Dear Oh Dear - "Raised on songs and stories" - Eh olliamh

"the british have been at war in ireland for nine hundred years" What complete and utter crap. Go and read a book by one of your own Canadian Historians, a guy called N.A.M.Roger called "Sovereign of the Seas". Learn how both France and Spain (The super powers of the day) played Scotland and Ireland to divert English attention in their attempts to influence England's foreign policy to suit their own squabbles, by fomenting trouble on England's borders.

One point though why 900 years or don't we count the years of Irish raids on England, Wales and Cornwall?