He marries MacMurrough's daughter, storms and captures Dublin, and invades Meath. The Normans, under Henry II, conquer Ireland, beginning 750 years of British domination. 1366 Statutes of Kilkenny prohibit integration of Anglo-Normans and the Irish. 1588 Ships from Spanish Armada wrecked off Irish coasts. Protestantism takes root in Northern Ireland after British Protestant forces defeat native Irish Catholics in a bloody nine-year war.
Insurrection spreads throughout Ireland.
Rebels form the Confederate Catholics of Ireland, and set up their seat in Kilkenny. 1642-1652 Civil War. 1650 Catholic land owners exiled to Connaught. Cromwell's subjugation of Ireland complete. Irish landowners evicted and land handed over to Protestant settlers.