6 April – the second reading of the Home Rule Bill is carried in Westminster.
24–25 April – Larne Gun Running: 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition from a German dealer are landed at Larne, Bangor and Donaghadee for the Unionist Ulster Volunteers and quickly distributed around Ulster by motor transport.[2]
23 June–14 July – the Government of Ireland Bill passes through the House of Lords. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they want to come under Dublin's jurisdiction. Because of the outbreak of war in Europe and later developments in Ireland, the Act is never implemented in its original form and the wishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone are eventually ignored.
10 July – the Provisional Government of Ulster meets for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It vows to keep Ulster in trust for the King and the British constitution.[4]
21 July – a conference (called on 19 July) is opened at Buckingham Palace by the King. It is hoped that unionists and nationalists attending will break the impasse over Home Rule.
24 July – the Buckingham Palace conference ends in failure. Nationalists and Unionists present cannot agree in principle or detail.
26 July – Howth gun-running: former British civil servant and novelist Erskine Childers and his wife Molly sail into Howth in his yacht Asgard and land 2,500 guns for the nationalist Irish Volunteers from a German dealer. Troops of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, returning to Dublin having been called out to assist police in attempting to prevent the Volunteers from moving the arms to the city, perpetrate the Bachelor's Walk massacre, firing on a crowd of protestors at Bachelors Walk, killing three; a fourth man dies later from bayonet wounds and more than 30 others are injured.[5]
18 September – the Government of Ireland Act (the Home Rule Act) receives Royal Assent (although George V has contemplated refusing it)[7] but is postponed (as projected on 30 July) for the duration of World War I[2] by the simultaneous Suspensory Act and in practice never comes into effect in its original form.
27 October – World War I: Royal Navy super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
June – James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, is published in London.
Terence MacSwiney's contemporary play The Revolutionist is published (first performed 1921).[12]
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^Cumann na mBan manifesto (1914), in Bourke (ed.), FDA, vol V, p.104.
^"Sir E. Carson In Belfast". The Times. No. 40573. London. 1914-07-11. p. 8.
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^Bogdanor, Vernon (1997). The Monarchy and the Constitution. Oxford University Press. p. 131. ISBN 0-19-829334-8.
^Sellers, Leonard (1997). Shot in the Tower: the story of the spies executed in the Tower of London during the First World War. London: Leo Cooper. p. 31. ISBN 9780850525533.
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^Tierney, Michael (1980). Eoin MacNeill. Oxford University Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 0198224400.
^"General John Regan: The Westport Riots – Claim For £1,000 Compensation". The Irish Times. 1914-04-11.
^Brugha, Máire MacSwiney (2006). History's Daughter: A Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney. Dublin: The O'Brien Press. ISBN 978-0-86278-986-2.
^ abcHayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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