surely you mean overbearing English, old man?

No, we just found Nicola sturgeon’s hacker news account

Ya, the Scotch-Irish were the Brits doing the overbearing in Ireland.

Let’s also not forget that the Irish lords that the Anglo-Irish supplanted were themselves the descendants of Normans.

This is incorrect. It was the Britons that were ruled by saxons and then normans, not the Irish (until the invasion we’re talking about obviously).

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No, they weren't, not in a meaningful way.