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Georgian Ireland
The Protestant Ascendancy was a period of great prosperity for the landed gentry, who built grand country houses and furnished them luxuriously. Catholics, meanwhile, were denied even the right to buy land. Towards the end of 18yh century, radicals, influenced by events in America and France, started to demand independence from English Crown. Prime Minister Henry Grattan tried a parliamentary route; Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen opted for armed insurrection. Both approaches ultimately failed.
1710
1713
Jonathan Swift appointed Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral
1720
1724
Swift attacks Ireland’s penal code in
A Modest Proposal
1730
1731
Royal Dublin Society founded to encourage agriculture, art and crafts
1738
Death of Ireland’s most famous harper, Turlogh O’Carolan
1740
1742
First performance of Handel’s
Messiah
given in Dublin
1750
1751
Dublin’s Rotunda Lying-In Hospital is first maternity hospital in the British Isles
1759
Arthur Guinness buys the St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin
1760
1770
1780
1782
Parliament gains greater degree of independence from Westminster
1790
1791
James Gandon’s Custom House built in Dublin
1793
Limited emancipation for Irish Catholics
1795
Orange Order formed by Ulster Protestants
1798
Rebellion of Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen quashed
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