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In the Republic of Ireland, the nation occupying the southern island of Ireland, according to the 2016 census, 58.3% of the population declared themselves Catholics and 29.8% had no religion. The remaining 11.9% are Protestants, Muslims, etc.

Irish Christianity is part of a Celtic cultural context, and in the troubled history of the British Isles, then at least as early as 1200 in the difficult relations between England and Ireland.

Historical landmarks

Prehistoric Ireland
In the tenth millennium (from before the present), after the end of the glaciation of Würm, people arrived in the Irish territory, hunter-gatherers-fishers, by sea, in several waves, coming from Scotland (prehistory of Scotland) and/or Great Britain: prehistory of Great Britain, prehistory of the Isle of Man, history of primitive Ireland.

Religious (social and) practices of these communities, semi-nomads, remain cairns, tumulus, cromlechs, menhirs, megaliths, burials, including the archaeological complex of Brú na Bóinne (residence of the Boyne Valley): Newgrange (before the present), Dowth, Knowth, Tara.
Other megalithic sites in Ireland (country) and/or: Cromlech de Drombeg , , , , dolmen de Poulnabrone, dolmen de Brownshill, covered driveway ()... As in Scotland and Cumbria, in Ireland there are also engraved stone balls.

The Irish Neolithic corresponds to the period from 4500 to 2500
The Bronze Age in Ireland would correspond to the years 2500-700 (4500-2700 before the present) (Cashel man).

Celtic primitive Ireland: from -700 to +400

The arrival in Ireland of Celtic peoples coincides with the beginning of the Iron Age in Ireland (La Tene).

Celtic religion, Irish Celtic mythology, Celtic art: celtology without celtomania or Celtic circle are first retained here.

The island Celtic languages consist of two Gaelic branches (Scotland, Irish and Manno) and Brittonic (Breton, Cambrian, Cornish and Welsh), Celtic, as opposed to the Continental Celtic group.

The Gaëls formed Gaelic Ireland, a mosaic of territories, at least until 1169, living mainly in fisheries, pastoralism and mineral resources. Gaelic language and culture originated in Ireland, but spread to Scotland during the time of Dál Riata's kingdom. Gaelicization seems to have concerned the Picts first. Although not speaking Irish or Scottish Gaelic, many people still consider themselves today as Gaëls in a broader sense, because of their historical ancestry and inheritance.

Whatever the poor relations (economic, cultural, political) between the various Celtic peoples of Ireland and Great Britain, including the supposed barbaric coalition of 368 in B