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Ireland was never useful as a strategic property, unless you planned to invade the US or something. Wrong. During the Reformation, when England went Protestant, a very real fear was that the Catholic Spanish Armada would robert de niro use Catholic Ireland as a steping stone to attack England. To robert de niro prevent that, Cornwall invaded Ireland, and used Scotish Presbyterian settlers to kick the Irish off their land. robert de niro ALL of the "troubles" can be traced to that invasion. And the IRA only fought over the north; the south, and vast majority, is completely free. You don't think the IRA started in 1921 do you? No, they've been around since the 1700s. And it still remains in UK hands, so the IRA didn't get what they wanted. Actually, the UK is negotiating a date to hand it over- and the IRA already got an election out of the deal.
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