Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

These vicious decrees, like similar earlier ones, fell most heavily on the colonists, and, like those, they were ignored or evaded. They were directed, indeed, against the social and economic life of the country. Irish language, dress and customs prevailed every-where even within the Pale itself. The limits of the Pale were too narrow for [...]

Above : Painting Of King Henry VII Reduced to this condition of impotence, the Crown officials could only display a futile malevolence by further anti-Irish enactments. Some of these declarations against the adoption of Irish customs border on the ridiculous. In 1447 it was enacted that ” every man must keep his upper lip shaved [...]