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Old English (Ireland)
Old English (Irish: Seanghaill) is a name retrospectively applied to the descendants of the settlers who came to Ireland from Wales, Normandy and England after the twelfth century conquest of the country. The name was coined in the late sixteenth century and was designed to describe the section of the above community which lived within the heart of English rule in Ireland, The Pale.
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