... convert. Their isolation though also meant that as well as preaching Christianity they could also themselves be more easily subsumed into the existing Gaelic culture. This goes a long way to explaining their willingness to write down the pagan histories of the Celts when it so obviously contrasted sharply with the general view of Christianity. Ireland then, became a peculiarly Gaelic Christian country, more pagan ... a society was formed in Belfast in order to further those ideas which had been forsaken by the Ascendancy. Called the Society of United Irishmen, it's twin aims were parlia...

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