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  2. Timeline of Irish history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .

  3. History of Ireland (1801–1923) - Wikipedia

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    History of Ireland (1801–1923) Ireland was part of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which ...

  4. History of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    History of Ireland. The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 34,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BCE. [1] The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary, around 9700 BCE, heralds the beginning of Prehistoric Ireland, which ...

  5. History of Ireland (1691–1800) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy. These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land.

  6. History of Dublin - Wikipedia

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    The city of Dublin can trace its origin back more than 1,000 years, and for much of this time it has been Ireland's principal city and the cultural, educational and industrial centre of the island. Founding and early history Main articles: History of Dublin to 795 and Early Scandinavian Dublin The Dublin area c. 800 The earliest reference to Dublin is sometimes said to be found in the writings ...

  7. List of conflicts in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    1316 – Battle of Skerries (January) 1316 – Second Battle of Athenry (August) 1317 – Battle of Lough Raska (August) 1318 – Battle of Dysert O'Dea (May) 1318 – Battle of Faughart (October) 1328 – Battle of Thomond. 1329 – Braganstown massacre. 1329 – Battle of Ardnocher. 1330 – Battle of Fiodh-an-Átha.

  8. History of Ireland (1536–1691) - Wikipedia

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    Ireland during the period of 1536–1691 saw the first full conquest of the island by England and its colonisation with mostly Protestant settlers from Great Britain. This would eventually establish two central themes in future Irish history: subordination of the country to London-based governments and sectarian animosity between Catholics and ...

  9. History of the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    History of Ireland. The Irish state came into being in 1919 as the 32 county Irish Republic. In 1922, having seceded from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, it became the Irish Free State. It comprised 26 counties with 6 counties under the control of Unionists which became Northern Ireland in 1921.