1870

Home Rule movement founded by Isaac Butt.

Gladstone's First Land Act.

Poems by James Clarence Mangan published.

Alessie Bond, The Triumph of Faith, and Other Poems (Dublin/London).

1873

Gladstone's Irish University Bill defeated.

1874

Sixty Home Rulers returned in General Election.

Mary S. Godfrey, Darkness and Light, The Fallen Empire, and Other Poems (Dublin).

Elizabeth Varian, Never Forsake the Ship and Other Poems (Dublin).

1877

Parnell becomes President of Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain.

Elizabeth Varian, The Political and National Poems of Finola (Dublin).

1879

Foundation of the National Land League of Ireland.

1880

Parnell elected Chairman of Irish Parliamentary Party.

Ladies’ Land League founded in New York.

1881

Ladies’ Land League launched in Ireland.

Gladstone's Second Land Act.

Land League outlawed.

Ellen Mary Clerke, The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems (London).

Ellen Mary Downing, Poems for Children (Dublin).

Emily Hickey, A Sculptor and Other Poems (London).

1882

Lord Cavendish and T. H. Burke murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Foundation of the Irish National League.

1884

Gaelic Athletic Association founded.

Dublin's first two rates-supported libraries open.

Elizabeth Little, Persephone and Other Poems (Dublin).

1885

Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Vallière and Other Poems (London).

1886

Irish hierarchy endorses Home Rule.

Gladstone's Home Rule Bill defeated.

Rosa Mulholland, Vagrant Verses (London).

1887

Women's Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch and Irish Women, edited by Mrs William Sharp, published in London.

Charlotte Grace O'Brien, Lyrics (London).

Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks (London).

1889

Parnell cited in O'shea divorce petition.

W. B. Yeats's Crossways published.

Margaret Mary Ryan, Songs of Remembrance (Dublin).

1890

Irish Parliamentary Party splits—minority support for Parnell.

1891

Congested Districts Board established.

Parnell dies.

Emily Hickey, Michael Villiers, Idealist, and Other Poems (London).

Emily Hickey, Verse-Translations and Other Poems (London).

Katharine Tynan, Ballads and Lyrics (London).

1892

National Literary Society founded.

Douglas Hyde delivers ‘On the Necessity for De-Anglicizing the Irish People’.

Jane Barlow, Bogland Studies (London).

1893

Gaelic League founded.

Second Home Rule Bill passed by the Commons, but rejected by the Lords.

W. B. Yeats's The Rose published.

Dora Sigerson Shorter, Verses (London).

Elinor Mary Sweetman, Footsteps of the Gods and Other Poems (London).

1894

Irish Agricultural Organization Society founded.

Inauguration of the Irish Trades Union Congress.

Elizabeth Little, Poems (Dublin).

Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs (London).