Ancient Ireland: The Statue Of Ireland

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In the wake of the Normans’ influx into the Western part of Ireland, English returned to the lands in the form of King Henry II. The Gaelic speakers of Ireland were to uphold the use of the language because the English who had arrived onto the lands blended with the Natives. The Statues of Kilkenny, 1366, sought to end the English and Irish intermixing with the abundance of penalties or rules, that include using an English surname, forfeiting their land, English customs were to be adopted, etc. The statue was a futile attempt to dismantle the assimilation, it prevailed well into the Reformation of 1536-7. Though the Irish and English communities lived together for long spans of time, the two hadn’t become a uniformed population. The Roman

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