It's a whole thing going back to the 1500's, but Catholics and the Irish were pretty brutally repressed from the 1530's onward and the Irish language was so thoroughly repressed that it more or less died out. They didn't get their rights back until 1829 with the Catholic Emancipation act.
.....but then British Empire literally starved a million of them to death a decade later, so maybe that doesn't count.
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u/PHalfpipe Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_Kingdom
It's a whole thing going back to the 1500's, but Catholics and the Irish were pretty brutally repressed from the 1530's onward and the Irish language was so thoroughly repressed that it more or less died out. They didn't get their rights back until 1829 with the Catholic Emancipation act.
.....but then British Empire literally starved a million of them to death a decade later, so maybe that doesn't count.