Vikings from Scandinavia began raiding Ireland just before 800 AD and continued for 200 years before Brian Boru defeated them at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.

The first recorded Viking raid in Ireland occurred in 795 AD, when the church on Lambeg Island (now part of Dublin) was plundered and burned.

[citation needed] On 25 February 1946, an Irish delegation arrived in Stockholm to discuss potential diplomatic relations between Ireland and Sweden.

On 28 June, John Aloysius Belton (Ireland's charge d'affaires at the time) arrived in Stockholm.

[2][3] The embassy of Sweden in Ireland was closed in 2010, with representation handled by a Stockholm-based ambassador from that time, but was reopened in February 2023.