#History of the #BrithishIsles
#InvasionsOfIreland
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...beginning
of more than 700 years of direct #English and, later, #British involvement in #Ireland...π"
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#History of the #BrithishIsles
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...Battle of #Clontarf."
After the famous Battle of #Hastings, the Duke of #Normandy, the #Viking descendant, #WilliamTheConqueror became the #English king.
"To help take back his kingdom, [Irish King] #MacMurchada invited the #Normans to Ireland in 1169. The move soon backfired when the #Normans [King #HenryII] took his domain for themselves.
The #Norman invasion was a watershed in the history of #Ireland, πmarking the...
#History of the #BrithishIsles
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To elaborate on the subject, I'd argue, that for almost all of the second millennium, #Ireland being ruled by the royals that sat on the #English throne, rather than being an autonomous region, was the norm:
After #Norse invasions starting in 795 AD, Ireland became autonomous again only in 101A, when "the famed high king #BrianBoru defeated a #Viking force at the...
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