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| 1918 | Collins, Michael John "Mick" |  |
| Dublin Collins is elected MP for Cork South, Sinn Fein do not take their seats in Westminster, but instead set up an Irish Parliament in Dublin |
| 1919 | Collins, Michael John "Mick" | |
| Jan Dublin That new parliament, called Dil ireann (meaning "Assembly of Ireland", First Dil) meets in the Mansion House |
| 1919 | Valera, Eamon de | |
| 21st Jan 37 Sinn Fein MPs establish the Dail Eirean, Irish Parliament |
| 21st Jan Dublin The Irish Republic is proclaimed |
| 1921 | Collins, Michael John "Mick" | |
| 6th Dec London Negotiations ultimately result in the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 6 December 1921, which provides for a new Irish State, named the "Irish Free State" |
| 1921 | Valera, Eamon de | |
| 14th Aug Dublin De Valera rejects Dominion status for Ireland |
| 6th Dec London Negotiations ultimately result in the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 6 December 1921, which provides for a new Irish State, named the "Irish Free State" |
| 6th Dec London The new Irish Free State is to be a Dominion, with a bicameral parliament, executive authority vested in the king but exercised by an Irish government elected by a lower house called Dil ireann |
| 1922 | Collins, Michael John "Mick" | |
| The new Provisional Government is formed under Collins , who becomes "President of the Provisional Government" |
| 1922 | Griffith, Arthur | |
| Arthur Griffith defeats de Valera in the vote and assumes the presidency, (Griffith calls himself "President of Dil ireann" rather than de Valera's more exalted "President of the Republic" |
| 1927 | Valera, Eamon de | |
| Dublin Leads the Fianna Fail into the Free State Parliament |
| 1933 | Valera, Eamon de | |
| 3rd May Dublin The Dail abolishes loyalty to the British crown |
| 1995 | Bruton, John | |
| 24th Nov Irish voters approve end to constitutional ban on divorce |
| 1998 | Ahern, Bertie | |
| Catholics are to suspend the goal of a united Ireland-a territorial claim that was the raison d'tre of the IRA and was written into the Irish Republic's constitution-unless the largely Protestant North voted in favor o |
