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English king after English king persecuted Gael and Norman in Ireland alike, especially those Normans who were to become ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’.

A section of The Bayeux Tapestry which records the Norman invasion of England The Normans invaded England in 1066 and a century later, as Anglo-Normans, they invaded Ireland.

In 2009, the loss was nearly $50 million. Last week, Harvey Norman said the operating loss in Ireland and Northern Ireland for 2011 was $38.6 million, comparing it with a $51.1 million loss in 2010.