| ▲ | librasteve 4 days ago |
| surely you mean overbearing English, old man? |
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| ▲ | oncallthrow 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| No, we just found Nicola sturgeon’s hacker news account |
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| ▲ | clickety_clack 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ya, the Scotch-Irish were the Brits doing the overbearing in Ireland. |
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| ▲ | physicsguy 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Let’s also not forget that the Irish lords that the Anglo-Irish supplanted were themselves the descendants of Normans. | | |
| ▲ | clickety_clack 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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). | |
| ▲ | 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | orwin 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | No, they weren't, not in a meaningful way. |
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