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Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:42
As Game as Ned Kelly
It is often forgotten that in the early modern period, from the 1500s to the early 1700s Ireland had a very strong bandit tradition. In Clan times and up to the 1641 rebellion, Gaelic robbers and bandits often took to the forests and mountain passes of Ireland where they were called woodkerne or tree soldiers.
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