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History of Ireland guide; Irish History Digitized; Ireland Under Coercion – "The diary of an American", by William Henry Hurlbert, published 1888, from Project Gutenberg; The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless, 1896 (Project Gutenberg) Timeline of Irish History 1840–1916 (1916 Rebellion Walking Tour) A Concise History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce
c. 8000 BC. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrate to Ireland. c. 6500 BC. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers occupy sites such as that at Mount Sandel in Ulster. c. 4000 BC. Agriculture (including the keeping of livestock, and crop farming) has its beginnings in Ireland, at sites such as the Céide Fields in Connacht. c. 3500 BC.
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardised with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union. [36] 1881: Stoney units discovered by George Johnstone Stoney. [37] 1883: Method of producing electromagnetic waves discovered by George Francis FitzGerald. [38] 1885: Cream cracker invented by Joseph Haughton.
One of the Boyne valley tombs. The prehistory of Ireland has been pieced together from archaeological evidence, which has grown at an increasing rate over the last decades. It begins with the first evidence of permanent human residence in Ireland around 10,500 BC [1] (although there is evidence of human presence as early as 31,000 BC [2]) and ...
v. t. e. The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
1576: Spanish found León de los Aldama. 1576: Martin Frobisher reaches the coast of Labrador and Baffin Island. 1579: Sir Francis Drake claims New Albion. 1583: England formally claims Newfoundland (Humphrey Gilbert). 1585: Roanoke Colony founded by English on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, failed in 1587.
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.
The Republic of Ireland today ranks among the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita [108] and in 2015 was ranked the sixth most developed nation in the world by the United Nations' Human Development Index. [109]