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24 Cards in this Set
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Date Norman Invasion
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1169 |
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Date of the Flight of Earls |
1607 |
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Date of Battle of the Boyne |
1690 |
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Explanation 1798 Rebellion |
United Irishmen rebelled against English rule with help from the French. It failed, this lead to passing the Act of Union. |
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Date and Explanation Act of Union
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1800; political unification of England and Ireland, dissolving Irish parliament.
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Dates and Explanation Potato Famine
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1845-1849; massive blight destroyed main crop, causing many Irish to die and more to emigrate to the US, leaving Ireland's population vastly reduced.
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Dates and Explanation Celtic Revival
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late 1800s-early 1900s; Irish writers began to publicize Irish history, language, and folklore as well as celebrating Irish culture in the newly opened Abbey Theatre.
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Date and Explanation Playboy Riots
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1907; young Irish nationalists protested Synge's play because they believed the content to be offensive to the Irish people.
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Dates and Explanation Charles Stewart Parnell |
1846-1891; Irish political figure/nationalist, founded Irish Parliamentary Party. Died after adultery scandal. |
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Definition Aisling |
Dream vision poem in which Ireland appears in the form of a woman.
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Definition of Penal Laws
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Set of laws passed by Protestant Parliament of Ireland taking away political and economic power from the Roman Catholics.
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Definition Ascendancy |
Political, economic, and social domination of Ireland by the Protestant minority. |
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Definition Fenianism |
set of nationalist organizations devoted to establishing Irish Republic (often through violent means). |
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Definition Sinn Féin |
Political wing of Irish Republican party, desired independence from British rule for all of Ireland (including the North). |
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Definition Home Rule |
Political movement with the purpose of reducing control of British state over Ireland, by establishing Irish parliament but still remaining part of the United Kingdom.
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Definition Gaelic League |
Organization promoting Irish language in Ireland and worldwide. |
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Definition Land League |
Organization founded to help poor Irish tenant farmers. Goal to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable farmers to own land they worked on. |
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Biography Brian Merriman |
Catholic, born illegitimate child, taught at a hedge school, and wrote in Irish. |
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Biography James Clarence Mangan |
Catholic poet, melancholy, alcoholic, died poor while still young. |
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Biography Lady Augusta Gregory |
Protestant, wealthy landowner, helped found Irish Literary Theater and Abbey theater, dramatist and folklorist. |
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Biography John Millington Synge
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Protestant, interest in Aran Islands, friends with Yeats, died young, soon after Playboy riots. |
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Biography Douglas Hyde |
Ireland's first president, founder Gaelic League, wrote poetry based on folklore. |
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Dates and Biography William Butler Yeats |
1865-1939; Anglo-Irish; merchant, middle-class, artistic family, interest in folklore, myth, and occult; member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, muse was Maud Gonne. |
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Dates and Biography James Joyce |
1882-1941; Irish Catholic, educated in Jesuit schools, father lost money and forced to move to poor areas of Dublin; moved to continent (exile). |
