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How Ireland got its name

Jim March 4, 2023March 14, 2023

IRELAND – ÉIRE Following the failed rebellion of Silken Thomas, the Earl of Kildare, in the 1530s, Henry VIII was declared ‘King of Ireland’. This was done by statute of

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