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| 920 |
| | | After years of raiding up the Shannon, the Vikings capture Limerick | |
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| 976 |
| | | Brian Boru becomes king of Munster and leader of the Irish campaign against the Vikings | |
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| 1014 |
| | | Brian Boru, aged 73, achieves a major victory over the Vikings at Clontarf but is killed in his tent after the battle | |
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| 1169 |
| | | Normans land in Ireland, seize Wexford, and in the following year capture Waterford and Dublin | |
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| 1171 |
| | | Henry II, the king of England, summons the Irish and Norman lords to do homage to him in Dublin | |
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| 1297 |
| | | The English government in Dublin calls a parliament on the lines of England's recent Model Parliament | |
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| 1306 |
| | | Robert de Bruce, in hiding on the island of Rathlin, is supposedly given a lesson in perseverance by a spider | |
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| 1316 |
| | | Edward Bruce is crowned king of Ireland at Dundalk, but his uprising ends two years later when he is killed in battle with the English | |
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| 1487 |
| | | Lambert Simnel, supposedly a nephew of Edward IV, is crowned in Dublin - but ends up working in the royal kitchens of Henry VII | |
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| 1607 |
| | | The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel sail from Ireland with their families, in the event known as the Flight of the Earls | |
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