History: Extracted from 'THE UNITED IRISHMEN' - 'OUTLINE OF
HISTORY'
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'THE UNITED IRISHMEN' - 'OUTLINE OF HISTORY'
IRISH HISTORY
FROM LEGENDARY DAYS TO THE EARLY PART OF THE
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Tabulated by Horace S. MEESE
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[p256] United Irishmen
Michael DAVITT unseated as M.P. for North Meath ............... Dec 23 1892
Violent dynamite explosion wrecked large portion of Dublin
Detective Office ..................................................... Dec 24 1892
Annual convention of Irish landowners passed resolutions
protesting against Home Rule .................................. Jan 26 1893
Irish Home Rule Bill after four days' debate brought in and read
in House of Commons for first time .................................... Feb 17 1893
Irish Agricultural Association held its inaugural
meeting in Dublin ............................................. Feb 21 1893
Irish National League at New York issued a manifesto denouncing
Home Rule ............................................................. Feb 21 1893
Mass meeting of Ulster Protestants and Orange-men assembled
in Belfast and sworn to resist Home Rule by all lawful means .. Mar 2 1893
Banquet at Cooper Union, New York, presided over by Gen. O'BEIRNE
to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Robert EMMET ............. Mar 7 1893
Nationalist Convention at Dublin endorses the Irish Home
Rule as satisfactory in the main .............................. Mar 8 1893
Demonstration against Home Rule in Dublin ..................... Mar 15 1893
Vote of censure on the Government's Irish policy defeated in the
House of Commons 319 to 272 ........................................... Mar 27 1893
Demonstrations against Home Rule Bill at Belfast
[p257] with 120,000 paraders and 500,000 spectators .................. Apr 4 1893
Unionist demonstration at Dublin against Home Rule Bill ....... Apr 8 1893
Lord Mayor of Dublin, accompanied by the sheriff and aldermen in
state, presents a petition at bar of House of Commons in favor of
Home Rule ............................................................. Apr 17 1893
After twelve days' debate Irish Home Rule Bill passed by
House of Commons on second reading by 347 to 304 .............. Apr 21 1893
Anti-Home Rule demonstration at Albert Hall attended by 1,200
delegates from Ireland ..............................................., Apr 22 1893
Hand-thrown bomb exploded in Four Courts in Dublin ,,,,,,,,,,,, May 6 1893
Home Rule demonstration in Hyde Park ........................... May 21 1893
First installment of Irish Home Rule closured without discussion ...... Jul 6 1893
Second installment closured ................................... Jul 13 1893
Remaining clauses passed under closure ........................ Jul 20 1893
Last schedule passed through committee, personal encounters taking
place between Conservatives and Irish Nationalists .................... Jul 27 1893
Mr. GLADSTONE'S motion to closure debate on report stage of
Home Rule Bill passed in House of Commons 200 to 162 Aug 21 1893
report stage closured ......................................... Aug 15 1893
Home Rule Bill carried on the third reading in House of
Commons on the eighty-second night of
[p258] debate, 301 to 267. At once sent to the House of Lords and
read for the first time ....................................... Sept 1 1893
Home Rule Bill rejected by House of Lords on second reading after four
nights' debate by 419 to 41 ........................................... Sept 8 1893
Demonstration at Limerick, attended by 10,000 favoring
political amnesty to political prisoners ...................... Sept 17 1893
Second anniversary of PARNELL'S death commemorated by great
procession in Dublin ........................................... Oct 8 1893
Convention League of Ulster Unionists reviewed Home Rule question ...... Oct 24 1893
Dublin Bankruptcy Court refused to set aside decree
against Michael DAVITT ................................ Oct 25 1893
Dynamite bomb found in yard adjoining Aldborough Barracks, Dublin ...... Nov 27 1893
DILLON and HEALY supporter split after two day's meeting
at Dublin of the shareholders of the "Freeman's Journal" ....... Mar 28 1894
Annual Convention of the Irish National League held at Liverpool ....... May 12 1894
Evicted Tenant's Bill passes House of Commons on second
reading 259 to 237 ............................................. Jul 23 1894
Proceedings of Irish Land committee cut short by a closing motion
carried by the casting vote of the chairman, Mr. J. MORLEY ..............Jul 31 1894
Time limit rule on Evicted Tenant's Bill passed by House of
Commons 217 to 174 ............................................. Jul 31 1894
Evicted Tenant's Bill passed on third reading by House of
Commons 199 to 167 ............................................. Aug 7 1894
House of Lords rejects Evicted Tenants' Bill on second
reading by 249 to 30 ........................................... Aug 14 1894
Land Act committee reports to Mr. MOELEY ....................... Aug 23 1894
"Paris Fund" of the Irish Nationalists party, amounting to £36,000
released and handed over to Justin McCARTHY ............................ Oct 23 1894
New Irish Land Bill brought into the House of Commons by
J. MORELY ...................................................... Mar 4 1895
Irish Land Bill read second time without division after
three nights' debate ........................................... Apr 5 1895
Bill to repeal Irish Crimes Act read second time by 222 to 208;
O'Donovan ROSSA attempts to make demonstration .......................... Apr 8 1895
Centenary of the College of Maynooth celebrated ................ Jun 25 1895
United Irish societies of Western Pennsylvania, 5,000 representatives.
adopt physical force in promoting cause of Ireland ..................... Aug 16 1895
Earl CADOGAN Lord Lieutenant or Ireland, made state entry
into Ireland ................................................... Aug 22 1895
Irish Physical Force" convention met at Chicago, ILL ................... Sep 23 1895
M. DAVITT elected to succeed T. HEALY on the Executive of
the Irish National League ...................................... Nov 7 1895
Irish Nationalist federation and Irish Parliamentary Party expel
T. M. HEALY and Arthur O'CONNOR ........................................ Nov 13 1895
Justin McCARTHY resigned as chairman of the Irish
Parliamentary Party ............................................ Feb 1 1896
John DILLON chosen as head of the Irish National Federation at Dublin .. Feb 6 1896
Mr. SEXTON succeeds Justin McCARTHY as head of the Irish
Parliamentary Party ............................................ Feb 6 1896
Amendment granting amnesty to Irish political prisoners rejected ....... Feb 18 1896
John DILLON chosen head of the Irish Parliamentary Party,
Mr. SEXTON declining to serve .................................. Feb 18 1896
Irish Land Bill passed through committee in the House of Commons
after sitting prolonged until 4:30 AM .................................. Jul 24 1896
Irish Land bill, after an all-night sitting, passed report
stage and third reading in House of Commons without division ... Jul 29 1896
Irish land Bill read second time in House of Lords without division
after long debate ...................................................... Jul 31 1896
Convention of the Irish Race began its sittings at Dublin.
2.000 delegates present ........................................ Sep 1 1896
Annual convention of the Irish National League, T P O'CONNOR,
president; Healyites fail re-election ................................. Sep 4 1896
Fenian leader, P J TYNAN alleged to have directed Phoenix
Park murders, arrested in Boulogne ............................. Sep 12 1896
Meeting at Dublin Mansion House, Lord Mayor presiding, attended by
[p261] Irishmen of all creeds and political opinions to demand
taxation redress ............................................... Dec 28 1896
Annual convention of Irish Landowners condemns land Act of 1896 ........ Jan 27 1897
***** Potato crops in Cork, Terry [Kerry-?] and Clare destroyed
by excessive rain .............................................. Sep 3 1897
Centenary of the death of Edmund BURKE commemorated by the
Irish Literary Society ......................................... Oct 27 1897
REDMOND"S amendment to the address, favoring "independent" Irish
Parliament rejected 233 to 65 .......................................... Feb 11 1898
Centenary of 1798 celebrated ................................... Feb 16 1898
Irish Local Government Bill introduced in House of Commons ............. Feb 21 1898
Irish Local Government Bill passed third reading in
House of Commons ............................................... Mar 19 1898
Irish Local Government Bill passed third reading in House of Lords ..... Jul 28 1898
without division ....................................................... Jul 20 1898
NOTED: Possibly July 30 for above -
Foundation stone of monumemt to Wolfe TONE and the "United
Irishmen of 1898" laid by Mr. John O'LEARY, president of
the Centenary Committee ........................................ Aug 15 1898
First elections in Ireland under the Local Government Bill ............. Jan 17 1899
James FITZHARRIS (Skin the Goat) who drove the "Invincibles"
to the scene of the Phoenix Park murders and Laurence HANLON
released from prison ........................................... Aug 21 1899
Foundation stone of PARNELL monument laid at Dublin ............ Oct 8 1899
Rt. Hon. Horace PLUNKETT,MP, appointed first Vice-President new
department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland ........ Nov 4 1899
Irish Nationalist members of Parliament hold conference at
Mansion House at Mansion House, Dublin ......................... Nov 23 1899
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN given honorary degree of D.C.D. by Trinity College ,,,,, Dec 18 1899
Queen Victoria issues orders that in the future upon
St. Patrick's Day all ranks in the army shall wear a sprig
of shamrock in commemoration of the gallantry of the Irish
Soldiers in South Africa ....................................... Mar 7 1900
Queen Victoria greets 52,000 school children from all parts of
Ireland in Phoenix Park, Dublin ........................................ Apt 7 1900
Irish Nationalist Convention held at the Rotunda, Dublin
under presidency of John REDMOND ............................... Jun 20 1900
Nationalist demonstration at Phoenix Park, Dublin, demands Home Rule
and the abolition of Landlordism ....................................... Sep 2 1900
Nationalist Convention at the Rotunda, Dublin excludes
T M HEALY, MP, from the Irish Parliamentary Party .............. Dec 11 1900
Queen Victoria died ............................................ Feb 22 1901
Adjournment moved in House of Commons account of seizure
of current number of the
[p263] "Irish People" for obscene libel of the King. Motion defeated
252 to 64 ...................................................... May 10 1901
Sectarian riots in Belfast ..................................... Jun 9 1901
J. REDMOND MP, who presided stated there were 1250 active branches
of the League in Ireland ............................................... Jan 8 1902
Lord CADOGAN resigns as Viceroy of Ireland ..................... Jul 17 1902
Earl of DUDLEY sworn in at Dublin Castle as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . Aug 16 1902
First conference of landlords and tenants held at the Mansion
House, Dublin, presided over by Lord DUNRAVEN .................. Dec 20 1902
"Colonel LYNCH convicted of high treason ....................... Jan 23 1903
"Colonel" LYNCH'S sentence of death. Committed to life imprisonment ... Jan 28 1903
National Convention to consider the Irish Land Bill opened ..... Apr 16 1903
Irish Landowners Convention held in Dublin ............................. Apr 24 1903
Dublin University opens its doors to women ..................... Jun 9 1903
King and Queen visit Ireland ................................... July 1903
First agreement under new Irish Land Act arranged by W. BROWNE, a
landowner of County Wexford ............................................ Sep 11 1903
Civic inauguration of the new Liverpool University ............. Nov 7 1903
King lays foundation stone for new buildings of
the Royal College of Science in Dublin ......................... May 28 1904
Mr. WYNDHAM, Chief Secretary for Ireland installed as Lord Rector of
Glasgow University ..................................................... Nov 22 1904
Prince of Wales attends opening levee at Dublin Castle ......... Feb 1 1905
Walter LONG appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland .............. Mar 13 1905
Exceptionally heavy rains in Ireland. Over three inches in Dublin
in twenty-fours hours. Much damage by floods .......................... Sep 26 1905
Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN. at Stirling, urges "Home Rule
by Installments" ............................................... Nov 23 1905
J H CAMPBELL appointed Attorney General for Ireland .................... Dec 5 1905
Earl of Aberdeen, new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, makes
State entry into Dublin ........................................ Feb 3 1906
The provisions of sections 3 and 4 of the Irish "Coercion Act" of
1887 revoked ........................................................... Feb 6 1906
Statue of Mr. LECKY, the historian, unveiled by Lord
RATHMORE at Trinity College, Dublin ............................ May 11 1906
Statue of the Earl of Dufferin unveiled at Belfast by the Marquess of
Londonderry ............................................................ Jun 8 1906
Rosslare harbour and railway forming part of the new route
to the south of Ireland, via Fishguard opened .................. Jul 21 1906
Final report of the Royal Commission on Trinity College, Dublin,
issued as a Blue Book. Commissioners were unanimously of the
opinion trinity College could not be so altered as to make it
acceptable to the Irish Catholic bishops but were divided as
to the association with it of a Roman Catholic college ........ Jan 21 1907
Mr. A. BIRRELL appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland ................... Jan 24 1907
Nationalist Convention at Dublin unanimously rejects the
Irish Council Bill ............................................. May 21 1907
At Dublin, it was discovered that the State Jewels of the Order of
St. Patrick had been stolen since June 11, from a safe at the office
of Arms in Dublin Castle ............................................... Jul 6 1907
Colonel Arthur Alfred LYNCH, elected Nationalist MP, for Galway
in 1902 and convicted Jan 23, 1903 of high treason for having
fought on the Boer side in the South African War, granted full
pardon by the King ............................................. Jul 10 1907
Memorial arch to officers and men of the Royal Dublin Fusileers, who
fell in the South African War, unveiled at Dublin by Duke of Connaught . Aug 19 1907
Tuberculosis Exhibition opened in Dublin ....................... Oct 12 1907
Irish Universities Act became law .............................. Jul 31 1908
"Sinn Fein" becomes active ..................................... Jan 1909
Mr. CALLAGHAN, secretary of the United Irish League of the United
States, brings £2,400 for the Nationalist Parliamentary Party .......... Sep 1909
Belfast and Dublin Universities come into existence ............ Oct 1 1909
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Transcriber's Note: Preceding extraction covers Ireland from the years for balance of
1892 AD up to end of chapter October, 1909 - contained in p256 through p265 of the
following source: When searching the site, check Kildare Co. 'Local History' for
Naas members of the Society (to be continued)
Source:
Madden, Richard Robert, "The United Irishmen Their Lives And Times". 1916.
New York: The Catholic Publication Society of America