Viking Era

• The Vikings ignited two centuries of warfare with successive raids and plundering of villages starting in 795, using Ireland's waterways over the decades to go deeper into the country, according to wesleyjohnston.com
  
  

Irish Mythology

• By 600, Christianity supplanted Celtic religion, with Christian monks writing tales against pagan beliefs by mixing native culture with euhemerized gods, according to luminarium.org.
  
  

Fairies

• Irish tales of fairies are fables retelling Ireland's history.
  
  In an effort to retell Irish history, stories of Irish fairy people were told through "People of Goddess Danu" to illustrate their struggle against invaders, according to luminarium.org.
  
  

Norman Era

• Norman knights began invading Ireland in 1167, launching a long struggle to conquer Ireland that was not finalized until about 1536, when Henry VIII deposed the last of the clan leaders, according to luminarium.org.
  
  

Rebellion

• A series of Irish 17th- and 18th-century rebellions against the British culminated with the British merging Ireland into the United Kingdom in 1800, according to encyclopedia.com.
  
  

Independence

• Irish rebel leader Eamon de Valera reviews Irish Republican Army troops in 1918.
  
  The Easter Rebellion of 1916 and the rise of Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army led to Irish independence in 1922, except for six Protestant counties in Northern Ireland that remain under British control as of 2009, according to Liberation of Ireland.