History: Extracted from 'THE UNITED IRISHMEN' - 'OUTLINE OF HISTORY' *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Islandwide Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: C. Hunt & M. Taylor ----------------------------------- '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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [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 ----------------------------- 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