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| 1902 |
| | | W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain | |
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| 1904 |
| | | J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Dublin's Abbey Theatre opens as a new home for the Irish National Theatre Society | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Ulster Unionist Party is founded in Belfast to oppose Home Rule | |
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| 1907 |
| | | J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere | |
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| 1907 |
| | | James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Edward Carson, previously a prominent Conservative politician at Westminster, becomes leader of the Ulster Unionist party | |
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| 1910 |
| | | J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force | |
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