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An Iris!
TIE ANCIENT GAELS
or thousands.of yearo the pooplc of Fire wero in tho
proccss of making thcir own families, industries,ooo
educational byatems, recreational affairo, and their
own systems of solf-government.
They also croated thoir own laws,oob
litcrature, and art.
The Gods and GodesBes that they honored were Ygo
fought, healed, traded, and enjoyed one another was ao natural tooooo
thom ab the change of tho seacons. 1
It wao not all good nor was itooa
all bad. The important thing ie that it wao their own way of lifo.oo
Thoy could ratain it or altcr it, and in doing so they had only toooo
answer to themselves. It was not Utopian - no society is porfect . o:
but it wac thcir owno .
THE DANISH INVASIOHS
he 'Danes worked the fiolde in the short Rorthcrnoooo
growing seaaon and then set saii to raid othereooooo
Hpeoplos and stoal from them that which'they hadooooo
proy chat armed resistance was futile and suicidal. Their goals woro
sailing range.
To this end the Danes built the coastal citics ofoooo
where the businass of dealing with the Scandanavian traders occured.0
That for the preceeding thousands of yoars the people of Eire baw noo
need to build citics cpeaka much about their cuituro und human oeeooco
rolationshipa, for in the final analysis the purpoae of a city is too
maximize the control and cxploitation of ong sroup or class of pooplo
over anothor group or claas, while at the
9Game time minimizing tho ooo
oxpenoe of oxploitation to the oxploitorb.
Even though the Danes wore not ethnocentric they did
offect a negative change in Irish culture.
The impuct of theiroooooo
conatant wnrring on the clans decreasod the inherent domocracy of the
clan system ag the function of the clans bccame more and more qeoeopoo
military and lese rnd lesn social.
Adepted fhorn a respaper arlcke pubishedby
Ihe Uoo MeCann 1.RC。 4B s. 4th Ut- Sen Jose, Calif -95113
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