Irish independence
1949
Viking invasion
800
Anglo-Norman invasion
1169
Laudabiliter Bull
1155
beginning Tudor Conquest
1542
Church of England founded
1534
Little Ice Age
1740
Potato Famine
1845-1849
The Vision of Mac Conglinne
anonymous, 11th/12th ct.
The Kildare Poems
14th ct
The Image of Irlande
John Derricke, 1581
A View of the Present State of Ireland
Edmund Spenser, 1590s
Age of Enlightenment
18th ct.
“A Modest Proposal”
Jonathan Swift, 1729
the popish plot
1678-81
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift, 1726
The History of Jack Connor
William Chaigneau, 1752
Irish Melodies
Thomas Moore, 1808-34
“All in a Family Way”
Thomas Moore, 1828
Irish nationalist movement
1840s
Young Ireland Rebellion
1848
Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth, 1800
The Irish / Celtic Renaissance
1890-1920/1
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde, 1895
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1890
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
George Bernard Shaw, 1893
Cathleen ni Houlihan
William Butler Yeats, 1902
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge, 1907
“Ulysses Order and Myth”
T.S. Eliot, 1923
The Shadow of a Gunman
Séan O’Casey, 1923
High Modernism
interwar period 1918-1939
“The Second Coming”
William Butler Yeats, 1919
“The Sisters”
James Joyce, *1904
Ulysses
James Joyce, 1922
Odyssey
Homer, ~8th century B.C.
‘Bloomsday’
June 16, 1904
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