History of Ireland

  • Period: 1968 BCE to

    The troubles

    The Troubles was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. Also known as the Northern Ireland conflict, and the Conflict in Ireland it is sometimes described as a "guerrilla war".The conflict began in the late 1960s and ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles primarily took place in Northern Ireland, at times the violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England, and mainland Europe
  • 1541

    Henry VII named King of Ireland

    Henry VII and his daughter wanted to colonise Ireland, so Ulster was taken from the Catholic Gealic clans and given to Protestant settlers from England and Scotland
  • A battle for the throne of England

    The battle of the Boyne was fought between the deposed King James II of England at the head of a Catholic army, and his son-in-law Wiliam of Orange at the head of the Protestant army. William won.
  • The Kingdom of Ireland joined a Union consisting of Scotland, England and Wales, named the United Kingdom, UK.

  • The potato famine

    A period of hunger, 1 million died
  • Period: to

    W. B. Yeates

    Was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
  • Easter Rebellion

    The rebekkion was crushed and some of the most important leaders executed
  • Easter 1916

    A poem made by W. B. Yeates about the Easter Rebellion
  • The British passed the Government of Ireland Act.

    Ireland devided into 2 seperate political entites
  • Creating the Irish Free State

    from 23 suthern countries and 3 countries in Ulster. The 6 other countires of Ulster became Nothern Ireland
  • Period: to

    Irish free state

    The Irish Free State was the name of Ireland from 1922 to 1937. It replaced both the Irish Republic and Southern Ireland.
  • Period: to

    The civil war

    The Irish Civil War, 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923, was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.
  • The Irish Free State became an independent republic

  • Bloody sunday

    Bloody Sunday was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when authority shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment. Fourteen people died. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. The soldiers involved were members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment.
  • Good friday agreement

    The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the agreement. The agreement also created a number of institutions between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
  • The wind that shakes the barley

    Movie telling a partly fictional story about the Eater rebellion. It plays out in 1920- 1921