How the Irish Could Save the Middle East
From Counterpunch
For just under 837 years, the English and the Irish have warred against one another. Terrible things have been done in those long centuries, and the Irish tell endless stories about them. They know when it began: On Aug. 23, 1170, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke-"Strongbow" to the Irish-waded ashore with 200 Norman knights and 1,000 men-at-arms near Waterford on Ireland's southeast coast. He took the town in five days, then marched north and smashed an Irish army near Dublin.
Thus began the longest war in European history. For more than 40 generations the Irish seethed at the occupation, rising up time and again to fling themselves in bloody rage at armies they could not hope to defeat.
For just under 837 years, the English and the Irish have warred against one another. Terrible things have been done in those long centuries, and the Irish tell endless stories about them. They know when it began: On Aug. 23, 1170, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke-"Strongbow" to the Irish-waded ashore with 200 Norman knights and 1,000 men-at-arms near Waterford on Ireland's southeast coast. He took the town in five days, then marched north and smashed an Irish army near Dublin.
Thus began the longest war in European history. For more than 40 generations the Irish seethed at the occupation, rising up time and again to fling themselves in bloody rage at armies they could not hope to defeat.
posted by Nixmix at 3:27 p.m.
2 Comments:
in fairness this 800 years of fight is wrong. Actually think about it. list the amounts of uprisings in the 800 years. I doubt it averages much more then 1 a century
Was there an Ireland when Richard de Clare walked ashore?
I still don't think there is one now.
It was an English creation that never existed before they came and didn't ecist when they left.
Ireland is a tribal island with little commonality between its constituent parts.
James de Butler (Norman Irishman)
PS - Richard de Clare and his band of men were invited here by the King of Leinster.
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