Dates of Big Happenings

Question 1

7000 B.C.

Answer 1

Melting of glaciers made Ireland a sea-locked country

Question 2

800 B.C.

Answer 2

Age of the Celts

Question 3

385 - 461

Answer 3

Life of st. Patrick, who converted the Irish to christianity

Question 4

795

Answer 4

Viking raids, vikings were eventually assimilated & converted. ‘Eire’ as matron goddess Ire (+) land

Question 5

1000 AD

Answer 5

Life of Brian Boru, King of Munster, ‘emperor of Ireland’

Question 6

1014

Answer 6

Battle of Clontarf; power struggle over Dublin, death of B.B.

Question 7

1155

Answer 7

Pope calls for crusade to Ireland

Question 8

1170

Answer 8

Invasion by Henry II: Strongbow

Question 9

1250

Answer 9

3/4 of Ireland under English Control; Ascendancy (E. as dominant power)

Question 10

1366

Answer 10

Statutes of Kilkenny; attempt to reassert English culture in Ireland, ‘Apartheid’

Question 11

1534

Answer 11

Silken Thomas; failed rebellion against the English

Question 12

1566 - 1583

Answer 12

Guerilla warfare in which massacre and famine were used as weapons by the English government

Question 13

1583

Answer 13

Elizabethan Atrocities

Question 14

1601

Answer 14

Failed rebellion by O’Neill & O’Donnell

Question 15

1607

Answer 15

Flight of the Earls

Question 16

1641 - 1650s

Answer 16

‘All Ireland’ revolution; Irish catholics massacred Irish protestants in Ulster; Cromwell ended the conflict by massacring the Irish population of Drogheda and Wexford

Question 17

1690

Answer 17

Battle of the Boyne (failed rebellion); Introduction of the ‘Penal Laws’ aka active suppression of catholicism

Question 18

1685 - 1753

Answer 18

Life of George Berkeley; famous philosopher and bishop of Cloyne; called Ireland a ‘slave state’

Question 19

1770s - 1798

Answer 19

Society of United Irishmen (failed rebellion)

Question 20

1829

Answer 20

Roman Catholic Relief Act; Daniël O’Connell

Question 21

1840 - 1851

Answer 21

Great Famine

Question 22

1858

Answer 22

Irish Republican Brotherhood

Question 23

1873

Answer 23

Home Rule League; C.S. Parnell

Question 24

1884

Answer 24

Gaelic Athletic Association

Question 25

1893

Answer 25

Gaelic League; Douglas Hyde

Question 26

1913

Answer 26

Lockout

Question 27

1916

Answer 27

Easter Rising; Padraig Pearse

Question 28

1922 - 23

Answer 28

Irish Free State; followed by civil war between 22 and 23; Éamon De Valera

Question 29

1972

Answer 29

Bloody Sunday; start of 'The Troubles'

Question 30

1998

Answer 30

Good Friday Agreement

Question 31

1990s - 2008

Answer 31

Celtic Tiger; economic boom

Question 32

2008

Answer 32

Worldwide economic crisis

Question 33

2016

Answer 33

Brexit referendum

Question 34

2020

Answer 34

Brexit?