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The priests and other scholars of Ireland living in monasteries pre-Renaissance retained and hid away the only surviving written texts of the world's greatest written works (Greek, Roman, French, etc.). When the "air cleared" and times a'changed, they spent their days copying these texts and distributing them once again throughout Europe and, to a lesser degree, the rest of the world.

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