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Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
Memory Ireland: History and Modernity (2011) Gibney, John. The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory (2013) King, Jason. "The Genealogy of Famine Diary in Ireland and Quebec: Ireland's Famine Migration in Historical Fiction, Historiography, and Memory." Éire-Ireland 47#1 (2012): 45–69. online
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.
Year Date Event 1607: 14 September: The Flight of the Earls: The departure from Ireland of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell. 1609: Plantation of Ulster by Scottish Presbyterians begins on a large scale. 1641: 22 October: Irish Rebellion of 1641: Phelim O'Neill leads the capture of several forts in the ...
The city of Belfast is 75% Protestant, however, the whole island of Ireland is 75% Catholic. [68] 1901 – Population of Belfast is estimated to be 349,180. [34] 1906 – Belfast City Hall and Victoria Park open. [69] [70] 1907 - The city saw a bitter strike by dock workers organised by radical trade unionist Jim Larkin. The dispute saw 10,000 ...
1928 – Gate Theatre founded. 1930 – City boundaries expanded. 1934 – Old Dublin Society founded. 1937 – City becomes capital of the newly formed Republic of Ireland. 1938 – Dublin Historical Record begins publication. 1940 26 August: Bombing of Dublin in World War II by German forces begins. The Bell (magazine) begins publication. 1941
Early Christian Ireland began after the country emerged from a mysterious decline in population and standards of living that archaeological evidence suggests lasted from c. 100 to 300 AD. During this period, called the Irish Dark Age by Thomas Charles-Edwards , the population was entirely rural and dispersed, with small ringforts the largest ...
Waterford and Dublin were declared royal cities, and belonged to the king, not Strongbow; Dublin was declared capital of Ireland. Throughout the medieval period, Waterford was Ireland's second city after Dublin. Waterford's great parchment book (1361–1649) represents the earliest use of the English language in Ireland for official purposes.