Free Guide - Discover Ireland
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Bronze Age<br />
2200 – 600 BC<br />
Industrial Age<br />
1800 – 1900 AD<br />
Iron Age<br />
600 BC – 400 AD<br />
Modern Age<br />
1900 – present<br />
Early Christian Period<br />
400 – 790 AD<br />
Early activity at Tara 227 - 266 AD<br />
433 AD<br />
Legendary King of <strong>Ireland</strong><br />
St. Patrick returns to<br />
Cormac Mac Airt reigns<br />
<strong>Ireland</strong> & lights Paschal<br />
from Tara<br />
fire at Hill of Slane<br />
1808 AD<br />
Millmount Mortello Tower is<br />
constructed<br />
1843 AD<br />
One million people attend<br />
Daniel O’Connell’s ‘monster<br />
meeting’ at Tara<br />
1847 AD<br />
Worst year of the Great<br />
Famine, known as ‘Black ‘47’<br />
1855 AD<br />
Boyne Viaduct railway bridge<br />
completed<br />
1887 AD<br />
Francis Ledwidge, poet, born<br />
outside Slane, Co. Meath<br />
1953 AD<br />
Pierce Brosnan, former<br />
James Bond, & honorary<br />
OBE, is born in Navan<br />
1986 AD<br />
Freddy Mercury & Queen<br />
play Slane Castle<br />
1993 AD<br />
Newgrange, Knowth &<br />
Dowth become UNESCO<br />
World Heritage sites<br />
May 2008<br />
Visitor Centre at the<br />
Battle of the Boyne<br />
site officially opened<br />
by Taoiseach Bertie<br />
Ahern and First<br />
Minister of Northern<br />
<strong>Ireland</strong>, Dr. Ian Paisley<br />
521 AD<br />
St. Buite, founder of<br />
Monasterboice, dies<br />
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