Medieval Irish History

Anglo-Normans:

• 1169: Anglo-Normans arrive

• Conquest and devastation of Irish towns

• Colonization

  • Intermarriage

• 1366: Statutes of Kilkenny

• 1541: Kingdom of Ireland

  Tensions grow between catholics and protestants

• 1594-1603: Nine Years’ War

• 1607: Flight of the Earls

  Irish confederate wars

• 1789: United Irishmen lead a revolution and fail

• 1801: Act of Union