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12,000 BCE
Narrow channel
A narrow channel forms between Prehistoric Ireland and southwest Scotland.The Straits of Moyle (Sruth na Maoile in Irish and Scottish Gaelic) or Sea of Moyle is the name given to the narrowest expanse of sea in the North Channel between northeastern Northern Ireland and southwestern highlands of Scotland (Mull of Kintyre). -
980 BCE
The battle of Tarawa
The King of Dublin Olaf Cuaran abdicates following defeat at the Battle of Tarawa to Mel Sectional mac Domnaill. The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that was fought on 20–23 November 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting. -
500 BCE
Iron age art
During the Iron Age in Ireland, Celtic influence in art, language and culture begins to take hold.Pollen data records from the late Iron Age indicate a resurgence in human activity after a relatively stagnant period. -
500 BCE
The stone age
The Iron Age period in Ireland begins approximately 500BC after a new culture began to evolve and expand from east of central Europe. It's people, warlike and mobile, were named, Keltoi by the Greeks and today we know them as the Celts. there were also bear bones discovered. -
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Earliest Map of Ireland
Ptolemy's maps provides the earliest known written reference to habitation in the Dublin area, referring to a settlement in the area as Eblana Civilians. Christie's auctioneers said the extraordinary 15th century map was the oldest known separate, individual map of the island. The map is the first depiction of Ireland alone rather than together with Britain. It is appearing for the first time at auction.
