# List of armed conflicts involving Ireland against the United Kingdom

This is a chronological list of armed conflicts involving Ireland and the United Kingdom. Both sides have fought a total of 15 armed conflicts against each other, with 1 of them being an Irish victory, 12 of them being a British victory, 1 having another result and 1 being an internal conflict (civil war).
    Irish victory
    British victory
    Another result
    Internal conflict

## Irish rebels versus England/United Kingdom

| Date | Conflict | Irish side | British side | Result |
| 1169-1177 | Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland | Gaelic Ireland | Angevin Empire | Anglo-Norman victory Most of Ireland absorbed into the Lordship of Ireland |
| 1315-1318 | Bruce campaign in Ireland | Gaelic Ireland  Kingdom of Scotland | Kingdom of England Lordship of Ireland | English victory |
| 1569-1573 | First Desmond Rebellion | Fitzmaurice of Desmond FitzGerald of Desmond Allied clans | Kingdom of England Irish loyalists | English victory Second Desmond Rebellion |
| 1579-1583 | Second Desmond Rebellion | FitzGeralds of Desmond O'Byrnes Spain and Papal troops | Kingdom of England and Irish allies | English victory Famine throughout Munster Plantations of Munster |
| 1593-1603 | Nine Years' War (Ireland) | Irish alliance Spain | Kingdom of England and loyalists | English victory Treaty of Mellifont (1603) Flight of the Earls (1607) |
| 1641-1642 | Irish Rebellion of 1641 | Confederate Ireland | England  Ireland  Scotland | Founding of Confederate Ireland and beginning of the Irish Confederate Wars |
| 1641-1653 | Eleven Years' War | Irish Catholic Confederates Royalists Scottish Covenanters | Kingdom of Ireland Laggan Army  Kingdom of England Scottish Covenanters English Parliamentarians | English Parliamentarian victory English conquest of Ireland |
| 1689-1691 | Williamite War in Ireland | Jacobites | Kingdom of England Kingdom of Scotland | Anglo-Scottish victory Treaty of Limerick (1691) |
| 1798 | Irish Rebellion of 1798 | United Irishmen Defenders  France | Great Britain  Ireland | British victory (Suppression by Crown forces) Abolition of the Irish Parliament and creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 |
| 1803 | Irish Rebellion of 1803 | United Irishmen | United Kingdom | British victory (Rebellion suppressed) |
| 1848 | Young Ireland rebellion | Young Irelanders | Irish Constabulary | British victory Rebels besiege a police unit, but retreat after police reinforcements arrive |
| 1867 | Fenian Rising | Irish Republican Brotherhood Fenian Brotherhood | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British victory Political reorganisation |
| 1916 | Easter Rising | Irish rebel forces | British forces | British victory Unconditional surrender of Rebel forces Execution of most leaders |

## Independent Ireland versus United Kingdom

| Date | Conflict | Irish side | British side | Result |
| 1919-1921 | Irish War of Independence | Irish Republic | United Kingdom | Irish victory Military stalemate Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) Ensuring Irish Civil War |
| 1922-1923 | Irish Civil War | Anti-Treaty IRA | Irish Free State  United Kingdom | Pro-Treaty forces victory Consolidation of the Irish Free State |