All about Ireland

  • 6000 BCE

    1st

    1st
    people started living in Ireland since this year
  • 700 BCE

    2nd

    2nd
    The year when people called the Celts came to the island
  • 400

    3rd

    3rd
    The Celts in Ireland decided they needed slaves.
  • 800

    4th

    4th
    Century when the vikings invaded Ireland
  • 1169

    5th

    5th
    When the english invaded Ireland
  • 7th

    7th
    A fungus infected the potatoe crop
  • 8th

    8th
    Around one million people emigrated to USA
  • 9th

    9th
    The "Sinn Fein" party was established
  • 6th

    6th
    The english king, James I, sent protestant english farmers to Ireland
  • 10th

    10th
    They had their own army (IRA) (Irish republican army)
  • 11th

    11th
    The 24th April, about 1600 Irish rebelds took posesion of some important public buildings
  • 12th

    12th
    Sinn Fein won 73 sects in the British Parlament in a general election
  • 13th

    13th
    The war ended, with a tiecty dividing Ireland in two parts