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From: Bill Gawne <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] IRL-CARLOW Digest, Vol 1, Issue 84
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:31:31 -0500
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Jim Roache wrote:
> I am often unable to do anything but grin at some if the things people have
> come to believe. Ireland was not invaded, King Dermott recruited mercenaries
> in Wales - Cambro Norman (intermarriage by Norman and Welsh), their allies -
> Flemish and other and the Welsh all took part in Dermot's Civil War with the
> O'Rourkes and O'Connors. The barons in Wales - including Strongbow and
> FitzStephen were in more trouble with the Normans than the Irish. Upon
> arrival the lots of them were met by a large Irish Army and off they went to
> sack Waterford. They were Dermot's allies and mercenaries - not the German's
> taking over Poland in WWII.
[and more in the same vein]

Now that you've established your conceit, perhaps you'd be good enough
to provide a citation or two so the rest of us unwashed plebeians can go
out and educate ourselves? Or shall we simply trust you to be the
bearer of Revealed Truth?

-- Bill Gawne

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