The relations between Denmark and Ireland have been described as "excellent", and the two countries enjoy strong trade and cultural ties.

Still, the two races remained entirely distinct, and fought and devastated and retaliated in many a fierce and cruel fashtion with inturing animosity and inextinguishable hatred.

After much hard fighting, the Danes at length obtained a firm footing on the east coast, and Dublin… became exclusively a Danish city, where the powerful race of the Northmen ruled and reigned for nearly four hundred years.She moreover stated that:[9] The Danes were the most terrible and ungodly of pagans when they first came to our shores; but through the influence of the Irish saints and holy men of the Church they were gradually Christianized, and evinced their zeal by founding new churches… The first cathedral in Dublin, Christchurch was built by the Danes, and a Danish bishop first held the see.An air transport treaty was signed in 1947, between both countries.

[12] After establishing relations, the Irish ambassador in Amsterdam was accredited to Denmark until 1972 when an embassy opened in Copenhagen.

[15][16] On the Danish side, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen travelled to Dublin in 2002 to discuss the upcoming referendum on the treaty of Nice with Irish authorities, as Denmark had the EU presidency at the time.