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  2. Agriculture in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture in Ireland began during the neolithic era, when inhabitants of the island began to practice animal husbandry and farming grains. Principal crops grown during the neolithic era included barley and wheat. Following the Acts of Union 1800, the majority of rural Irish workers participated in the agricultural sector of Ireland's economy.

  3. Economic history of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Ireland's economic history starts at the end of the Ice Age when the first humans arrived there. Agriculture then came around 4500 BC. Iron technology came with the Celts around 350 BC. From the 12th century to the 1970s, most Irish exports went to England. During this period, Ireland's main exports were foodstuffs.

  4. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The development of agriculture about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived. They switched from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to permanent settlements and farming. [1] Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 104,000 years ago. [2] However, domestication did not occur until much later.

  5. History of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    From the early 1960s, Ireland sought admission to the European Economic Community but, because 90% of exports were to the United Kingdom market, it did not do so until the UK did, in 1973. Global economic problems in the 1970s, augmented by a set of misjudged economic policies followed by governments, including that of Taoiseach Jack Lynch ...

  6. Category:History of agriculture in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of agriculture in Ireland" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  7. Timeline of agriculture and food technology - Wikipedia

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    5500 BC – Céide Fields in Ireland are the oldest known field systems in the world, this landscape consists of extensive tracts of land enclosed by brick walls. [ 3 ] 5200 BC – In the heart of the Sahara Desert , several native species were domesticated, most importantly pearl millet , sorghum and cowpeas , which spread through West Africa ...

  8. What did people eat before agriculture? New study ... - AOL

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    The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed ...

  9. Prehistoric Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer hut and canoe, Irish National Heritage Park The last ice age fully came to an end in Ireland about 8000 BC. [17] Until the single 2016 Palaeolithic dating described above, the earliest evidence of human occupation after the retreat of the ice was dated to the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), around 7000 BC. [18]