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Joyce, James. 1882-1941. Innovative Irish writer in Stream of Consciousness style. Experimented with linguistic techniques. Dubliners 1914. Portrait of the Artist 1916. Ulysses 1922. Finnegan’s Wake 1939.
Kilkenny Statute. 1367. Banned English-Irish marriage, use of Irish names by English. Established Pale.
Land League. 1879. Irish association to reduce rents. Agitated for Home Rule. Parnell.
Lavery, John. 1856-1941. Irish portrait painter.
Liberal Party. 1832. British Social reform, free trade, Irish Home Rule. 1867 Canada. 1944 Australia.
Lloyd George, David. 1863-1945. British Liberal Prime Minister,1916-22. Unemployment insurance. Irish Free State. War cabinet, 1916.
Lucian. c120-80. Greek satirist. Dialogues of the Dead.
MacBride, Seán. 1904-88. Irish statesman. Founded Republican Party 1946. Foreign minister 1948-1951. Founder, chairman 1961-75 Amnesty International. Assistant UN Secretary General.
Malachy, St. 1094-1148. Irish Cistercian papal legate.
Markiewicz, Countess. 1876-1927. Irish Nationalist. First woman elected to British Parliament, 1918.
Molly Maguires. 1835-55 Irish anti-landlord society. 1862-77 Irish terrorists in PA coal mining area.
Montez, Lola. 1818-61. Irish dancer. Mistress of Louis I of Bavaria. Power resented, leading to March Revolution 1848. Banished.
Montgomery, Richard. 1738-75. Irish/US Revolutionary general. Killed attacking Quebec.
Moore, George. 1852-1933. Irish novelist. Confessions of a Young Man 1888. Esther Waters 1894.
Moore, Thomas. 1779-1852. Irish poet. Irish Melodies 1807-34. Lalla Rockh 1817.
Murdoch, Iris. 1919-99. British philosophical novelist. Under the Net 1954.
Nashe, Thomas. 1567-1601. English anti-Puritan satirist, imprisoned on Isle of Dogs with Jonson.
Northern Ireland. Ireland. 17C Protestants settle. 1801 United Kingdom. 1920 Ireland divided. 1922 Civil War. 1922 Direct rule. IRA.
O’Brien, William. 1803-64. Irish revolutionary. 1848 Insurrection. Led Young Ireland. Banished.
O’Casey, Sean. 1880-1964. Irish Realist playwright: Juno and the Paycock 1924. Plow and the Stars 1926.
O’Connell, Daniel. 1775-1847. Irish leader. Founded Catholic Association, 1823. Election to Parliament led to Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829.
O’Connor, Feargus. 1796-1855. Irish/English Chartist.
O’Neill, Hugh. c1540-1616. Irish. Led failed revolt vs English rule.
O’Neill, Shane. c1530-67. Irish chief rebelled vs England, slain by rival clan.
Orangemen. 1795- Irish Protestant political faction.