List of conflicts in Ireland

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is a list of major military engagements throughout Irish history including:

Prehistoric era

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Main article: Pre-historic Irish battles

5th century

6th century

7th century

8th century

9th century

10th century

11th century

12th century

  • 1101 - Battle of Grianan[citation needed]
  • 1103 - Battle of Magh Cobha [1]
  • 1132 - Siege of Dún Béal Gallimhe
  • 1149 - Siege of Dún Béal Gallimhe
  • 1151 - Battle of Móin Mhór
  • 1169/05 - Beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland
  • 1169/05 - Battle of Duncormac, County Wexford - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force
  • 1169/05 - Siege of Wexford - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force
  • 1169/05 - Battle of Gowran - Norman defeat
  • 1170/05 - Battle of Dundonnell (aka Battle of Baginbun), County Wexford - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force
  • 1170/08 - Battle of Waterford - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force
  • 1170/09 - Sack of Dublin - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force
  • 1171 - Battle of Carrick - Norman defeat
  • 1173 - Battle of Kilkenny - Norman defeat
  • 1174 - Battle of Thurles - Norman defeat
  • 1175 - Battle of Meath - Norman victory
  • 1175 - Battle of Athlone - Norman victory
  • 1175 - Battle of Drogheda - Norman victory
  • 1176 - Battle of Meath - Norman defeat
  • 1176 - Battle of Armagh - Norman defeat
  • 1192 - Aughera - Norman defeat[citation needed]

13th century

14th century

Bruce Campaign

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Main article: Bruce campaign in Ireland

15th century

16th century

Mac an Iarla War

Desmond Rebellions

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Main article: Desmond Rebellions

First Desmond Rebellion (1569–1573)

Second Desmond Rebellion (1579–1583)

Spanish Armada

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Main article: Spanish Armada in Ireland
  • 1588 - Crown mobilisation to capture survivors

Nine Years' War

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Main article: Nine Years' War (Ireland)

17th century

O'Doherty's Rebellion

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Main article: O'Doherty's Rebellion

Irish Confederate Wars

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Main articles: Irish Rebellion of 1641, Irish Confederate Wars, and Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

Williamite War

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Main article: Williamite War in Ireland

18th century

United Irishmen Rebellion

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Main article: Irish Rebellion of 1798

Several fragments of the rebel armies of the Summer of 1798 survived to fight on both in the hope of the rebellion breaking out again and of French aid. The main guerrilla groupings were:

19th century

Tithe War

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Main article: Tithe War
  • 1831–1836 - a period of rural insurgency over the payment of tithes to the Established Church.

Fenian Rising

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Main article: Fenian Rising

20th century

Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence & Civil War, 1916-22

Only the major engagements of this period are listed below.

Easter Rising

Irish War of Independence

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Main articles: Irish War of Independence and Timeline of the Irish War of Independence

Irish Civil War

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Main articles: Irish Civil War and Timeline of the Irish Civil War

IRA Northern Campaigns

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Main articles: Northern Campaign (IRA) and Border Campaign (IRA)

The Troubles

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Main articles: The Troubles, Provisional IRA campaign 1969-1997, and Operation Banner

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See also: Chronology of the Northern Ireland Troubles

Irish Defence Forces peacekeeping

  • 1960 - Niemba Ambush - Irish platoon ambushed by Baluba tribesmen in the Congo
  • 1961 - Siege of Jadotville - 150 Irish peacekeepers hold out for four days under siege by upwards of four thousand Kataganians in the Congo, while Irish and Swedish troops attempt to break through to them.
  • 1961 - Second Battle for the Tunnel - Irish 36th Battalion capture a vital communications link in Elisabethville, Congo.
  • 1980 - Battle of At Tiri, South Lebanon. Between Irish and other UNIFIL troops and South Lebanon Army.
  • 2004 - Gbapa, Nimba county, Liberia - Irish Army Ranger Wing rescue villagers from Government of Liberia (GOL) forces.[14]

See also

Footnotes

References

  1. ↑ Bartlett, A Military History of Ireland, Ch 3, pg 59
  2. ↑ Bartlett, A Military History of Ireland, Ch 6, pg 129
  3. ↑ Bartlett, A Military History of Ireland, Ch 6, pg 130
  4. ↑ Lennon, Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest, pg 151
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lennon, Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest, pg 255
  7. ↑ Connolly, Contested Island, pg 267
  8. ↑ Connolly, Contested Island, pg 276
  9. ↑ Tinniswood, The Verneys, pg 180
  10. ↑ C. P. Meehan, Confederation of Kilkenny, pg 72
  11. ↑ Meehan, Confederation of Kilkenny, pg 76
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Scott-Wheeler, Cromwell in Ireland, pg 135
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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