Urges and widerurges in a primitive
September
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A Companion Calendar
to
Finnegans Wake
(a continuing project)
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 1895 

Irish Race Convention in Dublin.
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1650
Oliver Cromwell wins Battle at Dunbar.
   
1651
Oliver Cromwell wins Battle at Worcester.
 
1658
Death of Oliver Cromwell.
   
 1751
British Act for reform of calendar in Great Britain, Ireland, and the American Colonies, decreeing the next day to be September 14th.
   
1933
United Irish Party launched under presidency of O'Duffy.
 
1898
Queen Victoria visits Ireland for 23 days.
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1607
Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell secretly sail from Lough Swilly in the Flight of the Earls.
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1896
Final Report of Childers Commission appointed to inquire into financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland.
   
1907
The name Sinn Fein adopted.
   
1914
First Battle of the Marne.
 
1931
First number of The Irish Press, founded by Eamon de Valera.

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1701
James II dies at St. Germains.
 

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1845
Arrival of potato blight reported in press.
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1763
First number of Freeman's Journal.
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1644
Cromwell takes Droghede by storm.
   
1923
Irish Free State admitted to League of Nations.
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1914
First Battle of the Aisne.
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1898    
Wolfe Tone Day
Link to Wolfe Tone bio .
   

1924   

Opening of Belfast Station (2BE) of the B.B.C.
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  17   1630 Boston founded by John Winthrop.
  1930 Irish Free State elected to council of League of Nations.
  18  1914 Third Home Rule bill receives royal assent, but its operation is suspended.
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1803
 

Robert Emmet executed for high treason.

One of four statues of Robert Emmet created by Jerome Connor in 1916; it was donated to the Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California) in 1919 by James D. Phelan, and stands in front of the California Academy of Sciences building.

1920
Black & Tan raid on Balbriggan, south Dublin.
About the Black & Tans:
from the site A History of Ireland in Song, which includes
"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans"
by Brendan Behan's brother Dominic:
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1170
Dublin falls to the Normans.
About this period of Ireland's history.
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1913
Provisional Government of Ulster is provided for.
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1932
Eamon de Valera given inaugural speech as Chairman of the League of Nations.
About de Valera
About the League of Nations:
 
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1155
Proposal for invasion of Ireland by Henry II discussed at Winchester but rejected.  More information
with maps here
and
a chronology of the times here.
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