Irish History: People, places and events that built Ireland

Invasion

Giraldus Cambrensis

A royal visit

Dublin Castle

The Lordship of Ireland

The ‘Remonstrance of the Princes’

The Bruce Invasion

The Statutes of Kilkenny

Reconquest

Surrender and Regrant

‘Great Terror’

Granuaile

Trinity College Dublin

Kinsale

The Flight of the Earls

The Wild Geese

The Plantation of Ulster

The Walls of Derry

1641

Cromwell

A ‘deluded and seduced people’

The Act of Settlement

The Big House

The Siege of Derry

The Battle of the Boyne

The Penal Laws

Marsh’s Library

The Royal Hospital

Georgian Dublin

Swift

The Irish Parliament

Irish Presbyterianism in America

The United Irishmen

1798

The Act of Union

Maria Edgeworth

Wellington

Moore’s Melodies

Irish Lights

Emancipation

O’Connell and Repeal

The Great Hunger

The Famine and the Future

The Irish Diaspora

The Fenians

The Church Ascendant

The ‘Irish Question’

The Revival

The Gaelic Athletic Association

The Abbey Theatre