1913 in Ireland

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January 30 - At Westminster the House of Lords rejects the Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.
July 7 - The Home Rule Bill is once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by Andrew Bonar Law to obstruct it.
August 26 - There is social unrest in Dublin as members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union begin strike action.
September 1 - Protest by locked-out workers lead to serious riots in Dublin. Shops are looted and attempts are made to tear up tram lines.
September 3 - A meeting of 400 employers with William Martin Murphy pledges not to employ any persons who continue to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
September 7 - A large meeting in Sackville Street asserts the right of free speech, trade union representation and demands an enquiry into police conduct.
September 17 - In Newry, Edward Carson says that a Provisional Government will be established in Ulster if Home Rule is introduced. Meanwhile in Dublin, labour unrest grows with a march of 5,000 through the city.
September 27 - 12,000 Ulster Volunteers parade at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show grounds at Balmoral in protest at the Home Rule Bill. In Dublin the food ship, The Hare, arrives bringing forty tons of food that was raised by British trade unionists.
October 6 - An official report on the lockout suggests that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the ITGWU.
October 16 - 4,000 men and women march through Dublin in support of James Larkin and the Transport Union.
October 27 - James Larkin of the ITGWU is sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language.
November 10 - The Dublin Volunteer Corps enrolls over 2,000 men. They declare they will preserve the "civil and religious liberties" of Protestants outside Ulster in the event of Home Rule.
November 19 - The Irish Citizen Army is launched at a meeting of the Dublin Civic League in Dublin. The army is founded by James Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
November 25 - The Irish Volunteers are formed at a meeting attended by 4,000 men in Dublin's Rotunda Rink.
November 28 - Andrew Bonar Law addresses a huge unionist rally in the Theatre Royal in Dublin. He says that if Home Rule is introduced Ulster will resist and will have the support of his party.