25,000 workers locked out for refusing to sign non‐union pledge directed against the ITGWU.
Formation of the Irish Volunteers.
3 August 1914 - World War 1 begins.
Century Ireland JuneKathleen Lynn - chief medical officer during 1916 Rising.
5 May 1916 Rising
Major John MacBride executed.
1916
24 April 1916 - Easter Rising
Kathleen Lynn - chief medical officer during 1916 Rising.
5 May 1916 Rising
Major John MacBride executed. sample of external link.
9 May 1916
Round up in Mayo, over 40 arrested
Mayo’s soldiers in WW1.
9 April 1918
Conscription introduced in Ireland.
15 June 1918
Martial law imposed throughout ...
1918
Spanish Avian Flu Pandemic.
9 April 1918
Conscription introduced in Ireland.
15 June 1918
Martial law imposed throughout most of the south and west of the country.
11 November 1918
World War 1 ends.
14-28 December 1918
General election; Sinn Fein secures 73 of Ireland"s 105 seats. Éamon de Valera elected in Mayo East (and East Clare).
Dail Eireann formed and Declaration of Independence.
The start of the War of Independence - Belmullet man one of first two RIC men shot.
1919
21 January 1919
Dail Eireann formed and Declaration of Independence.
The start of the War of Independence - Belmullet man one of first two RIC men shot.
29 March 1919
Resident Magistrate J.C. Milling shot at Westport, Co. Mayo (dies shortly afterwards)
3 June 1919
Local Government (Ireland) Act; boroughs to be divided into wards containing at least six councillors, to be elected by P.R.
18 June 1920
Dail Eireann establishes ‘arbitration courts’ to deal with land disputes.
20 September 1919
All republican newspapers suppressed.
30 September 1919
Number of reported police and military raids on private houses for past nine months reaches 5,588.
Local government elections give Sinn Fein, other nationalists and Labour control of 172 out of 206 borough and urban district councils.
1920
15 January 1920
Local government elections give Sinn Fein, other nationalists and Labour control of 172 out of 206 borough and urban district councils.
14 February 1920
I.R.A. unit under Ernie O’Malley captures R.I.C. barracks at Shantonagh, Ballytrain, Co. Monaghan, the first such barracks taken in Ulster by the I.R.A.
25 March 1920
‘Black and Tans’ arrive in Ireland.
17 May 1920
First Dail Courts held in Ballinrobe Town Hall.
12 June 1920
Elections to county councils, rural district councils and boards of Poor Law Guardians result in overwhelming Sinn Fein success.
28 June 1920
‘B’ and ‘C’ Companies of the Connaught Rangers mutiny in the the Punjab.
29 June 1920
Dail assembles for the first time since October 1919.
28 September 1920
Liam Lynch and Ernie O’Malley lead I.R.A. capture of military barracks in Mallow, Co. Cork (the only military barracks captured by the I. R.A. during the War of Independence).
21 November 1920
‘Bloody Sunday’
Three republican prisoners, Ernie O’Malley, Simon Donnelly and Frank Teeling, escape from Kilmainham Jail, Dublin.
10 December 1920
Martial law proclaimed in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary.
As awards to seven Irish counties in respect of burnings, lootings and shootings reach £4,300,000, rates are drastically increased; in Co. Waterford alone an average increase of 35 per cent is levied.
1921
1 April 1921
As awards to seven Irish counties in respect of burnings, lootings and shootings reach £4,300,000, rates are drastically increased; in Co. Waterford alone an average increase of 35 per cent is levied.
3 May 1921
Government of Ireland Act.
12 May 1921
Tourmakeady Ambush.
May 1921
Partry Ambush.
13 May 1921
Nominations close for general elections to parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
19 May 1921
Kilmeena Ambush.
2 June 1921
Carrowkennedy Ambush.
11 July 1921
Truce in the Anglo‐Irish war comes into effect.
11 October – 6 December 1921
Anglo‐Irish conference in London.
6 Dec 1921
Anglo‐Irish Treaty signed in London.
de Valera resigns presidency of Dail Eireann.
Evacuation of British troops and disbanding of R.I.C.
1922
7 January 1922
de Valera resigns presidency of Dail Eireann.
Evacuation of British troops and disbanding of R.I.C.
21 February 1922
Enlistment begins into police force of the Provisional Government; at first known as Civic Guard ‐ the first member of the force is Patrick Joseph Kerrigan of Co. Mayo.
16 June 1922
General election in Free State area: Pro-Treaty, 58; AntiTreaty, 36.
27‐28 June 1922
Start of the Civil War.
15 October 1922
Army Emergency Powers becomes effective, empowering military courts to impose death penalty; 77 Republicans are executed in the Free State between 17 Nov. 1922 and 2 May 1923.
25 October 1922
Constitution of the Irish Free State enacted by the Dail; comes into force on 6 December.
27 October 1922
District and parish courts established outside Dublin city.
17 November 1922
First executions of the Civil War ‘Irregulars’.
6 December 1922
Saorstat Eireann (Irish Free State) comes into existence.
11 December 1922
First meeting the Free State Senate.
Burning of Moore Hall.
28 March 1923
Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act abolishes work‐house system in the Free State, providing alternatives through local authorities.
1923
1 February 1923
Burning of Moore Hall.
28 March 1923
Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act abolishes work‐house system in the Free State, providing alternatives through local authorities.
24 May 1923
Civil War ends.
1 July 1923
Number of military prisoners in Free State officially estimated at 11,316.
27 August 1923
General election in Free State; Cumann na nGaedheal 63; Sinn Fein, 44.
19 September 1923
3 Fourth Dail assembles (until 23 May 1927).
14 Oct-23 November 1923
everal hundred Republican prisoners on hunger strike in Free State.
