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Ireland history

By wolansky
  • 432

    St.patrick returns to Ireland

    HIs real name was Maewyn Succat a young roman citezan He was a slave he escaped from a ship and died in 461
  • 500

    The golden age

    Ireland becomes the largest center of Christianity in Europe
  • Mar 28, 1014

    Brian Boru

    Battles of Clontarf Brian was the high king of Ireland and deffeated the vikings
  • Mar 28, 1167

    King henry the II

    Seizes Dublin and Dublin Castle becomes the center English power
  • Mar 28, 1300

    The first great plague

    kills a third of the population of Dublin
  • Mar 28, 1500

    Henry the VIII

    proclaims himself the KIng of IReland and begins the suppression of the Catholic chuch in Ireland
  • Mar 28, 1558

    the reighn of Elisabeth 1

    Ireland proclaimed a Angelican plantation of Munster divides Ireland into Counties

  • The flighth of the Irish earls

    Marks the demeans of the old gaelic order

  • Oliver Cromwell

    He invades and begins a reconquest He famously suggested go to hell or Connaught He dies in 1658 ..
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  • Battle of the boyne

    The forces of king james the second are defeated

  • an actement of the first penal laws

    Catholis were mistreted

  • Ireland becomes part of the UK

  • Robert Emmet is hanged

    after an uprising of fewer than 100 men

  • The great Famine

    two million Irish either die or immagrate mostly to the US

  • The land war

    The tenant system unraveled the land returned to those who worked it

  • founding on Senn Fein IT means we ourselves

  • The Easter uprising

    Patrick pearse and Jaimes Connilly lead an armed uprising on Easter monday to proclaim the IRish republic

  • Irish war of independance

    Michael Collins commands the Irish forces

  • Irish Civil war begins

    michael Collins assasinated By the IRA who saw the treaty as a sellout

  • Dublin bombed by Germany started WWII

  • Ireland joins the European Community

  • In derry a peaceful rally turns into Bloody sunday

  • The anglo irish agrement give the republic a say in the government of N. Ireland

  • Mary Robinson is elected Irealands first female president

  • The IRA announces a cease fire

  • The british and Irish government issue an agrement

  • The IRA breaks its cease fire an IRA bomb kil 29 people in omagh

  • The IRA declares a new cease fire

  • The all party peace talks conclude with the good friday aggreement

  • the implemation of the agreement is blocked by a Unionist demand

  • The IRA issues a statement saying it will decomision its arms

  • David Trimble threatens to resign as Ulster Unionist party leader

  • The peace process continues amid sectarian violence

  • Irish Gov. passes the no smoking ban on all indoor places

  • A 27 million euro bank robbery in N. Ireland

  • the Gaeltacht movement spread

  • power sharing executive in N. Ireland

  • Economy crashing

  • sectarian murders in N. Ireland