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    IRISH GENEALOGY

    Feb 18, 2020 6 minutes

    Geography of Ireland

    MAP OF IRELAND

    TIMELINE OF IRISH HISTORY

    432 St. Patrick travels to Ireland, according to legend

    795 The first Viking raids on Ireland take place

    841 The Norse set up permanent encampment at Dublin

    1171 Irish kings submit to the British King Henry II

    1315 Edward Bruce arrives in Ireland and rallies many Irish lords against Anglo-Norman rule

    1607 The Flight of the Irish Earls sees the exile of Ulster’s Gaelic aristocracy

    1609 The Plantation of Ulster colonizes land with people from England and Scottish lowlands

    1649 Oliver Cromwell’s forces massacre Irish townspeople in Drogheda

    1652 Cromwellian Settlement results in confiscation of Catholics’ land

    1660 The English King William defeats the exiled English King James II at the Battle of the Boyne

    1691 Penal law bans Catholics from membership in Parliament

    1737 Boston’s Charitable Irish Society holds the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in the Thirteen Colonies

    Weather-related famine results in widespread deaths

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