All about Ireland

  • 1st
    6000 BCE

    1st

    people started living in Ireland since this year
  • 2nd
    700 BCE

    2nd

    The year when people called the Celts came to the island
  • 3rd
    400

    3rd

    The Celts in Ireland decided they needed slaves.
  • 4th
    800

    4th

    Century when the vikings invaded Ireland
  • 5th
    1169

    5th

    When the english invaded Ireland
  • 7th

    7th

    A fungus infected the potatoe crop
  • 8th

    8th

    Around one million people emigrated to USA
  • 9th

    9th

    The "Sinn Fein" party was established
  • 6th

    6th

    The english king, James I, sent protestant english farmers to Ireland
  • 10th

    10th

    They had their own army (IRA) (Irish republican army)
  • 11th

    11th

    The 24th April, about 1600 Irish rebelds took posesion of some important public buildings
  • 12th

    12th

    Sinn Fein won 73 sects in the British Parlament in a general election
  • 13th

    13th

    The war ended, with a tiecty dividing Ireland in two parts