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Timeline of Irish History
18000BC Esker Riada formed by retreating Ice Age
3000BC Newgrange, one of the world's oldest structures, is built
390BC Celts sack Rome.
82 Romans decide not to invade Ireland
3rd Cent. Druids are a well established force
427 Loegaire crowned first king of Tara in Ireland
8000-7000BC First people cross landbridge to Ireland
800BC Celtic culture appears across Europe.
225BC The decline of the Celts.
200 The High Kingship of Ireland begins at Tara
432 St. Patrick arrives in Ireland
433 St. Patrick lights a fire on Slane to challenge Laeghaire's druids
540 Diarmaid becomes High King of Tara with Ciaran's help.
6th-9th Cent. The Golden Age of Clonmacnoise and Ireland
760 Attacks by the Irish on monasteries
10th Cent. First stone buildings in Clonmacnoise
1105 The myths of Cuchulain are recorded - The book of the Dun Cow
5th Cent. Monasticism dominates Irish church for next 5 Centuries
544 St. Ciaran founds Clonmacnoise and dies a few months later
7/8/9th Cent. Irish monks travel through Europe bringing customs like confession
9th Cent. Viking and Norsemen attacks begin
1014 Norsemen defeated at Clontarf
1169 The Anglo Norman Invasion begins
13th Cent Clonmacnoise goes into decline
1541 Henry VII declares himself head of the Church of Ireland
17th Cent Powerful Irish families flee and anti-catholic laws are introduced
1798 Wolfe Tone leads a revolution which is quickly suppressed
1916 Uprising and Independence
1200's Normans build Irish castles as strongholds.
The Feudal System of land is introduced into Ireland.
1552 Clonmacnoise is totally destroyed and lies in ruins
1690 The Irish support the catholic King James in the battle of the Boyne
19th Cent. Catholics allowed sit in Parliament Famine kills 2million