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Events. Plantation of Ulster: substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhabited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton. [1] [2] [3] County Wicklow becomes the last of the traditional counties of Ireland to be shired, from land previously part of counties Dublin and Carlow. Donal of the Pipes, 13th Prince of Carbery ...
e. In Ireland, direct elections by universal suffrage are used for the President, the ceremonial head of state; for Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas or parliament; for the European Parliament; and for local government. All elections use proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV ...
Tourism in the Republic of Ireland is one of the biggest contributors to the economy of Ireland, with 9.0 million people visiting the country in 2017, about 1.8 times Ireland's population. [1] [2] Each year about €5.2bn in revenue is made from economic activities directly related to tourists, accounting for nearly 2% of GNP and employing over ...
Institutions. The Irish universities include the University of Dublin, better known by the name of its sole college, Trinity College Dublin, the four constituent universities of the National University of Ireland, two universities established in 1989, five technological universities formed by the amalgamation of Institutes of Technology and a professional medical institution.
The table below lists hoards that date to 1536 or later, following the reconquest of Ireland by Henry VIII of England. Most of these hoards date to the Elizabethan era (1558–1603), during which time the Nine Years' War (1594–1603) caused considerable instability throughout Ireland, but especially in Ulster.
Events. May 2 – the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry. [1] May 10 – the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel. July–August – the first ships carrying Scotch-Irish emigrants from Ulster to North America arrive in Boston, Massachusetts. [2]
Guinness Storehouse [2] St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland's "national cathedral" [2] St Stephen's Green, a landscaped inner-city centre public park in Dublin. Temple Bar, a mainly cobblestonequarter, directly on the Southern banks of the Liffey, popular for its cultural and nightlife spots.
