Year(s) |
Location(s) |
Conflict |
Organiser(s) |
1534 |
Lordship of Ireland (Dublin) |
Silken Thomas Rebellion |
FitzGeralds of Kildare |
1569–73 |
Kingdom of Ireland (Province of Munster) |
First Desmond Rebellion |
FitzGeralds of Desmond and allied clans |
1579–83 |
Kingdom of Ireland (Provinces of Munster and Leinster) |
Second Desmond Rebellion |
FitzGeralds of Desmond and allied clans |
1593–1603 |
Kingdom of Ireland |
Nine Years' War |
Hugh Ó Neill, Hugh Ó Donnell and allied clans |
1608 |
Kingdom of Ireland (County Donegal) |
O'Doherty's rebellion |
Sir Cahir O'Doherty |
1641 |
Kingdom of Ireland |
Irish Rebellion of 1641 |
Phelim Ó Neill, Rory Ó Moore, Conor Maguire, Hugh Óg MacMahon |
1642–52 |
Kingdom of Ireland |
Irish Confederate Wars |
Irish Catholic Confederation |
1689–91 |
Kingdom of Ireland |
Williamite War |
Jacobites under James II of England |
1798 |
Kingdom of Ireland |
Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
Society of United Irishmen |
1799–1803 |
Kingdom of Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (County Wicklow) |
Michael Dwyer's Guerrilla campaign |
Michael Dwyer and his followers (Society of United Irishmen) |
1800 |
Newfoundland Colony |
United Irish Uprising |
Society of United Irishmen |
1803 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Dublin) |
Irish rebellion of 1803 |
Society of United Irishmen |
1804 |
Castle Hill, Colony of New South Wales |
Castle Hill Rebellion |
Society of United Irishmen |
1848 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Ballingarry, South Tipperary) |
Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 |
Young Ireland |
1866–71 |
British North America
|
Fenian Raids |
Fenian Brotherhood |
1867 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, England, and Canada |
Fenian Rising |
Fenian Brotherhood |
1881–85 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Fenian dynamite campaign |
Fenian Brotherhood |
1882–83 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Dublin) and British Cape Colony (Cape Town) |
The Invincibles' Assassinations |
Irish National Invincibles |
1916 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Counties of Dublin, Meath, Galway, Louth, Wexford, and Cork |
Easter Rising |
Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan |
1919–22 |
Irish Republic |
War of Independence |
Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Cumann na mBan |
1939–40 |
England |
"Sabotage Campaign" |
Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) |
1942–44 |
Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border |
Northern Campaign |
Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) |
1956–62 |
Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border |
Border Campaign |
Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) |
1969–98 |
Northern Ireland (mostly), Republic of Ireland and Great Britain |
The Troubles |
Provisional Irish Republican Army, Irish National Liberation Army, Official I Republican Army, Continuity Irish Republican Army, Real Irish Republican Army, Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation |
1998–present |
Northern Ireland (mostly), Republic of Ireland and Great Britain |
Dissident Irish republican campaign 1998 – present |
Continuity Irish Republican Army, Real Irish Republican Army, Óglaigh na hÉireann, Republican Action Against Drugs, New Irish Republican Army |