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Irish land was confiscated and religious freedom was denied
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Rights to vote and be elected in to the British Parliament. The Irish Home Rule Party held over 80% of all Irish seats in the British Parliament.
Movement was started to make Ireland independent. -
The potato was attacked by a disease - about a million people died. Many people therefore emigrated out of the country. The English language spread (in schools 1831)
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North Ireland had become industrialized under control of British capital.
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Ownership of land was given to the farmers
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Irish Republic was proclaimed as an independent state. Severel people died - about 500 people.
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Irish Parliment established in 1919 - declared illegal på Britian.
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Made by English Parliament - constitution/fundamental law of Northern Ireland. The Act forbade discrimination on religious grounds -> though NI developed into a Protestant police state -> descrimination against Catholic population.
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26 counties became "free state" with dominion status within the Commonwealth. Six north eastern counties were controlled by Britain.
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New Free State was named Ireland.
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Catholics started a civil rights movement an open and often violent conflict between Protestants and Catholics.
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The Catholics proclaimed a "Free Derry" and the fighting spread to Belfast. and British troops were sent to Northern Ireland.
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The British Army shot and killed 13 unarmed demonstrators in Derry. Ireland exploded.
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Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze prison in Belfast. Seven people die that year due to starvation. They were all members of the IRA
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Corporal punishment ends in Irish schools
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The Anglo-Irish Agreement was an agreement between the United Kingdom and Ireland which aimed to help bring an end to the troubles in Northern Ireland
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Mary Robinson is President of Ireland. She was Ireland’s first female president. Later on she was appointed UN’s High Commissioner for human rights in 1997
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Ireland experiences rapid economic growth. It is called the Celtic Tiger
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There is a cease fire in Northern Ireland
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Seamus Heaney wins the Nobel prize for Literature
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The Irish people vote in a referendum to allow divorce
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Gaelic T.V. begins
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Mary McAleese becomes President
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The Troubles starting from the 1960's considering ended with the Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement which was decided by the Politics of Northern Ireland.As of today the conflicts are still there, but this was seen as a closure.
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In a referendum the Irish people vote to stop automatically granting citizenship to anyone born in the country
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Cork is made European Capital of Culture
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The EU recognises Irish as a working language
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56 policemen were hurt in Belfast when they were trying to stop a conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
Every summer Protestants held their traditional parades in Belfast which are seen as a provocation to the Catholics living in Belfast.