Ireland timeline
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Arthur Guinness launches Guinness Brewing Company
Arthur Guinness was the founder of the Guinness brewery business, an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist. Guinness laid the foundations for... Read more
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Oscar Wilde Is Born
Oscar Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College, Dublin) the second of three children born to... Read more
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Oscar Wilde Attends the Portora Royal School for Boys
We know something of Oscar Wilde's time at Portora from surviving records and from contemporaries. When Ocsar enrolled at Portora in February 1864,... Read more
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James Joyce is Born
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane Murray in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. He was... Read more
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Armagh Rail Disaster
The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh, Ireland when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep... Read more
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James Joyce Enrolls at University College Dublin
He enrolled at the recently established University College Dublin (UCD) in 1898, and studied modern languages, specifically English, French and... Read more
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James Joyce Meets Nora Barnacle
The disparate strands of his life found their focus on June 10, 1904, when he met Nora Barnacle. He guessed correctly from her accent that she was... Read more
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James Joyce Manages The Volta Cinematograph, Ireland's First Cinema
Cinema arrived in Dublin in April 1896 when a demonstration was held in Dan Lowery’s Star of Erin theatre (later the Olympia). James Joyce was... Read more
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'Dubliners' Is Published
Troubled by his conscience (a rare trait for any publisher) he now agreed, again, to publish Dubliners, the only condition being Joyce had to buy... Read more
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Easter Rising and the Irish Rebellion of 1916
Irish Rebels, 6,000 men James Connolly, Commander Patrick H. Pearse Edmond de Val era John O'Reilly Major John McBride Countess... Read more
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Events Leading Up to the Easter Rising and the Irish Rebellion of 1916
The most audacious and yet the most inspiring rebellion in modern history — that of a handful of Irish patriots to wrest control of Ireland from... Read more
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'Exiles' is Published
Critics of Joyce have usually paid less attention to this play than to his other work. In the literary career of Joyce, it is both important and... Read more
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Winston Churchill Signs The Anglo-Irish Treaty
The Anglo-Irish Treaty would replace the Third Home Rule Bill and the Ireland Act and would result in a much more independent South Ireland, or... Read more
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William Butler Yeats is Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives... Read more
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Loss of HMS Curacoa
On 2 October 1942, she was escorting the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary carrying nearly 20,000 American troops of the 29th Infantry Division to join... Read more
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President Kennedy Arrives in Ireland to Promote Connections between Irish Americans and their Country of Ancestry
The US President John F Kennedy has received a rapturous welcome on an emotional visit to his ancestral homeland in County Wexford, Ireland. On... Read more
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Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1973 he was elected by the General Assembly to the post of High Commissioner for Namibia, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. The... Read more
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Betelgeuse Incident
A TERRIFYING rumbling shattering a still winter’s night, was the prelude to Ireland’s worst maritime disaster, a quarter of a century ago.The... Read more
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Louis Mountbatten is Killed by an IRA Bomb While Vacationing
The IRA claim responsibility for the execution of Lord Louis Mountbatten. This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the... Read more
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Stardust Fire
The fire at the Stardust Club in Dublin in February 1981 was responsible for the deaths of 48 people. The investigation and subsequent Inquiry... Read more
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John Hume and David Trimble are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Hume is credited with being the thinker behind many of the recent political developments in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale power-sharing to the... Read more
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2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games
The 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games were hosted in Ireland, with participants staying in various host towns around the island in the lead... Read more
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Graeme McDowell Wins the 2010 U.S. Open Golf Championship
In a U.S. Open with golf's biggest stars on the leaderboard, it was Graeme McDowell who played like one. McDowell seized control after a... Read more