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...root cause was England's historical lust to subjugate the Emerald Isle. Ironically, that ambition was sanctioned in 1155, when Pope Adrian IV gave sovereignty over Ireland to England's King Henry II. During the next centuries, the English made sporadic and mostly unsuccessful efforts to conquer the island. Hegemony was finally established during the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers...
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...anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor displays rare qualities of social conscience...
...example, is president of the family-controlled Christiana Securities holding company, a director of the Wilmington Trust Co., the News-Journal Co., Delmarva Power & Light and chairman of the Greater Wilmington Development Council. The state's sole U.S. Representative is Pierre S. du Pont IV, a freshman Republican. Governor Russell Peterson is a former Du Pont executive. Together, Du Pont family, employees and associates make up 25% of the state legislature...
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