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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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| 1912 |
| | | Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles | |
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| 1913 |
| | | John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster | |
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| 1914 |
| | | British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster | |
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| 1914 |
| | | More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river | |
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| 1914 |
| | | After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published | |
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