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Events relating to ireland
Irish chief secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and a colleague are assassinated in Phoenix Park in Dublin
The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Ireland to promote indigenous games such as hurling
The Gaelic Association is founded n Ireland to promote Gaelic games alongside Irish culture and language
Gladstone's bill promising Home Rule for Ireland splits the Liberal party in Britain's House of Commons
The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause
Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists
23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin
Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea
W.B. Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin, with Douglas Hyde as its first president
W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama
Gladstone finally gets a Home Rule bill through the Commons, only to have it rejected in the Lords
The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language
The Irish Parliamentary Party, which split after the Parnell divorce case, reunites under the leadership of John Redmond
The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism
Irish politician Arthur Griffith launches Sinn Fein, as an organization campaigning for a strong and independent Ireland
W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society
Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain
J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin
Dublin's Abbey Theatre opens as a new home for the Irish National Theatre Society
The Ulster Unionist Party is founded in Belfast to oppose Home Rule
J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere
James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners
Edward Carson, previously a prominent Conservative politician at Westminster, becomes leader of the Ulster Unionist party
J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death
Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force
