... of Irish. But these efforts did nothing to halt the slide and in a fairly short time the country had drifted back to being a myriad of Gaelic kingdoms again. The king's writ soon shrank in authority throughout the country until eventually it consisted of a few hundred square miles around Dublin which now became known as "The Pale". The people outside this area were largely ungovernable by English law ... , hence the term "beyond the pale" which is still used to describe people who cannot be controlled. But ... not fully appreciated up until this point, was one which had to be taken very...

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