Difference between anglo-irish and Gaelic peasants #history #medieval #irish

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Date: November 20, 2024

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  1. Did I hear right? “In the North West they were mostly a cattle-based economy, so there would have been a lot of cattle raiding”? I don’t go with the auto-captions suggesting he said “cattle rating,” because that’s meaningless. But it also highlights a principal reason why the English got involved in Ireland at all in the first place—the Irish were always raiding English and Welsh coasts, and the only way that could be found to stop them coming to help themselves to English and Welsh farm animals and crops was to go and deal with the source of the raiding parties. There was no technology of surveillance and prevention, and the tactics were pretty much a blunt intrument, but that’s how things were done in those days. The massive chip on the national Irish shoulder about the English coming and oppressing them was due to injuries that were largely self-inflicted.

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