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| 1658 |
| | | Parliamentary reprisals against the rebellious Irish result in two thirds of Ireland's land being owned by the English or the Scots | |
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| c. 1680 |
| | | Ireland becomes the first European region in which the potato is an important food crop | |
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| 1689 |
| | | James II, landing in Ireland, is acclaimed as king in Dublin by enthusiastic Irish Catholics | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The armies of James II and William III confront each at the river Boyne, with victory going to William | |
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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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| 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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