Talk:History of Ireland/Archive 2

message: Shouldn't there be something about the Romans? I believe there is some archeological evidence that they did make it to the island after all? User:JCWF
:I have linked this to Hibernia where I wrote a fuller discussion of potential Roman influence in Ireland. --Dumbo1 16:12, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: What did the Romans ever do for us?

message: I'm astonished there is no article about the Irish Nationalist Party (under any of its names). Also these huge maps make this article unreadable. They should be turned into thumbnails. Adam 04:28, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish Nationalist Party

message: Definite, unabashed POV in this article. C'mon, guys...It sounds OBVIOUSLY POV. At least be subtle...:-) -Penta 05:47, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: I am trying to improve the History of the United Kingdom page and it would be good if someone with a good knowledge of Irish history (ie. not me!) could make some contributions to it; as the issue of Ireland is of course a very important and controversial one in the history of the formation of the UK and I think needs to take quite a prominent part in the article. It has some background to pre 1801 developments (such as the medieval conquest of Ireland) which could do with some more work but I think it needs more on events after it became part of the UK such as the 'home rule' issue and then the subsequent developments leading up to the formation of the Irish Free State. And then there is of course the issue of Northern Ireland which is not yet included and needs its own section.--Cap 12:38, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the United Kingdom 

message: Would anyone object to breaking up the timeline into a yearbook format to match ones like timeline of Canadian history and timeline of Indian history.  The current pages are already in a similar format, just clumped together into decades.  Breaking them up would allow subsections, such as births, deaths, arts, and sports to be added.  It would also allow them to be linked from each year page. - SimonP 21:49, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
:You might be interested in Ireland in the 20th Century - their are also a number of pages that break of from this that give specific dates after the 1930s to recent times Djegan 13:52, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Timeline

message: What are the historical population figures for the island? - Jerryseinfeld 18:39, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: "The Celts colonised Ireland in a series of waves between the eighth and first centuries BC."
There is absolutly no evidence whatsoever that this actually happened. And we never called ourselves Celts. Just because we now speck English, does that make us Anglo-Saxons? Fergananim. 
: 83.70.154.81 has corrected that.  I'm tempted to add the theory that colonisation followed the (relatively safe) sea lanes up the atlantic coast (modern Morrocco/Portugal/Galacia/Britany) than the dangerous and difficult route through the wild forests of central Europe and England.  There was a very convincing series on RTE a few years back that relied on cultural archaeology (art,music) rather than on physical artefacts.  Does anyone know who proposed it (or better still, has he published?) --Red King 10:52, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Celts did not Invade Ireland

message: Is this a mis-spelling, or has the spelling changed?  (if so, a footnote to that effect would be useful.)
By the way, a round of applause to the user at 83.70.154.81 for an excellent set of late night edits on 3 June!  I really enjoyed "not worth the vellum it was enscribed upon" :)  --Red King 10:52, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Lenister/Leinster

message: the links to the main articles are all red/unavailable here - what happened to them? if they got renamed could someone fix them? (131.130.121.106 18:41, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  links to main articles broken?