Irish mythology, Celts, music, beer, typical Irish festivals, many things actually, have made many people all over the world fall in love with this group of islands in Europe.
The story tells us that the first to inhabit the islands of Ireland were hunters and gatherers, back in the Mesolithic. About three thousand years before Christ they entered the Bronze Age, that is, they stopped using stone tools to use bronze, grow grains, raise animals and develop a life more rooted in the land. A thousand years later they shaped the religious stone structures that still outline the Irish landscape with so much mystery.
The Celts arrived around 1600 BC and gave rise to the Celtic ireland. They created four provinces, Connacht, Ulster, Leinster and Munster to supplant the small kingdoms that concentrated no more than 500 thousand people, the Irish population at that time. A Great King was above all. And one fine day he came to Ireland St. Patrick, a Catholic missionary who arrived from neighboring Scotland to convert the nation to Catholicism. And he achieve it.
First Saint Patrick concentrated on the nobles, introduced Latin and taught to write and read in this language so his legacy is important for the development of the known Ireland. At his death, the noble families of Ireland handled Latin with all that it entails. The story continues with Brian Boru, Great King, who was defeated by another Irish king allied with the Vikings. The Norsemen were a plague to Ireland for a long time.
Later the Normans would arrive with their culture and customs and towards the 1922th century the English began to look at these lands with great affection. We already know how everything continued: settlers, incursions, wars, revelries, resistance, servitude. Until XNUMX Ireland was in the hands of England.