https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz en-us 2023-05-03 12:37:44 UTC 2023-05-15 08:23:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2618.png tob61cwssf https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576700559 After the arrival of Saint Patrick and other Christian missionaries in the early to mid-5th century, Christianity had taken over in Ireland by the year 600 AD. Irish Christian scholars studied Latin, Greek and Christian theology. They made a lot of sculptures and things with metal, and they also made many stone crosses, that can still be seen many places across the country today.]]> 2023-05-03 12:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576700559 tob61cwssf https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576705331 During the late 8th Century and most of the 9th Century the Vikings from where we now call Scandinavia began to invade and settle into Ireland. The vikings founded Dublin which now is Irelands capital ]]> 2023-05-03 12:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576705331 ijukaelqzi https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576714376 The Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government (or "home rule") for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War.]]> 2023-05-03 13:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576714376 ijukaelqzi https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576725880 The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla war mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army.  It began in January 1919, following the Irish Republic’s declaration of independence, and ended with a truce in July 1921. ]]> 2023-05-03 13:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2576725880 ijukaelqzi https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2588560341 Around the 1840's potatoes were the staple food of the Irish population. It became a disaster when blight (a plant disease) hit potato crops in all of Ireland, and potatoes became inedible. Many people were starving to death.
Between 1845 and 1851 two million people died or were forced to move away from Ireland. The population of Ireland has never been as big as it was before the famine. Before there was about 8 million people.]]> 2023-05-12 11:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ijukaelqzi/rgckzx4xp4ml7qfz/wish/2588560341