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St. Patrick who joined Christianity because of his enslavement by Irish raiders traveled to Ireland as one of the missionary who tried to convert the Kings to Christianity.
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At around 500 B.C. the Celts arrived at Ireland on where just several people lived before, surviving by fishing and hunting.
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MacMurrough, King of Ireland, dies.
The Normans under Henry II conquer Ireland and the British domination begins. -
Henry VIII forced Ireland's government to declare him King of Ireland. Henry, a tyrann, began to introduce new laws that increased English control of Ireland. Henry also tried to introduce Protestantism to Ireland, but this had no success.
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A lot of fighting between the rebels and the United Irishmen.
The battle at Ballynahinch was the last one and marked the final defeat of the rebels. -
Fusion of the British Empire and Ireland. The Irish get the right to send 100 congressmen to take part in the British parliament.
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The potatos on Ireland where attacked by fungal and more than one and a half million people died because the potato was the most important aliment for a lot of Irish people.
Another million emigrated. -
The little Easter Rising against the British rule in Ireland fails but the execution of irish leaders leads to public uproar and years of fighting.
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The treatment between the British goverment and the Irish ("Articles of Agreement") in 1921 ceased the the war and market the creation of a free Irish state.
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Great Britain sends soldiers to Ireland and the civil war reaches it's maximum when catholics fight against the protestant police after these stopped a forbidden demonstration under the use of violence.
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13 Catholics were killed when soldiers of a British paratroop regiment opened fire during a civil rights march in Londonderry.
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Ireland joins the EEC (later known as EU) and soon gets an economic revival. Their nickname becomes "Celtic Tiger".
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Great Britain gives the Republic of Ireland a consultative role in Northern Ireland. All previous agreements failed.
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North and South Ireland suscribe the Good Friday Agreement, which ends the conflicts between the two countries.
It included the decreasment of Brithish soldiers on the Irish island and the teamwork of southern and northern Irish agencies. -
Ireland rejects the first example of the Lisbon Treaty as the only country of all 27. The Treaty would have increased the strengh of EU institutions but would also have smallerd the influence of smaller countries.
