1. IRELAND

2. Early Eire  Irish Kings ruled at Tara  Converted to Christianity by St. Patrick

3. England becomes master  Pope Adrian IV  Henry II  The Pale

4. Poynings’ Law Irish House of Commons

5. The End of Ireland -The Church of Ireland -The Settlement of Ulster -Crushing the Rebellion, 100’s of thousands dead Henry VIII James I Oliver Cromwell

6. Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal Cronos eating children (Greek Myth) and 1557 image of Brazilian cannibalism

7. The Potato Famine

8. Easter Rebellion of 1916

9. 1948- Republic of Ireland  The Northern 6  Ulster, or Northern Ireland (depending) still a part of the United Kingdom, uh oh…

10. The North  Irish Catholics vs. Irish Protestants  Social, Political and Economic bias given to English supported Protestants

11. Bloody Sunday  Began “The Troubles”  14 dead Irish  UK keeps direct Home Rule

12. Sinn Fein Gerry Adams – leader of Sinn Fein Party of Resistance and Revolution in the North. Affiliated with the IRA.

13. IRA Terrorism

14. The Hunger Strikes, 1981  Bobby Sands and 9 others protest English oppression till their death  Nation United in their cause

15. Good Friday Agreement  Power Sharing in the North  De-militarization of the IRA  Home Rule

16. A Working Peace???  Loyalist OrangeMen and the Real IRA still, every now and again, carry on the old war…