December: With Lord Dunraven, who was a Land Lord from Co. Limerick in the mid - west of the Munster Province, acting as the Chairman, the Land Lords and those representing the interest of the Irish tenants, met during the Land Conference, to determine a suitable plan that would suite both the Land Lord who were selling, and the Irish tenants who were able to buy, and George Wyndham the appointed British Chief Secretary in Ireland, then accepted their plan, subject to the approval of Lord Arthur Balfour the British Prime Minister, introducing the new Irish Land Purchase Act. The tenants in the Ulster Province at this time, were for all Irish land to be purchased under compulsory legislation, and to make their point felt even more, went as far as electing an independent candidate for East Co. Down in a by - election, which was previously a safe Conservative seat. Lord Arthur Balfour, the British Prime Minister, believed that the introduction of this plan might finish off any chance of the Irish gaining Irish Home Rule altogether. 

1903 AD James Connolly, disappointed now with the lack of enthusiasm for his Socialist policies in Ireland, went off to America, were he was able to push his socialist ideals there further, by co - founding the International Workers League, and the Irish Socialist Federation, in New York, but despite his success there, he was to return to Ireland within a few years, and continue to push his socialist philosophy, endeavouring to improve the conditions in his beloved Ireland. - John Devoy, from the Clann na Gael in America, who was still fighting for the right to gain overall Irish Independence from the British Imperial Empire, had by now founded the, "Gaelic - American" newspaper there in America, and was to remain it's editor until the day he died.  - Bulmer Hobson, a non - Catholic from Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, also founded the Irish National Non - Catholic Society, and the Fianna Eireann (The Warriors of Ireland) and was a strong fighter also for Irish Independence from the oppression of the British Imperial Government. - T. H. Sloan, at this time also, formed the Independent Orange Order in the Ulster Province.  - Edward Martyn, from Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, who was a stout Irish Republican, this year protested against a visit by Edward V11 the new German English King. - Helena Molony, another of the many female fighters for Irish Independence, also founded the Daughters of Eireann. - John Mac Bride married Maud Gonne, and besides their individual great efforts on behalf of Irish Freedom, and Emancipation of Women's Rights, they were to produce the Nobel Prize winner, Sean Mac Bride who would go on to found Amnesty International.   

     John Dillon, the Irish Parliamentary Party M.P. from Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, opposed the British Conservative Government's Irish Land Bill, until a much more improved Wyndham Land Purchase Act was passed, for Irish land to be purchased @ 3 1/4 % for 68 1/2 years, which enabled the struggling Irish tenants to be much more economically able to buy back their own Irish land, and where the legal costs were to be paid out of public funds. It was to be so successful this time, that there was no need to introduce compulsory purchase, as the Land Lords received higher prices then before, which encouraged them to sell out their entire Estates, as under the legislation, provided that 3/4's of the tenants, and the particular Land Lord, agreed on an acceptable price for an individual Estate to the Land Commissioners, the sale was concluded. The Land Commissioners then took over the balance, on behalf of those tenants who could not, or were not able to purchase, and as an added incentive, the Land Lords who sold their entire Estates, were given a bonus of 12% of the total purchase price. Prior to the Wyndham Act, there had still been 500,000 Irish tenant farmers on the Land Lord's Estates in Ireland, and also this time the Congested Districts Board, was authorised to acquire any of the Land Lord Estates, to increase the size of the individual holdings to make them more economically viable.              

1904 AD The Ascendancy Unionist Council in the Ulster Province, was founded there for M.P.'s. - Lord Dunraven, and the Irish Reform Association's devolution plan, was advocated, with George Wyndham’s not, but Sir Anthony Mac Donnell the British appointed Under - Secretary, said yes instead.   - Windham Wyndham - Quin, became the President of the Irish Reform Association. - The old Labour stalwart, William O Brien from Co. Cork in Southern Munster, now decided it was time to break with the Irish Parliamentary Party, who it seemed to him, where getting out of touch with what was really occurring in Ireland, as they had refused to call a conference on Self - Government in Ireland, and supported the Irish Relief Association. - Bulmer Hobson, the non - Catholic from Belfast in the north - east of the Ulster Province, now also joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood / I.R.B. - Roger Casement, from Dublin was to join  the British Imperial Service, and the Gaelic League, and was to be knighted for his service to humanity by the British Imperial Government, and then later on executed by them, for his service to Irish Independence.  - Joseph Devlin re - established the Ancient Order of Hibernians, to represent the Irish, and became it's President until 1934. - The new St. Patrick's Cathedral, was constructed at Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province.  - Sean Mac Bride, the Nobel Prize winner, who was to become the founder of Amnesty International, and revolutionary, was born in Paris to John Mac Bride and Maude Gonne Mac Bride.  - The Abbey Theatre, was established in Dublin by members of the Irish Literary Theatre, including W. B. Yeats and Lady Augustus Gregory, brought on by a group of Anglo - Irish writers, some of whom tried to develop a National Irish Literature, in sympathy with Irish Self - Government. - Lord Dunraven, and Sir Anthony Mac Donnell the British appointed Under - Secretary in Dublin Castle, decided to introduce a central Irish Council to handle local authority, but news of their intentions was leaked, and the Ascendancy Unionists were up in arms.  - The remains of Father Eugene O Growney, the co - founder of the Gaelic League, were bought back from America for burial in Ireland. - Irish women, were now also allowed to enter the Trinity College in Dublin, to be educated.  - England and France became friends, and the ban on the Catholic clergy was finally lifted.  - Edward Martyn the stout Irish Republican from Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, was to be the President of the Sinn Fein Party until 1908.

1905 AD George Wyndham, the British appointed Chief Secretary in Ireland, was forced to resign his position by the pressure brought on by the Ascendancy Unionists, although he had not been involved in the move to introduce a central Irish Council to handle local authority in Ireland. - Bulmer Hobson, Denis Mac Cullagh, and P.S. O Hegarty from Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster co - founded the Dungannon Clubs in the Ulster Province, from were they were to spread Irish Republicanism, endeavouring to gain Irish Independence.  - A momentous moment in Irish History had occurred when the Sinn Fein Party / We Ourselves / Ourselves Alone, was founded by Arthur Griffith and Sean O Kelly, who were endeavouring to promote Irish Economic Welfare, and also gain Irish Independence for the Irish population in Ireland, from the 8 Centuries of oppression of the successive English and British Governments, by means of Passive Resistance and Self - Reliance. Arthur Griffith, also introduced a, "Buy Irish" policy to encourage local industry in Ireland, as under the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) the slums in Dublin, at this time, were the worst in Europe. - William Thomas Cosgrave from Dublin, who had been educated by the Christian Brothers, and who was to become the first leader / Taoiseach of the Irish Free State, attended the 1st Sinn Fein Party Conference.  - Francis Sheehy - Skeffington, a pacifist from Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster, who was to be murdered by a British Army Officer in cold blood, while trying to help others in the future during the 1916 Easter Rising, at this time, also became a member of the United Irish League. - (The University College, was founded in Dublin this year.) - Thomas Clarke, the Old Republican, became an American citizen, but was to return to Ireland in the future, to create a base for the Irish Republican movement in Dublin, and was to be also executed by the British Imperial Government after the 1916 Easter Rising. - Erskine Childers Jnr. who would become the 4th President of Ireland in the future, was born in London this year, the same as his father Erskine Childers the Irish Revolutionary had been. - The British Imperial Government passed the, "Defence of the Realm Act," also this year.

March: The Ascendancy Unionist Council was founded this month, which over the coming years was to co - operate with the Unionist Alliance, who were set up in Dublin to present the Unionist point of view to the British public, and the local Unionist Clubs, which had been established in the 1890's in the Ulster Province were revived, taking in all the adult non - Catholic population as members, but it was not as yet military based.

December: After another 10 years straight of a Conservative British Government, Lord Arthur "Bloody" Balfour had resigned, and the Liberal Party in Britain were to get into Government in England, once again.

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