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Irish

People of Irish culture from Ireland or those of Irish descent. The Irish mainly speak English, though there are approximately 30,000–100,000 speakers of Irish Gaelic, a Celtic language belonging to the Indo‐European family.

Celtic tribes, the ancestors of the Irish, migrated to Ireland about 300 BC. Later known as Gaels (Irishmen), they settled on the Isle of Man and southwestern Scotland, and established colonies in western Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Irish History For Dummies
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Origins Of Terrorism
5 January 1900

Irish Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond advocates a revolt against British home rule.

10 January 1922

Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein and one of the architects of the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, is elected president of the newly established Irish Free State.

21 January 1919

The first meeting of the Dail Eireann (the lower house of the Irish Parliament) takes place in the Mansion House, Dublin.

30 January 1913

In Britain, the House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.

31 January 1953

A car ferry, The Princess Victoria, sinks in the Irish Sea, drowning 130 people.

17 February 2005

Seven people are arrested and more than £2 million is recovered by Irish police investigating the £26 million Northern Bank robbery, which touch place in Belfast in December 2004.

18 February 1948

Eamon de Valera steps down as Irish Taoiseach (prime minister).

26 February 1983

Irish goalkeeper Pat Jennings becomes the first footballer to play in 1,000 football league matches.

9 March 1987
Irish rock band, U2, release their classic album The Joshua Tree.
17 March 1762
In New York City, the first St. Patrick’s Day parade is held by Irish soldiers serving in the British army.
27 March 1987
Irish rock band, U2, perform an impromptu concert on top of a liquor store in Los Angeles, America.
30 March 1979
In England, Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave is killed by a car bomb planted by the The Irish National Liberation Army. 
9 May 1671
In England, Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer known as “Captain Blood”, is captured attempting to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
11 June 1837
In America, English and Irish residents of Boston clash in the Broad Street Riot.
21 June 1798
British forces commanded by Lord Lake defeat Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill - bringing an end to the Irish Rebellion.
26 June 1996
Irish journalist Veronica Guerin is murdered.
28 June 1922
The beginning of the Irish Civil War.
14 July 2001
Northern Irish politicians fail to resolve the deadlock in the peace process after six days of crisis talks in Staffordshire, England. The Northern Ireland Assembly is eventually suspended in August.
19 July 1997
The Irish Republican Army, the IRA, announce a major ceasefire in its 28 year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
3 August 1916
Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist, is hanged in London for treason following his attempts to induce Germany to support the cause of Irish independence.
14 August 1979
15 people are killed during the Fastnet yacht race in the Irish Sea as a big storm hits the competition.
15 August 1599
During the Nine Years War, Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell ambush English forces led by Sir Conyers Clifford at the Battle of Curlew Pass in Ireland.
22 August 1922
Irish republican Michael Collins, the founder of Sinn Fein, is assassinated by extremist republicans in an ambush in Ireland.
24 August 1990
Irishman Brian Keenan is released by his Islamic kidnappers in Beirut after spending 52 months in captivity.
30 September 1994
Whilst in a stop over in Ireland, Russian President Boris Yelstin fails to meet the Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds due to oversleeping!
13 November 1887
Violence erupts in London’s Trafalgar Square at a Socialist rally attended by Irish agitators demanding the release of MP William O'Brien. The brutality which the police used to quell the demonstrators earned the day the name Bloody Sunday.
15 November 1985
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitzgerald sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement in Dublin, instigating regular conferences between Britain and the Republic of Ireland about Northern Ireland.
24 November 1973
Robert Erskine Childers, a popular Irish author and member of the IRA, is killed by an Irish Free State firing squad after being convicted of carrying a revolver.
27 November 1975
Ross McWhirter, co-editor with his twin brother Norris of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by Irish terrorists outside his home in London, England.
28 November 1905
Irish political party Sinn Fein is founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith.
6 December 1933
In America, a federal judge rules that Irish author James Joyce’s book ‘Ulysses’ is not obscene.
9 December 1978
The Sunningdale Agreement, which sets up a consultative body between the British and Irish government’s and the main political parties in Northern Ireland, is signed.
15 December 1993
British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taisoch Albert Reynolds issue the Downing Street Declaration paving the way for the beginning of the peace process in Northern Ireland.
 

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