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Created by VegardAndersen on Jan 23, 2009

Last updated: 01/26/09 at 11:34 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Jan 23, 2009 3:02 AM

• The DUP shares power with Sinn Fein.
  May 2007

  Home rules returned to northern Ireland (the DUP shares power with Sinn Fein.)

• The IRA stopped the armed campaign
  2005

  The IRA ordering an end to the armed campaign

• 1998
  1998

  good Friday peace agreement

• The Troubles
  Jul 1, 1970

  Growing unrest in the north - British troops were sent to maintain order

• Civil War
  Jun 15, 1922 to May 15, 1923

  The Irish Civil War was a conflict that accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independent from the United Kingdom within the British Empire.

• Anglo-Irish Treaty
  1921

  A treaty divided Ireland into: -Northern Ireland (Ulster) Remained a part of the UK -The Irish Free State (Eire) Became an independent country

• The IRA was established
  1916

• The Potato Famine
  Jul 1, 1845 to 1852

  1 million people starved to death. English landowners did nothing to help the peasants.

• 1790
  1790

  By 1790 90% of the land in Ireland was owned by English nobles to whom the catholic peasants had to pay.

• Penal Laws
  Jul 1, 1695

  The Penal Laws in Ireland refers to a series of laws imposed under British rule that sought to discriminate against Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters in favour of the established Church of Ireland.

• Battle of the Boyne
  1690

  Protestant king William of orange defeated a catholic army.

• Protestant settlers established a colony in Ulster
  1610

  Protestant settlers established a colony in Ulster

• Englands first colony
  1170

  Englands first colony was Ireland. King Henry VII was the first king to bring all of Ireland under british control