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librasteve
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surely you mean overbearing English, old man?
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oncallthrow
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No, we just found Nicola sturgeon’s hacker news account
clickety_clack
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Ya, the Scotch-Irish were the Brits doing the overbearing in Ireland.
physicsguy
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Let’s also not forget that the Irish lords that the Anglo-Irish supplanted were themselves the descendants of Normans.
orwin
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No, they weren't, not in a meaningful way.
clickety_clack
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This 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).
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