The Saxons were the Original English. The Normans were originally Norse-French invaders. It took centuries for the two groups to meld into a single nationality.
The Norman conquest of Ireland had the blessing of the Pope. Read a little history.
Perhaps you don't realize how much like current Third World Marxism this Celtic "we've been oppressed!" line sounds like. Celtic nationalism has been consistently left wing for a very long time now (probably longest in Ireland, but in the rest of the Celtic fringe as well). Sorry, but a conservative forum is the wrong place for sympathizers of left wing nationalism to spew crypto-Marxist verbiage. It isn't going to be received well.
No one picks their ancestors . . . no one. I didn't choose to be of English descent any more than I chose to be white or American or rural or Southern, but I'm not going to smile at you or anyone else for putting those groups down. How would you like it if someone tried to make you ashamed of your ancestors?
I am not a chrstian. Please take your Catholic vs. Protestant argument elsewhere.
Ireland suffered badly at the hands of the Brit Papists,the Cromwell Puritans and the Prod Limeys for a thousand years.
YOU read a little history—and if you want to debate all the “wonderful” things the popes supported, well that's another whole new encyclopedia of historical atrocities we can pursue.
This is an Irish thread so take your pathetic English paralogisms elsewhere.