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The royal family of England murdered and tortured a lot of Catholics in Ireland. Queen Mary, 'bloody Mary' murdered a lot of Protestants. So there was a lot of bloodshed in the old days when England used them against each other, and the Catholics and Protestants held a grudge against each other long after the old generations passed away.

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