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History of Ireland

Celts first inhabited Ireland around 300 BC, bringing their pagan traditions. Christianity arrived in the 5th century aided by St. Patrick. Vikings raided Ireland starting in the 8th century and some settled, founding cities like Dublin. In the 12th century, Normans invaded and established control over parts of Ireland. King Henry VIII conquered Ireland in the 16th century and established English rule. The British attempted to gain control through confiscating land and replacing Irish with Protestants, causing resentment and rebellions among Catholics. This eventually led to Ireland splitting into an independent Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland remaining with the UK in the early 20th century.

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History of Ireland

Celts first inhabited Ireland around 300 BC, bringing their pagan traditions. Christianity arrived in the 5th century aided by St. Patrick. Vikings raided Ireland starting in the 8th century and some settled, founding cities like Dublin. In the 12th century, Normans invaded and established control over parts of Ireland. King Henry VIII conquered Ireland in the 16th century and established English rule. The British attempted to gain control through confiscating land and replacing Irish with Protestants, causing resentment and rebellions among Catholics. This eventually led to Ireland splitting into an independent Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland remaining with the UK in the early 20th century.

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History of Ireland

Cellts

• We can begin in 300 BC the first inhabitants were then Celts who
migrated from the European continent after the last ice age. Celt's
culture and traditions are responsible for the foundation of Irish's
pagan faith. Unfortunately a lot of ancient Irish traditions have been
lost in time. The stories we have records of are about, men who
became gods or shapeshifting salmon but its hard to find out if they
are true, because the majority of them were recorded by Christians
rather than their pagan writers. The Celts of Ireland called their land
EIRE of their mature goddess Eira. They have spoked language called
Gallegher or what we call today Irish. One Irish tribe called Piscotty
is thought to be the namesake of Scotlland.
Faith

• Christianity made its way to Ireland from Roman Britain largely


aided by the bishop st. Patrick who managed to convert the Irish
from paganism to Catholicism when wasn't busy of chasing snakes.
Vikings and Normans

• Later Ireland was raided and settled by Vikings in the 8th century,
who settled up small towns which later became cities, like Dublin
and Belfast. But the Vikings were fought off and replaced by the
Normans who arrived in 1167 creating what would be the lordship
of Ireland. Norman parts of the Ireland failed to control the entire
island which had many lords and kings. By the 1400s Norman
holdings were limited aided greatly by the War of the Roses and
the Black Plague which killed far more Normans than Irishmen.
Henry VIII

• This changed with King Henry VIII who conquered the various Irish
kingdoms. He established the kingdom on the island which expanded after
defeating the Irishmen. In 1604 Ireland was united fully by the English rule
and James 1st of the Scottish house of Stuart became the king of England,
uniting all the 3 kingdoms under one monarch. The British however were
protestants and the Catholics of Ireland had disgust of having a protestant
ruler and rebellions were frequent. To gain better control English
monarchs confiscated land from the lords and farmers and replaced them
with Protestant English and Scots. The British hoped that settling
protestants in the area would help quitting the rebellions. This worked
most successfully in Ulster where some counties formed majorities of
Protestants.
Spliting

• During the war of the 3 kingdoms rebels ruled for a while but they
were defeated by Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange. After a
while Theobald Wolfson led a further rebellion which was brutally
suppressed. Then Britain said enough and united the kingdoms into a
single country. The union was still prejudiced against the Catholics.
Irish citizens established their own parliament except the protestants
in the north who supported the British rule. During the WW1 some
republicans did a rebellion called the Easter rising. The British
attempted to grant them rule by splitting the island into 2 parts
northern and southern both of them were still part of the UK. But
then there was a new issue.
Late History

• In Southern Ireland there were civil wars because some people


wanted Sothern Ireland to be free state. Later Southern Ireland
became independent country and Northern Ireland remained part
of the U K. The Island joined the EU in 1973 along with UK and
Denmark.

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