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The Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366 commanded that "if any English, or Irish living among the English, use the Irish language amongst themselves, contrary to this ordinance, and thereof be attainted, his lands and tenements, if he have any, shall be seized into the hands of his immediate lord ..." This ban on the Irish language was accompanied was accompanied by an anti-miscegenation law.13 A later law required Irishmen to take on English surnames or forfeit property.14
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat... until 1920 or so.
Step 2. Reward assimilated estate agents such as Irish, Scots, and Welsh.
Step 3. Export religious conflict
and so forth ...
It's gonna take a while for ROW to get over it, Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
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