... although the Normans came as conquerors and owed allegiance to the king of England, they were also in pursuit of their own interests, and the lure of the Gaelic culture soon embraced many of them just as it had done the Vikings and the monks before them. With the king far off in England many of the Normans adopted a Gaelic way of life, intermarrying with the Gaelic tribes, exchanging their Norman French for Irish and adopting Irish ways and Irish laws. Many of the Normans ... 's death in 1685 that the hopes of Catholic Ireland were set alight again. This happened when Charles's brother J...

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