Composition La Premiere Guerre Mondiale, Une Guerre Totale

432   Traditional date for the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland.  
700-800   Irish monasticism reaches its zenith.
795   Full-scale Viking invasion.
1014   Brian Boru/ defeats Vikings at Clontarf, but is murdered.
1169   Dermot MacMurrough, exiled king of Leinster, invites help
from 'Strongbow'.
1172   Pope decrees that Hery II of England is feudal lord of Ireland.
1366   Statues of Kilkenny belatedly forbid intermarriage of English and
Irish.   Gaelic culture unsuccessfully suppressed.
1534-40   Failed insurrection by Lord Offaly.
1541   Henry VIII proclaimed king (rather than feudal lord) of Ireland
1558-1603 Reign of Elizabeth I.   Policy of Plantation begins.   System of
counties adopted.
1595-1603 Failed uprising of Hugh O'Neil.
1607   Flight of the Earls; leading Ulster families go into exile.
1641   Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in
England.
1649   Cromwell invades Ireland.
1653   Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land.
1689-90   Deposed James II flees to Ireland; defeated at the Battle of the
Boyne.
1704   Penal Code enacted; Catholics barred from voting, education and the
military.
1775   American War of Independence forments Irish unrest.
1782   Grattan's Parliament persuades British to declare Irish
independence, but in name only.
1795   Foundation of the Orange Order.
1798   Wolfe Tone's uprising crushed.
1801   Ireland becomes part of Britain under the Act of Union.
1829   Catholic Emancipation Act passed after Daniel O'Connell elected
as MP.
1845-48   The Great Famine.
1879-82   The Land War; Parnell encourages boycott of repressive landlords.
1914   Implementation of Home Rule postponed because of outbreak of World
War I.
1916   Easter Rising.   After the leaders are executed public opinion backs
independence.
1920-21   War between Britain and Ireland; Irish Free State and Northern
Ireland created.
1922   Civil war breaks out.
1932   De Valera elected.
1969   Rioting... [continue]

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