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