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Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1594–1603 Nine Years' War: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1641–42 Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642–49 Confederate War: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1649–53 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1689–91 Williamite–Jacobite War
Jim Corr, guitarist and keyboardist with The Corrs. Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Sinn Féin party TD for Dublin South-Central and Chief Whip. 1 September – Ray D'Arcy, broadcaster. 5 September – Liam O'Brien, association football player. 1 October – John Sheridan, association footballer born in England of Irish descent.
Events. January–April – Great Irish Famine (1740–1741) at its height. [1] June–August – hot summer. The harvest is improved, but disease encouraged. [1] 2 October – the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin. [2]
25 April–December – John's first expedition to Ireland: King Henry II of England knights his son and heir, the 18-year-old Prince John, newly created Lord of Ireland, and sends him to Ireland, accompanied by 300 knights and a team of administrators to enforce English overlordship. Landing at Waterford, he treats the local Irish rulers with ...
10 August – A new £10 note bearing an image of the writer Jonathan Swift was introduced. 19 August – Over 5,000 people took part in a rally against a proposed nuclear power station in Carnsore Point, County Wexford. 1 September – Dublin Institute of Technology was created on an ad hoc basis by the City of Dublin Vocational Education ...
The Republic of Ireland is a sovereign state and occupies 84% of the island. Its capital and largest city is Dublin. The official languages of the Republic are Irish and English. Even though Irish is official in the country, only a small part of the population is fluent or a native speaker.
16 May – the first electric tram runs on the Dublin tramways system. May – James Connolly returns from Edinburgh to Ireland as paid organiser for the Dublin Socialist Club. He founds the Irish Republican Socialist Party. 28 March – Tom Gallaher incorporates the Gallaher tobacco business and opens the world's largest tobacco factory in ...
