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c. 2500 BCE

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c. 400

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c. 450

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c. 500

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c. 530

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c. 600

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c. 620

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c. 650

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838

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920

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976

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1014

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1169

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1171

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1297

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1306

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1316

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1487

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1607

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1649

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1650

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1658

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c. 1680

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1689

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1690

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c. 1700
1766

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1790
1791

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1795

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1796
1798
1801
1803

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1814

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1823
1828

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1833

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1838
1842
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1844
1845
c. 1846
1858
1869
1870
1875
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1882
1884

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1886

1889
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1893
1900
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1903
1904

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1905
1907

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1910

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1911
1912
1913

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1914

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c. 1915
1916

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1917

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1918

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1919

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1920

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1921

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1922

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1923

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Go to De Valera, Éamon (14 Oct. 1882) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to O'Casey, Sean (1880–1964) in The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1 ed.)

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1924

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1925

Go to O'Flaherty, Liam (1896–1984) in The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1 ed.)

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1926

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1927

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1928

Go to Yeats, W. B. (1865–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1930

Go to Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869–1944) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1931

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1932

Go to de Valera, Eamon (1882–1975) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to land annuities in The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

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1933

Go to Fine Gael in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1937

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Go to constitution of Ireland (1937) in The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

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1938

Go to Beckett, Samuel (1906–1989) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1939

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Go to At Swim-Two-Birds in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (1 ed.)

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Go to Neutrality in Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable (1 ed.)

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1940

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1943
1949

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1953

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1954
1957

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1958

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1959

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1960

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1963
1965
1966
1967

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1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973

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1975

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Go to Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

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1979

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1984

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Go to Geldof, Bob (1954– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1985
1990

Go to Robinson, Mary (21 May 1944) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Friel, Brian (1929– ) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1993

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1994

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Go to Riverdance in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)

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1996

Go to Carr, Marina (1964) in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance (1 ed.)

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1997

Go to McDonagh, Martin (1971) in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance (1 ed.)

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Go to Ahern, Bartholomew Patrick (b. 12 Sept. 1951) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Real IRA in Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable (1 ed.)

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1998

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1999

Go to Heaney, Seamus [Justin] (1939) in The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1 ed.)

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2000

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2003
2005
2007

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2008

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Go to Lisbon Treaty in A Dictionary of Law (7 ed.)

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