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| 1882 |
| | | Irish chief secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and a colleague are assassinated in Phoenix Park in Dublin | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Ireland to promote indigenous games such as hurling | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Gladstone's bill promising Home Rule for Ireland splits the Liberal party in Britain's House of Commons | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The split in the Liberal party over Home Rule results in a defeat for Gladstone and the return of Lord Salisbury as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists | |
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| 1889 |
| | | 23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin, with Douglas Hyde as its first president | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama | |
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