The island of Ireland comprises the Republic of Ireland, which is a sovereign state, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
Facts about land ownership
No research into Irish family history would be complete without the opportunity to look at the location of land and get details about the family’s holdings in rural Ireland.
The first inhabitants of Ireland
The first people arrived in Ireland about 9000 years ago (around 7000 BC). We now call them Stone Age people because they used stone tools for farming and hunting.
English colonization of Ireland and the struggle against it
The restoration of royal authority did little to change the situation of the Catholic Irish. Although Charles II ended religious persecution