Abstract
Romans did not conquer the island but Saint Patrick did. From the 5th to the 9th centuries it was a seat of religious learning, from which missionaries went to all parts of Western Europe. It was then that the hermits who lived on the islands of the lakes or of the western coast became renowned. Celebrated schools were founded, of which that of Armagh numbered more than 7,000 students, many of whom came from foreign lands. Irish clan chieftains fought among themselves for a thousand years, and only quit to fight against the Danes from the end of the 8th century to 1014. Then the Irish could and did go back to fighting each other again till the Normans came in 1170. But the battles got really bitter under Henry VIII-who took the title of King of Ireland in 1541-when religious fervor gave added zest to throat-slitting on both sides.
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