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You can say the UK occupied most of Ireland. Ireland was always a semi-independent nation but in 1649, Oliver Cromwell sent an extremely powerful army to Ireland and the British occupied about 95% of the country then. The Irish endured 260 years of serious oppression. But in 1922 it got it's independence.

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