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Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]
look give up some things are not for evreyone
So according to you, who has never been to Ireland and never read any Irish history, all the professors, scholars, historians and academics are completely wrong in their understanding of our own history. Cziekawe ....
Your Brehon laws do not make a modern nation.
Brehon law is the oldest European legal system and evolved over centuries into a highly complex code for which lawyers received professional training. This is not some loose 'tribal' system. Originally these laws were handed down by word of mouth, passed from master to student in oral repetition, but from the seventh century onwards they were written. One of the most important written sources of the Brehon law is the manuscript Egerton 88, now in the British Library copied in the 16th century at the law school of Cahermacnaghten on the Burren, in Co Clare. These law schools educated their pupils from the age of seven years right up to adulthood, to a very high standard, impressing one of Queen Elizabeth's envoys who remarked that the young pupils spoke Latin as if it were their native tongue.
As I've already said, read some of the many histories of Ireland written by the people who lived at the time and see what their perception of Ireland was.
If you don't believe the experts, perhaps you'll believe our old friend Wikipedia:
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Irish nationalism is regarded as having emerged following the Renaissance revival of the concept of the patria and the religious struggle between the ideology of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. At this early stage in the 16th century, Irish nationalism represented an ideal of the native Gaelic Irish and the Old English banding together in common cause, under the banner of Catholicism and Irish civic identity ("faith and fatherland/motherland"),[10] hoping to protect their land and interests from the New English Protestant forces sponsored by England.'
