1. The coming of the Gospel to Ireland
Christianity was taking root in Ireland at the time of St. Patrick’s mission. The first Irishmen were Britons who were brought there as slaves. It helped education during the fall of the Roman Empire.
2. Plantation of Ulster (1606)
Scottish settlers were coming to Ireland. The British and the Protestants were settling in the Northern Ireland, which was previously all Gaelic and Catholic.
3. The Seige of Drogheda (1649)
Oliver Cromwell and his new army came to Dublin, Ireland. It was the end of the Civil war in England and they wanted to settle here. By 1660, a quarter or their population died from war and disease.
4. The Battle of Aughrim (1691)
Fought in County Galway, It was the final defeat of Catholic Ireland, and the beginning of the Protestants in Ireland. It was included in the supremacy in Europe between the French crown and England. Ireland was filled with many battles.
5. An argument on behalf of the Catholics in Ireland (1791)
It was a first step for the emancipation of Ireland’s poor Catholic majority. It drew so much attention that they started the Society of United Irishmen. Ireland look at the politics of a bigger world. This vision never became real, but two years later Ireland came out with the Act of Union, bringing Britain and Ireland closer together.
6. Daniel O’Connell and Catholic Emancipation (1830)
O’Connell wished that Catholicism and national identity were as one, that everyone was a Catholic. He wanted to repeal the Act of Union. He tested the limits of constitutionality and was trying at no end to get to Catholic emancipation. In 1829, it happened when the government was afraid of anarchy in Ireland.
7. The Great Famine (1845)
Blight was spread all across Irish country sides. It was rotting their potato crops before they came out of the ground. This brought hunger and fright to all of Ireland who blamed the British government for poisoning their crops to rid of Ireland. This changed the relationship between Ireland and the rest of the world.
8. 15 leaders of the Easter rising are executed (1916)
Over nine days, 15 men were taken from their cells to the stonebreakers’ yard to be executed by the firing squad. They were leaders of the Easter rising activist group, and they had grown all over central Dublin. The gunfights in Dublin killed mostly civilians. The public supported the rebels, and this led to Ireland becoming free from British rule.
9. Bloody Sunday (1972)
This was a march from Derry to Guildhall square demonstrating equal rights for the Catholic minority and to end unionist-majority rule. However, this march ended with British soldiers opening fire to the crowd. They left 14 dead. The police claimed that the crowd fired first, and the news believed them. 38 years passed before they exonerated the victims.
10. The Good Friday Agreement (1998)
There were years of troubles in Ireland that seemed it would never end. This agreement set out for future political progress in Northern Ireland. They worked with international countries and Bill Clinton. The political processes are stopped by a lack of trust, communication, and negotiation. There won’t be any more violence.
Ireland'd Milestone Moments. (n.d) retrieved Nov 12 2013, from historyextra.com Web Site: http://www.historyextra.com/feature/ireland%E2%80%99s-milestone-moments