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Irish History Overview

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These pages briefly describe

Pre-Historic Ireland

The Gaels

Early Christian Ireland c.400 – 800 AD

Vikings & High Kings

Norman Invasion & Conquest

Gaelic Resistance

Late Medieval Ireland

Religion, Plantation & War

C17th Ireland

C18th Ireland – Penal Laws, Sectarianism & The Enlightenment

Act of Union to the Geat Famine

The Great Famine & its Sequelae

Nationalism vs. Unionism

Southern Ireland since 1921

Northern Ireland since 1921

 


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  • Irish History Overview
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    • Oisín and Tír na nÓg
    • The Hartpole Doom
    • The Voyages of Bran and St. Brendan
  • Irish Songs & Poems
    • “Croppy” Songs
    • Aileen Barry Oge
    • Ballad of Athlone
    • Battle of Kilcumley
    • Captain Rock
    • Carberiae Rupes (The Rocks of Carbery)
    • Danny Boy
    • Derry’s Walls
    • Drumcollegher
    • Dunlavin Green
    • Father O’Flynn
    • Galway Bay
    • Kelly the Boy from Killan
    • Lament for William Crotty
    • Lough Sheelin’s Side
    • The Cliffs of Dooneen
    • The Fairy Tree
    • The Galbally Farmer
    • The Kilruddery Hunt
    • The Maid of Slievenamon
    • The Moat in Kilfinane
    • The Romance of Ballyadams
    • The Rose of Mooncoin
    • Three poems by Donagh MacDonagh
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    • The Good Woman’s Son
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            • Carbery’s 100 Isles & Fastnet
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            • The Beara Peninsula
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          • The Hartpole Doom
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        • Irish Songs & Poems
          • “Croppy” Songs
          • Aileen Barry Oge
          • Ballad of Athlone
          • Battle of Kilcumley
          • Captain Rock
          • Carberiae Rupes (The Rocks of Carbery)
          • Danny Boy
          • Derry’s Walls
          • Drumcollegher
          • Dunlavin Green
          • Father O’Flynn
          • Galway Bay
          • Kelly the Boy from Killan
          • Lament for William Crotty
          • Lough Sheelin’s Side
          • The Cliffs of Dooneen
          • The Fairy Tree
          • The Galbally Farmer
          • The Kilruddery Hunt
          • The Maid of Slievenamon
          • The Moat in Kilfinane
          • The Romance of Ballyadams
          • The Rose of Mooncoin
          • Three poems by Donagh MacDonagh
        • Irish Tales
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          • The Good Woman’s Son
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