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People have lived in Ireland since around 6000 BC but we don't know much about their oringins. -
Around 700 BC people called the celts came to the island. -
The Celts in Ireland decided they needed slaves to work their land. -
The English King James I sent Protestant English farmers to Ireland to take the land from Catholic farmers. -
The British Parliament abolished the Irish Parliament and governed Ireland themselves. -
A fungus infected the potatoes. More than one million people died from starvation. -
Around one million Irish people emigrated to the USA, Canada and England to escape the starvation and disease of the potato famine. -
The 'Sinn Fein' party was established in 1905 to promote autonomy for Ireland. -
Irish had their own army, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) -
Irish rebels took possession of some important public buildings, including the Post Office in Dublin. -
In December 1918, Sinn Fein won 73 seats in the British Parliament.
They decided to form their own parliament. -
The war ended with a treaty dividing Ireland into two parts.