Wales was a mediaval Irish colony. Irish soldiers. colonists. missionaries. and legislators turned "the old Caledonia of the Romans into the Irish province of Scotia Minor". then carried the complete investiture of Erin into the northern half of Great Britain. laying the foundations of Irish culture and Irish speech. Ireland was indeed the enthroned "motherland of all the races of the British Isles." receiving homage from the Briton and Pict and the immigrant low German subtribes of Angle. Saxon. and Jute. The research of recent historians reveals that the Irish stand as the ancient. patrician element in the populations of the British Isles. with uniquely accurate titles and deeds to their history and genealogy. and the English as the later immigrants. Great Britain must look back to Ireland for its spiritual ancestry. or. finding none of her own. in the phrase of an authoritative source. "invent a patrimonial background" as do the "newly rich" who construct a fictional family tree in keeping with their recently acquired property. Some English historians have actually performed this magic sleight of hand in recent years.
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