Ireland

Ireland is an island in the north-west of Europe. There are two lands on the island of Ireland: the Commonwealth of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Anglish and English word Ireland comes from the word Ériu in the Old Irish tung. In the Irish tung now, the word is Éire.

The smaller of the two lands on the island is Northern Ireland, which is part of the One Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The head town of Northern Ireland is the great town of Belfast.

Most of the island of Ireland is part of the Commonwealth of Ireland (Republic of Ireland in the English tung). The great towns of the Commonwealth of Ireland are Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford. The head town is Dublin. The Commonwealth of Ireland is split into 26 shires. By law, the tungs of Ireland are Irish and English. It is unknown how many Irish folk speak or read Anglish.

Erelore
Erelore tells us that Ireland has had folk since 9,000 years ago. Celtic folk came to Ireland starting 2,800 years ago, inbringing their Celtic tung, which is now the Irish tung.

Yorelore
Irish yorelore starts with the island’s first books, which were written by men of Christ after the Welshman St. Patrick inbrought that worship to the island in the year 432. The tale is told that St. Patrick taught the Gaels the teaching of the Threefoldness of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost being still one God by holding up a shamrock under the eyes of the Gaelic folk. Ere then, the Gaels had worshipped many gods and goddesses. The books written by Ireland’s men of Christ were mostly in Latin and Old Irish. The Irish learnt their Latin and Greek from wordhoards, so their Latin had a learned feel to it unlike that of that of the writings of folk in much of the rest of Europe, where the folk spoke tungs that came from Latin.

The Celtic folk in Ireland in those years, the Gaels, had many kings. The land was divided into shires ruled by kinglets. Above these, the land of the whole island was split into five kingdoms: Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Meath. Of these, only the first four are still talked of now, as the Four Great Shires of Ireland, or the Four Provinces, in English. The fifth kingdom, Meath, had in it the town of Tara, the head town where dwelt the High King of Ireland. All the kings of the land were said to be under this High King, though this was not always true in life.

In the ninth hundredyear, the Norse Vikings started making war in the land. They built up the first great towns of Ireland, like Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, and Wexford. The Viking kings of Dublin soon became mighty in the whole land, until they were brought down by the Irish at the Battle of Clontarf in the year 1014. The Irish were led in this battle by their High King, Brian Boru, who died there.

In the 1100’s the High King Rory O’Connor forced the King of Leinster, Diarmuid MacMorrough from the land. To wrest back his kingdom, Diarmuid went for help to the King of England, Henry II, who said that Diarmuid could take Norman knights back with him to Ireland. Diarmuid gathered Norman, Welsh, and Flemish fighters in Wales, and they landed in Ireland in the year 1169. The Norman lords became mighty in the land, and they brought with them their French tung. But after a while, the children of Norman lords had wed with those of the Irish kings, and the Normans became much like the Gaelic folk in talk and ways.

In the 1500’s Europe was shaken by the Againmaking (English, Reformation) of the worship of Christ. Some lands kept themselves under the Pope, and other lands made their own new Againstish (English, Protestant) churches. In the British Islands, England, Scotland, and Wales all followed the way of the Againmaking, whilst Ireland stood by the Pope and the Roman Allish (English, Roman Catholic) Church. This was the root of many wars between England and Ireland in the hundreds of years that followed.

Over the next few hundred years, first Englishmen and then Scotsmen were sent to Ireland so that Againstish folk, who were thought more true to the King of England, would be mightier in the land than the Roman Allish Irish. These folk inbrought the English tung to Ireland. A new Church of Ireland was made, which was under the Church of England. Harsh laws were made against Irish Roman Allish folk. Amongst other laws was that only a follower of the Againmaking could sit in the Lawmoot in Dublin.

There were two great wars between followers of the Pope and those of the new churches in Ireland. The first was that of Lord Cromwell, winner of the English Amongst-Selves War, who fought in Ireland from 1649 to 1653 for the English Commonwealth against Irishmen who stood by the fallen King of England. Cromwell slew many Irish folk, and gave the land of the Irish lords he fought against to some of the many Englishmen he brought to the land.

The next of these great wars in Ireland was that between the Irish and English followers of the English kings James II and William of Orange, fought in Ireland in 1690 and 1691. James was a follower of the Pope, so many of the Irish flocked to him. But it was William who won the war, making fast Againstish power in the land.

In the next few hundred years after 1691, Ireland was ruled by members of the Againstish Upgoingness (English, Protestant Ascendancy). Many of the great works of the English tung were written by these folk, among whom were Spenser, Swift, and Berkeley, and later, Wilde and Yeats. Amongst lawmakers, the Upgoingness brought forth Edmund Burke, who sat in both the Irish and English lawmoots. At the lawmoot in Westminster, Burke spoke for the Americkslandish Turning and against the French Turning. Wolfe Tone led the Irish Uprising of 1798, which was put down.

In the year 1800, the Lawmoot in Westminster made the Doing of Oneness (English, Act of Union) which made the One Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. For the rest of the 1800’s, there was much talk in Ireland, and in Britain, of whether this was good, or whether Ireland should get back its own lawmoot. Among the leaders seeking a new Irish Lawmoot were the Againstish Charles Parnell and the Allish Daniel O’Connell.

From 1847 through 1849, Ireland had its Great Hunger. Many Irish folk died, and many others went away to Americksland, or to British holdings like Canada, Southland (Australia), and New Sealand. Indeed, thanks to these outgoings, and also to British shipments of outlaws to most of these places over the years, there are now more Irish folk outside of Ireland than in it. Another thing brought forth by the Great Hunger was the falling out of use of the Irish tung in much of Ireland, as the Irish folk more and more spoke English.

In 1914, the First World War began, with Againstish and Allish folk from Ireland both fighting under the British flag of their free will. In 1916, a small band of Irish led the Easter Rising in the great town of Dublin, seeking to have the Irish fight to split from the One Kingdom. Few Irish were for this at first, but British harshness after the Rising started to push the Irish toward the uprisers’ way of thinking, as did the fear, starting in 1918, that even those Irish who did not want to fight in the First World War of their own free will might be made to do so by the British. In 1918, then, the Irish thought to send the gaoled uprisers’ mootband (political party), Sinn Féin, to the British Lawmoot. Having won most of the lawmoot seats for Ireland, Sinn Féin made their own new Irish Lawmoot in 1919, and said forth the split of the Commonwealth of Ireland from Britain.

From 1919 to 1921, the followers of the new lawmoot, brought together as the Irish Commonwealth Army (English, Irish Republican Army) fought an underground war against the British, the Irish War of Self-Ruling. In 1922, the British said that they would let the southern 26 shires of Ireland be part of the Irish land, but that the six northern shires, which had many Againstish folk, must stay British. Some of the Irish leaders, grouped around Michael Collins, agreed to this, and so the island was split between British Northern Ireland, and the new Irish Freeland (English, Irish Free State). Others of the Irish leaders, grouped around Eamon de Valera, were against this splitting of the island, and spoke out for the Irish to keep fighting for a single Commonwealth. The two sides fought the Irish Amongst-Selves War, which was won by the Freeland side.

After the Amongst-Selves War, the two head mootbands in Dublin were both rooted in the fights of that war. The Fine Gael mootband stood for the war’s Freeland side, and the Fianna Fáil mootband for the Commonwealth side. These are still the leading mootbands in the Irish Lawmoot.

Ireland stayed as a Freeland until 1949, when it became a Commonwealth. For many years, the lawmaking of the land was dominated by the Roman Allish Church. Also, the wealthlore laws (English, economic policies) of the land did not help to make Ireland wealthy, with farming and sightseeing being the lead works (industries).

In the 1990’s, though, new wealthlore laws, and Ireland’s learned, English-speaking crop of young folk made wealthbands (corporations) from Americksland and elsewhere want to spend wealth to build new works in Ireland. Amongst all the new works in Ireland, the leading one was reckoner craft. Leading reckoner wealthbands, like Intel and Dell, have built works and sought hirelings in Ireland. From being one of the poorest lands in the European Oneness, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest, leading some to call it—thinking of the Asian Tygers—the Celtic Tyger.

Among doings between Ireland and other lands, Ireland’s first thought has been to see peace in Northern Ireland, where there has been fighting between Againstish Onenessers and Allish Commonwealthers (Protestant Unionists and Catholic Republicans) for tens of years. Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland has grown more peaceful.

Among Ireland's givings to the world of today are its songs, and the books of Irish writers like James Joyce.