Irish History

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All Roads Lead to Dublin – the Georgian Economy
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All Roads Lead to Dublin – the Georgian Economy

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The prosperity of the 18th century translated into a rapid improvement in Ireland’s infrastructure. Financed from Dublin, the transport network radiated from the city, a combination of turnpike roads and canals. The port of Dublin’s dominance was accentuated by the steady elimination of punitive duties originally imposed by England on... More
Catholic Emancipation and Repeal in Ireland 1824–43
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Catholic Emancipation and Repeal in Ireland 1824–43

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The Irish statesman Daniel O’ Connell (1775–1847) was a pioneer of the political mass-movement, which he engaged first to achieve Catholic Emancipation (1829), then in pursuit of repeal of the Act of Union. He was abetted by Thomas Wyse, who established Liberal Clubs to activate the support of the Catholic... More
Catholicism in Ireland 1922
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Catholicism in Ireland 1922

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In 1922, Catholicism was the predominant Christian faith in Ireland. It comprised 92.6 per cent of the population of the new Irish Free State and 36 per cent of the population of Northern Ireland: Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry, Armagh, Antrim and Down. In Northern Ireland, only two of the six counties... More
Cromwell in Ireland 1649–57
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Cromwell in Ireland 1649–57

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By Cromwell’s Settlement (1652) the proportion of Irish land in Catholic hands fell from 60 to 8 per cent, confined to inland Connacht. Catholics were also banned from towns and public office. The preceding campaign of conquest has become notorious for its brutality. However, other than the massacres that followed... More
Dáil Elections 1997 (proportional representation)
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Dáil Elections 1997 (proportional representation)

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By 1997, Ireland was an emerging Celtic Tiger with rising prosperity through agricultural exports, and booming finance and construction sectors. The ruling Fine Gael/Labour coalition was in the rare position of being able to boast a budget surplus. The 1997 election produced an unusual realignment. Fine Gael actually gained votes... More
Dublin 1170–1542
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Dublin 1170–1542

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Dublin was the capital of the English Lordship of Ireland. Largely ignored by England, Dublin, had, by the 14th century, become a beleaguered enclave, huddled behind its Pale defences and forced to pay tribute to the predatory Irish clans. The Irish were meant to be excluded from the city, confined... More
Dublin c. 1725
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Dublin c. 1725

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Before the Stuart Restoration, Dublin was a miserable relict of less than 9,000 inhabitants depopulated by plague and decades of war. Thereafter, it recovered dramatically, initially under the oversight of the Duke of Ormonde, who decreed that riverside houses must face the River Liffey, preventing its use for dumping waste.... More
Dublin c. 1800
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Dublin c. 1800

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The Wide Streets Commission (1757) instigated demolition of Dublin’s narrow medieval streets, replacing them with spacious boulevards. Five major Georgian squares were created (Mountjoy and Rutland, north of the Liffey, St Stephen’s, Fitzwilliam and Merrion on the southside), each girdled by mansions housing the Protestant Ascendancy. Its transport links were... More
Dublin City Centre Late 19th Century
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Dublin City Centre Late 19th Century

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By 1880 Dublin, so long Ireland’s dominant city, was threatened with eclipse by the industrial dynamism of Belfast. The degeneration of its housing stock had been accelerated by the vast influx of the destitute during the Great Famine, who remained in decaying inner city tenements, while the middle classes fled... More
Dublin Civic Survey 1925
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Dublin Civic Survey 1925

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The 1925 Dublin Civic Survey was no ersatz municipal document. It avers ‘Housing in Dublin today… is more than a problem – it is a tragedy. Its conditions cause either a rapid or a slow death. Rapid when the houses fall on their tenants… slow, when they remain standing dens... More
Easter Rising, Dublin 25 April 1916
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Easter Rising, Dublin 25 April 1916

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The plan for the Easter Rising was developed secretly by a Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The actual rebellion was to be executed by the paramilitary Irish Volunteers under the guise of a ‘field day’. However, the moderate Chief of Staff of the Volunteers, Eoin MacNeill, discovered the... More
Easter Rising: The British Recovery 26–28 April 1916
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Easter Rising: The British Recovery 26–28 April 1916

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The British authorities in Dublin were aware a rising was planned for Easter Monday, 1916, under the cover of ‘demonstrations’ planned by the paramilitary Irish Volunteers. Their fears were allayed when Volunteer leader Eoin MacNeill announced the cancellation of the demonstrations, but a faction led by Padraig Pearse, the Irish... More