| 1854 |
b. 24 Oct, Sherborne, Gloucestershire); 6th child & 3rd son of Baron Dunsany. |
| 1860 |
moved with family to Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland. |
| 1873 |
grad. University College, Oxford. |
| 1878 |
formed Dunsany Co-operative Society. |
| 1879 |
worked ranch at Powder Valley, Wyoming, winter-spring; passed summers in Ireland each year (1879-89). |
| 1888 |
issued “Co-operative Stores for Ireland” (article). |
| 1889 |
attended Annual Co-operative Congress, Ipswich;
estab. a co-operative store, in Doneraile, Co. Cork;
fnd. the Co-operative Wholesale Society;
estab.
a co-operative creamery, at Drumcollogher, Co. Limerick [the first in Ireland];. |
| 1891 |
appt. to Congested Districts Board (as member). |
| 1891 |
fnd. a co-operative creamery at Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick;. |
| 1892 |
elected M.P. for S. Dublin (July);. |
| 1894 |
fnd. Irish Agricultural Organisation Society [IAOS] (18 April). |
| 1895 |
re-elected MP for S. Dublin (May). |
| 1897 |
appt. to Irish Privy Council. |
| 1876 |
instig. the Recess Committee Report of the Congested Districts Board, documenting failures, and proposing formation of Dept. of Agricultural & Technical Instruction. |
| 1899 |
Appt. Vice-President of DATI at its establishment |
| 1900. |
defeated by Unionists in S. Dublin election (Oct.). |
| 1901 |
defeated in Galway by-election (Nov.). |
| 1902 |
elected FRS. |
| 1903 |
knighted |
| 1904 |
issued Ireland in the New Century. |
| 1906 |
awarded hon. degree, Oxford. |
| 1907 |
84 Merrion Square aquired and renamed “The Plunkett House”. |
| 1908 |
issued Noblesse Oblige; awared hon. degree from TCD (Dublin). |
| 1910 |
issued The Rural Life Problem of the USA. |
| 1914 |
issued “A Better Way: an Appeal to Ulster not to Desert Ireland”. |
| 1917 |
Elected chairman of the Irish Convention (July). |
| 1918 |
reported on Irish Convention; issued “Home Rule and Conscription”; resigned from Congested Districts Board. |
| 1919 |
Issued “Irish Dominion League” manifesto, proposing united Ireland in Commonwealth;. |
| 1920 |
Co-op creameries attacked by British army; issued “England's Irish Policy before and after the War”. |
| 1921 |
Creameries closed by Army; Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 7 December. |
| 1922 |
appt. by govt. nomination to the Irish Senate; Ulster Agricultural Society founded; IOAS receives annual grant from Free State Govt. |
| 1923 |
resigned from Irish Senate; Kilteragh, his home at Foxrock, burned by Republicans; moved to England. |
| 1929 |
learned to fly. |
| 1930 |
last visit to Ireland. |
| 1932 |
d. 26 March, at Weybridge (Surrey). |