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• The Gaelic league was founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin Mac Neill.

• Foundation of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society by Horace Plunkett.

• William O'Brien's United Irish League founded.
• Irish Local Government Act set up elective county and district councils

• Reunion of the Home Rule Party under the leadership of John Redmond.

• Death of Queen Victoria.
• Edward VII became king.

• Wyndham Land Act introduced.

• Sinn Fein set up by Arthur Griffith.
• Liberals return to power in Britain.

• Birrell's Land Act increased the money available under the Wyndham Land Act for Land Purchase.

• Two general elections fought in Britain on the issue of the House of Lords.
• Home Rule party hold the balance of power.
• Carson became the leader of Irish Unionists.
• Death of Edward VII
• George V king of England.

• Parliament Act passed that abolished the veto power of the House of Lords. Bills can only be delayed for 2 years.

• Third Home Rule Bill introduced into the House of Commons, due to become law in 1914.
• Solemn League and Covenant signed throughout Ulster.

• Formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Home Rule.
• Irish Citizen Army founded to defend workers during the General Strike and Lockout that began in August.
• Irish Volunteers founded in response to the Ulster Volunteers.

• Curragh Mutiny revealed the depth of sympathy for the Unionist cause among officers in the British army in Ireland.
• U.V.F. land arms at Larne
• Buckingham Palace conference failed to solve the impasse over Home Rule.
• Irish Volunteers land arms at Howth.
• World War One broke out.
• ome Rule was shelved until the end of the war.
• Irish Volunteers split.

• Military council of the I.R.B. formed (future signatories of the 1916 proclamation)

• I.R.B. decided on a rebellion, planned for Easter Sunday.
• Rising began on the 24th of April with the seizure of buildings in the centre of Dublin.
• Rising ended five days later and the main leaders were executed.
• Massive change in public opinion

• Count Plunkett (father of executed 1916 leader) won the Roscommon by-election.
• Irish Convention met to try and solve the Home Rule issue. Boycotted by Sinn Fein.
• De Valera elected leader of Sinn Fein in October.

• Redmond died. Succeeded by John Dillon as leader of the Home Rule party.
• Threat of conscription united all of Nationalist Ireland in opposition. Sinn Fein got the credit for defeating its introduction.
• General election in December resulted in a massive victory for Sinn Fein.

• January- first meeting of the Dail and the War of Independence started
• September - Dail Eireann declared illegal.

• January: Black and Tans formed
• June Sinn Fein win local council elections
• November "Bloody Sunday"
• December: Government of Ireland Act set up a six-county parliament for Northern Ireland and a parliament for the South. Ignored in Southern Ireland and the violence continued.

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