- The BRUCE WARS 1315-1318, an attempt by members of the O'Neill clan backed by a Scottish and Irish army to make Edward Bruce the High King of Ireland. They were supported by Edward's older brother, Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
- The Geraldine Rebellion (1534) and the FitzGerald Rebellion against Henry VIII of England 1535 to 1537, having to do with who was supreme head of the church
- The DESMOND REBELLIONS, which occurred in the 1560s, 1570s and 1580s in Munster
- Tyrone's Rebellion (also known as the nine year war from 1594 to 1603, predominantly in Ulster
- 1641 a conflict between the Roman Catholic native Gaelic-Irish and Hiberno-Normans, and Protestant settlers
- The 1798 RISING, a republican uprising against British rule of Ireland
- The UNITED IRISH of 1800, an uprising against British rule of Newfoundland
- The Robert Emmet lead rebellion of 1803
- The Famine Rebellion of 1848
- The FENIAN RISING of 1867
- The EASTER RISING of 1916, a nationalist uprising against British rule of Ireland
- The WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1919–1921), a guerrilla war between the original Irish Republican Army and the British administration in Ireland, resulting in the creation of the Irish Free State, now known as the Republic of Ireland
- The S-PLAN or Sabotage Campaign (IRA) (1939–1940) NORTHERN CAMPAIGN (1942–1944)
- The BORDER CAMPAIGN (1956–1962)
- THE TROUBLES (1968–1998)