Following the 12th century Norman invasion, the England claimed sovereignty.
However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain.
It was covered by thick woodlands until the Middle Ages.MFS is a unique senior dating site, because it is founded and run by a husband-and-wife team who met online and were passionate about improving people’s online dating experience.The site was founded on core values that we think everybody wants to live by: honesty, openness, great value for money and loads of fun along the way!A war of independence in the early 20th century was followed by the partition of the island, creating the Irish Free State, which became increasingly sovereign over the following decades, and Northern Ireland, which remained a part of the United Kingdom.Northern Ireland saw much civil unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s.