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Futility of the Vicious Anti- Irish Decrees

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 [...]

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victory at Kells and Crowning of Bruce

Bruce soon followed up his victory, and marched for the Midlands by Kells and Granard to Loch Seudy (in the modern Co. Westmeath), where he spent Christmas. At Kells he had defeated Sir Roger Mortimer* who claimed by right of his wife, a grand-daughter of the younger Hugh de Lacy, part of the lands of [...]

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