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Book Review of Was Ireland Conquered?

Was Ireland Conquered?
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In this original work Anthony Carty traces the legal origins of the conquest and settlement of Ireland. Beginning with the incursions of the twelfth century, Carty uses the international law concepts of conquest and colonisation to decipher why the Normans, and later the English and the British, believed they had a right to occupy Ireland. . . .--Back cover