For those of you who do not know, Ireland is a small country on the east side of the Atlantic Ocean. The Republic of Ireland has a population of just over four and a half million people. People first came to Ireland around 8,000 years ago. The people who came here were hunter-gatherers and according to Wikipedia ' a hunter-gatherer is a nomadic society where food is obtained through animals and plants' this society doesn’t have any agriculture and they eat whatever they can find.
The people who came to Ireland 8000 years ago were in the Mesolithic period and they came after the ice sheet that used to cover Ireland had melted. The tools and weapons that they used were spears and arrows which were made from small pieces of stone. They also used to eat berries, fish, nuts and wild boar.
About 4000 years later, the Neolithic period came along. The main difference here is that instead of people going out and looking for food, they herded animals such as cattle, goats and sheep. Agriculture was another big difference, many people built houses and they farmed in fields divided by stone wall, an example would be the Céide Fields in Co. Mayo. They farmed things such as wheat and barley also.
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