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Total: 868,000+ dead [ b] The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, [ c] sometimes known as the British Civil Wars, [ d][ e] were a series of intertwined conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, then separate entities united in a personal union under Charles I. They include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops' Wars ...
The economic history of the Republic of Ireland effectively began in 1922, when the then Irish Free State won independence from the United Kingdom. [2] The state was plagued by poverty and emigration until the 1960s when an upturn led to the reversal of long term population decline. However, global and domestic factors combined in the 1970s and ...
Bruce campaign in Ireland. The Bruce campaign was a three-year military campaign in Ireland by Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce. It lasted from his landing at Larne in 1315 to his defeat and death in 1318 at the Battle of Faughart in County Louth. It was part of the First War of Scottish Independence against England ...
In the 18th century English trade with Ireland was the most important branch of English overseas trade 1. Absentee landlords drew off some £800,000 p.a. in farm rents in the early part of the century, rising to £1 million, in an economy that amounted to about £4 million.
Trim Castle (1169-) is a major construction of this period. The history of Ireland from 1169 – 1536 covers the period from the arrival of the Cambro-Normans [1] to the reign of Henry VIII of England, who made himself King of Ireland. After the Norman invasion of 1169–1171, Ireland was under an alternating level of control from Norman lords ...
Irish Rebellion of 1798. Guerrilla activity in counties Antrim until 1800, Wicklow until 1803 and Wexford until 1804. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 ( Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Hurries, [ 6] 1798 Rebellion [ 7]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland.
Between 1639 and 1652, Scotland was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of wars starting with the Bishops' Wars (between Scotland and England), the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the English Civil War (and its extension in Scotland), the Irish Confederate Wars, and finally the subjugation of Ireland and Scotland by the English Roundhead New Model Army.
Viking wars in Ireland: 1169–75 Norman invasion of Ireland: 1315–18 Bruce campaign in Ireland: Part of the First War of Scottish Independence: 1333–38 Burke Civil War: A conflict among the House of Burke: 1534 Kildare Rebellion: 1569–73 First Desmond Rebellion: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland: 1579–83 Second Desmond Rebellion