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Cromwell puts an end to the revolt and confiscates lands for his own soldiers.
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Orangists led by William of Orange defeat the Irish supporting the Catholic James II.
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A famine forces the poor to emigrate to the US.
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Irish patriots, called Fenians are now allowed into London Parliament, claim for the home rule.
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Creation of the Republican Brotherhood.
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Fenians are repressed by the British in Dublin.
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The survivors join the Sinn Fein party, an independence party.
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The survivors form the IRA.
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The Irish Free State is established and becomes a British Dominion.
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Fenians started a civil war led by de Valera: they they did not want to accept the compromise, signed by Collins, of Catholic counties and Northern counties, Ulster, in the Irish Free State. It ends with Collins's death.
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The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland with a new constitution. For the most part they were Catholics, in the north they were Protestants.
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During the Second World War, Ireland declared itself neutral
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Catholics in Northern Ireland start protest marches.
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13 people are killed. It is almost on the verge of a civil war.
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IRA prisoners start hunger strikes.
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Margaret Thatcher signs an Anglo-Irish agreement.
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Or Belfast Agreement. RA stops using weapons and Ulster are recognized. Catholic and Protestant parties create cooperation: Northern Ireland Assembly. The Republic of Ireland must give up forming a united Ireland.
