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• ancient Irish history begins

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• St. Patrick was kidnapped and taken to Ireland
• he escaped but returned later
• he converted the Irish to cristianity
• died on march 17 461 => St. Patrick's Day

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• Norman invasion under the English king Henry II

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• first St. Patrick‘s parade in Boston

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• first St. Patrick‘s parade in New York

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• Act of Union - Ireland became part of new United Kingdom
• Union between Great Britain and Ireland (= United Kingdom)

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• failed Easter Rising
• leaders were executed

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• Anglo-Irish War (bloody)
• Irish War of Independence
• result: partition of Ireland (1921)

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• civil rights protesters demanded equal rights for Northern Irish Catholics
• violence between Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Defence Association => "the Troubles"

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• Irish Free State -  Catholic south becoming full republic
• six counties in province of Ulster (Protestant north) remained being part of UK - but with own parliament

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• since 1962, Chicago colours its river green on St. Patrick‘s day to celebrate

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• British troops arrive in Nothern Ireland

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• killing of 14 civilians on Bloody Sunday
• suspension of the Nothern Ireland Parlament

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• Good Friday Agreement
• Ireland was granted their own law-making institution

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• start of the economic boom
• Ireland earned the nickname "Celtic Tiger"

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•establishment of the Nothern Ireland Assembly

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• boom phase ended
• global financial crisis (€)

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• youth unemployment and emigration
• €85 billion loan by the EU/IMF

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• the Queen visits Ireland
• the irish president and the Queen shook hands (huge historical moment)

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• Ireland as the first Eurozone nation to exit the EU/IMF programme

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• ongoing debate about Ireland/Nothern Ireland

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• Ed Sheeran released his lovely single  "galway gworl" on march the 17th
• the music video of the single was released on may 4th
https://youtu.be/z50m77stWCw