Irish History 101

- Early Ireland: 8000 BC – fourth century AD
- Early Christianity to the Arrival of the Vikings
- The Viking Age 793-928AD
- The Normans in Ireland 1156-Late 13th Century
- Erosion of English Power in Ireland
- The Tudor Era 1459-1601AD
- The Plantation of Ulster 1603-1641AD
- Cromwell and the Restoration
- Into the Eighteenth Century
- Growth of Political Unrest in the Later Eighteenth Century
- The Act of Union and its Consequences
- Daniel O’Connell and the Catholic Association
- The Great Famine
- The Revolt of the Young Irelanders
- The Rise of Fenianism
- Charles Stuart Parnell and Land Reform
- The Gaelic Cultural Movement
- The Ulster Covenant
- The Easter Rising
- The War of Independence
- The Civil War
- The Troubles
- Celtic Tiger 1998-2008
- The End of the Celtic Downturn 2008-Present









