Ireland on Dipity.
With the arrival of St. Patrick in 432 AD, it is said that he brought with him the knowledge of the written word and was also the leader in converting the Irish to Christianity. For the next few thousand years Ireland was neither at peace nor war, but more of a bicker with one another. It wasn’t until late 1500’s that the bickering had ceased and violence had begun with the Nine Years was from 1594 to 1603 happened because the English wanted to control the Gaelic lords in Ireland and wanted to create English life and law. At the end of the Nine Years war brought about James I, who enforced the English law in Ireland. This “invasion” had lasted most of the 16th century. In 1649, Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cornwell, had come to Ireland to enforce the English rule even more by killing more than 2,000 Irish, taking land and dividing it within England, and he even reduced the population by two thirds by sending them to be slaves to work on plantations in the Caribbean. In 1689, Ireland had received some relief when King James II Parliament had restored the land that had been confiscated. After getting their land back, the people of Ireland spent the next 150 years rebuilding all that they had lost and in 1845, they were once again devastated by the Potato Famine. The rapid population growth and lack of land sanitation led to numerous crops dying and caring diseases. The starvation had claimed about a million lives and another million had migrated to America in hopes of a better future. After the Famine had ended in 1849, Ireland had about 60 years before the Irish War of Independence from England that lasted from 1919 to 1921. A treaty was signed in 1920, that ended the war and Ireland gained its independence. Shortly after that in 1922 was a Civil War that broke out between a northern part of Ireland and the southern part due to differences. These Civil wars continued until a Cease Fire Treaty was signed in 1994.