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Irish people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants. Irish migration to Great Britain has occurred from the earliest recorded history to the present. There has been a continuous movement of people between the islands of Ireland and Great ...
The historical immigration to Great Britain concerns the movement of people, cultural and ethnic groups to the British Isles before Irish independence in 1922. Immigration after Irish independence is dealt with by the article Immigration to the United Kingdom since Irish independence .
The English Reformation in the 1500s increased the antagonism between England and Ireland, as the Irish remained Catholic, which became a justification for the English to oppress the Irish. In Ireland, during the Tudor and Stuart eras , the English Crown initiated a large-scale colonization of Ireland with Protestant settlers from Britain ...
Irish immigrants played an instrumental role in Puerto Rico's economy. One of the most important industries of the island was the sugar industry. Among the successful businessmen in this industry were Miguel Conway, who owned a plantation in the town of Hatillo and Juan Nagle whose plantation was located in Río Piedras.
Accordingly, Irish citizens from the Irish Free State remained British subjects under the prevailing theory of the British nationality law that all subjects within the Empire, including Dominions, held a common Imperial status. [1] Holding citizenship within the Dominions had no effect on possession of the wider British nationality.
In the reign of the Catholic King James II of England, Irish Catholics briefly looked like recovering their pre-eminent position in Irish society. James repealed much of the anti-Catholic legislation, allowed Catholics into the Irish Parliament and the Army and appointed a Catholic, Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, as Lord Deputy of ...
History of Ireland (1169–1536), when England invaded Ireland; History of Ireland (1536–1691), when England conquered Ireland; History of Ireland (1691–1801), the time of the Protestant Ascendency; History of Ireland (1801–1923), when Ireland was merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom
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