LOL.....It says the ''English Camp''.........There must have been some Fleet street Reporters there.........there were very few ''English'' there.......
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LOL.....It says the ''English Camp''.........There must have been some Fleet street Reporters there.........there were very few ''English'' there.......
plenty of French maybe.......population of France at that time..19 million.....population of Britain at that time....8 million.....That included wales and Scotland.....
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local Colonel rallying his ''men''......No doubt many Ulster Scots looking to get at them Paddies and French.....
Sadly Irish history is full of so called French Help.....The same French who treated Protestants in a not so respectful manner......The best way to get on a good protestants nerves was to include the French in your plans.....link up with their Catholic hatred for the protestants and you give up all reasonable hope of being treated nicely.....
Being stuck in the middle between France and Ireland was not what the Anglicans and the fire and Brimstone Presbyterians would have wished for even on a good day......Certainly outnumbered, and with the Pope threatening revenge daily you would not have acted like a nice Sunday Schoolboy......
Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!
local Colonel rallying his ''men''......No doubt many Ulster Scots looking to get at them Paddies and French.....
Sadly Irish history is full of so called French Help.....The same French who treated Protestants in a not so respectful manner......The best way to get on a good protestants nerves was to include the French in your plans.....link up with their Catholic hatred for the protestants and you give up all reasonable hope of being treated nicely.....
Being stuck in the middle between France and Ireland was not what the Anglicans and the fire and Brimstone Presbyterians would have wished for even on a good day......Certainly outnumbered, and with the Pope threatening revenge daily you would not have acted like a nice Sunday Schoolboy......
There was no shortage of land in Britain......just a shortage of Protestants in Ireland to make sure the French did not take it up as a Holiday Island....
Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!
Crowds on O'Connell Bridge on 22nd December 1948 - the night Ireland formally became a republic...
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The Act was signed into law on 21 December 1948 and came into force on 18 April 1949, Easter Monday the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the Easter Rising.
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