Fiolra quotes the anti-minstrel legislation of 1534 as evidence of some English hostility to Ireland. You can deduce that if you wish to see it in that light, but I would point out that theTudor monarchy was just as vigorous (if not more?) in extirpating the huge body of English minstrels, who were going full power in 1500 andreduced to aa few more-or-less beggars/buskers in 1600. I would regard both campaigns as part of the efforts of the monarchsof the time to establish (successfully).Just as the Planatagent monarchs of England moved against the Welsh bards in the 1400's, so did the Welsh Tudors move against the English minstrels in the 1500's. I don't seeit as some anti-Gaelic phenomenon....I doubt if the fat git Henry VIII gave a shit what language the peasants spoke, as long as noone rode around with a harp stirring them up to "disease and mischief"(I quote from an old edict).