The English believed the Irish to be savages and they noticed similarities between them and the Indians. They dressed similarly, they built their houses similarly, and they resisted conquest like the Irish. The experiences also affected English ideas regarding colonization. In Ireland, the English conquerors would set up plantations surrounded by Palisades. They followed similar actions in colonizing the New World.
True Ireland was England first attempt at colonisation
Ireland's real name is Éire, which is in the Irish language and which in English is Ireland.
Ireland is not in the United States of America. It is a country in Europe.
scottish and English came to Ireland in the plantation
So Britain could control their waters and therefore lessen the area at which the Spanish could strike from.
The precedent set by the English colonization to Ireland was that the inferior race could be brutally repressed.
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the English used harsh tactics which included killing women and children to subdue the native people.
True Ireland was England first attempt at colonisation
English colonization and subjegation of Ireland began in the 12th century, and was ecouraged by Pope Adrian IV in 1155. Interestingly, Ireland may also turn out to be the last colony.
This is due to the colonization of Ireland by the British. When Ireland became an English colony they adopted a policy of partitioning. In which they allowed colonists to settle in Ireland in the hopes that the colony would be regulated by these new settlers without Great Britain expending any major resources. The natives of Ireland are Catholic while those who were colonists were Protestants (because Lutheranism is the primary religion of the English crown). Thus two different forms of Christianity have developed in Ireland. Catholicism and Lutheranism (protestant).
There is no conflict between Ireland and America.
The origin of freemasonry dates to a time before the colonization of North America. Scottish Lodges have records dating to the sixteenth century, there are archaeological records of Masonry being practised in Ireland at the same time, and there are anecdotal records of English Lodges working in the 1600s. At a very early stage, colonists to North America took Masonry with them. The earliest record of a lodge in North America is in Pennsylvania in 1715.
English knight drank beer in Ireland
You would only be able to buy an English language Wii in North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia or other English-speaking country.
Until the colonization of the Americas, there were no pumpkins in Ireland, or anywhere in Europe. Early jack o'lanterns were carved from turnips.
Ireland gets a lot of tourists from America and some Americans move to Ireland to live.