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<= Earlier events
1171 - England conquers Ireland
1315-1500: Irish push Anglo-Normans into the Pale
1495-1600s: England gains control of most of Ireland
1688: Ireland backs wrong English king; Irish exports banned
1779: Irish right to export restored
1782: Limited independence granted to Irish Parliament (excluding Catholics)
1801: Irish Parliament abolished; Ireland & England unify as UK
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
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1845-1852: *an Gorta Mór* (Brit-imposed famine)
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Anti-English Fenian movement founded
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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1870s: Beginnings of women's sufferage & education reform
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Married Women's Property Act grants some rights of contracts, ownership, etc.
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James Joyce (1882–1941)
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
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Ulysses time setting
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Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
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Irish Volunteers (proto-IRA) founded
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Self-rule for Ulster, but then nipped by WWI
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (pub. 1916)
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Easter Rising
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Anglo-Irish Treaty & Partition (resulting in Irish Free State in south)
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Ulysses
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All women 21+ granted the right to vote (but Church successful in limiting public roles)
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Edna O'Brien (b. 1930)
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Sale & import of contraceptives banned
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Married women banned from public service
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Divorce made illegal (as result of religious content in constitution of Irish Free State)
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Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
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Country Girls time setting (approx.)
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Molloy
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The Country Girls
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Anna Burns (b. 1962)
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"The Troubles" begin in Northern Ireland
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Claire Keegan (b. 1968)
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Milkman time setting (approx.)
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Rep. of Ireland joins European Community (pivotal shift away from UK)
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Women's job & marriage rights restored b/c of EC entry
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Right to maternity leave established
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Divorce becomes a right via public referendum (narrowly passed)
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1995-2007, "Celtic Tiger" economic bubble in Rep. of Ireland
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Last of Magdalene laundries/asylums closed (housed girls and women deed too promiscuous by families, and orphans)
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Good Friday Agreement ends 30 years of "The Troubles"
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Antarctica
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Milkman
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Small Things like These
