Normans came in to invade at Baginbun in 1170. This sign now overlooks the beach where, as the very old rhyme put it: “Ireland was both lost and won”.
Swift can take credit for popularising the central whiggish thesis shared by Locke and classical Republicans, "all Government without the Consent of the Governed, is the very Definition of Slavery".
Same logic Jefferson used, arguing for the American Revolution. #AmRev250