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| 1716 |
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| Parliament passed a bill designed to make the Shannon navigable by improving drainage. | 1 |
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| 1720, April 7 |
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| Declaratory Act established British Parliament's supremacy and made the English House of Lords rather than the Irish the final court of appeal. | 2 |
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| 1726–28 |
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| A series of harvest failures caused partially by a potato shortage. While the potato crop did not fail, growing dependence on it made it more difficult for the Irish to endure other crop failures until they began planting enough potatoes to survive the winter. | 3 |
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| 1726, Oct. 28 |
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| Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels published. | 4 |
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| 1728 |
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| Catholics specifically deprived of the franchise. | 5 |
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| 1730 |
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| George Rye's Irish manual on agriculture appeared—the first such manual in Ireland. It indicated a growing interest in agriculture, also evident in the creation of the Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry and Manufacture (1731). | 6 |
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| 1739 |
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| Duties on Irish woolen exports to Great Britain lifted. | 7 |
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| 1740s |
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| A series of hard winters, aggravated in some cases by diseases such as typhus, led to bread riots and general hardship. | 8 |
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| 1740, May 31–June 2 |
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| Bread riots in Dublin, in protest of dearth. Another hard winter and famine followed the next year. | 9 |
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| 1758, March 3 |
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| Bounties on grain and flour imports into Dublin issued. Exports of salted beef, pork, and butter to Great Britain allowed. | 10 |
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| 1759, Dec. 3 |
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| Rioting in Dublin after the Irish heard rumors of the possibility of an Act of Union with Britain. Discontent over the possibility of union led to a series of protests by whiteboys, oakboys, steelboys, and so on. | 11 |
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| 1763, Sept. 10 |
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| First issue of Freeman's Journal, an Irish radical paper, published. | 12 |
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