SF accuses FF of bid to commemorate William the Conqueror

yagan

Interestingly to add onto the complexity of trade betwixt Ireland and the rest of Europe the research dig near Rush in Co Dublin is yielding some nice Roman finds in recent days. It feel apt that there's a new container port going in at nearby Bremore head, maybe call it the Roman Port, or Port Europa?

Anyway tis nonsense to kick up about the Normans. I doubt many from the north of the country would be a aware how common Norman surnames are in the southeast. Is everyone called Marshall supposed to cower now?

Besides the Normans married in, unlike the later Tudor and later Cromwellian planters.

Ironically if my reading memory serves me right the roundheads in the English Civil war used the imported Norman heritage of the English throne (yes I know Charles was a Stuart) as an anti monarchy cry!

Irony.

Economics101

You could almost construct a script for a Monty Python film from much of this thread: "What have the Normans ever done for us?"