#377: Apr 6th 2011 at 3:26:09 PM
They were a theocratic tribal society up until the Normans, and later the English took over.
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#378: Apr 6th 2011 at 3:42:23 PM
Yeah, Ireland had clan chiefs and a High King for a long while. Even after Catholicism became the dominant faith and the English began to expand beyond the Dublin Pale, the chieftains were given earldoms by the English crown. Didn't stick, though; they fled to mainland Europe.
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