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| c. 600 |
| | | The Scots, a tribal group of northern Ireland, extend their kingdom across the sea into Scotland | |
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| c. 620 |
| | | The Irish monk St Aidan moves from Iona to establish a monastery on Lindisfarne | |
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| c. 650 |
| | | The Book of Durrow, one of the earliest of the great Celtic manuscripts, is written and illuminated in Ireland | |
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| 838 |
| | | Vikings from Norway capture Dublin and establish a Norse kingdom in Ireland | |
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| 920 |
| | | After years of raiding up the Shannon, the Vikings capture Limerick | |
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| 976 |
| | | Brian Boru becomes king of Munster and leader of the Irish campaign against the Vikings | |
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| 1014 |
| | | Brian Boru, aged 73, achieves a major victory over the Vikings at Clontarf but is killed in his tent after the battle | |
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| 1169 |
| | | Normans land in Ireland, seize Wexford, and in the following year capture Waterford and Dublin | |
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| 1171 |
| | | Henry II, the king of England, summons the Irish and Norman lords to do homage to him in Dublin | |
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| 1297 |
| | | The English government in Dublin calls a parliament on the lines of England's recent Model Parliament | |
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