* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

Since the Irish War of Independence, the name ' Boxing Day ' is used only by the authorities in Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK.

* 1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

There were calls for the execution of the " ringleaders " in the major Irish nationalist daily newspaper, the Irish Independent, and local authorities also sought the ringleaders.

Tánaiste Mary Harney said no deal had been done with Sinn Féin or the IRA over the three's return to Ireland adding that the Irish government would consider any request from the Colombian authorities for their extradition.

Emmet's housekeeper, Anne Devlin, is also remembered in Irish history for enduring torture without providing information to the authorities.

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

Following the turmoil of World War I 1914 – 1918, the 1916 rising, the Irish War of Independence 1919 – 1921, and the Irish Civil War 1921 – 1923, the Irish government found it necessary to remove the members of several local authorities and replace them temporarily by paid commissioners.

However, a rebellion in 1798, involving a French invasion of Ireland and seeking complete independence from Great Britain, descended into sectarian violence and ruthless repression by the Irish authorities.

As the Irish state's ability to borrow is diminished government policy favours an increased role for private financing of housing associations instead of capital grants for local authorities.

A partnership between the IWM, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, and Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh museum authorities, phase one included a touring exhibition seen by more than two million people, overseas educational visits and further activities run by local authorities.

See the Lives in the Dictionary of National Biography and in Biographia Britannica ( Kippis ), with authorities there collected ; Essex's Irish correspondence is in the Stow Collection in the British Library, Nos.

In 1998, the Irish authorities were again party to a settlement, the Good Friday Agreement, which set up power-sharing institutions within Northern Ireland, North-South instructions and links between the various components of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

While at Cambridge in March 1932, he decided to try for a place in the Irish Olympic squad and after he ran 54. 2 seconds ( a record ) for the Irish Championship 440 yards ( 402 m ) hurdles in June that year, the authorities agreed to let him run in his new event at the Los Angeles Olympics, where he also came eighth in the decathlon.

The Irish constitution states ( in Article 13. 6 ) that " The right of pardon and the power to commute or remit punishment imposed by any court exercising criminal jurisdiction are hereby vested in the President, but such power of commutation or remission may also be conferred by law on other authorities ".

From 1865 to 1867, British authorities rounded up supporters of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish independence movement, and transported sixty-two of them to the penal colony of Western Australia.

In 2003, when Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair became interested in starting a service from the John Paul II International Airport, the airport authorities refused to reduce the landing fees.

The official stance of the Irish Volunteers was that action would only be taken were the British authorities at Dublin Castle to attempt to disarm the Volunteers, arrest their leaders, or introduce conscription to Ireland.

The Dublin 4 area is fixed by the Irish postal authorities.

The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland were dominated by Irish nationalists ' pursuit of Home Rule ( or even independence ) from the United Kingdom.

Whereas MacNeill intended to use force only to resist the imposition of conscription on Ireland, or to prevent the use of force to disarm of the Volunteers, the IRB men intended to launch an armed rebellion in pursuit of Irish independence.

The word " Tory " derives from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe ; modern Irish tóraí: outlaw, robber or brigand, from the Irish word tóir, meaning " pursuit ", since outlaws were " pursued men ".

Parnell now sought to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrected the suppressed Land League on 17 October 1882 as the Irish National League ( INL ).

In the course of their pursuit of economic independence, Fianna Fáil also provoked what is known as the Anglo-Irish Trade War with Britain in 1933, by refusing to continue paying back " Land Annuities "-money that Irish farmers had borrowed from the British government since the 1903 Wyndham Act in order to buy their own land.

In pursuit of his Irish commission, Gilbert set sail in June 1579 after a spell of bad weather, and promptly got lost in fog and heavy rains off Land's End, an incident that caused the Queen to doubt his seafaring abilities.

In effect, Flynn was interpreted as behaving in a manner more befitting the Irish stereotype known as the Dublin 4 mentality, complaining of the costs incurred in the pursuit of extravagance.

The Whigs ( initially an insult — ' whiggamore ,' a cattle driver ,) were those who supported the exclusion of James, the Duke of York from the succession to thrones of Scotland and England & Ireland ( the ' Petitioners '), and the Tories ( also an insult, derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí — outlaw, robber, from the Irish word tóir, meaning ' pursuit ', since outlaws were " pursued men ".

The 1919 – 1921, Irish War of Independence, saw the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) launch a guerilla campaign in pursuit of Irish independence.

In pursuit of its policy of neutrality, the Irish Government refused to close the German and Japanese embassies.

In April 1916 about 1, 250 armed Irish republicans under Padraig Pearse staged what became known as the Easter Rising in Dublin in pursuit not of Home Rule but of an Irish Republic.

Finn was in pursuit of a Scottish giant, and hoping to prevent his escape by swimming across the sea, scooped a huge mass of clay and rock from the land mass and hurled it ; but he overshot, and the chunk of earth landed in the Irish Sea, thus creating the island.

The British force lost between 2, 000 and 3, 000 killed or captured, mostly in the pursuit ; the Irish roughly 300.

Interestingly two thirds of the Irish dead were found on the battlefield itself rather than along the line of pursuit which stands as stark testament to the determination of the Ulster troops knowing Coote's reputation as a merciless killer and breaker of treaties.

Hundreds of Irish soldiers were ridden down by the Parliamentary cavalry in the subsequent pursuit.

However, the fact that he chose to stay in Westminster following the expulsion of 29 Irish MPs ( when those in the Clan expected an exodus of nationalist MPs from Westminster to set up a provisional government in Dublin ) and his failure in 1886 to support the Plan of Campaign ( an aggressive agrarian programme launched to counter agricultural distress ), marked him as an essentially constitutional politician, though not averse to using agitational methods as a means of putting pressure on parliament.

Many individual instances of murder were also unofficially carried out by aggressive local Irish Yeomanry militia units before, during and after the rebellion as their local knowledge led them to attack suspected rebels.

This condition allows him to physically transform into one of his seven assassin personae: African American Garcian Smith, aggressive Irish American Dan Smith, barefoot Japanese American female KAEDE Smith, albino Briton Kevin Smith, Puerto Rican Coyote Smith, young Chinese American Con Smith, and Mexican American luchador MASK de Smith.

McWilliams has also called for a different approach to the current crisis in Ireland, including a demand for a more aggressive negotiating stance with the European Union, the creation of an alliance between Ireland, Greece, Portugal and other debtor nations, default on the Irish bank debts (€ 97 bn ) held by the ECB and exploiting the deposits of multinational companies in the IFSC as a stimulus.

English republican dictator, Oliver Cromwell's campaign was characterised by its uncompromising treatment of the Irish towns ( most notably Drogheda ) that had supported the Royalists during the English Civil War.

In the same month the Irish Republican Army began the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla campaign against British rule ; in 1919 this consisted of attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).

The Provisional Irish Republican Army's ( IRA ) campaign against the partition of Ireland had begun in the two years prior to Bloody Sunday, but public perceptions of the day boosted the status of, and recruitment into, the organisation enormously.

In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).

John de Courcy Ireland, and his wife Beatrice, aiming to campaign for the Irish government to support international efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament and to keep Ireland free of nuclear power.

Thereafter, the IRA waged a guerrilla campaign against British rule in Ireland in the 1919 – 21 Irish War of Independence.

It was subsequently, and most commonly, used for those Volunteers who fought a guerrilla campaign in 1919 – 1921 in support of the Irish Republic declared in 1919.

* 1939 – The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.

* 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

* 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

In 1847 Le Fanu supported John Mitchel and Thomas Francis Meagher in their campaign against the indifference of the government to the Irish Famine.

Possibly influenced by the War of American Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), a united force of Irish volunteers used their influence to campaign for greater independence for the Irish Parliament.

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* June 25 – Irish police foil a Provisional Irish Republican Army-sponsored ' mainland bombing campaign ' which targeted luxury vacationing resorts.

In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) indicated that its armed campaign was over and that it is now exclusively committed to democratic politics.

He was increasingly involved in the Irish republican movement, joining Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann in 1964, after being radicalised by the Divis Street riots during that year's general election campaign.

After a third campaign by Óengus in 741, Dál Riata then disappears from the Irish records for a generation.

During the campaign the leading Conservative Walter Long had asked Knollys for permission to state that the King did not favour Irish Home Rule, but Knollys refused, as it was not appropriate for the monarch's views to be known in public.

After he became emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Maximus would return to Britain to campaign against the Picts and Scots ( i. e., Irish ), probably in support of Rome's long-standing allies the Damnonii, Votadini, and Novantae ( all located in modern Scotland ).

They became the first victims of the re-organized Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) campaign.