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700 BCE
The first visitors
The Celts came to Ireland in 700BC brought their culture and defeated the native Irish population easily. -
Period: 400 to 800
The search for slaves
At this time the Celts were looking for and capturing slaves from Britain in 400AD -
416
The arrival of saint patrick
historians believe that saint patrick came to ireland at the age of 16 born into an aristocratic family, it is believed that he was captured by pirates to sell him as a slave, there he worked for six years as a shepherd -
430
The origin of saint patrick's day
One day patricio heard a voice that said he had a mission but not as a slave, he believed that voice came from god so he escaped to the sea and down in a vote returned to england and from there he studied to be a priest, the voices They reappeared and told him that he had to return to spread Christianity and convert the pagan people, he built several churches and preached Christianity throughout Ireland, Saint Patrick's Day is March 17 in commemoration of the arrival of Christianity in Ireland -
800
The arrival of the vikings
The Bikings invaded Ireland in the 9th century, they brought weapons such as the bow and the ax that the Irish would later adopt, they built settlements that would later become important such as Dublin, and over time they became parate of the Irish population. -
1169
The arrival and conquest of the English
The English arrived in Ireland in 1169, invaded it and became part of the population, in 1607 King James L sent Protestant farmers to take land from Catholic farmers, they succeeded and quickly the Protestants became tenants of the Catholic lands and they had to give the igles a rent for their own land in 1801 the british parliament dominated the irish parliament and ireland became part of the united kingdom but the majority of the irish did not agree -
Period: to
Famine times in Ireland
The Irish lived mainly on potatoes and lived in poor conditions, although there were other plantations, their main plantations were potatoes, unfortunately in 1845 and 1846 a fungus stalked the potato crops and caused a famine in Ireland, the English brought some food such as corn but this was not enough to feed so many people, consequently millions of people died of hunger. -
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The irish mass emigration
The English tenants, seeing that their tenants could not pay them, evicted them and demolished their houses because they could not pay them, some encouraged them to emigrate to the United States with the false hope that they would have work and food there, between 1846 and 1850 there were millions of Irish traveling to the United States, so in the mid-20th century the Irish wanted to become independent from Great Britain as quickly as possible -
The desire for irish independence
Due to the little help that the Irish received and in the poor conditions in which they were kept, the Irish wanted to become independent as quickly as possible from Britain, due to this several Irish political parties emerged that sought independence until in 1905 the party emerged Sinn Fein that in the middle of 1913 they had an army of rebels that in 1916 about 1600 rebels stood in front of the post office and in some public buildings. -
The fight for independence
The rebels when protesting had to fight with a great disadvantage against the British army, as a consequence 1350 protestants died and 14 protestant leaders were killed in a week, in 1918 there was a general election and Sinn Feingano 73 British seats and formed their own parliament in Dublin, which angered the British and they sent troops to regain British control. -
The Irish Independence
When the British army went to regain control, they could not because this time there were more Protestants, better organized and prepared, they were at war, until in 1921 they signed a peace treaty in which Ireland was divided into two parts, the northern part, which was six Irish counties under British rule and the remaining southern part that became the Irish Free State which later became the Republic of Ireland.