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| c. 1700 |
| | | In the years after the battle of the Boyne, Catholic ownership of land in Ireland is reduced to just 14% of the total | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Irish novelist Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield, with a hero who has much to complain about but keeps calm | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Wolfe Tone is one of the founders in Belfast of the Society of United Irishmen | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone, convicted of treason for his failed invasion, cuts his throat to cheat the British gallows | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The uprising by Irish nationalist Robert Emmet ends in disaster when he marches on Dublin with only about 100 men | |
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| 1814 |
| | | Robert Peel, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces a police force soon known as the 'Peelers' | |
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