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Irish nationalism

political movement asserting the sovereignty and unity of the Irish people

7 dated entries naming Irish nationalism, drawn from 7 separate years between 1798 CE and 1973 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1798March – the Irish Rebellion of 1798 begins when the Irish Militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen, a group unique amongst Irish republican and nationalist movements in that it unifies Catholics and Protestants (Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others) around republican ideals. This month, Lord Castlereagh is appointed Acting Chief Secretary for Ireland and on March 30 martial law is proclaimed here. The first battles in the rebellion are fought on May 24, and it continues through September, but the rebels receive much less than the expected support from France, which sends only 1,100 men.source

19th century

  • 1882May 2 – The Kilmainham Treaty, an agreement between the British government and Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released from Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.source
  • 1887November 13 – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.source

20th century

  • 1901March 5 – Irish nationalist demonstrators are ejected by police from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London.source
  • 1971August 9 – Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow.source
  • 1972January 30 – Bloody Sunday: The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.source
  • 1973June 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.source

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