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IRISH HISTORY

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  • 795 BCE

    The Vikings invasions

    The Vikings invasions
    In 795 AD Viking longships began to raid various places in Ireland. At first they attacked the monasteries along the coast and later they raided inland.The Vikings who came to Ireland from 795 AD to 840 AD were mainly from the area now known as Norway.
  • 432 BCE

    Saint Patrick's

    Saint Patrick's
    Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick.
  • 1171

    Richard de Clare-Strongbow

    Richard de Clare-Strongbow
    Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland was an Anglo-Norman nobleman notable for his leading role in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.
  • 1541

    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII
    Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Henry is best known for his six marriages, in particular his efforts to have his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, annulled.
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    The Great Famine

    The Great Famine or the Great Hunger, was a period in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 of mass starvation, disease, and emigration.
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    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for homosexuality, imprisonment, and early death at age 46.

  • The Gaelic Athletic Association

    The Gaelic Athletic Association
    The Gaelic Athletic Associationis an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders. The association also promotes Irish music and dance, and the Irish language.
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    Michael Collins

    Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence. He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until his assassination in August 1922.

  • Irish Independence

    Irish Independence
    The Irish War of Independenceor Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). It was an escalation of the Irish revolutionary period into warfare.

  • The Irish Constitution

    The Irish Constitution
    The Constitution of Ireland is the fundamental law of the Republic of Ireland. ... It is the second constitution of the Irish state since independence, replacing the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State.