:* John FitzGerald, politician and hereditary Knight of Kerry...

 - 1705
1705 in Ireland
-Events:* November 5 - The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.* Royal Mines Act enacted.-Births:*Constantia Grierson, editor, poet and classical scholar ....

 - 1704 - 1703
1703 in Ireland
-Events:* Popery Act , enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, reintroduces gavelkind: when a Roman Catholic dies, his estate is to be divided equally among his sons if they retain their Catholic faith.-Births:*Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician .*Henry Brooke, novelist and dramatist ....

 - 1702
1702 in Ireland
-Events:* 8 March - Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of William III.-Births:* January - Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, baron de Tollendal , French general, was born at Romans, Dauphin, being the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway,...

 - 1701
1701 in Ireland
-Events:* Act of Settlement 1701 passed by the Parliament of England to ensure that no Catholics would inherit the English throne.-Births:*11 March - Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown .*1 March - Mark Kenton Sr. -Events:* Act of Settlement 1701 passed by the Parliament of England to ensure that...


Seventeenth century

1700
1700 in Ireland
-Events:* December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-Full date unknown:*James Arbuckle, poet and critic .*Daniel O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher ....

 - 1699 - 1698
1698 in Ireland
-Births:*15 June - George Browne, soldier of fortune, became field-marshal in the Russian army .*Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh .-Deaths:...

 - 1697
1697 in Ireland
-Events:* Celbridge Abbey built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, who at the time was the Lord Mayor of Dublin.-Deaths:*20 December - Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician....

 - 1696 - 1695
1695 in Ireland
-Events:*The Education Act 1695 was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting Catholics from sending their children to be educated abroad....

 - 1694
1694 in Ireland
-Arts and literature:*Jonathan Swift appointed to the prebend of Kilroot, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim .-Births:*8 August - Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher .*5 November - Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet ....

 - 1693
1693 in Ireland
-Deaths:*21 August - Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Jacobite and soldier .*John Barrett, soldier, killed in the French service at the Battle of Landen....

 - 1692
1692 in Ireland
-Events:* Treaty of Limerick ratified 24 February.* The first meeting of the Irish Parliament under William III was held on 5 October....

 - 1691
1691 in Ireland
-Events:*12 July - Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim*August–October - Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Limerick*3 October - Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War...

1690
1690 in Ireland
-Events:*14 June - William lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and marches south to take Dublin.*29 June - Williamites reach the Boyne.*12 July - Battle of the Boyne, Jacobite supporters are defeated by William III....

 - 1689
1689 in Ireland
-Events:*13 February - William III and Mary II become King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the deposition of James II.*8 March - Richard Hamilton, the Jacobite commander, was dispatched from Drogheda with 2,000 men, in order to pacify the north east of Ireland.*14 March - Break...

 - 1688
1688 in Ireland
-Events:*7 December - Start of the Siege of Derry. The city gates are locked against the forces of King James II by apprentice boys.-Deaths:*15 March - Peter Valesius Walsh, politician ....

 - 1687 - 1686
1686 in Ireland
-Births:*22 March - James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn .*23 December - Samuel Madden, clergyman and writer .-Deaths:*6 April - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, royal statesman ....

 - 1685
1685 in Ireland
-Events:* 6 February - James II becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of Charles II.-Births:*12 March - George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley, philosopher and writer ....

 - 1684 - 1683 - 1682 - 1681
1681 in Ireland
-Events:*June - Oliver Plunkett found guilty of high treason.*1 July - Oliver Plunkett, hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.-Deaths:*1 July - Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, last Catholic martyr to die in England, canonised ....

1680
1680 in Ireland
-Full date unknown:*Richard Cantillon, economic theorist .*Bernard MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh .-Deaths:*30 July - Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, soldier and politician ....

 - 1679
1679 in Ireland
-Births:*11 September - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet .*Anthony Duane, businessman in America .-Deaths:*Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet of Donalong, soldier....

 - 1678
1678 in Ireland
-Births:*26 September - Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander in Russia .*George Farquhar, dramatist .-Deaths:*23 August - Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, political activist and pamphleteer ....

 - 1677 - 1676 - 1675
1675 in Ireland
-Deaths:*1 August - Bishop Patrick Duffy, Bishop of Clogher from 1673 to 1675....

 - 1674
1674 in Ireland
-Deaths:*9 September - Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, a chieftain of the O'Briens and Protestant native Irish peer ....

 - 1673
1673 in Ireland
-Events:* Parliament of England votes an annual Regium Donum to augment the stipends of Presbyterian clergy in Ireland.-Deaths:* 6 June - James Hamilton, British army officer...

 - 1672
1672 in Ireland
-Births:*William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier .*Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine ....

 - 1671
1671 in Ireland
-Births:*Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party ....

1670
1670 in Ireland
-Births:*30 November - John Toland, philosopher .*Turlough O'Carolan, blind, itinerant, harpist, sometimes styled "The Last of the Bards" ....

 - 1669 - 1668
1668 in Ireland
-Full date unknown:*Patrick D'Arcy, nationalist who wrote the constitution of Confederate Ireland ....

 - 1667
1667 in Ireland
-Births:* 30 November - Jonathan Swift, cleric, satirist, essayist and poet -Deaths:*23 June - Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore ....

 - 1666
1666 in Ireland
-Events:Lord Maurice Roche of Castletownroche, Erie Co.Cork lost his entire estate in 1666 to Lieutenant Colonel John Widenham who received the Castle as a reward for his loyalty to the Crown. The Castle of the Roches was thus renamed "Castle Widenham".-Deaths:...

 - 1665
1665 in Ireland
-Births:*29 April - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, soldier and statesman .-Deaths:*June 3 - Charles MacCarthy, Irish soldier *August - Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry, general in the Irish Confederate Wars...

 - 1664 - 1663 - 1662
1662 in Ireland
-Events:*Act of Settlement 1662*Ormonde became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ....

 - 1661
1661 in Ireland
-Events:*The Earldom of Drogheda was created in the Peerage of Ireland*April 23 - King Charles II of Ireland, England and Scotland crowned in Westminster Abbey. This is his second crowning....

1660
1660 in Ireland
-Full date unknown:*Hugh MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh .*Thomas Southerne, dramatist ....

 - 1659
1659 in Ireland
-Events:* 3 September - Richard Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of Oliver Cromwell.-Births:*September - Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, Jacobite and soldier, fought at the Battle of the Boyne ....

 - 1658
1658 in Ireland
-Births:*Francis Makemie, clergyman, considered to be the founder of Presbyterianism in United States of America ....

 - 1657
1657 in Ireland
-Events:* 8 June - The Parliament of England passes the Act of Settlement 1657.* 17 November - Henry Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-Deaths:...

 - 1656
1656 in Ireland
-Births:*17 April - William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society .-Deaths:*21 March - James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published the Ussher chronology purporting to time and date creation ....

 - 1655
1655 in Ireland
-Deaths:*16 February - Rory O'Moore, principal organizer of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 .*16 June - James Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, peer ....

 - 1654
1654 in Ireland
-Deaths:*12 May - William Tirry, martyred Roman Catholic priest, executed ....

 - 1653
1653 in Ireland
-Events:*April 27 - The last Irish forces formally surrendered at Cloughoughter in County Cavan to the Cromwellian army ending the Confederate Wars...

 - 1652
1652 in Ireland
-Events:* 12 May - Siege of Galway - Thomas Preston, the military governor of Galway, surrenders the city to English Parliamentarians commanded by Charles Coote...

 - 1651
1651 in Ireland
-Events:*June - Re-start of the Siege of Limerick by English Parliamentarian troops under Henry Ireton.*July - Battle of Knocknaclashy. Irish force trying to relieve Limerick is routed....

1650
1650 in Ireland
-Events:*May** Charles II repudiates his alliance with Irish Catholics in favour of one with Scottish Covenanters in the Treaty of Breda. Most English Royalists in Ireland surrender to the Parliamentarians after this point....

 - 1649
1649 in Ireland
-Events:* January 30** King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded in London.** Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland...

 - 1648
1648 in Ireland
-Events:*March - Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin changes sides and declares for the King.*September - Open breach between Owen Roe O'Neill and Confederate Council....

 - 1647
1647 in Ireland
-Events:*July - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde surrenders Dublin to parliamentary forces under Michael Jones.*August - Battle of Dungan's Hill, Confederate Ireland army intercepted on a march towards Dublin and destroyed by Parliamentary army....

 - 1646
1646 in Ireland
-Events:*June: The Battle of Benburb, part of the Irish Confederate Wars took place near Armagh....

 - 1645
1645 in Ireland
-Events:* Lismore town and castle were sacked in the Irish Confederate Wars by a force of the Irish Confederacy commanded by Lord Castlehaven.*20 January - 18 March - Siege of Duncannon, Confederate general Thomas Preston takes Duncannon....

 - 1644
1644 in Ireland
-Deaths:* Seathrún Céitinn , known in English as the renowned historian Geoffrey Keating....

 - 1643
1643 in Ireland
-Events:*Battle of New Ross *September - Cessation arranged by Ormond.-Deaths:*15 September - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ....

 - 1642
1642 in Ireland
-Events:* March 19 - The citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.* March 26 - Siege of Drogheda broken by English reinforcements....

 - 1641
1641 in Ireland
-Events:*October - Irish Rebellion of 1641 starts.*Hugh Og MacMahon and Conor Maguire were to seize Dublin Castle, but are arrested due to an informer....

1640
1640 in Ireland
-Events:Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh transcribes the only surviving copy of the Chronicon Scotorum about this year....

 - 1639
1639 in Ireland
-Events:Richard Nugent build Clonyn Castle overlooking Delvin, County Westmeath...

 - 1638 - 1637 - 1636 - 1635
1635 in Ireland
-Deaths:*8 November - Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, writer, historian and hagiographer ....

 - 1634
1634 in Ireland
-Events:* Foras Feasa ar Éirinn was completed by Geoffrey Keating in Early Modern Irish...

 - 1633
1633 in Ireland
-Births:*William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry*James Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, peer ....

 - 1632
1632 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Domhnall Spainnach MacMurrough-Kavanagh; the last king of Leinster*John Rider, Latin lexicographer and Anglican Bishop of Killaloe from 1612 to 1632 ....

 - 1631
1631 in Ireland
-Events:* June 20 - Sack of Baltimore: the town of Baltimore, County Cork, is sacked by Algerian pirates....

1630
1630 in Ireland
-Deaths:*James "Spanish" Blake, spy.*Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh , cousin of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh who, with his son Cacrigcriche Ó Cléirigh , one of Mícheál's co-workers, is also famous as an Irish historian....

 - 1629
1629 in Ireland
-Births:*1 November - Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, last Catholic martyr to die in England, canonised .*Roderick O'Flaherty, historian...

 - 1628 - 1627 - 1626
1626 in Ireland
-Events:* King Charles I of England and Scotland instituted a plantation in Upper Ossory in County Laois.-Deaths:* 22 September - Hugh MacCaghwell, Franciscan theologian and archbishop...

 - 1625
1625 in Ireland
-Events:* 27 March - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of James I.-Deaths:*19 February - Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, English administrator and soldier, Lord Deputy of Ireland ....

 - 1624 - 1623 - 1622
1622 in Ireland
-Deaths:*10 November - Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott, settled in and developed Ballyshannon area....

 - 1621
1621 in Ireland
-Events:* King James I of England claimed the whole of Upper Ossory in County Laois including the manor of Offerlane. James claimed royal inheritance from the de Clare family at an inquisition held at Maryborough and instituted a plantation of the area in 1626....

1620
1620 in Ireland
-Births:*Archbishop Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin ....

 - 1619
1619 in Ireland
- Births :* Dudley Loftus, jurist and orientalist ....

 - 1618
1618 in Ireland
-Births:*Thomas Blood, soldier, tried to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671 ....

 - 1617 - 1616
1616 in Ireland
-Deaths:*20 July - Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, led the resistance during the Nine Years War ....

 - 1615 - 1614
1614 in Ireland
-Births:*10 July - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, royal statesman .-Deaths:*22 November - Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde, Lord Treasurer of Ireland .*William Bathe, Jesuit priest and linguist ....

 - 1613 - 1612
1612 in Ireland
-Births:*20 October - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland .-Deaths:*11 February - Conor O'Devany, 8th Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, executed for high treason .-Publications:...

 - 1611
1610
1610 in Ireland
-Events:* The Irish historian Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating was appointed Parish Priest of Knockgraffon, near Cahir, County Tipperary-Births:...

 - 1609
1609 in Ireland
-Events:* John Taylor is granted 1,500 acres of arable land in Ballyhaise, County Cavan.* Kilkenny was granted a royal charter in 1609 by James I of England.-Births:*William Tirry, martyred Roman Catholic priest, executed ....

 - 1608
1608 in Ireland
-Events:*Following the Flight of the Earls and angered by land confiscations for the plantation of Ulster, Cahir O'Doherty sacked and burned Derry and killed the Governor....

 - 1607
1607 in Ireland
-Events:* 14 September - Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell flee to Spain to avoid capture by the English crown.*Lifford comes into the possession of Sir Richard Hansard during the Plantation of Ulster....

 - 1606 - 1605 - 1604
1604 in Ireland
-Births:*c. 10 March - David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, died of his wounds at the Battle of Liscarroll .*Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, nobleman and figure in English Civil War...

 - 1603
1603 in Ireland
-Events:* 24 March - James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I.* The Nine Years War is ended by the signinging of the Treaty of Mellifont....

 - 1602
1602 in Ireland
-Events:* 3 January - Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies at the Siege of Kinsale.* 5–18 June - Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels at the Siege of Dunboy.-Deaths:...

 - 1601
1601 in Ireland
-Events:*30 November - Prince Hugh Roe O'Donnell, on his way to the Battle of Kinsale, visited and venerated a relic of the True Cross on the Feast of St. Andrew, at Holy Cross Abbey....


Sixteenth century

1600
1600 in Ireland
-Births:*Heber MacMahon, Bishop of Down and Connor, later Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher .*Terence Albert O'Brien, Roman Catholic Bishop of Emly, executed ....

 - 1599
1599 in Ireland
-Events:* 12 March - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I of England.* 27 March - Essex leaves London to pursue a military campaign in Ireland....

 - 1598
1598 in Ireland
-Events:*August - Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone's victory over an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal, at the Battle of the Yellow Ford.-Births:*Patrick D'Arcy, nationalist who wrote the constitution of Confederate Ireland ....

 - 1597
1597 in Ireland
-Events:* Dublin Gunpowder Disaster: Huge explosion on the quays in Dublin - 11 March 1597. 126 killed, many more injured, as barrels of gunpowder were being unloaded.* November - Nine Years' War: MacDonnell clan defeat the English at the Battle of Carrickfergus...

 - 1596
1596 in Ireland
-Events:*An envoy of King Philip II of Spain arrived to make inquiries of survivors of the Spanish Armada in Ireland but was successful in only eight cases....

 - 1595
1595 in Ireland
-Events:*Rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone .*March - Battle of Clontibret...

 - 1594
1594 in Ireland
-Births:*26 November - Sir James Ware, historian, politician and Auditor general for Ireland ....

 - 1593 - 1592 - 1591
1590
1590 in Ireland
-Births:*Mícheál Ó Cléirigh , Irish chronicler, and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters .-Deaths:*Sorley Boy MacDonnell, established the MacDonnell clan in County Antrim, resisted attempts by Shane O'Neill and the English to expel them ....

 - 1589 - 1588
1588 in Ireland
-Events:*28 June - Sir Valentine Browne, Knight purchases estates, including the Lakes of Killarney, from the estate of Donald Maccarty, 1st Earl of Clancare.*Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and father of Robert Boyle arrives in Ireland as an entrepreneur....

 - 1587
1587 in Ireland
-Events:*Lord Deputy William Fitzwilliam became head of the Irish Crown government at Dublin, succeeding John Perrot in that office....

 - 1586 - 1585 - 1584
1584 in Ireland
-Events:*July - English government commissions a survey of Munster, following the Desmond Rebellions. Sir Valentine Browne, Knight is appointed to the task.*The Spanish Arch is built in Galway.*Perrott subdivides Cavan into seven baronies.-Deaths:...

 - 1583
1583 in Ireland
-Events:*Dermot O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel lands in Ireland.*8 October - Dermot O'Hurley is arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.*Second Desmond Rebellion ends , resulting in the extinction of the Desmond palatinate....

 - 1582
1582 in Ireland
-Events:*After three years of scorched earth warfare, famine hits Munster.*April - the provost marshal of Munster, Sir Warham St Leger, estimates that 30,000 people died of famine in the previous six months....

 - 1581
1581 in Ireland
-Events:*Dermot O'Hurley appointed Archbishop of Cashel by Pope Gregory XIII. Unable to enter Ireland until 1583.-Births:*4 January - James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published the Ussher chronology purporting to time and date creation ....

1580 - 1579
1579 in Ireland
-Events:*Second Desmond Rebellion begins , resulting in the extinction of the Desmond palatinate.*East Breifne is renamed Cavan after the Shire's main town....

 - 1578
1578 in Ireland
-Events:* Massacre of Mullaghmast - the English finally subdued the O’Moore clan by massacring most of their fine at Mullaghmast in County Kildare, having invited them there for peace talks.-Deaths:...

 - 1577 - 1576 - 1575
1575 in Ireland
-Events:* Francis Drake participated in a naval expedition that culminated in the massacre of 500 MacDonnell clans-people in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island....

 - 1574
1574 in Ireland
-Events:* The East Ulster Plantation degenerates into a series of atrocities against the local civilian population before finally being abandoned. Brian MacPhelim O'Neill of Clandeboye, his wife and 200 clansmen were massacred at a feast organised by Essex....

 - 1573 - 1572
1572 in Ireland
-Events:*First Desmond rebellion ends .-Births:*Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell, helped to lead the Nine Years War ....

 - 1571
1571 in Ireland
-Events:*February - John Perrot is made Lord President of Munster.*First printing in the Irish language in Dublin....

1570
1570 in Ireland
-Events:*January - William Oge Martyn kidnapped by the Earl of Thomond.*April - Battle of Shrule.-Births:*Col Ciotach, adventurer of Clan Donald, Laird of Colonsay ....

 - 1569
1569 in Ireland
-Births:* Date unknown - Niall Garve O'Donnell, last Prince of Tyrconnell * Seathrún Céitinn , known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was born in Burgess, Ballylooby, just outside Cahir in County Tipperary....

 - 1568
1568 in Ireland
-Events:*First Desmond rebellion starts ....

 - 1567
1567 in Ireland
-Events:*8 May - Battle of Farsetmore, fought near Letterkenny in Donegal, Shane O'Neill, chief of the O’Neills of Tyrone, is defeated and the O’Donnells free themselves from O’Neill overlordship....

 - 1566
1566 in Ireland
-Births:*13 October - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ....

 - 1565
1565 in Ireland
-Events:*Shane O'Neill defeats MacDonnells at Glenshesk.*Shane O'Neill marches from Antrim through the mountains by Clogh to the neighbourhood of Ballycastle, where he routs the MacDonnells at the Battle of Glentasie and takes Sorley Boy MacDonnell prisoner....

 - 1564
1564 in Ireland
-Events:*Shane O'Neill fights indecisive battle with Sorley Boy MacDonnell near Coleraine....

 - 1563
1563 in Ireland
-Births:*May - Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, English administrator and soldier, Lord Deputy of Ireland ....

 - 1562
1562 in Ireland
-Events:*Start of war between Shane O'Neill and the government, which lasted until 1567.-Births:*John Rider, Latin lexicographer and Anglican Bishop of Killaloe from 1612 to 1632 ....

 - 1561
1560 - 1559
1559 in Ireland
-Events:*17 November - Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England and Ireland upon the death of Mary I.*Shane O'Neill succeeds Conn O'Neill as The O'Neill.*Valentine Browne, appointed Surveyor General of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I of England....

 - 1558
1558 in Ireland
-Events:*Elizabethan church settlement in Ireland: restoration of Anglican church .-Deaths:*Mary I, Queen regnant of Ireland...

 - 1557 - 1556
1556 in Ireland
-Events:* The Plantation of King's County and Queen's County , the earliest attempt at systematic ethnic cleansing by the English in Ireland, started. The plantations were named after the new Catholic monarchs Philip and Mary respectively....

 - 1555
1555 in Ireland
This article contains notable things that happened in Ireland in 1555.-Events:*William Annyas becomes the mayor of Youghal in County Cork, the first Jewish Mayor in Ireland....

 - 1554 - 1153
1153 in Ireland
-Births:*Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht ....

 - 1552 - 1551
1550 - 1549
1549 in Ireland
-Events:*Plantation of County Laois and County Offaly starts ....

 - 1548 - 1547
1547 in Ireland
-Events:*28 January - Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland upon the death of Henry VIII.*Start of Edwardian Reformation in Ireland .-Deaths:* Henry VIII, King of Ireland...

 - 1546 - 1545 - 1544 - 1543 - 1542
1542 in Ireland
-Events:*Crown of Ireland Act enacted, declaring that King Henry VIII of England and his successors would also be Kings of Ireland.*First Jesuit mission to Ireland....

 - 1541
1541 in Ireland
-Events:*Henry VIII declared King of Ireland by Irish parliament.*Tyrone invaded by Anthony St Leger ....

1540
1540 in Ireland
-Events:*Anthony St Leger is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and tasked with the repression of disorder.*St Leger's pacification: start of policy of surrender and regrant ....

 - 1539 - 1538
1538 in Ireland
-Events:*Church of Ireland Kilkenny College founded. Students have included Jonathan Swift and George Berkeley....

 - 1537
1537 in Ireland
-Deaths:*3 February - Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare was hanged, drawn and quartered, with his five uncles, at Tyburn....

 - 1536 - 1535
1535 in Ireland
-Events:*March - Silken Thomas' stronghold at Maynooth, County Kildare, was taken by an English force under Sir William Skeffington, in his absence.*July - Lord Leonard Grey arrived from England as Lord Deputy of Ireland....

 - 1534
1534 in Ireland
-Events:*February Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, was summoned to London, and appointed Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare deputy governor of Ireland in his absence.*June - Revolt of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare...

 - 1533 - 1532 - 1531
1530 - 1529 - 1528 - 1527 - 1526 - 1525 - 1524 - 1523 - 1522 - 1521
1520 - 1519 - 1518 - 1517 - 1516 - 1515
1515 in Ireland
-Births:*Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992 -Births:*Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992 -Births:*Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992 (d.1584....

 - 1514 - 1513
1513 in Ireland
-Births:*Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, aka Silken Thomas, hanged, drawn and quartered, with his five uncles, at Tyburn .-Deaths:*End of the rule of Garret More, the Great Earl of Kildare ....

 - 1512 - 1511
1510
1510 in Ireland
-Events:An Anglo-Irish army led by Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare marched on Thomond, and was met and defeated at Cratloe by an army of the O'Brien, McNamara, Sil-Aedha and Clanrickard clans led by Turlough O'Brien....

 - 1509 - 1508 - 1507 - 1516 - 1505 - 1504 - 1503 - 1502 - 1501


Fifteenth century

1500 - 1499 - 1498 - 1497
1497 in Ireland
-Deaths:*James Ormonde, Lord Treasurer of Ireland, Earl of Ormonde ....

 - 1496
1496 in Ireland
-Events:*Return of Garret More, the Great Earl of Kildare, to Ireland as Lord Deputy of Ireland. He held the position until his death in 1513....

 - 1495 - 1494
1494 in Ireland
-Events:*1 December - Sir Edward Poynings assembled the Irish Parliament in Drogheda to tell them that the Irish Parliament was thereafter to be placed under the authority of the English Parliament.*Poynings' Parliament lasted into 1495....

 - 1493 - 1492
1492 in Ireland
-Deaths:*25 October - Thaddeus McCarthy, Bishop of Ross, then Bishop of Cork and Cloyne ....

 - 1491
1490 - 1489 - 1488 - 1487
1487 in Ireland
-Events:*May 24: Lambert Simnel crowned "King Edward VI" in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin....

 - 1486 - 1485 - 1484 - 1483 - 1482 - 1481
1480 - 1479 - 1478
1478 in Ireland
-Deaths:*18 February - George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York .*John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormonde ....

 - 1477
1477 in Ireland
-Events:*Start of the rule of Garret More, the Great Earl of Kildare ....

 - 1476 - 1475 - 1474 - 1473 - 1472 - 1471
1470 - 1469 - 1468 - 1467 - 1466 - 1465 - 1464 - 1463 - 1462 - 1461
1461 in Ireland
-Deaths:*1 May - James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant ....

1460
1460 in Ireland
-Events:*Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns to England.*Ireland’s legislative independence is declared....

 - 1459
1459 in Ireland
-Events:*Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.*Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds Richard Duke of York's authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder....

 - 1458 - 1457 - 1456 - 1455 - 1454 - 1453 - 1452 - 1451
1450
1450 in Ireland
-Events:*Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns to England, following the submission of many Irish chiefs and English rebels....

 - 1449
1449 in Ireland
-Events:*Richard Duke of York arrives in Ireland as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, leading to the submission of many Irish chiefs and English rebels.-Births:...

 - 1448 - 1447 - 1446 - 1445 - 1444 - 1443 - 1442 - 1441
1440 - 1439 - 1438 - 1437
1437 in Ireland
-Events:*Treatment of Foreign Merchants Act 1437*Last entry from Mac Carthaigh's Book...

 - 1436 - 1435 - 1434 - 1433 - 1432 - 1431
1430 - 1429 - 1428 - 1427 - 1426 - 1425 - 1424 - 1423 - 1422 - 1421
1420
1420 in Ireland
-Births:*24 November - James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant ....

 - 1419 - 1418
1418 in Ireland
-Events:* The Great Book of Lecan was completed at Enniscrone. ....

 - 1417
1417 in Ireland
-Deaths:Art Óg Kavanagh of Pulmonty, King of Leinster who built Ballyloo Castle in Tinryland, County Carlow...

 - 1416 - 1415 - 1414
1414 in Ireland
-Events:*Start of a prolonged struggle between the factions of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde, and John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, for control of royal government in Ireland ....

 - 1413 - 1412 - 1411
1410 - 1409 - 1408 - 1407 - 1406 - 1405 - 1404 - 1403 - 1402 - 1401

Fourteenth century

1400 - 1399
1399 in Ireland
-Events:*King Richard II’s second expedition to Ireland, with inconclusive results .*Battle of Tragh-Bhaile...

 - 1398
1398 in Ireland
-Events:*20 July - Death of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March at the Battle of Kells in the war against the Leinster Irish....

 - 1397
1397 in Ireland
-Events:* The Great Book of Lecan was started at Enniscrone. ....

 - 1396 - 1395
1395 in Ireland
-Events:*Defeat of Leinster Irish under Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster and submission of nearly all Irish and rebel English chiefs to King Richard II....

 - 1394
1394 in Ireland
-Events:*King Richard II’s first expedition to Ireland*Battle of Ros-mic-Triuin, won by Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster....

 - 1393 - 1392 - 1391
1390 - 1389 - 1388 - 1387 - 1386 - 1385 - 1384 - 1383 - 1382
1382 in Ireland
-Events:*Aghaboe Abbey in County Laois was rebuilt by Fighin Fitzpatrick and granted to the Dominican Order.-Deaths:*18 October - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde, Lord Justice of Ireland ....

 - 1381
1381 in Ireland
-Events:*McDonaghs take possession of Ballymote Castle, County Sligo from the Mac Diarmada...

1380 - 1379 - 1378 - 1377 - 1376 - 1375 - 1374 - 1373 - 1372 - 1371
1370 - 1369 - 1368 - 1367 - 1366
1366 in Ireland
-Events:*Irish Parliament at Kilkenny before Prince Lionel of Clarence, Earl of Ulster codifies the defensive legislation of the previous 50 years in the Statutes of Kilkenny, prohibiting, among other things, the adoption of the Irish language by the colonists ....

 - 1365 - 1364 - 1363 - 1362 - 1361
1361 in Ireland
-Events:*Arrival of English expedition under Prince Lionel of Clarence, Earl of Ulster, to stem decline of colony ....

1360 - 1359 - 1358 - 1357 - 1356 - 1355 - 1354 - 1353 - 1352
1352 in Ireland
-Events:*Marriage of Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster, daughter and heiress of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster to Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence...

 - 1351
1351 in Ireland
-Events:*Aodh, son of Toirdhealbhach Ó Conchobhair, recovers kingship of Connacht; expels Aodh mac Feidhlimidh Ó Conchobhair.* October 17 Great council at Dublin...

1350
1350 in Ireland
-Events:* Brian Bán Ó Briain, king of Thomond, killed; restoration of Diarmaid mac Toirdhealbach * Aodh mac Aodh Bréifneach,k last of Clann Mhuircheartaigh sept of O'Connors to hold kingship of Connacht , is killed by Aodh Bán Ó Ruairc....

 - 1349
1349 in Ireland
-Events:*Christmas to March - The Black Death: "The pestilence gathered strength in Kilkenny during Lent ... there was scarcely a house in which only one died."...

 - 1348
1348 in Ireland
-Events:*17 March - "Hugo de Calce, papal clerk, collector and gatherer of the tax in Dublin, was killed."*28 March - Domhnall Ó Ceinnéidigh captured and imprisoned by the Purcells....

 - 1347
1347 in Ireland
-Events:*25 March - Lord Nicholas de Verdun buried at Drogheda "with great splendour and solemn rites and with many in the procession to the convent."...

 - 1346
1346 in Ireland
-Events:*16 April - After this date, John de Carew renovates and repaires Balymotha/Clerevoyse castle [1]*"At this time the whole of the Irish of Leinster placed themselves at war against the English and the peaceful people, burning, plundering and killing whomsoever they were able, sparing neither...

 - 1345
1345 in Ireland
- Events :* February 22 Assembly at Callan, County Kilkenny, held under presidency of Maurice FitzGerald, earl of Desmond.* March Énrí Ó Néill of Clann Aodha Buidhe - Events :* February 22 Assembly at Callan, County Kilkenny, held under presidency of Maurice FitzGerald, earl of Desmond.* March Énrí...

 - 1344
1344 in Ireland
-Events:*February 10 Ralph d'Ufford appointed Justiciar*April 20 Custody of the lands of the lated Earl of Ormond granted to the Earl of Desmond*April 24 Sanction of 'bonnaght' in Ulster*June 3 Justiciar ordered to resume and regrant all abandoned and waste lands...

 - 1343
1343 in Ireland
-Events:* Death of Muircheartach Ó Briain, king of Thomond. Succeeded by his brother, Diarmaid, who is expelled by Brian Bán Ó Briain* Toirdhealbhach Ó Conchobhair recovers kingship of Connacht from Aodh mac Aodh B reifneach...

 - 1342
1342 in Ireland
-Events:* King Conchobhar of Tír Conaill killed and succeeded by his brother, Niall.* Soldiers from Ireland sent to campaign for Edward III in Brittany* January 16 - May 18 Deputy justiciar John Morice campaigns against the Irish of Mide...

 - 1341
1341 in Ireland
- Events :* King Toirdhealbhach of Connacht captures Roscommon castle* January 23 Ross loses its rights as an open port* February 13 Death of Roger Outlaw...

1340 - 1339
1339 in Ireland
-Events:* Marriage of Toirdhealbach O Conchobhair to widow of Edmund de Burgh* Edmond Albanach de Burgh expelled from western islands of Connacht to Ulster* Mint briefly reopened at Dublin...

 - 1338
1338 in Ireland
-Events:* Justiciar de Charleton campaigns against the Leinster Irish* Edmond de Burgh, son of the 3rd Earl of Ulster, is drowned in Lough Mask by his cousions Edmund Albanach de burgh and his brother Raymond "who fastened a stone to his neck .....

 - 1337
1337 in Ireland
-Events:* Peace established between Richard de Burgh and Brian Ban O Briain* Ruaidhri O Ceallaigh of Ui Maine defeats and captures King Toirdhealbhach of Connacht...

 - 1336
1336 in Ireland
-Events:* Castlemore Costello in destroyed by King Toirdhealbhach of Connacht* May 3 Ordinances for reform of Irish administration* after May 26 Conchobhar mac Tomaltach Mac Diarmada succeeds his father as lord of Moylurg...

 - 1335
1335 in Ireland
-Events:* "John Ó hEaghra was taken prisoner by the son of the Earl and considerable part of his people were plundered."* "A foray was made by the sons of Domnall on the Foreigners, namely, on the Clan of Gerald the Merry Mac Maurice Fitz Gerald...

 - 1334
1334 in Ireland
- Events :* Conchobar O Domnaill succeeds his father Aéd as King of Tír Conaill* Earl of Desmond released* Justicier Darcy campaigns against Ó Bríain and Mac Conmara in Thomond, Domhnall and Diarmaid Óg Mac Carthaigh in Desmond, Ó Tuathail and Ó Bróin in Leinster...

 - 1333
1333 in Ireland
-Events:* Friar John Clyn begins his chronicle, "The Annals of Ireland" -Events:* Friar John Clyn begins his chronicle, "The Annals of Ireland" -Events:* Friar John Clyn begins his chronicle, "The Annals of Ireland" (see 1349* Earl of Desmond released* Conchobhar O Domhnaill succeeds his father,...

 - 1332
1332 in Ireland
-Events:* "The defeat of Berna-in-mil was inflicted on Tomaltach Mac Diarmata and on Mac William, where were killed many of the people of Mac William by the son of the Earl and Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh."...

 - 1331
1331 in Ireland
-Events:* "A hosting by the Connachtmen, both Foreigner and Gaidhel, into Munster, against Mac Conmara. Pledge and sway were gained by them on Mac Conmara...

1330
1330 in Ireland
-References:*"The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn", edited and translated with an Introduction, by Bernadette Williams, Four Courts Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84682-034-2, pp. 240-244....

 - 1329
1329 in Ireland
-References:*"The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn", edited and translated with an Introduction, by Bernadette Williams, Four Courts Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84682-034-2, pp. 240-244....

 - 1328 - 1327 - 1326 - 1325 - 1324
1324 in Ireland
-Events:* "The same cow-destruction prevailed throughout Ireland."-Deaths:*12 February - William Liath de Burgh, buried in Galway....

 - 1323 - 1322 - 1321
1320 - 1319 - 1318
1318 in Ireland
- Events :*11 May - Battle of Dysert O'Dea: Richard de Clare defeated and killed by Conor O'Dea in alliance with O'Briens, MacNamaras, and Ó hEithirs..*29 September - Alexander de Bicknor arrives in Ireland....

 - 1317 - 1316
1316 in Ireland
-Events:*10 August - Battle of Athenry; rebellious Irish chiefs of Connacht defeated and killed .*The Earl of Kildare founds the Augustinian Adare Friary in County Limerick....

 - 1315
1315 in Ireland
-Events:*Invasion of Ireland by Edward Bruce. He is proclaimed by Irish allies as King of Ireland .*The first significant leader of the Butler clan, Edmond le Bottiler, became Earl of Carrig...

 - 1314 - 1313 - 1312 - 1311
1310
1310 in Ireland
-Events:* Áed Bréifnech Ó Conchobair killed by Seónac Mac Uidilín, officer of his mercenaries, at the instigation of Sir William Laith de Burgh.* Fedlimid mac Áed mac Eógan Ó Conchobhair installed as King of Connacht by Máelruanaid Mac Diarmata at Carnfree with full ancient ceremony* Ó Ragallaig...

 - 1309 - 1308 - 1307 - 1306 - 1305 - 1304 - 1303 - 1302 - 1301

Thirteenth century

1300 - 1299 - 1298 - 1297
1297 in Ireland
-Events:*The first representative Irish Parliament meets in Dublin.*County Kildare was formed by the Normans....

 - 1296 - 1295 - 1984 - 1293 - 1292
1292 in Ireland
-Events:*Custody of rents, homages and services of all Crown tenants English and Irish in the Decies and Desmond is granted to Thomas fitz Maurice of Desmond ....

 - 1291
1290 - 1289 - 1288 - 1287 - 1286 - 1285 - 1284 - 1283 - 1282 - 1281
1280 - 1279 - 1278 - 1277 - 1276 - 1275 - 1274 - 1273
1273 in Ireland
-Events:* 28 September - William Fitz Richard de Barry, granted the church of Cahirduggan to the Priory of Ballybeg by charter....

 - 1272 - 1271
1271 in Ireland
-Deaths:*28 July: Walter de Burgo died in Galway and was buried in Athassel Priory...

1270 - 1269 - 1268 - 1267 - 1266 - 1265 - 1264
1264 in Ireland
-Events:*The earliest known Irish Parliament met at Castledermot on 18 June....

 - 1263
1263 in Ireland
-Events:*Earldom of Ulster, long vacant, is bestowed on Walter de Burgh, Lord of Connacht ....

 - 1262 - 1261
1261 in Ireland
-Events:*Battle of Callann: John fitz Thomas of Desmond and his heir are defeated and killed by Finghin MacCarthy, himself slain later that year ....

1260 - 1259 - 1258
1258 in Ireland
-Events:*Meeting at Caol-Uisce on the Erne between Aodh, son of O’Connor, Tadhg, son of O’Brien and Brian O’Neill, self-styled “King of the kings of Ireland” ....

 - 1257
1257 in Ireland
-Events:*Death of Maurice Fitzgerald; his lordship of Sligo ravaged by Godfrey O’Donnell, king of Tir Conaill.*Normans in Thomond defeated by Conor O’Brien and his son, Tadhg....

 - 1256 - 1255 - 1254 - 1253 - 1252 - 1251
1250
1250 in Ireland
-Events:*Leap Castle in County Offaly, was built in by the O'Bannon family and was originally called "Leim ui Bhanain," or "Leap of the O'Bannons."...

 - 1249 - 1248
1248 in Ireland
-Events:*King’s Bench in Dublin is instituted .*Coleraine Castle is built.*Goffraidh is inaugurated as "The O'Donnell", i.e...

 - 1247
1247 in Ireland
-Events:*The earliest known records of a settlement at Carrick-on-Suir are dated to 1247, when a charter of three fairs per year was awarded to Matthew Fitzgriffin, Anglo-Norman Lord of the Manor of Carrick....

 - 1246 - 1245 - 1244 - 1243 - 1242
1242 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Richard Mor de Burgh was the eldest son of William de Burgh and founder of the towns of Ballinasloe, Loughrea and Galway....

 - 1241
1240 - 1239 - 1238 - 1237 - 1236 - 1235
1235 in Ireland
-Events:*Final conquest of Connacht by Richard Mor de Burgh. Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair is expelled, but allowed to rent five “King’s Cantreds”....

 - 1234 - 1233 - 1232 - 1231
1230 - 1229 - 1228 - 1227 - 1226
1226 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Walter de Riddlesford, Norman lord with lands in County Wicklow and County Kildare....

 - 1225
1225 in Ireland
-Events:*Dominican Order found the 'Black Abbey', lying just off Parliament Street in Kilkenny....

 - 1224
1224 in Ireland
-Events:*Dominican Order set up in Ireland. They are the first mendicant friars in Ireland.-Deaths:*Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, last independent King of Connacht .*Donnchadh Mor O Dalaigh, poet....

 - 1223 - 1222 - 1221
1220 - 1219
1219 in Ireland
-Events:*Sibella, the great-granddaughter of the Norman leader Strongbow, was granted the manor in Castlecomer....

 - 1218 - 1217 - 1216 - 1215
1215 in Ireland
-Events:The port of New Ross granted trading concessions from King John of England....

 - 1214 - 1213 - 1212 - 1211
1211 in Ireland
-Event:* Walter de Lacy erected the castle on Turbet Island, Cavan, in the abortive Anglo-Norman attempt to gain control of West Ulster....

1210
1210 in Ireland
-Events:*King John’s second visit to Ireland.*Earldom of Ulster and Honor of Limerick are confiscated.*Submission of Irish kings.*King John sets up a civil government in Ireland....

 - 1209 - 1208
1208 in Ireland
-Events:*The town and lands of Fethard, County Tipperary were lost to its founder, William de Braose, following a dispute he had with King John of England.*Auliffe O'Rothlain, Chief of Calry of Coolcarney, was slain by O'Moran....

 - 1207
1207 in Ireland
-Events:* The town of New Ross was granted a Royal Charter.* Callan, County Kilkenny was founded by William the Marshall....

 - 1206
1206 in Ireland
-Events:* Norman Bishop of Rochfort transfers the See of Meath from Clonard, where it had been since its foundation by Finnian of Clonard in 520, to Trim....

 - 1205
1205 in Ireland
-Events:Enniscorthy Castle, an Anglo-Norman stronghold was built on high ground beside the River Slaney...

 - 1204 - 1203 - 1202
1202 in Ireland
-Events:*Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair succeeds Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair as King of Connacht....

 - 1201
1201 in Ireland
-Events:*William de Braose was installed by King John of England as the chief tenant of a very substantial territory encompassing most of the modern County Tipperary...


Twelfth century

1200
1200 in Ireland
-Events:*Irish exchequer created.* Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler is thought to have founded the Abbey of Woney or Wotheny in County Limerick Ireland around this time....

 - 1199
1199 in Ireland
-Events:*Risteárd de Tiúit, builds one of the largest Motte-and-bailey settlements in Ireland in Granard....

 - 1198
1198 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair , the last High King of Ireland, as a pilgrim in Cong . He was buried in Clonmacnoise....

 - 1197 - 1196 - 1195 - 1194 - 1193 - 1192 - 1191
1190 - 1189
1189 in Ireland
-Events:*Giraldus Cambrensis writes Expugnato Hibernica about Henry II’s invasion of Ireland ....

 - 1188 - 1187 - 1186
1186 in Ireland
-Events:*Hugh de Lacy the Elder, 1st Lord of Meath, is assassinated.*Ruaidrí mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair , The Last High King of Ireland was usurped by his son in 1186....

 - 1185
1185 in Ireland
-Events:*Prince John’s first visit to Ireland.*Occupation of the lands in Limerick begun by Theobald Walter, William de Burgh and Philip of Worcester....

 - 1184 - 1183 - 1182 - 1181
1180
1180 in Ireland
-Events:*Construction of Carrickfergus Castle begins.*St Mary’s Cathedral built in Limerick....

 - 1179 - 1178 - 1177
1177 in Ireland
-Events:*Conquest of Ulster by John de Courcy, who eventually seizes Downpatrick.*Council of Oxford: Prince John is made Lord of Ireland and speculative grants of the kingdoms of Cork and Limerick are made to Norman vassals....

 - 1176
1176 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , who led the Norman invasion of Ireland ....

 - 1175
1175 in Ireland
-Events:*Rory O’Connor becomes the last High King of Ireland.*Treaty of Windsor is made between Henry II of England and Rory O’Connor, High King of Ireland, who agrees to rule unoccupied territory as a vassal.bretey...

 - 1174 - 1173 - 1172
1172 in Ireland
-Events:*Second Synod of Cashel.*Meath is granted to Hugh de Lacy by Henry II of England.*Henry II of England leaves Ireland.*Kilkenny Castle built....

 - 1171
1171 in Ireland
-Events:*Death of Dermot MacMurrough.*Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke becomes lord of Leinster.*Henry II of England arrives in Ireland.*Submission of Irish bishops and most Irish kings....

1170
1170 in Ireland
-Events:*Arrival of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke .*Strongbow is married to Dermot MacMurrough’s daughter, Aoife..*Siege and capture of Dublin.*Invasion of Meath...

 - 1169
1169 in Ireland
-Events:* 1 May - Norman invasion of Ireland starts with the arrival of Norman military leaders FitzStephen, Fitzgerald and others.*Wexford is taken.*Dermot MacMurrough is restored as King of Leinster....

 - 1168
1168 in Ireland
-Events:St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick founded on the site of a palace donated by Donal Mor O'Brien, King of Thomond....

 - 1167 - 1166
1166 in Ireland
-Events:*Death of Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn, High King of Ireland.*Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair succeeds to the high-kingship, on the death of his father, Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair....

 - 1165 - 1164 - 1163 - 1162
1162 in Ireland
-Events:*Lorcán Ua Tuathail elected as Archbishop of Dublin....

 - 1161
1160 - 1159 - 1158 - 1157
1157 in Ireland
-Events:*Completion and consecration of Mellifont Abbey, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland....

 - 1156
1156 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair , who had reigned as King of Connacht since 1106 and was a claimant to the High Kingship of Ireland. He was buried in Clonmacnoise....

 - 1155
1155 in Ireland
-Events:*Pope Adrian IV grants Henry II of England the right to rule Ireland, after Henry convinced the Pope that he was needed "to proclaim the truths of the Christian religion" to the Irish people."...

 - 1154 - 1153 - 1152
1152 in Ireland
-Events:*Synod of Kells-Mellifont results in a national church organisation with four metropolitans and 36 sees, under the primacy of Armagh.*Diarmaid mac Murchadha elopes with Devorgill...

 - 1151
1150 - 1149 - 1148
1148 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Death of Saint Malachy in Clairvaux, on his second journey to Rome....

 - 1147 - 1146 - 1145 - 1144 - 1143 - 1142
1142 in Ireland
-Events:*Foundation of the first Cistercian house in Ireland at Mellifont, on land given by the King of Airgíalla. Abbey completed in 1157. The Cistercians were brought into Ireland by Saint Malachy...

 - 1141
1140 - 1139 - 1138 - 1137 - 1136 - 1135 - 1134
1134 in Ireland
-Events:*Consecration of Cormac’s Chapel at Cashel Building had started in 1127. It had been built by Cormac mac Carthaig, King of Munster and consecrated in the presence of a great assembly of church and royal dignitaries....

 - 1133 - 1132
1132 in Ireland
-Events:*Saint Malachy becomes Archbishop of Armagh....

 - 1131
1130 - 1129
1129 in Ireland
-Deaths:*Saint Ceallach , , abbot of Armagh. He presided at the synod of Rathbreasail in 1111....

 - 1128
1128 in Ireland
-Births:*St. Laurence O'Toole, or Lorcán Ua Tuathail, was born at Castledermot, County Kildare...

 - 1127
1127 in Ireland
-Events:*Building starts on Cormac's Chapel, on the Rock of Cashel, Cashel, County Tipperary ....

 - 1126 - 1125 - 1124 - 1123 - 1122 - 1121
1120 - 1119
1119 in Ireland
-Events:*Death of Muirchertach O'Brien, who had reigned as King of Munster since 1086 and was claimant to the Kingship of Ireland...

 - 1118 - 1117 - 1116 - 1115 - 1114 - 1113 - 1112 - 1111
1111 in Ireland
-Events:*Synod of Rathbreasail, presided over by Cellach Ua Sinaig, Abbot of Armagh is held. Ireland is divided into territorial dioceses under two metropolitans....

1110 - 1109 - 1108 - 1107 - 1106
1106 in Ireland
-Events:*Turlough O’Connor becomes King of Connacht and claimant to the High Kingship of Ireland, reigning until 1156....

 - 1105
1105 in Ireland
-Events:*Cellach Ua Sinaig inherits the position of Abbot of Armagh ....

 - 1104 - 1103 - 1102 - 1101
1101 in Ireland
-Events:*Synod of Cashel, Muirchertach O'Brien grants Cashel to the church as the seat of a metropolitan....


First millennium AD

10th century in Ireland
10th century in Ireland
-900s:902* Dublin has been abandoned - the end of the Longphort phase - the term used by modern scholars to refer to the earliest period of Viking settlement at Dublin908...

9th century in Ireland
9th century in Ireland
-800s:802*Death of Muiredach mac Domnaill , King of Mide. He issucceeded by Diarmait mac Donnchado.803*Death of Diarmait mac Donnchado , King of Mide...

8th century in Ireland
8th century in Ireland
-700s:701* Death of Niall mac Cernaig Sotal, a king in southern Brega of the Uí Chernaig sept of Lagore of the Síl nÁedo Sláine. He was the grandson of the high king Diarmait mac Áedo Sláine .702...

7th century in Ireland
7th century in Ireland
-600s:601*Probable year in which Colmán mac Cobthaig, Uí Fiachrach becomes king of Connacht.602 or 604* Death of Áed mac Diarmato or Áed Sláine , the son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Legendary stories exist of Áed's birth. Killed his nephew and was in turn slain by his grandnephew.603* Death of...

6th century in Ireland
6th century in Ireland
-500s:506* 23 March - Death of St. Mac Caírthinn, Bishop of Clogher.507* Death of Lugaid mac Lóegairi, High King of Ireland, son of Lóegaire mac Néill, son of Niall Noigiallach ....

5th century in Ireland
5th century in Ireland
-5th century:405*Possible year of death of Niall Noígíallach. The Annals of the Four Masters dates his accession to 378 and death to 405. The chronology of Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn broadly agrees, dating his reign from 368-395, and associating his raiding activities in Britain with the...

4th century in Ireland
3rd century in Ireland
2nd century in Ireland
2nd century in Ireland
-140s:140*Greek astronomer and cartographer Ptolemy provided the earliest known reference to human habitation in the area now known as Dublin. In around 140 he referred to a settlement he called Eblana Civitas-Notes:...

First century in Ireland
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