EUROPE POLITICAL MAP

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LANDMARKS

IRELAND

• Act of Union in 1801: Ireland became a part of the UK

• the 1840s: half of Ireland's population were farmers who had to pay rent

• -500 B.C: Celts arrival in Ireland

• 12th century: England invaded Ireland/claimed sovereignty

• In the 1690s: system of Protestant English rule designed to disadvantage the Catholics

Ireland Before the 20th Century

• 18th/19th century: population boom

• Introduction of the potato crop

• Blight led to a famine and deseases

• Immigration of the poorests

• The Celtic Tiger Irish economic boom (1995-2007)

Irish demographics

• Ireland: one of the richest countries in only a matter of years

• This growth came to an end in 2008

• Since 1980s: the country fell into recession for the first time

• The economy picked up in 2014

• American global companies have operations in Ireland

the Celtic Tiger

• Two Home Rule bills

• in 1916: group of nationalists proclaimed a provisional Irish government

• in 1918: War of Independence began and ended with the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.

• in 1937: new Constitution re-established the state as Ireland, and in 1949 it declared itself a Republic

The Struggle For Independence

• Irish literature flourished

• William Butler Yeats

• Abbey Theatre (the first national theatre in the world)

• Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett.

• U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

• The Cranberries "Zombie"

A Specific Culture with a Global Reach

• When did Ireland become a part of the UK?

• Who proclamed a provisional Irish government in 1916?

• When did the War of independence begin?

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