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Topographia Hibernica

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Should We Really Be Conquering and Subjugating This Other Nation of Christians?

The pope at the time made a concerted effort to associate either the sacrifice or eating of horses with pagan traditions. Henry wasn't too interested in conquering ireland, to be honest. Why did he get this permission from the pope and then decide to have a crack at it 20 years later? Because king henry murdered the archbishop of canterbury. So that's the irony of us. They're talking about how illegitimate kings are in ireland because they're not inaugurated properly. And henry killed the arch Archbishop of canerbury. The genetics of that toxicity and that propaganda and that raceism survived all the way through british colonization of the world,. whenever it was time

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