... 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 than Rome would have liked, but at the same time more culturally diverse and ... of Connaught and West Ulster still not penetrated. Yet 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 ...

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