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Ireland (Éire ; Ulster-Scots: Airlann ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe and the twentieth-largest in the world.

This is a list of articles worth reading to fully understand the island. It is split into 4 sections: History, Geography, Politics and Culture.

For an overview of Irish history, see Timeline of Irish history.

Prehistory

 * Irish Mesolithic
 * Western Hunter-Gatherers


 * Irish megalithic tombs
 * Court tomb
 * Passage tombs in Ireland
 * Dolmen
 * Wedge tomb

Protohistory

 * Hiberno-Roman relations


 * Ogham
 * Ogham inscription


 * Primitive Irish

Early history

 * Celtic Christianity


 * History of Christianity in Ireland


 * Palladius (bishop of Ireland)


 * Saint Patrick


 * Book of Kells

800-1169

 * List of Irish kingdoms


 * Brian Boru


 * Early Scandinavian Dublin
 * History of Christianity in Ireland
 * Battle of Confey
 * Battle of Mag Femen
 * Battle of Islandbridge
 * Battle of Tara (Ireland)

Viking battles fought around the same time

 * Battle of Strangford Lough
 * Battle of Sulcoit
 * Burning of Luimnech
 * Battle of Cathair Cuan

Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill and Brian Boru (980–1022)

 * Battle of Glenmama
 * Battle of Clontarf

Reform of the Irish Church

 * Synod of Ráth Breasail
 * Synod of Kells

1169-1536

 * Normans in Ireland
 * Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland
 * Siege of Wexford (1169)
 * Siege of Dublin (1171)
 * Battle of Thurles
 * John's first expedition to Ireland
 * Sieges of Galway
 * Battle of Ballyshannon (1247)
 * First Battle of Athenry
 * Battle of Magh Slecht
 * Battle of Creadran Cille
 * Battle of Down
 * Battle of Callann
 * Mangerton Mountain
 * Battle of Áth an Chip
 * Bruce campaign in Ireland
 * Battle of Moiry Pass
 * Battle of Connor
 * Battle of Kells
 * Battle of Skerries
 * Second Battle of Athenry
 * Battle of Lough Raska
 * Battle of Dysert O'Dea
 * Battle of Faughart

Rest of the Anglo-Norman battles

 * Battle of Ardnocher
 * Battle of Fiodh-an-Átha
 * Battle of Tochar Cruachain-Bri-Ele
 * Battle of Ros-Mhic-Thriúin
 * Battle of Tragh-Bhaile
 * Battle of Cluain Immorrais
 * Battle of Knockdoe
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare
 * Battle of Belahoe
 * Lordship of Ireland
 * Parliament of Ireland
 * House of Burgh
 * Burke Civil War
 * Clanricarde
 * Earl of Clanricarde
 * Mac William Íochtar
 * Clanwilliam
 * The Pale

1536-1691

 * Tudor conquest of Ireland
 * Kingdom of Ireland
 * Plantations of Ireland
 * Settlement of Laois and Offaly 1556
 * Enterprise of Ulster
 * Clandeboye massacre
 * Rathlin Island massacre
 * Nine Years' War (Ireland)
 * Battle of Belleek
 * Siege of Enniskillen (1594)
 * Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits
 * Assault on the Blackwater Fort
 * Battle of Clontibret
 * Dublin gunpowder explosion
 * Battle of Carrickfergus (1597)
 * Battle of the Yellow Ford
 * Battle of Deputy's Pass
 * Essex in Ireland
 * Siege of Cahir Castle
 * Battle of Curlew Pass
 * Battle of Moyry Pass
 * Battle of Lifford

After the Earl of Essex was killed

 * Siege of Donegal
 * Siege of Kinsale
 * Battle of Castlehaven
 * Siege of Dunboy
 * Dursey massacre
 * Burning of Dungannon
 * Plantation of Ulster
 * Flight of the Earls
 * Gaelic Ireland
 * Irish rebellion of 1641
 * Portadown massacre
 * Siege of Drogheda (1641)
 * Battle of Julianstown
 * Battle of Kilrush
 * Confederate Ireland
 * Siege of Limerick (1642)
 * Battle of Glenmaquin
 * Sieges of Galway
 * Battle of Liscarroll
 * Battle of New Ross (1643)
 * Battle of Cloughleagh
 * Battle of Clones
 * Battle of Portlester
 * Siege of Duncannon
 * Battle of Benburb
 * Battle of Dungan's Hill
 * Sack of Cashel
 * Battle of Knocknanuss
 * Siege of Dublin (1649)
 * Battle of Rathmines
 * Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
 * Siege of Drogheda
 * Sack of Wexford
 * Battle of Arklow (1649)
 * Siege of Waterford
 * Battle of Lisnagarvey
 * Siege of Kilkenny
 * Siege of Clonmel
 * Battle of Macroom
 * Battle of Tecroghan
 * Battle of Scarrifholis
 * Siege of Charlemont
 * Battle of Meelick Island
 * Siege of Limerick (1650-1651)
 * Battle of Knocknaclashy
 * Siege of Galway
 * Stuart Restoration
 * Williamite War in Ireland
 * Glorious Revolution
 * Jacobitism
 * Siege of Carrickfergus
 * Dundalk Camp
 * Battle of the Boyne
 * Siege of Limerick (1690)
 * Battle of Aughrim
 * Treaty of Limerick
 * Flight of the Wild Geese
 * Protestant Ascendancy
 * Penal Laws (Ireland)

1691-1800

 * Irish Patriot Party
 * Society of United Irishmen
 * French expedition to Ireland (1796)
 * Irish Rebellion of 1798 (A full list of battles is shown in the article.)
 * Wexford Rebellion

1801-1923

 * Parliament of Ireland
 * Acts of Union 1800
 * Irish rebellion of 1803
 * Catholic Emancipation
 * Young Ireland
 * Irish Confederation
 * Young Ireland rebellion
 * Great Famine (Ireland)
 * 1847 North American typhus epidemic
 * Legacy of the Great Irish Famine
 * Land War
 * Plan of Campaign
 * Land Acts (Ireland)
 * Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870
 * Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881
 * Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885
 * Gaelic revival
 * Conradh na Gaeilge
 * Irish Home Rule movement
 * Home Rule League
 * Irish revolutionary period
 * Irish Volunteers
 * Ulster Volunteers
 * Dublin lock-out
 * Irish Citizen Army
 * Curragh incident
 * Howth gun-running
 * Bachelor's Walk massacre
 * Larne gun-running
 * Home Rule crisis
 * Ireland unfree shall never be at peace
 * Ireland and World War I
 * Easter Rising
 * Patrick Pearse
 * James Connolly
 * Tom Clarke (Irish republican)
 * Seán Mac Diarmada
 * Joseph Plunkett
 * Éamonn Ceannt
 * Thomas MacDonagh
 * First Day of the Easter Rising
 * Proclamation of the Irish Republic
 * Irish Convention
 * Conscription Crisis of 1918
 * 1918 Irish general election
 * Irish War of Independence
 * Irish Republican Army (1919-1922)
 * Irish Republic
 * First Dáil
 * Irish Declaration of Independence
 * 3rd Tipperary Brigade
 * Soloheadbeg ambush
 * President of Dáil Éireann
 * Government of the 1st Dáil
 * Irish soviets
 * Limerick Soviet
 * Rescue at Knocklong
 * Dáil Courts
 * The Squad (Irish Republican Army unit)
 * 1920 Irish local elections
 * Black and Tans
 * Mountjoy Prison
 * The Troubles (1920-1922)
 * Holywell Ambush
 * Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920
 * 1920 Cork hunger strike
 * Templemore apparitions
 * Sack of Balbriggan
 * Rineen ambush
 * Tooreen ambush
 * Siege of Tralee
 * Piltown Cross ambush
 * Battle of Ballinalee
 * Cairo Gang
 * Bloody Sunday (1920)
 * Kilmichael ambush
 * Burning of Cork
 * Government of Ireland Act 1920
 * Pickardstown ambush
 * Drumcondra ambush
 * Clonfin ambush
 * Upton train ambush
 * Clonmult ambush
 * Coolavokig ambush
 * Sheemore ambush
 * Clonbanin ambush
 * Kilfaul ambush
 * Selton Hill ambush
 * Burgery ambush
 * Crossbarry ambush
 * Headford ambush
 * Scramoge ambush
 * Tourmakeady ambush
 * Anglo-Irish Treaty
 * Michael Collins (Irish leader)
 * Éamon De Valera
 * Irish Civil War
 * Liam Lynch (Irish republican)