Migrants have long been part of Ireland’s history
. They have always been in the news in Ireland. Our first migrants came ashore after the ice age, about 10,000 years ago, and Ireland became home to its first inhabitants. A significant settlement of these hunter-gatherers was unearthed in excavations at Mount Sandel, near Coleraine.
Then it was the Vikings who arrived from Norway and settled here to add skills in metalwork to our artistic repertoire. Normans and the Anglo-Irish Ascendency joined us in the following centuries and gave us
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