Ep 4 Henry II and Ireland

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The English and the Irish have been fighting (and singing) about hating one another) for as long as both sides can remember, but what brought the English to Ireland in the first place? What did the English king, Henry II, have to do with it? And why is everyone frowning at some guy named Dermot? (Host: Christine Caccipuoti0

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A French born king created the mess and French speaking kings added to it, the English people really had no say in it.
I'm not sure the Irish would have seen the French speaking lords of the English as Englishman.
The Normans/Plantagenet kings had more affiliation for the French lands than they had for their English lands but the French people are never blamed for the mess.

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