dipity

Created by melhusk on Jan 20, 2009

Last updated: 11/13/09 at 08:41 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Jan 20, 2009 12:12 AM

• End to the IRA
  2005

  The IRA ordering an end to the armed campaign

• “the troubles”
  1970

  the troubles”. Rowing unrest in the north – British troops were send to remain order.

• IRA
  1926

  The IRa was established (IRA= Irish Republican Army)

• A treaty
  1921

  a treaty divided Ireland into - 1. Northern Ireland (Ulster) – remained a part of the UK. - 2. The Free State (Eire) – Became an independent country.

• the potato famine
  1845

  1845-49: the potato famine (1mill people starved to death. English landowners did nothing to help the peasants).

• 90% owned by nobles
  1790

  90% of the land in Ireland was owned by English nobles to whom the Catholics peasants had to pay rent.

• Englands first colony
  1770

  - 1770: England first colony was Ireland (Henry VII first king to bring all of Ireland under English control).

• penal laws
  1695

  penal laws. (Catholics suffered a lot by those laws)

• Battle of the Boyne
  1690

  protestant king William of the orange defeated a catholic army.

• Protestant colony
  1610

  Protestant settlers established a colony in Ulster.