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surely you mean overbearing English, old man?
by librasteve 10mo ago
surely you mean overbearing English, old man?
- clickety_clack 10mo agoYa, the Scotch-Irish were the Brits doing the overbearing in Ireland.
- physicsguy 10mo agoLet’s also not forget that the Irish lords that the Anglo-Irish supplanted were themselves the descendants of Normans.
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- orwin 10mo agoNo, they weren't, not in a meaningful way.
- clickety_clack 10mo agoThis is incorrect. It was the Britons that were ruled by saxons and then normans, not the Irish (until the invasion we’re talking about obviously).
- oncallthrow 10mo agoNo, we just found Nicola sturgeon’s hacker news account