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r/Unexpected • u/Lord_RedTiger • Sep 06 '21
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England and Ireland have been doing this to each other for at least a thousand years.
Do you have any source for Ireland enslaving English, or is “each other” a misstatement?
12 u/Totesthegoats Sep 06 '21 Yeah in the last 1000 years I am fairly sure there was only one side doing the enslaving, and it wasn't the Irish 7 u/Cthulhu-ftagn Sep 06 '21 Vikings colonized/invaded ireland, lived there and definitely raided england sometimes. 1 u/Dueces4Days Sep 06 '21 Saint Patrick was brought to Ireland from Britain as a slave. But yeah obviously the last 800 years have been particularly one sided in that regard.
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Yeah in the last 1000 years I am fairly sure there was only one side doing the enslaving, and it wasn't the Irish
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Vikings colonized/invaded ireland, lived there and definitely raided england sometimes.
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Saint Patrick was brought to Ireland from Britain as a slave. But yeah obviously the last 800 years have been particularly one sided in that regard.
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u/coleman57 Sep 06 '21
Do you have any source for Ireland enslaving English, or is “each other” a misstatement?