SCOUT· 64%2h 40m·2025-09-30·HistoryIreland: From Prehistory to the Protestant Ascendancy
We follow how a remote landmass on the far western fringe of Europe became the home of a lasting Gaelic civilization and a major center of classical and Christian knowledge, before coming under attack by Viking raiders and Anglo-Norman invaders. We examine the English Crown’s shifting and increasingly desperate…
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