A small bit of Irish history
The Norman invasion of the late 12th century marked the beginning of more than 800 years of direct English rule and, later, British involvement in Ireland. In 1177 Prince John Lackland was made Lord of Ireland by his father Henry II of England at the Council of Oxford.The Crown did not attempt to assert full control of the island until the rebellion of the Earl of Kildare threatened English hegemony. Henry VIII proclaimed himself King of Ireland and also tried to introduce the English Reformation, which failed in Ireland. Attempts to either conquer or assimilate the Irish lordships into the Kingdom of Ireland provided the initial impetus for a series of Irish military campaigns between 1534 and 1603. This period was marked by a Crown policy of plantation, involving the arrival of thousands of English and Scottish Protestant settlers, and the consequent displacement of the pre-plantation Catholic landholders. As the military and political defeat of Gaelic Ireland became more pronounced in the early seventeenth century, sectarian conflict became a recurrent theme in Irish history.
so it may have been an invasion but not the British but it was the Normans who at the time were in England for 100years then came the plantation that was just moving on the people that already live there
but did you know there were more rebellion's lead by protestant men then catholic ones (we have a song about that).
It still makes me laugh that two people born in the same hospital bed, one knows he is British, the other thinks they are Irish.
I was not defending any party just pointing out that everyone needs to talk on all sides for pace to breakout.
