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3 ____ na Gael was founded in New York. 1867
6 ______ na mBan was founded. 1914
11 ______ Stewart Parnell became MP for Meath.
1875
12 The Gaelic ________ Association was founded.
1884
14 The Cabinet accepted the __________ Treaty.
Parnell and others were released from
Kilmainham Jail. 1882
15 The Franchise Act added many Irish rural
______. 1884
16 An economic crisis followed three years of bad
________ and agricultural depression. 1879
19 Ireland got its first ______ party, in Belfast.
1892
20 Queen ________visited Ireland. 1898
21 _______ and others held prolonged sittings in the
House of Commons. 1877
24 The Pigott _________ were exposed. 1889
28 James Stephens was arrested and then rescued
from Richmond ______. 1865
29 The Sinn Féin name was adopted for the 1907
union between the Sinn Féin League and the
National _______. 1908
31 ________’_ Second Land Act conceded the
‘three Fs’ – fair rent, free sale and fixity of tenure.
1881
34 Parnell visited _______. 1880
38 ______ Griffith founded the Cumman na
nGaedheal. 1900
40 The _______ Incident (or ‘Mutiny’) took place
when British army officers announced they would
rather resign than oppose the pro-British Ulster
Volunteer Force. 1914
43 The ______ Volunteers carried out gun-running
at Larne, Bangor, and Donaghadee. 1914
44 Gladstone’s conversion to home ____ was
announced. and defeated 1885 1886
45 _______ married Katherine O’Shea as soon as
her divorce had gone through. He died three
months later. 1891
46 There were over one hundred casualties after
demonstrations in London against the
imprisonment of William O’Brien. This was
known as ______Sunday. 1887
48 Isaac Butt’s motion on home rule was
________in the House of Commons. 1874
49 A ________ campaign in Britain led to Thomas
Clarke and others being jailed. 1884
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1 The words boycotting was coined after Captain
Charles C _______ was ostracized during the
land war. 1880
2 The _____ League was founded. 1893
4 In September, the Dublin _______ began. It
continued until February 1914.
5 The Ulster Volunteer Force, Irish _______ Army
and Irish Volunteers were founded. 1913
7 A ‘land ___’ began that would continue for three
years. 1879
8 The ______ Unionist Council was formed. 1905
9 Isaac Butt launched the ____ Rule movement.
1870
10 The Second Home Rule Bill passed the _______
s but was defeated in the Lords. 1893
12 The _____ Theatre was founded. 1904
13 Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry
Burke were murdered at Phoenix Park by the
____________ 1882
17 Fenians attempting a rescue caused an
_________ that killed twelve people living near
the prison. 1867
18 A ____ Relief Act extended outdoor relief. 1862
22 The _____ volunteers brought in weapons at
Howth and Kilcoole. 1914
23 John _______ became the leader of the
Parnellites. 1891
24 _______ attempted to seize Chester Castle and
rose up in Kerry, Dublin, Cork, Limerick,
Tipperary and Clare. 1867
25 The Irish Party held the balance in two UK
_______ elections. 1910
26 The Fenians raided ______. 1866 1871
27 The ______ Rising took place in Dublin in April.
Its leaders were executed. 1916
30 The Irish Republican __________ withdrew
support for home rule. 1876
32 The Home Rule ______was founded. 1873
33 The Irish ________ Republican party was
formed with James Connolly as its secretary.
1896
35 The ______ of Ireland was disendowed. 1869
36 The Land ______ was declared illegal. 1881
37 The _____ home rule bill passed the Commons
twice and was twice rejected by the Lords. 1913
39 The Wyndham Land ________ Act worked out
a new scheme for tenant land purchase 1903
41 The third home rule bill passed, but was
suspended after Britain declared war on
_______ on the 4th of August. 1914
42 An Act of Parliament removed the House of
Lords’ absolute ____ over new legislation. 1911
47 The Irish National ____ League was founded.
1879
