>>4097That's actually true. I had always been told that anti-Irish sentiment was a creation of imperial Britain. Then I read a book about Carolingian poetry and care across this gem written in the time of Charlemagne:
Now let him carry books, let him bear the burden of affairs,
and prepare barbs to destroy the Irishman.
I shall send these kisses to him as long as I live;
these the fierce wolf gives you, ass with long ears.
Sooner will the dog feed the hare or the cruel wolf feed the lambs,
or the cat turn and flee from the timid mouse,
than a Goth will join with an Irishman in a friendly treaty of peace.
Should an Irishman wish to enter into one it would be all air.
An Irishman shall pay his penalty or flee like the south wind,
however different he may try to be, he is nothing but Irishman.
And also this:
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