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by explodingman
1595 days ago
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For a long period it was against the law for an Irishman to own a horse worth more than 5 pounds. Englishmen could assault an Irishman with a horse worth 50 pounds, steal it, and throw a 5 pound note at the owner's feet, and the (English) magistrate would say that no offence had been committed. A young Catholic Irishman who converted to the Protestant branch of Christianity would get title to his Catholic father's house and could evict his family or charge them rent. There were also more systemic laws limiting Irish peoples' access to education and careers. But the Irish remained the top ethnicity in Ireland and their population increased fast for most of that period, so I have no clue what the IRA were going on about. |
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