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  2. Violin scam - Wikipedia

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    The Violin scam is a fraudulent public performance where someone pretends to play the violin using pre-recorded music. The scammer solicits donations using a sign and sometimes with a co-conspirator who approaches listeners for money. [1] [2] Scammers primarily use electric violins which are plugged into a speaker. The violin itself emits no ...

  3. British rule in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798 (which sought to end British rule in Ireland) failed, and the 1800 Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland into a combined United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [4] In the mid-19th century, the Great Famine (1845–1852) resulted in the death or emigration of over two million people. At the time ...

  4. Plantations of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Political boundaries in Ireland in 1450, before the plantations. The first Plantations of Ireland occurred during the Tudor conquest.The Dublin Castle administration intended to pacify and anglicise Irish territories controlled by the Crown and incorporate the Gaelic Irish aristocracy into the English-controlled Kingdom of Ireland by using a policy of surrender and regrant.

  5. Plantation of Ulster - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...

  6. Norman Irish - Wikipedia

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    The term Old English (Irish: Seanghaill lit. ' old foreigners ') began to be applied by scholars for Norman-descended residents of The Pale and Irish towns after the mid-16th century, who became increasingly opposed to the New English who arrived in Ireland after the Tudor conquest of Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries. [3]

  7. Statutes of Kilkenny - Wikipedia

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    By the middle decades of the 14th century, the Hiberno-Norman presence in Ireland was perceived to be under threat, mostly due to the dissolution of English laws and customs among English settlers. These English settlers were described as "more Irish than the Irish themselves", referring to their taking up Irish law, custom, costume and language.

  8. History of Ireland (1536–1691) - Wikipedia

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    Ireland during the period of 1536–1691 saw the first full conquest of the island by England and its colonisation with mostly Protestant settlers from Great Britain.This would eventually establish two central themes in future Irish history: subordination of the country to London-based governments and sectarian animosity between Catholics and Protestants.

  9. American fiddle - Wikipedia

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    American fiddle-playing began with the early European settlers, who found that the small viol family of instruments were more portable and rugged than other instruments of the period. According to Ron Yule, "John Utie, a 1620 immigrant, settled in the North and is credited as being the first known fiddler on American soil". [ 1 ]